Current Schedule

I’ve said it a few times in other posts — I’ve been slammed with work recently and there doesn’t seem to be any stop­ping the onslaught. They’re not the huge, mul­ti­ple ren­der­ing and ani­ma­tion projects that I had a cou­ple years back. They don’t pay nearly as hand­somely, but they’re small and there’s tons of them. It’s the busiest I’ve ever been in all of the years I’ve been doing this. Com­bine that with per­sonal items (gro­cery shop­ping, phone calls, etc.) and things get crazy.

When my archi­tec­tural work starts mov­ing, it usu­ally means a few things. First and fore­most, con­sumer con­fi­dence is on the rise. Peo­ple feel like they can spend once again in order to move build­ings, rent spaces, and ren­o­vate. Devel­op­ment and real estate of course ties directly into the econ­omy and employ­ment. I’m one of the first peo­ple to feel that level of opti­mism amongst peo­ple and busi­ness sec­tors, and it usu­ally trick­les down to other facets of people’s lives. I’m also one of the first peo­ple to feel it when things go sour.

My cur­rent sched­ule for the week looks like this:

1. Bistro inte­rior mod­el­ing, light­ing, and renderings.
2. Bistro exte­rior changes.
3. A res­i­den­tial mod­el­ing and ren­der­ing project.
4. A library ren­der­ing with changes.
5. An exte­rior devel­op­ment of an office building.
6. Changes for a board game devel­op­ment company.
7. Pos­si­bly start­ing up again on a house for Saudi Ara­bian roy­alty (one year delay.)
8. First time court appear­ance for a client that flat-out refused to pay then decided to use my work on the front page of his web­site. I hate to air “dirty laun­dry”, but that will take a few hours and has taken quite some time to assem­ble all the facts, emails, ren­der­ings, and con­tracts together. Again, in all the years I’ve been work­ing with some of the biggest clients, I have never had this hap­pen to me.
9. Cre­at­ing another web­site (optional but needed eventually.)
10. Fin­ish prep­ping some mod­els for sale (optional but needed eventually.)
11. Updat­ing the LunarStu­dio web­site (optional but needed eventually.)
12. Cre­at­ing some mar­ket­ing brochures (optional but needed eventually.)
13. Brush up on some Ren­der Ele­ment pass techniques.
14. Send­ing out some images for a pho­tog­ra­phy website.
15. Vis­it­ing my brother and sister-in-law because they just had a new baby ear­lier today.
16. A meet­ing.

There’s also a few other items in talks:

1. 8 ren­der­ings for a bath­room man­u­fac­tur­ing company.
2. A cat­a­log cover of a board­room for a com­pany that spe­cial­izes in mod­u­lar walls.
3. Tak­ing 360 vir­tual real­ity pho­tographs of a salon located in Boston.
4. A beach loca­tion residence.
5. A con­cept of a retail property.

This doesn’t include any other jobs which I may get called up on or may come through. I also have other per­sonal projects which are wait­ing on the side­lines. Almost each one of those items above typ­i­cally includes micro-items (wall col­ors, light­ing fix­tures, chairs, sofas, tables, etc.) that one has to keep good track of. As you could prob­a­bly tell from that list, my head is about to com­pletely explode. We’re look­ing at 16 hour days, 7 days a week for quite some time to come…