Design To Fabrication: When 3D Becomes Our Daily Reality

First 3D Printed Building

Dini claims the d-shape process is four times faster than conventional building, costs a third to a half as much as using Portland cement, creates little waste and is better for the environment. But its chief selling point may simply be that it makes creating Gaudiesque, curvy structures simple

3d printers where introduced about a decade ago, and since then they have significantly evolved, their cost has been reduced, and they have become a widely used technology. Nowadays you can find a commercial 3d printer the size of a fridge in many architecture firms and schools, used to produce in-house rapid prototype models of their designs. Some projects, such as Fab@home, MakerBot and RepRap, have even been pushing to make this technology affordable and available on a personal basis, so that anyone can 3d print from their desktop at home.

One of the main shortcomings of 3d printers when they initially appeared was the actual material in which the parts were printed. The resilience of the material, its appearance, and the resolution in which they print, have evolved since. And, whereas there were not many material alternatives before, today there are 3d printers that can work with clay, cement, sand and even titanium. There is also the technology to print with multiple materials and colors.

logy to 3d print in stone. The result: being able to print buildings on a one-to-one scale.



D-shape

Enrico Dini's massive 6m x 6m 3d printer rests on four extendable pillars and works by depositing a structural inorganic binder on a sand layer in sections of 5-10mm. The process turns inorganic, cheap and ecological materials into a compact stone similar to marble. On a non-stop work session the machine starts from the foundation and constructs everything all the way to the top of the roof, including stairs, interior walls, columns, and even the cabling and piping cavities.

Masking Tape Street Art by Buff Diss

Katharina Grosse large painting installations.

Her web site looks like it is all text. Just click on something. Big ART!

Clyde Butcher Some people call him the Ansel Adams of the Everglades

Little Butternut Key, Florida ( c) Clyde Butcher

Huffingpost Article with video exerts.

Cal Lane Artist

This piece was in Artprize


Cal Lane working on one of here pieces.



Artprize page

William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible

William Kentridge - Mine (1991) a film all done with charcoal and paper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7WtFZKwdtc

American car brochures

A great source for very clean images of American Cars.

iPad paintings by Corliss Blakely

These are iPad paintings by Corliss Blakely, there is even a tutorial on how to do it.

VIP Art Fair Online Exhibit

VIP Art Fair is the first art fair to mobilize the collective force of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries with the unlimited reach of the Internet. Its inaugural fair will take place exclusively online for one week only, January 22-30, 2011, at www.vipartfair.com.

Kimberly Brooks: The Creative Process In Eight Stages, "A Ted Talk"

A wonderful discussion about creativity. Check it out.

# Kimberly Brooks
KIMBERLY BROOKS is an contemporary American painter and new media artist. Brooks' work is collected internationally and has been featured in over forty publications worldwide including Art Ltd., The LA Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue (Spain), Elle, Pen (Japan) and New American Paintings. She has also been showcased in numerous juried exhibitions including curators from Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, California Institute of the Arts and LACMA. Brooks started her career as a new media artist. She founded an award-winning collaborative for artists/designers and engineers called Lightray which has designed and launched major interactive projects for Apple, NASA, Intel, Warner Music, and many others. Aside from painting she delivers lectures and presentations to museums, universities and organizations on a range of subjects including "The Creative Process in Eight Stages", "The Technology of Exhibitionism", and "The Art of the Internet". Author over eighty essays and artist interviews, Kimberly Brooks recently conceived of and launched the Arts Section of the Huffington Post where she serves as Arts Editor. Her artwork is represented by Taylor De Cordoba in Culver City, California.

Andrew Bell Blog

Donny Elmo Blogspot "The Real Elmo"

Swoon Street Artist

Whoa-- apparently the prolific and insanely talented NYC street artist Swoon has three pieces up at the Museum of Modern Art! Wooster Collective alerted us to the "Printmaking Now" show, which runs until September 18th:

Oversized cut-out figurative prints by Swoon (American, b. 1977) appear on three walls of the Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries. Printmaking is essential to Swoon's practice: the linoleum cut and woodcut techniques provide the bold lines needed for visibility as well as the capacity to replicate her large compositions with greater ease. Swoon's work, which is often installed both indoors and on the street, combines figurative and narrative elements based on photographs of the communities and neighborhoods in which she lives and travels. For these three untitled works, made between 2003 and 2005, she depicts an adolescent riding a bike in Berlin, a New York construction worker, and a girl in Buenos Aires.

Finally, a reason to use that MOMA membership card we bought back when the museum opened, and we were too lazy to wait on the lines! If anyone is up there this week, try to snap a picture for us. [Related: if you can't wait, check out the 111+ Swoon images at Streetsy.]

from this blog http://gothamist.com/2006/05/24/swoon_bombs_mom.



Konbit Shelter is a sustainable building project with the objective of sharing knowledge and resources through the creation of homes and community spaces in post earthquake Haiti. We are a group of artists, builders, architects, and engineers, who, after the January 2010 earthquake, asked ourselves how we could use our skills and resources to directly assist another community in a time of crisis.

Buy a Swoon Print and help support this cool project!
http://konbitshelter.org/

From Data to Digital Art: Animating Air Traffic, Texting and Thom Yorke

William Low: Portrait of a Digital Artist part 1

A traditional artist paints with Photoshop.

David Hockney Ipad drawings

David Hockney, iPhone drawing © David Hockney

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-04-25/david-hockney-s-ipad-doodles-evoke-high-tech-stained-glass-martin-gayford.html

David Hockney was in the Boy Scouts (motto: “Be Prepared”), so he points out that in tailoring terms he was ready for the advent of the iPad.

