David Project

Working Notes

These are working notes. Please read, think, and edit, this is a wiki.

Action Items

Build up background,

Context

Destruction of the casts by barbarians. (Technically, hippies led by modernists. The modernists wanted to impose their own stamp on the course curriculum and created a moral crisis in order to do so. The hippies were angry about an un unjust war and thought 'the Man' was oppressing them by forcing them to draw.

Possibly unrelated from my original source text: (Maybe 10 years from now all the art schools that want will have as many casts as they can 3D print. I think I know what I'm doing on my next trips to art museums.) See also David_Project

Make Simple Model Using RepRap

• This is a key step. If you walk into a prosthetic designer's workshop or a roboticist designer's workshop, you better have a physical simple non-working example, printed out with a RepRap. This will engage the designer's somatic sense, their professional instincts will kick in, and he or she will tell you why this won't work.
• Lay out large sheets of paper.
• Ask them to make a drawing explaining their criticism.
• Scan sheets of paper.
• Make new model.
• Repeat. Go back to
• This is a little sneaky, but will work. We will call it the Columbo method of getting started on a project.

Agitprop

After deploying working examples, alert media, preferably using RepRap Blog] and BoingBoing (Cory et.al. are nice people, and people read their blog. Plus, since it's a blog, they need content, so it's all good.)