(Silent Night)

Aloha oe, kupuna.

3D Printed Series

As an outgrowth of my graphical dog series, I've started developing a parallel set of 3D printed figurines to match. Having finally photographed the 3D prints I received some 3 weeks ago, I've now updated my Shapeways models and made them available for sale.

The Next Hybrid Idea: Light #2

This was originally an idea from several years ago which I dropped while moving onto other ideas -- I've got some 30+ designs just in light fixtures, in various levels of design completeness.

I've started reading a book, Making Ideas Happen, and I thought I'd pick up one of my existing designs and develop it further, incorporating some 3D printed parts with the original plan of CNC parts with the goal of pushing it to reality.

I'm going to get one of these built, but I don't know whether to go with the dark or light version. I think I'll go with the light version.

In process: Hybrid Light Fixtures

This design represents a different means of production -- a hybrid -- of using custom-designed 3D printed parts and laser-cut CNC parts. I've been sitting on a few other hybrid design objects, knowing that I need to explore these concepts further.

Perhaps contrary to the honesty of the production process, I feel that objects which look like they were laser-cut CNC parts fall short of their true potential. Hence, the desire to introduce 3D-printed parts and the need for further exploration before finalizing a design and sending out for production.

I'm quite proud of this design, to be sure.

Photos for May 2, 2016

An early start this morning.

Sunrise and the moon.

Some photos with my 10-20mm lens and my recently acquired 55-300 DX lens -- I finally got to test it out on the moon, which came out spectacular compared to my oldish 70-210 kit lens that I will no longer be using, especially since the 55-300 has VR. With the image sensor's 1.5x image crop factor, it's like having a 450mm lens.

6:25 am photo, wide angle at Chapman Elementary

6:35 am photo, wide angle at Chapman Elementary

6:43 am photo, wide angle at Chapman Elementary (apologies for the bad color correction)

6:58 am photo, wide angle at Chapman Elementary

300mm shot at the moon

You can make out the craters of the moon

300mm shot of the Pearl District from Chapman Elementary

Cherry blossoms at night.

I messed up. I didn't have enough juice in the batteries, so I rushed these photos and took just a handful of shots at 4:30~5:30 am. Normally in the daytime the waterfront would be filled with people wandering around the cherry blossoms, so it occurred to me that the best time to photograph them would be in the middle of the night with long exposures ~ 1 minute.