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How long before toy manufacturers go for the “3D printed look” to cash in on the trend?
Is 3D printed jewellery the epitome of Pokemonetisation? When will 3D printed jewellery trend and what pokemonesque combination will it take to go mass-market?
But can 3D printing be mass-market? Isn’t it the home-made within-your-grasp nature of 3D printing that’s popular? What about the professional end of 3D printing that’s always at the leading edge of the possible?
Watch Jointed Jewels by Roosmarijn Pallandt for byAMT Studio on Vimeo.
If home printing is killing retail, will the money move to creating and transporting the masses of resin-y stuff we’re making these trinkets out of? Can we make that out of renewables? Out of waste products?
Will we get visits from Selective Laser Sinterklaas delivering presents?
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A new sport introduced for the Diamond Jubilee/2012 Olympics - Corgi Swingball.
Fjord Transit
“Yes, he’s in his office, but he’s on an intergalactic cruise” —from Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Imagine a five day TV marathon covering a cruise around the Norwegian coast. This is Hurtigruten, a traditional midsummer cruise televised by NRK the Norwegian national broadcaster, producing a landscape porn masterpiece by transmitting every last minute of the journey from Bergen on the west coast to Kirkenes in the far northeast of the country, about 5 miles from the Russian border, and about 793 miles from the nearest Starbucks.
As the ship passed through the lower fjords people came to wave. Hei Mamma! At the harbours people wave flags and jump about like fools on Children In Need night. Boaters swarm around, waving and talking into mobiles so they know when to wave. It seems like a national event, but acknowledging the rest of the country, studiously ignoring the capital.
“It’s like visiting some natives, only the natives are wearing Berghaus and hats” —Scott
Of the many remarkable things about this fjordwatch is the breadth of media they’re using, from a detailed and interactive (ie. Rewindable) map of the cruise to the chat room and radar tabs. Even more ridiculously brilliant is the periodically uploaded torrent files of the camera views. NRK have set a competition for the best remix of the data, which will eventually include data from the ship’s systems, and offer a pretty good prize of about €1000 travel vouchers.
But beyond the cult following from us geeks, there’s something gently soothing about listening to the sea and watching a ship’s bow bob up and down in the midnight sun, punctuated by awful folk music and enthusiastic locals living in the far north being visited by national telly one sunny midnight. This is true reality TV. Hello, world!
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“One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties involved in trying to exceed it. You can’t. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn’t work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn’t really any point in being there.” —
Douglas Adams, Chapter 1, Mostly Harmless
Once again, Douglas Adams understanding human nature. The current evidence for him being right is Twitter - the instant-gratification toss-off bad news amplifier. Pacific tsunami panic messages spread by people sitting miles from a different coast. People are predictable.
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