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Moonrise, east
January 2005
Cast aluminum, brown enamel, wooden plinth
Sculpture 190 x 120 x 110cm/ 74 ¾ x 47 ¼ x 43 ¼ inches
Pedestal 58 x 122.5 x 119 cm/ 22 7/8 x 48 ¼ x 46 7/8 inches
May 2005
Cast aluminum, brown enamel, wooden plinth
Sculpture 190 x 150 x 120cm/ 74 ¾ x 59 x 47 ¼ inches
Pedestal 58 x 122.5 x 119 cm/ 22 7/8 x 47 x 48 1/4 inches
July 2006
Cast aluminum, brown enamel, wooden plinth
Sculpture 210 x 160 x 150cm/ 82 5/8 x 63 x 59 inches
Pedestal 58 x 102.5 x 121.5 cm/ 22 7/8 x 47 1/2 x 47 7/8 inches
Since 2003, Ugo Rondinone has created several series of masks that began on the wall and later morphed into large-scale figures. The 12-part group "moonrise. East" are each titled January to December and represent the progress of the year, while the main title of the group refers to the rise of the moon, the start of night and the western sky. Each Sculpture is a disembodied head set atop a plinth of old, weathered wood. These pieces are the artist's first free-standing figurative sculptures, conceived in 2005, and represent the fourth and final group in a series of masks entitled Moonrise. The process of creation is still visible; the giant sculptures with finger-stroked surfaces were modeled in brown clay then cast in aluminum and lacquered to match the color of the original material.
The surface of (Rondione's) masks modeled in clay and cast in polyurethane has the structure of ruffled water. On closer examination this is revealed as a direct consequence of fingerprints. By means of these working traces stylized into a surface relief, the work is completely marked by the artist's personal touch, and the cultic and spiritual aspects that characterized the original masks are partly dispelled." (Madeleine Schuppli, Aargauer Kunsthaus)
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I didn't expect much of this film when I entered the cinema. I thought I knew exactly what kind of misinterpretation of transgendered pioneer Lili Elbe I'm about to witness and I was kind of right. However, the film still managed to disappoint, no matter how very little I expected from it in the first place. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to like here – the cinematography by Danny Cohen is beautiful and Alexandre Desplat's score is great, as always. Alicia Vikander also manages to give an amazing performance, but this sadly wasn't enough to make this film a worthwhile cinematic experience. The biggest weakness was mainly it's "all-to-safe" and conservative screenplay, not to mention it's false portrayal of what could (and should) have been a story about the brave life of Lili – the first publicly known person who underwent a sex reassignment surgery in 1929. But instead of introducing us to the inspirational life story of Danish painters and spouses, Einar (later Lili) and Gerda Wegener, this film chooses to tell it's own version of the story that is only loosely inspired by their real life (even though it gives the impression that it's based on true events). The amount of inaccuracies in the screenplay was unbelievable and downright offensive, and since films are supposed to be much more than just pretty pictures with good acting, The Danish Girl ended up being just another example of a film where style prevails over any kind of substance.
Both Einar and his wife Gerda were fascinating, open-minded and somewhat controversial people who lived in 1920's bohemian Paris where they both experimented with their sexuality. Yes, both. Gerda was far from a woman who lived in a shadow of her husband's talent and who wouldn't get her big break until she started to paint her husband in women's clothings. Apart from her paintings of Lili, she was most famous for her lesbian erotica art – which is why many wonder if she was, in fact, a lesbian herself. If not, she was most certainly a bisexual woman, since she supposedly had many affairs with other women while being married to Einar. She was therefore far from being a conventional wife who struggled to understand her husband's transition into a woman. But none of this gets mentioned in the film; probably because of the fact that bisexuality is largely still considered a taboo in Hollywood studio films.
