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“People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.” R.Buckminster Fuller The Biosphere stands outside Montreal, Canada. it is one of the last remnants of the Expo 67 World’s Fair. Fuller’s Geodesic Dome is what I see as ‘pure’ design….
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10 – EchoFab Fablab Artist In Residence Day Ten…Final Compostion For Etch…
Today, I took the drawing and photo references and made about ten spontaneous rapid drawings using just newspaper print and a Sharpie pen. I then took these initial sketch images and processed them using 2d editing software. I combined elements in some of the rapid drawings I liked to create…
9 – EchoFab Fablab Artist In Residence Day Nine…Draw! Draw! Draw!…
Today, I spent time getting the ant prints just right. Both prints print well now. This trial and error process has taught me a lot about 3d printing for the future. I have also printed out a paper net of the final cloud structure. Over the weekend I am going…
8 – EchoFab Fablab Artist In Residence Day Eight…People On Streets…
Sometimes you have to get out of the workshop to get ideas. This is what I did today, I need to develop a fluid line composition for the composition that will be etched onto the clear perspex. Just coming up with a composition while in the workshop is ok but…
7- EchoFab Fablab Artist In Residence Day Seven…Form Filling…
Sometimes late at night, I have my best ideas. In my mind, I developed an idea of the final form. In turn, this had to be evolved there and then. If not I feared that I would lose it the next day. I prototyped the rough shape in 3dsMax. Below…
6 – EchoFab Fablab Artist In Residence Day Six…Lines And Connections!…
Day six, back in the lab after a weekend of rest. Well actually I developed some ideas about the artwork I want to make, the devil makes work for idle hands! I am always coming up with ideas even when I try to rest. Today I wanted to test a few…
5 – EchoFab Fablab Artist In Residence Day Five…Everything Is 3D!…
Today was a day to make everything into 3d. Paper, 3d prints. Bring the tentative drawings into the reality of real life sculptural forms. When we represent things in 3d using computer generated imagery and even drawing, we are just using a shadow of the final idea if that ideas…
4 – EchoFab Fablab Artist In Residence Day Four…Starting On The Journey…
After experimenting and ‘learning by doing’ with a lot of the tools in the EchoFab and getting told priceless information by the people there, at day 4, it is time to make progress with the idea for the final art piece! It is like preparing for a journey and finally stepping out,…
3 – EchoFab Fablab Artist In Residence Day Three…’Arduino-ing Around’
Today I wanted to check the feasibility of interactive elements of the final sculpture artwork I have in mind. The idea at this stage is to have some lit areas in the final piece, I want these areas to light up when a user moves there hand up to 40cm…