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10-05-2017, 10:25 PM | #1 |
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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. 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. 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. Anyway cute Elephant Link
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