This is why The Danish Girl ends up being a very conventional love story where Gerda, somewhat supportive, but unable to fully understand her husband's struggle, gets turned into a martyr who sacrifices her marriage for the sake of her husband's happiness. While watching the film, you'll find yourself more sympathetic towards Gerda than Lili who's slowly coming to terms with her gender and her newly established identity. To make a film about a transgendered person where your main sympathy goes to everyone else but that transsexual person perfectly demonstrates where the true agenda of this film lies, because it's certainly not in representing LGBT community. When the credits finally rolled, I actually began to wonder whether the title The Danish Girl really meant Lili, because it sure seemed more like Gerda's story at more than one occasion. Not to mention the fact that Lili often came across as an egoistical and downright selfish person who doesn't care about anyone but herself. There was one particularly problematic scene where Gerda asked Lili if she could speak with her husband, which was a perfect moment to explain that Lili is, in fact, Einar (and vice versa); that they're the same person, that they always were the same person. Instead, she only responded with: "No. Can I help, please?", which came across as if she's depriving her wife of speaking to her husband one more time. It's awfully manipulative to portray her like that: this film was supposed to be about her inner struggle and not about the struggles of people around her. Especially when those struggles didn't actually exist: Einar lived as Lili for more than 10 years before having a surgery, and in all this time, Gerda and her had a lovely, loving marriage. They lived together as two women for a long time before their marriage became annulled due to legal issues. After Lili had her first surgery (out of four; the last one in 1931 was fatal), she legally changed her name from Einar to Lili Elbe, and this made their marriage invalidate, since two women couldn't be legally married at the time.
Another problem that cannot remain unaddressed was how Einar first acknowledged that she actually identifies as a woman. When one of Gerda's models cancelled her appointment, Einar came to pose in her place – and it's in that exact moment, when he puts on women stockings and a dress, that he (or rather, she) discovers her true gender identity (which is, of course, misleading – she was born as a woman, and has therefore always identified as a woman, even though everyone else around her identified her as a man. Did the film tried to suggest that if she wouldn't try those clothes on, she wouldn't realize that she was born in the wrong body?). It's not long before she starts touching her silk dress in a ridiculously erotic way, as if she didn't just realized that she feels much more herself when dressed like a woman, but as if the dress actually turned her on. And at least the next half of the film continues in this fashion; as if her dressing up in women's clothes would be more of a roleplay between Gerda and herself, and not about her actually being a woman born inside of a man's body. That is until she starts to suffer from monthly nosebleeds and stomach cramps. If she's actually experiencing something as close to a menstrual cycle as a "man" can get, then maybe there really is something more to her dressing up as a woman? Because only after that the film slowly begins to explore the possibility that she actually is a woman and always was a woman: but by that time it is already too late, the damage has already been done.
Just as Jenny's Wedding earlier this year, this film's representation of homosexuality and transsexuality feels disappointingly conservative and outdated, not to mention the fact that a transgendered role once again isn't played by an actual trans actor. It's not more than two years since Jared Leto's Oscar-winning role in Dallas Buyers Club opened up a discourse about the lack of trans people on screen – and yet here we are again, watching Eddie Redmayne dressing up and trying to (somewhat unsuccessfully) come across as Lili Elbe, when I am sure that there's more than enough talented trans actresses in Hollywood that would be perfect for the role. It's also somewhat infuriating to see that Redmayne's performance got him another Oscar nomination. While I liked his performance in The Theory of Everything, his choice of playing Lili in the same physical way as Stephen Hawking felt wrong to me. Everything he did – from his hand gestures and smiles, to his excessive blinking with the eyes, seemed choreographed and forced. There was nothing natural about it; in every scene he looked like he's posing for a portrait, but the most annoying thing was probably the way he batted with his eyelashes as if that's the characteristic that makes you look the most feminine version of yourself.
The Danish Girl doesn't even come close to representing trans community; nor does it tries to understand it. All that this film actually manages to do is showing us how trans people are perceived by cisgendered, heterosexual majority. And this is, for me, an unforgivable misrepresentation of a minority that deserved something much better.
The Basics:
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Written by: Lucinda Coxon (based on a novel by David Ebershoff)
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw
Running Time: 119 minutes
Year: 2015
Rating: 5

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Ah…. my past comes back to haunt me…
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BTW, the AD design wasn't written by us… I was just the guy pushing the buttons…
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The PGCN shall prepare two regional shows to act as fundraisers. There shall be an annual spring and fall show of works in progress of all PGCN members in their medium. Committee's shall be assigned the off season for planning. Off season January - April
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BRAD Fittler, in a quiet corner of the dressing-room, pulls a brand new pair of City socks from their packet.
Maybe for warmth, you guess? Or extra support for that bung right ankle, which he broke on a beach some weeks back.
But, no, sensing The Daily Telegraph looking on in complete bewilderment as he pulls said items on and up beneath his team trackies, the coach lets you in on a little secret.
"Love the feel of new footy socks,'' he grins. "Has to be one of life's greatest little pleasures."
Welcome inside the whacky heartbeat of NSW City.
