Comments by "roidroid" (@roidroid) on "Forget shopping. Soon you'll download your new clothes - Danit Peleg" video.

  1. 1:45 >"i decided i try to print an entire fashion collection from my home. The problem was that i barely knew anything about 3D printing". facepalm Something that's confused me for a while is why we even refer to these artists as "professionals". If i decide to make something, that i have absolutely no idea howto do, then i'm described as a "layman". But this artist does the same thing, she has the exact same lack of necessary skillsets, and she's called a "designer". I mean, an architect knows their material and howto make buildings from them. A mechanical engineer knows their material and howto make machines outof them. If you have been trained in a profession where you know nothing about your chosen medium (lol how do i 3d print things?!), then of what use was your training? How would your results be of a higher quality than that of any other layman hired off the street? Maybe that came out as more negative than i intended. I'm just confused why we elevate these people to a class label like "Artist", put them on stages, listen intently to what they have to say, when they clearly deserve no more respect nor attention than any other layman. Why is it a thing? Don't get me wrong - what she's doing is indeed quite cool & interesting, but it's no more interesting than what any other maker is doing *, why has she been elevated to a higher status class? *infact less so, because other makers tend to know their mediums and thus more often are really pushing the boundaries of what's possible. All this artist is doing is buying off-the-shelf 3d printers & flexible filaments and repeating what others have already done, why does she bother? But more importantly - if this is so banal and derivative, why do we bother listening? Shouldn't our time be better spent listening to those who know their medium and are truly pushing the limits? TL;DR: TED your entire stage is broken.
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