Beautiful Fukuoka City

Hey this is a picture I took while on top of Fukuoka Tower in Fukuoka City. Almost every large city in Japan has some sort of tower thats sole purpose is to look cool and act as an observation tower. Well from up here we can see a typical Japanese Highway...Something quite different from American Highways. The first thing you may notics is that it is only a 4 lane highway. the reason for this is that almost every highway in Japan has a toll on it (hence the toll booths on the exit ramp). By charging a toll to drive on the highway it promotes people to use alternative forms of transportation which REALLY helps the transportation infrastructure of a City. It causes less people to croud the highway by spreading out the commuter traffic over multiple systems like Light rail, busses, and bikeing. Also, almost every road I saw in Japan was kept in very nice condition. All the lines were very brightly painted on the road and traffic signs were very clear and easy to read. After I came back from Japan, American roads looked so blank with their fading lines and old pavement and no signs.
I know none of what I talked about has to do with the picture but it is just my observation of what I saw in Japan. I really enjoyed visiting Fukuoka this day since it was a beautiful clear day in the middle of May. Well writing about this is making me excited about getting to go back to japan this summer so I will leave you at that and let you enjoy following the highway along the Beach. 

Woodchip Garden

This is a nice close up image of the woodchips that lie under my miniture bamboo grove that I have up here at studio. I cleaned out a lot of the leaves that were on top so that I had a better view of the short Bamboo stalks from my desk chair. I decided to take some pictures after I finished and found this close up image kind of nice. I think I like it because I normally don't get time to look at the little things that are around us....that or I would like others to see the kinds of things that they never take the time to look at. Anyways, here are some woodships to look at so enjoy. 

Watercolor

Hey, this is a watercolor painting that I did last year in my design graphics class. Unfortunatly I havent really kept up with anything like this but if I try and take the time I could start doing water colors again. Maybe this summer when I have a job that lets me leave studio I will start doing a lot more things like drawing and painting and photography. I am so excited now about this summer and all it's free time that it has motivated me to work harder now....I think....maybe it just makes me spend more time thinking of this summer instead of working to get me there. 

My portfoliio cover

Hey Everyone, I have spent the past weekend making my portfolio. This is the Cover that I came up with that I thought best represented my style. This is a picture of the first model I ever created at this college and I thought that this look into the Japanese courtyard looked really cool. I think the best part about it is that the real height of what is in the image is like 3 inches. The little sticks that make up the doors are 1/32" square! and the best part about them all is that those little doors really slide!! well that was a fun model to make I think 

Binder Cover 2 of 2

Well I finaly got around to allocating some of my time to updating my blog. I have taken a lot of pictures lately but unfortunatly most of them aren't composed images. This picture is from Castlewood State Park near my house in St. Louis. The part I love the most about this park is that it is a linear park that sits atop the bluffs that overlook the meramac River. I am taking the idea of bluffs along a river and applying it to my next studio project. I felt this picture fitting for the cover to my construction binder since the bluffs show how much nature constructs itself.