A world in which the coach wears his footy socks up, rookie Matt Moylan is forever stretching, bouncing and moving ... and prop Andrew Fifita sings whatever chorus beats from beneath those white headphones.
Elsewhere, skipper Ryan Hoffman talks to his players not about the prize, but the process. And Will Hopoate, somewhere beneath his hoodie, meditates like a monk.
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Fittler not only gifting The Daily Telegraph unprecedented access to his Dubbo dressing-room, but imposing only one demand.
"People will tell you the story has to be positive,'' he says. "It doesn't have to be positive ... but it has to be interesting."
And with Freddy, how could it be anything but?
Over five days this week, one of league's greatest has fed tigers, signed flesh, changed lives, bonded players, raised $10,000 for local juniors, even bought himself four llamas from a farmer just out of town.
Another story, however, for another day. For right now you need to know what is going on in the sheds. His sheds.
How in the space of less than a week, Fittler has turned this group — strangers many of them — into the type of unit in which Fifita feels free to sing right up until the final coach's address.
And then, gone is the man who buys llamas and loves the feel of new socks. Replaced by one of league's sharpest minds. A genuine competitor. A coach whose commitment to this group is reciprocated in the silence whenever he speaks.
And so now, Freddy reminds his mob of perennial outsiders how such afternoons are for backing yourself, playing footy. "So don't,'' he says, "just tuck the ball under your arm and run."
Behind him on the white concrete wall, the Kangaroos great has also stuck seven white sheets of paper. Understanding that games are won, not by City schtick, but truths including: Energy At Marker, Kick Pressure and Win First Tackle.
The latter of which he emphasises now.
"I remember in this game last year,'' Fittler says, voice rising. "We won nearly every first tackle. But then second tackle, no one was coming off the line. No one was sniffing blood.
"You need to jam in, rip in and dish out some f...en punishment."
All up, Fittler will speak for fewer than four minutes.
Yet still he hits so many key points that you notice assistant Mark Riddell, sitting off to one side, developing what is commonly known among old footballers who take up these gigs as the "footy twitch".
And so you watch his left leg bounce nervously. Then, uncontrollably.
Riddell eventually adopting the only possible cure — he stands up.
Indeed, it is a mood that, over the past two hours, has built gradually.
Arriving at Apex Oval bang on 1pm — and with coach Fittler leafing through a Big League magazine — players spend the first 40 minutes rotating through four massage tables in an endless swirl of tattooed limbs.
Rubbed down, taped up, moved on.
While some like winger Daniel Tupou sit silently, debutant Moylan is constantly on the move — stretching with his theraband and bouncing footballs. Later told by Riddell and trainer Hayden Knowles "to go and break the record for most support runs".
And we all saw how that turned out, right?
The footy comeback, like the feel of its new socks, among life's great little pleasures.
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E-mails of the day
My appearance on FNC's Hannity show last night (vid at Hot Air) to talk about Culture of Corruption prompted many bitter e-mails from Obama-bots, but this one takes the cake:
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date Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:42 PM
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- Nigella seeds – 1/2 teaspoon
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2007 Laser Cutter Contest
Introduction: 2007 Laser Cutter Contest
Check out the 2008 Universal Laser Cutter contest here!
The winners are in and the results posted! Check them out here in the Instructables blog!
You've seen all the sweet laser cutter Instructables, and dreamed about the projects you'd build if you had one.
First you'll tattoo your laptop, then build your own army of Autonomous, Self-Assembling Robots; next you might grab a little press for your new laser-cutter-based army by etching Martha Stewart's face in an eggplant, then finally relax and recharge with some Laser cut cake.
Quit dreaming and get working, because Instructables is giving away a BrightStar LG3040 laser cutter package worth over $6000!
To enter the contest, here's what you need to do:
Important update! We have changed the rules!
It seems the contest rules were unclear and had some unintended consequences. So, we're changing the rules, and moving the deadline back so people who had previously decided not to enter can still give it shot. These are the new rules:
1. Publish an awesome Instructable on any subject anytime between April 15th and Sunday July 1st 11:59 PM PDT and add it to the Laser Cutter contest group. You may submit as many Instructables as you choose.
Entries do not have to involve lasers; any Instructable is eligible. The focus is on sharing what you're passionate about.
2. We'll judge the projects and select 10 finalists. The 10 finalists will be announced on July 6th, and we will create special ratable forum posts about each finalist and their project. We will then invite the Instructables community to help judge by rating these special forums posts. From the finalists we will select a winner with help from Squid Labs, past winners, and the forum ratings.
