Sorry, guys, I've actually been putting all my time into a project for work which gave me the opportunity to flex my creative muscles. But thank you for your kind demands for entertainment; it's good to know that I'm missed.

Anyway, I don't know how entertaining this is, but here's a bit of what I've been doing: rendering images of our proposed new office space to give to the architects.

Click on the thumbnails for larger images. The company name has been blurred out for a modicum of privacy.

I haven't included the images of the actual working space, since I ran out of time and wasn't able to model all the "set dressing". Perhaps some day I'll finish that task and put those up as well.

I'm proudest of the little touches: the coffee machine and water cooler, the fully modeled electrical outlets, and some of the office equipment. I cheated a little at the end, taking pictures of my keyboard and computer drives and just mapping them onto the models as decals, but I'll eventually get around to doing those right.

Anyway, those digital photography kiosks at Walgreen's are fantastic for printing out computer-generated images as well. Just put the image files on any kind of media — memsticks, flash cards, CDs, floppies — and stick it in the kiosk, then select the size and number of copies. At 29¢ per 4×6 print, it's a great deal. The 5×7 and 8×10 prints aren't quite as attractive — $2.99 and $4.49, respectively — but Karen (better versed in photography than I) says it's still a good price. I shall have to take much more advantage of this in the future, I think!