“Beautiful Failures” Celebrates The Less-Than-Perfect Things
We’re digging through the “beautiful failures” set at Cunicode. Anyone who likes the way something looks when it’s made on a MakerBot will appreciate these nice images of failed print processes.
As Ponoko writes, “Even the most well-tuned machine is subject to the occasional plastic jam, crashing nozzle, or build surface separation.” I can attest that these things often come out like nice sculpture.
I would argue that cancelled prints can be quite nice, even when nothing’s wrong. I sometimes rest my coffee cup on a half of Andreas Böhler’s Blobby, winner of the Pet Monster contest. This half-print was made on The Replicator at a high resolution, so the layers feel more natural than part of a manufacturing process. With the top half missing, there’s a flat surface that looks almost like terrain. And I like it.
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Ann Marie Shillito
Hello Andrew and Makerbot,
Nice to know that I am not alone and loopy for seeing beauty and interesting things in the mishaps that many 3D printer people disregard. At the end of shows with A1 Technologies, I’d manage to collect a couple of the part printed objects and rejects and use them for jewellery, adding and finishing by painting with gold lustre to hightlight the texture and finally fitting a pin to use as a brooch. I liked the fact that these oddities inspired new and interesting ideas. I should be getting my own 3D printer (a Maxit) in a 2 or 3 weeks time and looking forward to tweaking and subverting it for interesting results.
Thanks for airing this.
Ann Marie
nic
Hey, cool! we’ve been collecting less than perfect prints on this tumblr blog: http://failthing.com/
its open so anyone is welcome to post
Luis E. Rodriguez
Wow, we created this a while back and in a cruels twist of irony fail to update it often: http://failiverse.tumblr.com/
Also open.