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Overall, it doesn't feel great we delegated these statues to 3d printing.

mikepurvis 6y ago
It's a good start, though. :) And for a temporary, pop-up exhibition, it's neat to demonstrate an application for 3D printing.
- monadic2 6y ago
  A good start to what end? Who gives a shit about 3D printing when it comes to making statues? The point is obviously not to pimp the technology.
  - mikepurvis 6y ago
    The "good start" is that an individual or small group were able to go from concept to display in a shorter period of time with these, and for relatively low cost. Hopefully there's interest and support for redoing one or more of them in permanent materials. I can definitely see this as a more promising start than spending years in committees fighting over the details and funding for a conventional statue that might never see the light of day. Anyway, this is just a preview— the full exhibition includes 122 such statues. So it's also a good start in that regard. :)
    - monadic2 6y ago
      Since when has art been judged on time to creation or volume or cost? This seems to be solving a problem sculpting doesn't have to begin with. I agree that this could be a boon to creation but I hardly see these samples as decent examples....
      - mikepurvis 6y ago
        The point is the art that never has a chance to be judged because it never gets created on account of these barriers.
        monadic2 6y ago
        I consider that an emphatic benefit looking at these statues. Why couldn't they have hired a sculptor?
- Yetanfou 6y ago
  It is a bad start of a bad trend, erecting statues in of non-notable living people in public spaces by a mob. Even if you ideologically align with this mob you should realise that this trend better stop here and be reversed or the next time you look those statues will be replaced with other ones by another mob which you do not ideologically align with. This will invariably be followed by mob A "defending their statue" against mob B which wants to replace it with "their statue". If this sounds like the sort of game you'd play in school - defend the crown, in Dutch "Levend Stratego", etc - you're right because that is more or less what it is. Before you know it we'll all be living in Portland, OR. and that is not something you will like, not even if it happens to be your mob which took over the streets. Today, that is, they might be kicked out by another mob tomorrow.
staplers 6y ago
I sort of agree, the artistic element is removed. Also having them cast in fluorescent orange removes a lot of the humanity. Maybe it's a knee-jerk reaction to the novelty but it feels garish. I fully support having more female statues however.

It's a good start, though. :) And for a temporary, pop-up exhibition, it's neat to demonstrate an application for 3D printing.

monadic2 6y ago
A good start to what end? Who gives a shit about 3D printing when it comes to making statues? The point is obviously not to pimp the technology.
- mikepurvis 6y ago
  The "good start" is that an individual or small group were able to go from concept to display in a shorter period of time with these, and for relatively low cost. Hopefully there's interest and support for redoing one or more of them in permanent materials. I can definitely see this as a more promising start than spending years in committees fighting over the details and funding for a conventional statue that might never see the light of day. Anyway, this is just a preview— the full exhibition includes 122 such statues. So it's also a good start in that regard. :)
  - monadic2 6y ago
    Since when has art been judged on time to creation or volume or cost? This seems to be solving a problem sculpting doesn't have to begin with. I agree that this could be a boon to creation but I hardly see these samples as decent examples....
    - mikepurvis 6y ago
      The point is the art that never has a chance to be judged because it never gets created on account of these barriers.
      - monadic2 6y ago
        I consider that an emphatic benefit looking at these statues. Why couldn't they have hired a sculptor?
Yetanfou 6y ago
It is a bad start of a bad trend, erecting statues in of non-notable living people in public spaces by a mob. Even if you ideologically align with this mob you should realise that this trend better stop here and be reversed or the next time you look those statues will be replaced with other ones by another mob which you do not ideologically align with. This will invariably be followed by mob A "defending their statue" against mob B which wants to replace it with "their statue". If this sounds like the sort of game you'd play in school - defend the crown, in Dutch "Levend Stratego", etc - you're right because that is more or less what it is. Before you know it we'll all be living in Portland, OR. and that is not something you will like, not even if it happens to be your mob which took over the streets. Today, that is, they might be kicked out by another mob tomorrow.

staplers 6y ago

I sort of agree, the artistic element is removed. Also having them cast in fluorescent orange removes a lot of the humanity. Maybe it's a knee-jerk reaction to the novelty but it feels garish. I fully support having more female statues however.