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Making shoes with no stitches or glue

Making shoes with no stitches or glue

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From the basic idea of using a hot glue gun to form and build up a model, why not make whole objects in this way? Attach that glue gun to a robotic arm and turn the glue into a light filament – and voila: LightSpray.

LightSpray is a technique that use a robot arm to spray a recyclable filament around a mold to create a seamless one-piece upper that is directly attached to the midsole, eliminating the need for stitching or glue. The entire shoe is fully assembled in just 3 minutes. Supposedly coming Fall/Winter 2024.

The video is a bit pretentious/pompous thinking they invented something new – it does get the idea across. Like Nike’s attempts at 3D printing, and 3D printed clothing, I think it’s definitely going to change things.

Medieval Jams

Medieval Jams

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Teenage Engineering makes some beautiful products. Now they’ve come up with a new one: the EP–1320 which features hundreds of built-in medieval sounds. Create your own medieval melodies with drums and medieval string and pipe instruments such as their kind of wacky intro video below.

There’s also some folks already making medieval jams on youtube.

Ravey Light sticks

Ravey Light sticks

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Now on their 5th version, Light Toys Visual Poi V5 MAXI are LED light sticks that can produce some amazing patterns when swung around. Persistence of vision illusions (in this case a pair of sticks) uses densely-packed RGB LEDs and circuitry that displays a line at a time to produce complete images when spun. They are pretty amazing, but ought to be since a pair costs an eye watering $2190

Amaze your friends at the next rave for about 30 minutes – or more likely synced up as a backup dancer for the next Super bowl concert.

Nitty Gritty

Nitty Gritty

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Despite having taken a number of salsa and swing dancing lessons, I’m afraid that I’m just not that natural of a dancer. But boy I love swing dancing when I see it. It’s definitely my favorite.

Stephen and Chanzie put on an amazing show at the Rock That Swing Festival by dancing to The Nitty Grity (by Shirley Ellis). Performed at the Deutsches Theater (February 6th, 2016)

Man – I wish our culture had a lot more of this kind of quality.

Physically modeling data

Physically modeling data

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Norwood Viviano makes really interesting art. It demonstrates data using art.

Here’s one in which he 3D prints city maps that demonstrate the primary industries that created certain cities:

Or how rising water levels will flood different cities:

Or city population increases/declines over time:

OpenAI music video

OpenAI music video

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OpenAI’s first Sora AI generated music video called ‘Worldweight’ was supposed to capture the images a musician visualized in their mind while composing the piece. It’s not particular good, more of a pretentious art student’s fever dream.

Previous attempts were better. This video from 2022 used Dall-E to create a video for the song Canvas by Resonate:

But Sora is capable of more. Indie artist Washed Out used Sora to create an interesting video called “The Hardest Part” that tried to explore the idea of an infinite zoom that would have been too ambitious. I think it came out pretty good:

Or maybe you’d like to try out some of the other top AI music video generators yourself (Neural Frames and Kaiber)?

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