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Saturday, 28 September 2013

3D Printing... are we living the future?

Tuesday 17th of September, evening, I attended Café Scientifique for the very first time, and I must say it was both a pleasant surprise and a discovery. The talk was about “The 3D Printing Evolution” and the speaker, Kati Byrne from Developing Dreams, managed to give a very concise and fascinating 30 minute(s) talk on what she is passionate about.

3D printing is what is called Additive Manufacturing, which is making an object from a 3 dimensional digital model by printing it layer upon layer. The materials that can be used are various, the most commonly used ones are plastics/polymers, but metal, ceramics, wood composite and many others can be used as well.

You might be wondering by now, how does it work?

Well, once you have the 3D printer (this could be a little bit expensive, going from £800 for a Desktop Printer to £73,000 for a Top End Printer) and have decided which source material you are going to use, you go to the 3D modelling software: CAD/CAM, Blender or Google Sketchup (the last two are available for free) design your prototype and print away!

The key advantages of 3D Printing, and the reasons why it could be a good idea to use it are its ability to produce ready available prototyping and bespoke designs, being these two the strongest points of this technology in my opinion. It was also uses less materials, produces less waste and less carbon emissions due to local produce availability.

So far this technology is being used in Space, Architecture, Medical, Automotive and Consumer goods… Do you know there is a 3D-printed Aston Martin in the most recent Bond film Skyfall?

Will 3D printing change the world as we see it now? Where printing will go from this point on? Lots of questions are emerging regarding this technology; the possibilities seem to be endless, the new design freedom and the customisation of this developing technology give it without doubt an important place, and we will be seeing and hearing a lot from now on.

Markus Kayser - Solar Sinter Project

P.S. I've got scanned and I will have my very own myself model anytime soon, I will post a picture as soon as I get it! x

Saturday, 16 February 2013

Klimt...

Thursday, 7 February 2013

Larmer Tree Festival | 17th-21st July 2013

Cortazar...

"Toco tu boca, con un dedo toco el borde de tu boca, voy dibujándola
como si saliera de mi mano, como si por primera vez tu boca se entreabriera, y me basta cerrar los ojos para deshacerlo todo y recomenzar, hago nacer cada vez la boca que deseo, la boca que mi mano elige y te dibuja en la cara, una boca elegida entre todas, con soberana libertad elegida por mi para dibujarla con mi mano en tu cara, y que por un azar que no busco comprender coincide exactamente con tu boca que sonríe por debajo de la que mi mano te dibuja.
Me miras, de cerca me miras, cada vez más de cerca y entonces jugamos al cíclope, nos miramos cada vez más de cerca y los ojos se agrandan,se acercan entre sí, se superponen y los cíclopes se miran, respirando confundidos, las bocas se encuentran y luchan tibiamente, mordiéndose con los labios, apoyando apenas la lengua en los dientes, jugando en sus recintos donde un aire pesado va y viene con un perfume viejo y un silencio. Entonces mis manos buscan hundirse en tu pelo, acariciar lentamente la profundidad de tu pelo mientras nos besamos como si tuviéramos la boca llena de flores o de peces, de movimientos vivos,de fragancia oscura. Y si nos mordemos el dolor es dulce, y si nos ahogamos en un breve y terrible absorber simultáneo del aliento, esa instantánea muerte es bella. Y hay una sola saliva y un solo sabor a fruta madura, y yo te siento temblar contra mí como una luna en el agua."