We decided to make these changes for two reasons. First, the concept of writing a proposal seemed to be scaring people off. We simply wanted to know what you had in mind for the laser, and "I want to build cool stuff" would have potentially sufficed. Given this potential confusion over the proposal, we're just dropping it. Second, we're not going to explicitly use the pageviews and rating of the projects to help judge. Even though we only were only going to use it an an input into judging, it can favor a project that is older rather than better. So, by creating the special forum posts, each of the finalists will start on even ground. We didn't want anyone to decide not to enter because they were only going to get their project finished and published right before the deadline.
The winner will be announced on or around Friday July 13th.
Grand prize
BrightStar LG3040 laser cutter, Instructables t-shirt, stickers and patches.
First prize (to the the nine finalists)
Laser-etched Instructables Leatherman Juice S2 and an Instructables t-shirt
20 Second prizes
Instructables t-shirts.
Wondering how to write a great Instructable that is likely to make it to the finals? Read the How to make a great Instructable Instructable, and check out the winning Instructables from our previous contests:
Use it Again! Contest Winners
Show Your Heart Valentine's Day Contest Winners
Homemade Gift Contest Winners
Contest boilerplate is here and here; substitute contest names/specifics as necessary. Here are some details specific to this contest:
You must be 18 or older to enter. If you are 13-17, you can still enter, but to win you will need to verify that you had the permission of a parent or guardian (we will have a permission slip for you). The best solution would be to have your parent join you as a collaborator on your Instructable.
Only U.S. residents can win the laser cutter. Winner is responsible for all taxes (we will remind the finalists of this to make sure they are able properly deal with the taxes). Shipping internationally would be tough, but customs and differing world regulations on lasers make it impossible for us to give you a laser cutter if you are outside the U.S. I am sorry. I hope that non-U.S. residents will still enter; you can win any of the other prizes, and I promise that we will be blind to location in judging for the finals. If international entries make the finals, we will recognize them as such, award them a Leatherman, and select alternates from among the remaining pool of submissions to submit laser cutter proposals. (We're still confirming whether we can ship to Canada, and will update as soon as we know.)
Let me also encourage groups to enter the contest using our collaboration feature. I know a laser cutter would be a perfect addition to a community hobby shop.
Have fun!
Step 1: How We Judged the Laser Cutter Contest
We judged the Laser Cutter Contest using Range Voting with help from previous contest winners and people working at Instructables/Squid Labs HQ.
Each potential judge received a ballot in the their Instructables inbox with the following instructions:
Please help us judge the Laser cutter contest!
As a previous contest winner, or someone whose opinion we trust, we'd like your input. Check out the list of finalists, review the rules, and help us choose a winner!
The judging will be totaled by Range Voting described here and here. You may vote from 0 (should not win) to 9 (should win) or "no opinion." The finalist with the highest average score will win (no opinion votes do not affect the average score). Up to two write-in candidates are accepted, but you must vote "no opinion" on an equal or greater number of finalists than your number of write-in votes to have your write-in votes count. Candidates without a quorum are eliminated; a winning candidate's total score must be at least 50% of the sum received by any candidate. This prevents candidates with few numerical votes (as opposed to "no opinion"s) from winning. In the event of a tie, each tied candidate receives one point for each voter who rates them above the arithmetic mean score for all the tied candidates. Ratings at or below the arithmetic mean receive zero points. The candidate with the most points wins.
The ballot below is meant to be viewed with your inbox at Instructables, so if you are viewing this message in your email, please log in to vote. Voting closes Friday morning July 13th.
Instructables Laser Cutter Contest Voting
Please cast a vote for up to 15 finalists. Only votes cast by those invited by the Instructables team are eligible.
A vote of "9" indicates that the finalist should win. A vote of "0" indicates that the finalist should not win. A vote of "no opinion" does not affect a finalist's standing.
You may vote for at most two write-in candidates. If you choose to vote for write-in candidates, you must have the same number, or greater, of "no opinion" votes.
The actual ballot contained the 15 finalists in alphabetical order with a drop-down box that defaulted to "no opinion" but could be set to 0-9. There were two spots for write-in candidates and corresponding drop-down boxes.
Voters were required to submit their Instructables username and email address to authenticate their vote.
Of the people asked to help judge, 49 responded.
