3D Printing Inspiration!

     I am happy to be working on a creative project now! Next we are going to be 3D printing things. There's a whole bunch of possibilities so I am trying to figure out where to start my brain out compiling some lists of inspiration from or ideas

   Anyways, next there is this Gary Fay guy who makes articulated finger extensions. They are PLA

It's funny because I wanted finger extensions for a long time probably from literally putting clothespegs on all my fingers and waving my hands around like they were really long is it so satisfying. I was like oh...this must exist somewhere, they are probably like metal and make with jewelry making stuff. It literally did not come into my mind until like a minute before I just looked if this was a thing.

my hands yearn to wear them 

someone doing the thing with them

even Lady Gaga was wearing these and maybe I knew? But I forgot.

    Anyways, another group that is doing interesting things is OCH Ceramics, who work with 3D printed ceramics similar to what our Prof for this course works with some time. I first heard of them on a ceramics podcast.

    

    I really like how variations in the layers allow different amounts of light in in a ...mathematically pleasing way, if that makes sense.

Them having big architectural stuff was cool. Like this thing was just chunks of ceramic (or concrete?) that hung off each other. The website said it created moiré patterns which is kind of a type of optical illusions similar to if you have two mesh screens on top of each other. I really like physiological optical illusions, the ones where your brain gets confused and sees things moving when they aren't, ect and I think that digital design can help with that since it can help you get precision in calculating and fabricating confusing objects.

    I would be really interested in trying to print pate de verre, which is a type of glass paste that is pressed into a mold a fired. I think possibly printing it then only firing it to a tack fuse could possibly be feasible. Then I am back with materials exploration again! My jam.

 Also, just going to sidebar onto this whole thing I've seen online of people sticking diffraction grating onto their print base sheet thing and getting holographic stuff. Any time I can iridize or make something holographic I am there. 

   

    Next there is this artist that I keep seeing popping up on Instagram under the name Sewprinted. She prints using plant based filaments which are stiff like PLA as well as FilaFlex to make either sequin like pieces to attach to fabric, or she will print from both sides (flipping after the first print) with a thin fabric like tulle in between.

This skirt was printed as a solid piece onto fabric with some squares cut around with scissors after for movement

This jacket had sequins that were sewn on after- they had a mesh tab at the top to sew on the jacket.

        I thought this was pretty cool because I have been interested in exploring different materials as sequins in the past, having attempted using weird things like thin wood peeled from wet logs as well as cut feathers. However, when I re-came across her account I was more trying to see if anyone had just made from the stretchy filament like those body harnesses? Either I do not know where to look that well (though honestly Instagram was easier to find stuff on that was cool than like, a search engine) 

This wasn't 3d printed. This is just a Blackmilk body harness.

This Turkish lady is apparent 3D printing these, but I do not like them.

I was more hoping there's be someone making things like these Silicone tentacle harnesses that Tinkercast on Instagram makes. Like, not necessarily tentacles but like, but creative I guess?

    I started following them a few years ago, they basically do something similar that Sewprinted does with the tights here, only instead of printing on either sides of a mesh fabric, they use silicon in molds on sheer tights so it looks like mermaid scales.

    I think printing a cage/harness thing out of stretchy filament in little parts that get connected would be sweet. Since it's almost like a belt it doesn't matter as much if it's a bit stiff. You could do 3D designs or even just 2D ones on the diffraction grating to make them holographic! 

    Honorable mentions go to:

 Brian Gillespie from my laser cutting presentation with his blow molds that he made in Rhino

Here's a screenshot of the Instagram thumbnail because when I go to clock the link it immediately goes to him making it

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3vAdN0rdta/

Brandyn Callahan is blowing glass through the 3D printed ceramics to make lighting and that's just crazy. How does it fit without cracking what is going on here???

There's also a 3D glass printer but hahaha it's really really expensive

probably in part because it has to get soooooo hot

    It's kind of cool because you buy another machine with it to make long thin poles of glass out of recycled glass to use. However, almost because it is so specific I am less interested in it.