metal_0061
Started as a wreath, became a lamp, finished as a planter with a philodendron in a 3D-printed pot I designed and spent too many brain cells trying to figure out how to get it to float like that. Worth it.
metal_0045.1 :: strawberry sundA.I. (fun size)
A colleague of K’s loved the large, original strawberry sundA.I. so I made this little fun-sized version (about 1/4 the size, if that) for her. Much less detailed, but I still had to throw in the Audrey Horne homage.
metal_0053
A quick return to my imaginary metal plants with custom-designed 3D pot for a teacher colleague of K's. Nice diversion from the brain-melting of current WIP. Pure creation, one piece leading to another - sculptural jazz, for lack of a better phrase.
buffalo measuring
Today at least is going to be spent flapper-disking the next big metalwork project which has now morphed into one and a half metalwork projects (ad has made the project that it was going to be become something else entirely further on down the road) because, as Brad Bird's favorite axiom goes, Use every part of the buffalo. This one's going to push me further into woodworking, for which I've yet to find a genuine, visceral love: if (my ignorance-fueled iteration of) metalwork is more like cooking, throwing ingredients into a pot to make something new and tasty, then woodwork is more like baking, precise measurements required to make the pieces fit, measure twice cut once, stir stir stir. Then again, 3D printing is very similar to baking – I do, after all, jestingly refer to my printer as an easy-bake oven. I guess it's not so much that I dislike woodworking (I don't, not at all) but that I don't find it as harmonizing with the type of creativity that makes me feel whole. I admire those that do it well and make beautiful things with it, but I get far more creatively turned on by seeing a rusty spring than I ever could a beautiful piece of timber: both have their place but the latter requires a creative vein which I've yet to tap into.
card holder
Needed a business card holder, made a business card holder - plus it gave me some ideas for projects in other media.
🔗 Doctors Modify Hot Glue Gun to Stick Broken Bones Back Together
via Futurism:
As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Device, the team came up with the unusual device to skip the need for prefabricating complex bone implants. In experiments involving rabbits, the researchers created 3D-printed grafts on the fly, allowing fractured bones to heal and regrow naturally.
Within 12 weeks following surgery on rabbits with severe femoral bone fractures, the researchers found no signs of infection — and better bone regeneration compared to control rabbits, which received more traditional bone cement grafts.
Conventional metal or donor bone implants have to be custom-fitted and manufactured ahead of time, making the new solution quite a bit more straightforward and therefore much faster.
metal_0047
A tiny palette / scrap drawer creature cleanser after the bigness of Caligari’s Lighthouse combining one of my 3D-printed plant pot designs with a bunch of nigh-castasides. Name TBD.
