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26 Foot Long Boat 3D Printed In 100,000 Different Pieces
First time accepted submitter Talk Prizes writes Hung-Chih Peng, a Taiwanese artist, has decided to 3D print a boat measuring 26 feet in length. The piece, called "The Deluge – Noah's Ark" is a twisted wrecked boat which he had to 3D print in 100,000 different pieces and then glue it all together. "...The Deluge is Peng’s way of showing the inability that humans have exhibited in rectifying uncontrollable catastrophic challenges. Climate change, ecological crises, and environmental pollution are all changes that this planet is facing, yet seemingly humans do not have a way to correct these problems. The work is meant as a metaphor for showing the battle being waged by Mother Nature on the accelerated development of industrialized civilization."
Ah, so he's an idiot.
How will he put all the animals in that boat if it be only 26 feet long - honestly does he have a shrink ray handy?
That's weird spending so much time making something that's already wrecked.
So he used plastics and high tech to create more global warming problems to demonstrate his opposition to man's developments and climate change.
Interesting rationalization. I would have a lot more respect for him if he threw away all his worldly belongings and went and sat in the forest for a year eating nothing.
"Climate change, ecological crises, and environmental pollution are all changes that this planet is facing, yet seemingly humans do not have a way to correct these problems"
There's that climate change again. Fucking crazy conspiracy theorists. Go jump off a curb.
It seriously seems like it would be much easier to create the thing intact and then deform it (heat gun + twisting) than to create lots and lots of small deformed pieces with minor curvatures and try to fit them together.
Did the printer overheat? Was it left in the sun too long. Only one conclusion can be made.. IT MELTED!!!
He could have just left a blank lot and called it a conceptual piece. It would have had as much truth as that fairy tale.
BTW for the the people who need to say its the literal truth which set of creatures did Noah take on the ark , Saltwater or fresh water?
As far as I can tell from reading the article, this is not a boat at all. It is merely a full-sized sculpture of a boat. The difference, of course, being that a boat is something that is intended to ever be floated on water, and is reasonably capable of doing so without sinking, capsizing, etc.
His statements in TFA are a collection of fallacies and nonsense.
Navel gazing until you start seeing the world through your own ass is not art. Ask any proctologist.
"Human beings are unable to return to the unspoiled living environment of the past, and have become victims of their own endeavors. In the biblical time, Noah's Ark is the last resort for humans to escape from the termination of the world. However, if Noah's Ark sinks, where is the hope of the human race? If Noah's Ark, a symbol of mankind salvation, becomes just as a shipwreck, human and nonhuman were placed in an equal position. Human subject is losing his predominance as the supreme center of the world." ...
"It is certain that, no matter what circumstance will turn out, there will certainly be a disaster beforehand," explains Peng. "Destruction and construction always grow and demise together. We will once again encounter the problem of moral degeneration."
And the author of the article seems to be in the same category of faux-thinkers.
It depicts a time when the Anthropocene period (a period when human activities have/had significant global impact on Earthâ(TM)s ecosystems), is replaced by the Mechanocene period when machinery begins taking over some of the jobs.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
for the 3d printer that will print the entire ship in one go.
26 foot boat... oh hang on, you would.
Why not just build a bigger printer and do it in one piece?
Hung indeed
It's too bad the creator had to ruin it by opening his mouth. Any 'Art' that makes it's statement with a bunch of words next to it generally isn't art. It's glued together junk that's not aesthetically appealing. This guy actually made something neat and arguably pretty, then made sure we all knew his talents started with, and ended with, this sort of work.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
Dee Snider backed this project yes?
And the Captcha says!
1.Posture
C'mon... if they're going to name something that, it should really be 450 feet long, shouldn't it?
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
or else it's another 26 foot of plastic waiting millennia to decay.
...the world's largest model kit.
26 Foot Long Boat
No, it's a 26 foot long sculpture.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
sure, just as soon as you start ranting in ENGLISH.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
Art, as we know, is a form of communicaton. Can we then say that something is not art if the artist himself is not sure what he is trying to communicate? No! The act of attempting to communicate unformed, part-formed, or ill-formed concepts is itself an artistic endeavour. The idea that the viewer of a work may reach clarity and understanding of that which the artist himself cannot understand is an ultimate achievement of the artistic process, and justifies the creation of such works.
Dammit, I seem to have mastered this "talking out of my arse" business, I almost caught myself believing that crap.
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