One of the tricky aspects of this new Apple Inc. device -- intermediate between a cell phone and a laptop in size -- is the difficulty of carrying it about. Hockney, though, has always had his suits made with a large internal jacket pocket for carrying sketch books.

He demonstrates by opening the natty, paint-stained charcoal-striped number he’s wearing. Within there’s a pouch of the kind in which poachers used to hide game. This is where he tucks his iPad.

In fact, he’s using this portable hi-tech gizmo in much the way he used to employ a pad of paper. It’s his latest drawing medium. A couple of weeks ago, I got a text from him reading: “I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.”





Photo Reconstruction by David Hockney 2004
http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/05/interview-john-tusa-interviews-david.html












http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/video.html?freewheel=69016&sitesection=ndnsubss&VID=106206

Hans Hoffman Abstract Expressionists

Here is my painting done in 1971 inspired by Hans Hoffman and "The Great Wave" by Katsushika Hokusai. This is the first time I put this all together, these were my influences back in art school.







“The Golden Wall” by Hans Hoffman takes this theory of repeating shapes and their inter-relationship to the next level with the addition of color. Orange and yellow are analogous colors, which blend well together, and blue is the opposite or compliment of orange, creating visual excitement and a dynamic composition. ( from http://blog.leniwiener.com/?tag=jim-dine )

Devon Klomp's Blog

Benjamin Stoner's Blog

Julia M. Knoll's Blog

Remaster Stephen's Portrait

Do This for Extra Credit


Submit Your Colbert Portrait Photoshops

Back in the olden days, when you wanted to submit your photoshopped image of Stephen Colbert's portrait, you had to assemble a wagon train and embark on a weeks-long journey. But now, thanks to the miracle of modern technology, you can send your submission instantly and with a greatly reduced risk of dysentery. So, if you haven't already, download the original portrait by clicking here and create your photoshop magnum opus. Then attach it to an email and send it to ColbertPortrait@gmail.com. Also, be sure to leave the portrait's resolution unchanged, only submit jpegs and don't exceed 5MB per image. In the meantime, here are a few gems readers left in the comments over here. (Click the images for the originals)

Shepard vs Associated Press It is a tie! Plus Shepard gets money for deveolping new stuff with AP.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CASE UPDATE

The Associated Press, Shepard Fairey, and Mr. Fairey's companies Obey Giant Art, Inc., Obey Giant LLC, and Studio Number One, Inc., have agreed in principle to settle their pending copyright infringement lawsuit over rights in the Obama Hope poster and related merchandise.

Mr. Fairey used an AP portrait photograph of Mr. Obama in making the Hope poster. Mr. Fairey did not license the photograph from the AP before using it. The AP contended that Mr. Fairey copied all of the original, creative expression in the AP's photograph without crediting or compensating the AP, and that Mr. Fairey's unlicensed use of the photograph was not a fair use.. Mr. Fairey claimed that he did not appropriate any copyrightable material from the AP's photo, and that, in any event, his use of the photograph constituted a fair use under copyright law.

In settling the lawsuit, the AP and Mr. Fairey have agreed that neither side surrenders its view of the law. Mr. Fairey has agreed that he will not use another AP photo in his work without obtaining a license from the AP. The two sides have also agreed to work together going forward with the Hope image and share the rights to make the posters and merchandise bearing the Hope image and to collaborate on a series of images that Fairey will create based on AP photographs. The parties have agreed to additional financial terms that will remain confidential.

"The Associated Press is pleased to have reached resolution of its lawsuit with Mr. Fairey," said Tom Curley, president and CEO. "AP will continue to celebrate the outstanding work of its award-winning photographers and use revenue from the licensing of those photos to support its mission as the essential provider of news and photography from around the world. The AP will continue to vigilantly protect its copyrighted photographs against wholesale copying and commercialization where there is no legitimate basis for asserting fair use."

"I am pleased to have resolved the dispute with the Associated Press," said Mr. Fairey. "I respect the work of photographers, as well as recognize the need to preserve opportunities for other artists to make fair use of photographic images. I often collaborate with photographers in my work, and I look forward to working with photos provided by the AP's talented photographers."

The AP's copyright infringement lawsuit against Obey Clothing, the marketer of apparel with the Hope image, remains ongoing.

- January 12, 2011

Arielle Schaffer Artist Blogspot

New Orleans Collage

Class Art Assignments

There will be four art assignments, three minor assignments and one final major assignment. Assignments are art! These will be graded on creativity, composition, use of both digital and traditional art techniques, and how well it stands up as a piece of art.
These Assignments will account for 50% of your grade.
1. Self-portrait
2. Graphics tablet Drawing.
3. Digital Collage
4. Final Project to be determined by artist and instructor.

Class Exercises

Learning Exercises Description:
This is a hands-on art class, you will learn by doing. Every week there will be a several exercises you will need to perform in order to show your proficiency in image editing. As the class progresses these exercises will be assigned on the direction you are going with your art. Exercises are graded on your ability to show how well you have learned these techniques. These exercises will represent 25 % of your grade. These will be assigned as class proceeds.
1. Create a personal Artist’s blog
2. Found Object Collage
3. Hands-on masking.
4. Vector Drawing
5. Signature hand written with effects (used for signing digital artwork)
6. Symbol or Icon that represents you. (Like a Asian Artisan’s Chop)
7. Vector Based Pattern Design
8. Scanner Collage
9. Show your art in a monumental way.
10. Artist Postcard
11. Artist Poster
12. Prezi Web Page Collage

Build your own 3D Printer

3D printer of my own design, that I have been working on since late 2008 and is now fully functional as of Summer 2010. It prints parts in ABS plastic with a maximum build area of 403.00 x 403.00 x 322.70 mm [15.86 x 15.86 x 12.70 inches].