The Art Is Spreading! MakerBot. EmailShare 101EmailShare Not too long from now, the artists from the Met MakerBot Hackathon will start presenting their work from this weekend.
But even before we get to that point, several of the pieces we captured have already been copied and derived on Thingiverse. Marble Lion The Marble Lion on the left was turned into a screaming baby lion with a fancy mane by anamarva. Bather Jean-Antoine Houdon’s Bather was derived twice, once by MathematicalGastronomist (left) and another time by cushwa (right). Marsyas Thingiverse user GuyFromLE grabbed and made this model of Marsyas by the sculptor Balthasar Permoser. More to come! Heists And Hacks: What's The Difference? MakerBot. EmailShare 12EmailShare On the night of March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and roamed the museum’s galleries, stealing thirteen works of art. Perhaps the biggest property theft in recorded history, this 1990 theft of paintings including Rembrandt’s only known seascape, remains unsolved.
Holy shhhhhmoly! That sounds more like a movie plot , than something that could have happened in the 90′s. It’s Day 2 at the Met MakerBot Hackathon and everyone’s down to work on their new art, and it’s crazy to think that we’re at this point. The idea of an art heist has still been tossed around. Food for thought: • Just last year, a drawing by Picasso was stolen from a gallery in San Francisco. . • The frames of the stolen pieces from the Gardener Museum, mentioned above, are still hanging empty on the walls, just waiting for the art to return. So what’s the difference between these events and what we’re doing? Met MakerBot Hackathon Art Now On Thingiverse! MakerBot. EmailShare 185EmailShare The transfer of physical objects into the Thingiverse has begun.
You know when Flynn gets digitized into the game grid. Yeah, like that, but in the Met! Get ready to start DERIVING/HACKING/MAKING! The works of art that the team of artists from the Met MakerBot Hackathon are starting to be processed in 123D Catch and uploaded to Thingiverse. This means that the design files for the 3D models of these pieces, as well as the pieces that this team of artists are creating, will be available to everyone around the world to download for free.
Here’s what you need to know: Thingiverse is designed so that one person can upload a design file and another person can download it. That’s it! If you forget to do this and you upload your Thing on its own, don’t worry. This is important stuff on Thingiverse. Why are you still reading this?! Digital Artist Sees Future In "Sampling" And Remixing Objects MakerBot.
EmailShare EmailShare Today a group of artists with a knack for taking things from the digital world into the physical world will spend some time first doing the opposite: looking at real physical objects and capturing them with cameras and software and making them become digital.
It’s that digital space where the new shaping and changing may take place. Last month, I had a chance to ask some questions of another great artist, who is not part of today’s event but who has certainly thought a lot about this type of art. It’s based off a blue vase he found in a flea market once, seen below. I just grabbed a still image off my screen, but you can see the actual model on hypr3D.com. Using this model of the original vase as a starting point, Matthew ran a few algorithms that he developed at the generatorx 3.0 workshop led by Marius Watz at iMal in Brussels. Here are Matthew’s thoughts on sampling, in his own words.