Digital Stone Project

[abknight@zzzzzz]

George,

I certainly did not mean to destroy your logic!  If you
got it, hang on to it by all means.  I find this "carving"
 from digiatally sampled life altogether catagory jumping.
Maybe it looks like hell in person.  I really don't know
what to think, except that it would seem to have the
capability to put life into things in a way I had not
imagined.  Often I notice that the most arresting sight in
my studio is a plastic trash bag covering a maquette
indescribably wrinkled and arrayed, full of shocking
curves and angularities.  I could capture that ineffable
sight with a laser scan.  We have yet to see the full
human form carved in stone from a live capture laser scan.
 The foam maquettes I have seen on-line look pretty
poorly, but then they have not been handled with much care
, and they are foam:
http://cyberfx.com/     see the sculpting and milling.
I think the are advertising in Sculpture Review now, as
in, forget clay, buy your you and your model airline
tickets to LA and you can be finished in 17 seconds and by
the way you can work in clay for years and never come
anywhere near this close.

I also include as a hopeful redemption from this
frightening world of unmoderated reality a link to a site
of analog repose:
http://www.lisasettegallery.com/artistsI-O/mennin.htm

Bill