To incorporate the results of the finalists' forum ratings, 5 more (10% additional) votes were awarded based on the ratings. Only taking into account positive votes (negatives were thrown out), and removing fraudulent votes, the ratings were normalized onto a 0-9 scale with the highest rating equal to a vote of 9. Those results were as follows:
crabfu for Steam Turbine Tank - 5
dave spencer for erupting Volcano Birthday Cake - 3
Honus for How to make a Green Lantern ring- including a glowing version! - 5
jabroutin for personal powerPlant - 7
jeffkobi for Retro Hi-Fi Project - 3
Kasey for Compubeaver --> How to case-mod a beaver - in 29 easy steps! - 5
lkrasnow for Precision Puzzlemaking Primer -- Volume 1 - 5
mikejedw for Pringles Wind Turbine (Pleech) - Version One - 9
mydian_nightshade for Furniture grade cocktail arcade cabinet - 1
mzed for Low-cost Spherical Speaker Array - 1
nemomatic for Giant Squid kinetic sculpture from found materials - 3
orthonormal_basis_of_evil for EMP shopping cart locker - 5
Stuart.Mcfarlan for How to Make a Three Axis CNC Machine (Cheaply and Easily) - 9
talbotron22 for DIY Kitty Crack: ultra-potent catnip extract - 5
turkey tek for Interactive Multitouch Display - 5
So, for example, Stuart.Mcfarlan received five votes each with a ranking of 9. This was in addition to the judges' votes awarded to Stuart.Mcfarlan.
The judges' and forum topic rating votes were totaled yielding the following results, which determined the winner:
Finalist - Average vote - Number of votes (5 forum votes plus all non-"no opinion" votes) - Sum of votes - Standard deviation
Stuart.Mcfarlan for How to Make a Three Axis CNC Machine (Cheaply and Easily) - 7.3 - 52 - 379 - 2.0
crabfu for Steam Turbine Tank - 6.6 - 53 - 350 - 1.9
lkrasnow for Precision Puzzlemaking Primer -- Volume 1 - 6.0 - 47 - 284 - 2.2
turkey tek for Interactive Multitouch Display - 6.0 - 52 - 313 - 2.4
mikejedw for Pringles Wind Turbine (Pleech) - Version One - 5.9 - 50 - 295 - 2.5
jabroutin for personal powerPlant - 5.8 - 48 - 280 - 1.9
Honus for How to make a Green Lantern ring- including a glowing version! - 5.7 - 51 - 293 - 2.0
orthonormal_basis_of_evil for EMP shopping cart locker - 5.6 - 50 - 278 - 2.7
talbotron22 for DIY Kitty Crack: ultra-potent catnip extract - 5.4 - 51 - 275 - 2.5
jeffkobi for Retro Hi-Fi Project - 5.1 - 53 - 271 - 2.2
Kasey for Compubeaver --> How to case-mod a beaver - in 29 easy steps! - 5.1 - 48 - 244 - 2.3
mydian_nightshade forFurniture grade cocktail arcade cabinet - 5.0 - 50 - 252 - 2.4
nemomatic for Giant Squid kinetic sculpture from found materials - 4.9 - 50 - 244 - 2.5
dave spencer for erupting Volcano Birthday Cake - 4.6 - 52 - 238 - 2.4
mzed for Low-cost Spherical Speaker Array - 3.9 - 50 - 194 - 2.5
Four write-in candidates received votes, but none of them received a quorum, and they were each eliminated. They are:
Breath powered USB charger by jmengel
Make rope out of dead plants -- with no tools a collaboration led by phyzome
The One, The Only COTTON CANDY MACHINE! by T3h_Muffinator
Use a Vacuum cleaner to build your own Skateboard by gregorylavoie
Interestingly, the ranking of the top four finalists was unaffected by the additional 5 votes awarded from the forums. Also, considering that the actual winner was tied in the forums, had the forums accounted for 99% of the vote rather than 10%, with the judges doing little more than breaking the tie, Stuart.Mcfarlan would still have won. While there was some overlap between those asked to judge and those casting ratings in the forums, it was minimal, and the ratings in the forums were from a large cross-section of the Instructables community.
Judging a contest such as this is difficult, but I am pleased with the results and hope that the openness of this process will help us improve future contests.
Im starting to get worried about the types of people entering this contest, Some of them seem to believe that they can cut anything and everything they want. There are certain things that you just dont cut with a laser cutter, As they produce fumes that are highly carcenogenic and even the filters cant stop. Someones gunna kill themselves..
