Oct 6th, 2017: The Fragile Giant
Of course he isn’t real. I take that back, he is real just not a real live Elephant.
Artist Jonty Hurwitz made him by multiphoton lithography… think 3-D printing technique. Called The Fragile Giant and measuring only 0.157 mm (0.0062 in) tall. http://cellar.org/2017/tiny phant1.jpg Isn’t he cute? He’s also the smallest man-made object ever filmed. He was filmed image by image with a scanning electron microscope. http://cellar.org/2017/tiny phant2.jpg The link says it was created to raise awareness about the plight of elephants threatened by ivory poaching and trafficking. OK, that’s definitely a worthy cause I support. But I see statements like that so often. It seems to be SOP for any artsy project to associate itself, attach itself, by claiming a worthy cause as the motivation. Maybe I’m too cynical, but it seems an insurance policy, so if anyone says something derogatory about the piece/performance, they can be attacked for being anti good cause. :confused: Anyway cute Elephant Link |
That's extremely detailed for such a small object. They should show it standing in a pile of table salt, or on an actual finger.
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They did. Look at the inset pic!
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Auction it off, donate the money, that's what will help the cause.
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That is simply over-the-top amazing.
Elephants themselves are amazing creatures. It has been their incredible bad luck to have something that a few assholes want. |
True, Elephants have displayed more social skills, memory, and reasoning resembling critical thinking, than the other animals studied including our cousin tree hangars.
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Wait we can do this but we can't have functional politics,... weird.
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Functional politics requires looking at the big picture. Maybe outlawing electron microscopes because scientists are not trustworthy. I heard that somewhere.:rolleyes:
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Oh Bruce, that's perfect!
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That's impressive technology.
Art? Fuck modern artsy wankers. Art shouldn't need a title, let alone 2,000 words to make it so -- random photographs, or some string hanging from the ceiling, or a dark room with some boring movie on loop, or some sticks haphardly glued together, that stuff need a fucking manual to "appreciate" it. My work explores the relationship between Pre-raphaelite tenets and UFO sightings.Fucking hate that shit. |
But Leus, I read recently of a gallery or museum, can't remember the details, didn't adequately label an art installation and came in the following morning to find the janitors had trashed it overnight. :facepalm:
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They say elephants can't jump, but I have seen pictures of them dancing.
Rough calculations show that about 600 of these little beauties could dance on the head of a pin. Of at least fit, so maybe a hundred would have room to dance. Don't care much for artsy wankers myself, otherwise I don't think I know what he said. |
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