3D Image File Archive

Just recently was talking to a friend who is developing a program for storing 3D image files, thought I would share this idea with everyone. It's basically a similar idea to iPhoto or iTunes--but instead of a program that stores your music or photo files, this program will store and organize CAD files that are images of 3D printing concepts. What do you think? It's really amazing how many opportunities there are for developing technological and social culture around a new medium...

Remaining classes

Novemeber 14: video
NO CLASS November 28 instead:
Dec 1: 9.30am - 4.30pm Painting studio (Macy 4th floor)
Dec 5: Audio, Sound, Microphone
Dec 12: Finishing up. Presentations of Final Project.

3D Printing Photobooth

I came across this article in Wired today about a pop-up photo booth in Japan that allows people to create a miniature or "action figure" of themselves using 3D printing. The cost for one figurine is about $265.

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/11/3d-printing-photobooth/

ART THOUGHTZ: How to Make an Art.

Homework 9

1) Sign up for a tinkercad.com account and create a 3D model of your liking that you could later on (you don't have to) print with our Makerbot-Replicator. Tinkercad has a very good start-tutorial which will make it easy for you to get first-hand experiences. Push this as far as you would like it to. The goal of this assignment is to have an experience, to intrigue your imagination and include 3D printing in the repertoire of your creative thinking. 2) Think of possibilities of what one can do creatively with 3D printing and create a blog entry that focuses on it. 3) Research an artist who uses 3D printing creatively and blog about her/him. 4) Our next class session will focus on video. As we have spoken in class, there are 2 ways of how you can approach this. The first: Find a video online that you would like to use as your template. Choose a sequence or the entire video and redo it. If you feel comfortable go ahead and create the video. Or just present your idea in next class. The second possibility: Create a video or idea of a video which consists of a single 1 minute shot that you don't have to edit or change. If you feel comfortable with the technology involved, go ahead and create the video. Or just present your idea in our next class. 5) Research an artist who uses video creatively and write a blog entry about it.

Lumiere minutes - Pedagogy of cinema

Cinema In Course (Cinema en curs) is defined as a pedagogic program that is both of and with film because it pursues a pressing double objective: to draw young people to cinema as a form of art, creation and culture, and to explore the pedagogic potential of cinema creation.
It began in Catalonia (northeast of Spain) in 2005 and is being implemented in primary and secondary schools with pupils between 3 and 18 years old. One of the main backbones is the joint and continued work between teachers, professors and film professionals (directors, scriptwriters, cinematographers, editors…).
Lumiere Minutes (Minuts Lumiere) is one of the several projects developed within the framework of Cinema en curs. In this project students were experimenting with documentary film, playing with single and still shots, like the first Lumiere films. For that purpose they had to thoughtfully choose a situation and how to capture it. In the link I´m attaching you can find information about the lesson plans, experiences, etc. However, unlike the Cinema In course web, this is not yet translated to English.

Minuts Lumière
Cinema in course