Well if you think about it, you wouldn't melt plastic with a soldering iron because the fumes would get to you. Same with other toxic materials.
So i'd say you'd be able to cut things like wood or glass with a laser, but it's up to you to find out if things will let off fumes given the method you're using to cut.
You may think it's fine now, but you don't want cancer 10 years down the track.
You make a good point here. The prize laser is a CO2 laser that is primarily designed to work with materials specifically designed for laser engraving or cutting. These machines are most commonly used in the trophy and engraving businesses as well as some fabrication businesses. Everyone should be aware that you just can't grab ANYTHING and stick it in the machine and blast away. Not only will some types of plastic produce dangerous fumes, some will produce fumes that will eat the coatings off the lens and mirrors (NOT covered by warranty!). These machines WILL work great when engraving anodized aluminum, acrylic plastic, engraving plastics as found at http://www.rowmark.com/laser/Laser_Engravable_Materials.asp. Additionally, the machines will cut paper, cardboard, cloth, balsa wood, 1/8" or maybe 1/4" plyood, acrylic plastic, leather etc. NOT any kind of metal. Plastics like ABS and PVC should not be cut as they will produce very bad gases. Naturally things like foamcore won't work since the paper surface will cut fine but the foam innards will melt. While people can obviously put just about any kind of material into a laser engraver/cutter materials that are not specifically designed for lasering can damage the machine and/or your health. If you have no experience with these kinds of machines, you might do well to get copies of trophy and engraving magazines such as Recognition Review, A
&E or Engraver's Journal and learn a bit about what laser engravers are designed to do before skydiving without a parachute. Please feel free to ask any quesitons about these machines.
Hey, this is Ian from Twice Framing in Detroit. Are you one of the guys who brought me the Brightstar laser our company uses? Still loving the machine, been making clocks and plex end tables on my off hours with it.....(better than those damned epilog machines) If so, small world, eh?
but what if you "engraved some aluminum flashing then it would be thinner and easier to cut would it not? what i'm saying is that it doesnt have to cut as long as it makes it easier to cut
I should have also included a link to LaserBits - www.laserbits.com - they have lots of cool stuff you can laser and they have a good tech tips section to help you with basic settings. We supply with the machine manual a sheet of basic settings for many materials but when engraving any material, it's a bit of trial and error the first few times until you work out the best power/speed combination. Check out LaserBits to get ideas of some things you can do with laser engravers.
Seems there are a lot of questions around this topic, so I just wanted to bring this thread to the top again.
let me explain it to onion ring. the reason its not international is because there are laws that require different permits and stuff. so the fact that your dumb, and gonna call americans capitalist pigs, just means that you dont know what your talking about.
what is the deal for contestants from your 51st state - canada? i see you've not even given a thought to mexicans as usual, you capitalist american pigs! i saw at least one good entry from mexico. if someone wants to make a couple day drive from mexico to pick up the laser cutter, why disallow them? really, anyone international that can show up in person (or have an agent show up) should be able to claim the prize. or anyone that will pay the $800 or so it would cost to ship this anywhere by fedex. really, export/import with fedex is not so hard.
Its not just the drive/shipping, but actually getting it through customs might be hard...
"you capitalist american pigs" -hmmm thats not very nice, and by the way America is spelled with a CAPITAL A
Hey I love this contest and I recently uploaded my instructable, the LED picnic blanket, but the site says July 2!!! Oh no, it was JULY 1!!! Before 11:59 PDT. Please tell me it is all going to be okay!
i don't think the instructables webserver clock is on PDT, the admins will check your actual submission time.
What will you do with the grand prize if the winner is ineligible or can not accept it? Will you give an alternate prize or cash?
I think that a good alternative would be to donate the LASER cutter to a school. In return a LASER-engraved plate would be appreciated ! Ciao
looking through all of the entries, it looks like there are some very original ideas and then there are those ideas that someone else out there is already doing and people are just laying out how to make it. they are both termed as "instructables" because someone is telling you how to construct both of these types of things. i don't know what it is, but i can't help but to separate these two categories. there's something about awarding the explanation of an existing idea that seems strange to me. it's pretty cool to make your own products that you've seen, but i think coming up those original ideas is more inspiring and more deserving of a laser-prize. i don't know, maybe that's just me. props to those originals!!
hey does anyone know if it would be possible to "etch" printed circuit boards with the laser cutter, I know its metal, but copper is very soft and PCB copper is very very thin.
