According to make Sunday’s worldwide pinhole photography day!

Don’t think I’ll participate, mostly ‘cause I’m not into mucking about with film outside of the canisters. Hmm – interesting concept: Why not take the ccd out of a cheap digital camera and fool around with digital pinhole pictures?

Even cooler than that – the Room Sized Camera Obscura! This, I could get behind…

Have we given you the garden tour yet? It’s a good time for it. Everything is strong and healthy. The withering heat hasn’t hit yet and the bugs are only starting to notice the feast before them. Check it:

As could have been expected, Google has freed SketchUp, after purchasing its developer, @Last Software last month. There’s still a pro version available for purchase with extra features that are useful if you’re doing commercial work.

I’ll add my small endorsement to the million others out there — SketchUp is a very cool and easy to use 3D modeling tool. I used it to recreate our utility room while we were remodeling it a few weeks ago. I dropped in the shelves and cabinets we were planning to buy, painted the walls, and kinda put down the vinyl floor to see how it would all fit and look.

I’ve been planning to expand on that and get our whole house done to help figure out a deck and landscaping plan. It now appears that once I do, I’ll be able to build directly on Google Earth, where other people can see it. Then I can furnish the house with objects from the 3D warehouse, a repository of user-created stuff.

Next week, we won’t need to leave the house anymore, we’ll just wander around on Google Earth and order pizza.