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Old 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

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Old 10-06-2017, 07:38 AM   #2
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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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Old 10-06-2017, 11:20 AM   #3
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They did. Look at the inset pic!

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Old 10-06-2017, 11:38 AM   #4
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Auction it off, donate the money, that's what will help the cause.

Cool.
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Old 10-06-2017, 11:56 AM   #5
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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.
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Old 10-06-2017, 01:48 PM   #6
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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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Old 10-06-2017, 02:13 PM   #7
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Wait we can do this but we can't have functional politics,... weird.
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Old 10-06-2017, 02:26 PM   #8
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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.
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Old 10-06-2017, 03:06 PM   #9
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Oh Bruce, that's perfect!
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Old 10-06-2017, 06:53 PM   #10
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True, Elephants have displayed more social skills, memory, and reasoning resembling critical thinking, than the other animals studied including our cousin tree hangars.
There are dolphins and whales too.
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Old 10-06-2017, 10:19 PM   #11
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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.
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Ever since I was a teenager I have been fascinated by the theoretical limits of the zeitgeist. What starts out as vision soon becomes finessed into a carnival of defeat, leaving only a sense of unreality and the inevitability of a new reality.

As subtle replicas become clarified through boundaried and academic practice, the viewer is left with a clue to the possibilities of our era.
Fucking hate that shit.
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Old 10-06-2017, 10:35 PM   #12
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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.
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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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...otherwise I don't think I know what he said.
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