2023 RRSLA Internship Blog

Hello again! I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying life. Here is what I've been up to. I spent the month of June in Cambodia volunteering with some missionaries. It was an experience I will never forget. Very hot weather. Chaotic traffic. Really tasty tropical fruit. Some of kindest people.  One day while I was there, I got to visit a university in Phnom Penh that has an architecture and urban planning school. It was neat talking to the students and seeing their work. Several times while I was there, we would take a ferry across the Bassac River to visit schools in the province. Pretty cool, but a little sketchy.  After returning to the United States, I spent time with family for a few weeks, packed up my things, then moved to California! I found a job and a place to live in Santa Maria, which is close to where my girlfriend lives. I started work at PleinAire Design Group in August, and it's been good so far! I'm biking to work since I don't have a car yet, but the...

Hi, my friends. I leave for Lesotho on September 22 and am living at my parents' houses until then. I started off my summer doing some organic farming around Baton Rouge, and it was a fulfilling way to earn a few bucks. I killed 75 chickens in a day and learned how to butcher, I installed irrigation lines, and I picked watermelons, corn, cucumbers, beans, squash, tomatoes, and more. I really think that my long-term vision involves farming. It is a hard life, but worth it. The middle of my summer was divided into a number of small trips. One was to visit ya boy Logan in Asheville, then attend the Cullowhee Native Plant Conference with Eric Vanbergen and Will Reinhardt. Will is such a lad, equally professor and friend. As part of the Microsoft shutdown, I ended up stuck in the Atlanta for 30+ hours. Fortunately though, I made some friends from London in the process. Another voyage was to Colorado with my friend Chingyu. I came to many conclusions throughout our conversations together...

 random update of some things I've done lately 3D renders

Greetings, I'll give a short update on things, but I mostly wanted to share more photos.  Work:  The two interns, Jie and Bryan, started working as well as a new full-time designer, Brent. We had to rearrange the office to fit everyone, and it's starting to feel like a real studio now. Yesterday we all took a break from work to go for a plant ID walk.  Non-work: I made a trip home in May to celebrate a graduation, a couple weddings, and my mom's birthday. It was nice being home for a while, but I was ready to get back to the mountains and experience Tahoe summer. Since being back I've tried to do something outside everyday even if its a short walk out my back door. I feel like I'm missing out if I don't.  I'm leaving tomorrow and meeting up with Jonah and Sawyer for a California road trip! - Ethan 

hey!  I might make a post every once in a while.  Over the past few weeks I've been working on a new project in Dallas. I've been modeling in sketchup, making sections in vectorworks, and making diagrams in illustrator for our upcoming presentation. The diagrams were fun to make, I missed being in illustrator/adobe, however, the style isnt my favorite, its an ojb standard kind of thing.  Two weeks ago I went to San Antonio for a concert! The riverwalk and the botanical gardens were my favorite. The first two photos are of the riverwalk, the rest are the botanical gardens.    hope everyone is doing well, congrats to everyone who wrapped up their internship! hope everyone has a great summer <3 -ellen