3d printing houses

This is neat. They are experimenting with a variety of cheap, commonly found materials to create 3d printed objects and structures. I know NASA was working on 3D printers that could use moondust as feedstock to print whatever they would need on visits to the moon (vs having to carry everything there) – love to see that same thinking applied to structures here.



Conductive Paint

Have seen this before, but it’s just so neat. I’d love to see it combined with silkscreening on fabrics; what would you do with it?

https://www.facebook.com/AugmentedRealityGamingInfo/videos/609544353010220/

Creative Tech Week 2018 done & dusted ;)

On May 11th I was honored to give a lightening talk at Creative Tech Week around my artist journey with the Google Tiltbrush as part of my 5 day “VRaycation“.

This fish is the first thing I made in Tiltbrush; I talked about the shift from object creation / CAD mindset, to a world building one.

The narrative explored how, as an experienced 2- and 3D artist I was exploring Tiltbrush’s “special sauce”; how each medium has something it’s particularly good for, and my journey to find it.

Hint: it involved giving up on precision, somewhat of a challenge for a CAD artist – but, as I said in the presentation, it’s like karaoke: you’ll have much more fun, and the results will be far better, if you give up any attempts at being good. Plus, think about building worlds – not objects, something I surprised myself by doing initially (there’s a universe to play with, why am I making a fish?!)

For those who are curious, I ultimately ended up creating a world based on a 16th century Persian artwork, and titled it “My Garden of Eden” – complete with a handsome date in a turban (because who wants to be alone in the Garden of Eden?!).  It’s the last thing I made, on day 5 of my HTC Vive rental. Enjoy! – I’m particularly happy with the birds.

A heartfelt thank you to Hello World Communications in New York for the wonderful full room-scale HTC Vive I used (they even threw in a laptop! Their customer service is amazing) and of course, to Isabel Draves of Creative Tech Week for including me in this year’s lineup.

A video of my talk hasn’t yet been released, but when it is I will post it here as well.

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