Response 1 – DanielA
Some of the ideas about crowd sourcing and taking the fabrication away from the big corporations are really interesting to me. Personally, crowdsourcing a creative venture seemed a little odd to me, at first, but it makes sense after seeing some of the end-products. Additionally, I think it’s a true display of the power of human ingenuity to figure out how to make a 3D printer– and to make them as insanely different and useful as they are.
Crowdsourcing I’ve supported in the past has been business ventures– products that would be useful to me, or were a cheaper and/or more elegant version of the big corporations products. The things I’d bought were useful and much better quality because the people who were crowdsourcing their products were using the ingenuity and financing from people all over the world to create something practical, and that made sense to me. Later, I supported a creative venture– a web-series, in fact– that was described as a combination of three of my favorite works of fiction (and the pilot they produced showed this was true). This wasn’t something I believed in before, but the creative ability that people can harness when they’re supported by a network of individuals who they might not know or ever meet makes the idea of crowdsourcing just about anything really interesting to me.
3D printing is something that’s rather foreign to me since I prefer to work with my hands– carving, machining, sculpting, etc.– rather than have a machine do the work for me. I’ve seen what people can do with a 3D printer, though, and it’s all been rather impressive. There’s really no limit to what people can make. I’ve seen a friend make earrings for his mother, watched a video of a guy print a concrete castle (youtube link), and I have a few ideas of what I’d like to make in the future.
I’d use these opportunities for collaboration. All of us (I’m assuming) are creatives, but we all have different specializations that make us more valuable in different scenarios. Thinking on a larger scale, one could (as many creatives do) collaborate with people from all over the world to make, well, anything.
In the future I’d like to make something that helps inform people, honestly. The new technology in filmmaking that allows for much more immersive experiences– 360˚ shipwreck exploration, anyone?– could inform people about issues in the world that aren’t generally seen in a regular presentation. You might have the best cinematographer in the world behind the camera, but there’s only one direction you can point a RED at one time.
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Cool castle! What do you think people need informing about? What kind of information will help us make healthy choices? What information do we need to increase our freedoms, or to provide for healthy families, communities, food, land, water?
What kind of information has most empowered you? Or released your creativity? Or put tools in your hands that helped you create the kind of world you want to inhabit?