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If the thinker does not relate himself
to the value of truth in political struggle,
he cannot responsibly cope
with the whole of live experience."

– C. Wright Mills

"Because of the expanded reach of politics,
it is (the intellectual's) own personal style of life
and reflections they think about
when they think about politics. ...

this series of yours just keeps winning,
love to see them,
nice work

#artists need latitude

Attempting to reign in my #Obsidian vault.

I'll know it worked when this tangled mess can be used to turn out decent #writing.

Probably about how freedom is impossible without a transformation of the built environment.

The books I’m currently reading

Gosh, this is nice

To really become an artist, I may have to become an architect

Love this #drawingmachine

It’s in the Olafur Eliasson show at the MoCA in LA.

Meteorological data are used to control the speeds of the four motors that drive the machine, causing the movements of the levers and the traces that are left on the page to reflect the intermittences of the weather.

The urge to check your watch while meditating is the same as the urge to check social media when you're "tired" of reading after 2 pages or drawing for 20 minutes or even slightly inconvenienced by little tasks.

Culture trains you to be distracted.

Train yourself to focus.

Gift of John Silberman in honor of Ann Temkin

Sarah Sze, Migrateurs (Green Lamp), 1997 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137761

It's a very specific brand of madness,
you're not alone.

“… #generative sequences are the 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯 of real freedom in the creative process…”
– Christopher Alexander

(These are a few apartment layouts generated by a building code written by Alexander.

This kind of building code is literally called “𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦”.)

#architecture #creativecoding

People talk about culture as if it were #politics, unable to tell the difference.

You are being funneled into the Democratic party.

If they were capable of helping you, we wouldn’t have Trump in office to begin with.

I finished testing the scale of the armor pieces with cardboard.

That test told me to make the torso pieces 1/2 an inch longer.

So here, I’m plotting this second edited version on the sheet of material I’ll use to make the final armor.

#penplotter #mandalorian #mando #cosplaycraft #makerspace

Looking good!

Took my #mando armor for its first test run last night!

Cardboard is not an approvable material, but this is just to get the scale of the armor right.

Still so much to be done!

#mandalorian #starwars #cosplaymaker #cosplaycraft #starwarsart #starwarscosplay #bobafett #jangofett

It’s the holodeck, the sky’s the limit.
The safety features would be nice tho – no fumes!

Thanks!
It’s an XY plotter/drawing machine.
You can buy a laser for it to turn it into a laser cutter, so that’ll happen eventually!

Vor’e (thanks)!
I got the plotter for making drawings, but I might as well use it for making armor too.

Ibic haar yust
This is the way
🫡

Plotting some #mandalorian armor in cardboard

This test will help me scale the pieces to my actual body dimensions.

Cardboard is also cheaper than the material I’ll use for the finished armor.

#starwarscosplay
#starwars #bobafett #jangofett #mando #cosplaymaker #cosplaycraft #LARP

The year is 2368.

The woodworking holodeck program has optional 𝙨𝙖𝙬𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩.

Turning on 𝙨𝙖𝙬𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩 increases the difficulty of the program, making it necessary to build an entire dust management system.

Since it's simulated, this is all for fun.

Welcome to the future.

#startrek #woodworking

I can tell that your images are made using physical materials, and I enjoy that about them.
But yes, posting images to the internet can make it difficult to show the materiality of the art.

At first glance, I thought this was etched or engraved.
Probably my favorite image I've seen you make,
the texture in particular really gives it something extra.
Nice work!

really nice
looking forward to seeing how it turns out

I caught Gundam on Adult Swim in high school.
Only once.
It was excellent.

#livingstructure

“Serious artist” can just mean falling in love with building giant coloring pages for yourself.

𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦
24x24”
Ink, colored pencil, contractor’s paper

#livingstructure
#geometrynodes #penplotter #b3d #abstractdrawing #worksonpaper
#contemporarydrawing #plotterart #mandalaartwork