Copper is extremely hard to cut with a laser as it reflects the wavelength of the laser light. You would need somewhere in the vicinity of a 400 watt laser to even look at a very thin piece. I have read that if the laser is pulsed at very short durations then it is possible. Copper is used as some of the reflecting mirrors in low wattage lasers because of this. Aluminium, gold and some other metals are also very hard to cut because of the reflectance. After all, you are cutting with light.
i have two questions A. is there a limit to the amount of instructables you can enter? B. what kind of laser is it (I.E. what gas it uses)?
B. Have a look at the specs for: LG3040tt Features:
- 16" x 12" Engraving/Cutting Area
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- Machine Weight: 253 lbs.
- Power Requirements: 110v or 220v AC, 1-ph, 1,000w max.
someone asked this, but, no, it probably won't cut metal, maybe aluminum foil, but that's about it. 40W of 10,600nm light isn't going to do much to metal... you usually need a good kW or so before you really get going anywhere with metal. (1kW is 1000W) thought I should bring that up. plastic? yeah, it's dead, wood? more likely it'll be limited to engraving (I'm sure you could cut the wood, but I think it would catch on fire first, rendering it useless, jigsaws are amazing things) my two sense :P
As far as I know, it probably won't... it MAY, I'm just not sure... I DO know that it won't cut steel... engraving may be a possibility though... BUT, no cutting, that's for sure.
WILL it cut aluminum foil? A device that will accurately cut thin metal foils might have some interesting applications; foil can be a real PITA to cut by hand.
HMMM !!! IF the 9/11 story were true THEN the laser would be able to cut down buildings! (I live in NY - and it's totally WTC7 silly!) The laser is no 40 watt dimbulb, it's probably close to 40W per one Square Millimeter! Sunlight at noon is 1kw/m or 1mW/mm if my math is right. And ONE WATT/mm lasers definitely burn holes in things.
Yeah, and the point is one square millimeter a million times "brighter" than one sqmm of sunshine.
what about sheet metal? or some heavier aluminum metal? could it possibly cut that i doubt it but maybe
Most new balsa aircraft kits have laser-cut balsa sheet parts. This is a step up from die-cutting, which was a step up from die-crunching.
Not quite. Wood burning kits technically burn wood without catching it on fire. Also, I can burn eucalyptus leaves without any fire (just smoke).
I love you!!! You just made my day - and I had almost given up hope because it's time for bed :) Thank you!
"The winner will be announced on or around Friday July 13th." Well, At least somebody will have a great Friday the 13th!!!! :)
I can tell you for sure that you can ship the laser cutter to Norway! Just drop it off at the post office. I think it is sad that you exclude the rest of the world in favour for the US. And yes, I mean exclude, lets face it; who wants to enter a contest without a prize?
Hmm... Well, if it's being done so no instructable past April 15th can be entered, could the ones that don't qualify be removed from the group? I think this would clear up confusion, and help everyone to decide what's a good one, and what's a bad one!
Oh, and I was just curious, do winners for other contests still count for this contest? that's just been kinda bugging me...
Still count? Do you mean are previous winners still eligible? Yes, they are, but they need to submit new Instructables. Previously winning Instructables are not eligible.
2 things (even though i live in Canada so i couldn't get it anyways even if my instructable won.) the price on the website was $9950, so why is he saying its only $6000? another thing, what kind of taxes would there be on shipping something no matter what state your in. do you mean 'shipping and handling' is that what your talking about?
"Winner is responsible for all taxes" taxes? What Taxes? An I going to have to pay for this thing after I win it?
but exactly how much will I, (or my parents) be paying on this prize? 500? 250? I'd like to know.
We're doing some more research to figure out the best way to handle this. For the time being, focus on creating a great Instructable.
Many governments tax prizes as income. In the US, for example, one is legally required to include the value of prizes won during the year on the end of year income tax form, and submit taxes for it. This is why many contests give the winner a choice for a cash prize in place of a very expensive gift, such as a car, home, etc. A $30,000 prize may seem great until you find that you have to pay $5,000 or more in taxes. The taxes on this one shouldn't be very much, but that's why it's pointed out in the contest instructions - you don't want a surprise next year. -Adam
Hmm, I'm trying to add an instructable to the contest, but the "add to group" button seems to have disappeared...??? Ist it just me being dumb, or is there a problem with the site?


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