Thursday, March 27, 2025

I spent the better part of the day
building a neighborhood 

possibly 
this is a waste of time
BUT 
I find it
SATISFYING 

the aesthetic is 
unusual
it's a combination of 
minimalist Japanese components 
and eastern european modernist
not full on brutalist

the neighborhood is called
BITSY GARDENS
because it autogenerated something gardens
& I changed it to BITSY 

I wanted to just have a couple of the japanese 
house styles
because SOME of them
are VERY minimal 
& really could be 
ANYWHERE 
BUT 
I found that to be too hard to pull off
so some of them are a little more
SPECIFICALLY Japanese than
I had envisioned 
there's VERY little GRASS, it's mostly sand
with giant ROCKS
LIKE 
one big rock garden
with single family homes scattered through 

the outer ring street of the neighborhood 
is lined with mixed use retail/housing
small post office (basic)
small fire (Japan)
small police (Japan)
welfare office (Japan)
the middle has a small elementary (eastern euro)
a playground & a community pool
the next section down 

has
apartments (Japan)
& a couple of high-rises (eastern euro)
& a tennis court that came in
RED CLAY
since everything was sand

there is extra land
NOT developed
just ROCKS
& sand

it's 
VERY striking
LOOKING into the neighborhood from
the busy street
driving by 

I'm pretty pleased
I only left grass
in the block 
with the
elementary school 

SOME of the yards have grass

MOST are that sand-y shade

I am going through 
the different
VERSIONS 

my town hall is eastern euro across from
the german train station 
they don't match
BUT
they KINDA work together

north eastern US 
ALSO 

I ENJOY building 
the environment 
there's a TRANSIT center 
& there is going to be a 
SHOPPING district 

there's a DECO department store
which employs eight hundred people 
that's a signature building 
from the german pack
it's gonna be the
center piece

I'm telling myself 
this is going to
help me
MOVE
from talking about INTERNAL blah blah
it describing a thing I built in my HEAD 

possibly I'm kidding myself 

did I ever tell you about
the amusement 
PARK
I mean that was LIKE fifteen years ago 
the JUMP LIFT elevators
played Dan Bern songs
LOUDLY

I ENJOY to
BUILD worlds

MAYBE 

I'm having trouble with 
SOME aspect 
of the Munchee
I WANT to tell you stories about THAT