Self Made Mashup - Self Made Man x MINI 13

Writeup at https://futures.love/selfmademashup

New large-scale print file uploaded! :)

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Model is complete and prints nicely and easily, enjoy! 

Technical details first, followed by a written companion piece ( in progress ) .  

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Self Made Mashup combines the inspirational essence of Self Made Man with the exemplarily delighting MINI 13. 

Self Made Man :  https://www.bobbiecarlylesculpture.com/SelfMadeMan.php 

MINI 13 Printable Jointed Figure https://www.printables.com/model/422353-mini-13-printable-jointed-figure and remixes https://www.printables.com/model/422353-mini-13-printable-jointed-figure/remixes  

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Thank you so much to everyone who helped make this possible - none of us is truly ‘self-made’ and progress comes from standing on the shoulders of giants.

The models that went into this release are:

• Mini 13 https://www.printables.com/model/422353-mini-13-printable-jointed-figure CC- BY-NC-SA
• Remixing the original Mini 13 in this release we have mashup groinplate + hips remix, CC-BY-NC-SA because Mini 13 is CC-BY-NC-SA 
• Hammer from Lucky 13 Tools https://www.printables.com/model/168883-lucky-13-tools CC-BY-NC
• Remixing the wrench from Lucky 13 Tools we have the chisel. Compat CC-BY-NC-SA
• Remixing Presupported Frame remix makes this an ‘easy print', nice technique :) https://www.printables.com/model/424517-mini-13-printable-jointed-figure-frame-presupporte CC-BY-NC-SA 
• Chestplate remix “Clean Armor Chest” https://www.printables.com/model/435802-mini-13-clean-armor-chest-without-13 CC-BY-NC-SA  Removing the 13 designation unburdens Self Made Mashup's relationship with becoming. 
• My original contribution, a cube. CC-BY-NC-SA to keep everything clean.

None of this would have been possible without these artists sharing their work, and the sharing community and culture we treasure. Thanks to a cutting edge PrusaSlicer alpha feature released two days before I needed it ( Thanks devs! <3 https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/issues/7594#issuecomment-1493378558 ) we have a solid .stl exported from the flexible .3mf, which is full of models from Printables and our great artists.

Self Made Mashup is released under a CC-BY-NC-SA License to be compatible with upstream CC-BY-NC-SA. It is possible both to celebrate CC and the work of open culture movements, and decry the systems which make so much trouble and labour necessary. Perhaps one day all our work and our world can be even more Free.

Bonus extras:

Flyaround Turntable video: https://botsin.space/@ema/110143124437672339

Print Timelapse video: https://botsin.space/@ema/110143995844696680

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Some backstory:

While training creative technologists, I wanted to use 3D printing a scale model of Bobbie Carlyle's Self Made Man in classroom curriculum/demonstrations. I asked for permission and permission was not given. I don't blame the artist - I blame corrupting capitalism's capture of politics including international intellectual property regimes. I selected Free and Open models for lessons and moved on. 

I decided to embark on my own artistic journey and began trying to make a self made man of my own, a self-portrait of sorts. The usefulness of a wooden poseable drawing mannequin inspired me to pose a digital mannequin, and ultimately to create the red lowpoly prototype hotglue-bound to its cardboard-box carrying-case seen in the photos. I always considered this model ‘good enough’ but the project arc ‘incomplete’. It feels good, these many years later, to satisfy this artistic arc with such a fun flexible end product. Perhaps I may hope in years to return to this arc - self portraits are a periodic exercise, right?

Compatibility with Mini 13 accessories and remixes allows everyone to customize your own Self Made Mashup :) I really like the wings ( https://www.printables.com/model/438446-mini-13-wings CC-BY ) shown in the pictures. Some Robo-Angel wings a la Mercy may be in Mini 13's future…

Bottom line: I hope this project helps inspire you to be your best self <3

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The practical materialization of ideas using 3D printing technology with Free and Open hardware, software, and culture unlocks new paths for each of us to imagineer and manifest new ways of being in new worlds. Meditations on method and medium inform Self Made Mashup's inherent contradictions, pointing toward a path forward together.

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Crazy final secret bonus - Research unearthed this meme from a more enlightened age:

By way of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Self_Made_Man,_by_Frank_Beard.jpg we found https://archive.org/details/fiftygreatcartoo00bear Page 58 https://archive.org/details/fiftygreatcartoo00bear/page/58/mode/2up 
Upon further examination, we find on page 98 an interestingly familiar scene:

 https://archive.org/details/fiftygreatcartoo00bear/page/98/mode/2up 

Despite the faiths being separated greatly in time and doctrine, these cartoons were created as works of faith, and Self Made Mashup is a manifestation of faith in practice. Coincidence can be consilience in faith works, as all true pure faiths share a core of light. 

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The tension from combining themes of ‘personal responsibility and accountability’ with premeditated form is an invitation to examine the possibility space of the individual as a function of environment, and how possibilities can be created or foreclosed at the societal level as well as the personal. 

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When this written companion piece is complete, I'll sign it and the model digitally and physically, and give it a few immutability and backup stories. I can print up a few kits with booklets, and maybe even have a gallery show.

Going further:

What if sculpture was active?

What if sculpture was interactive?

How can a sculpture be more alive?

Proposal: Exhibit a larger-than-life Self Made Mashup installation that encourages interaction and reposing. For extra bonus points, position sensors and motors and internet participation with robot reposing. For huge compound bonus points, make the base marble and actually carve ya boi out for real. I wouldn't mind a simulation animation of that, please! But even at the most basic, made out of simple unroboticized plastic, a public exhibit could fashioned a selfie factory, maybe catch some sweet social virality - for a good cause, that helps people improve themselves. Raising money and awareness for a mental health rehabilitation institution sounds about right. 

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Here we see another Self-made Man and woman https://mymodernmet.com/victor-hugo-yanez-pina-sculptures/ This time different - perhaps carving away the mistakes of the past.

Notes of Escher ,

artist in the art, plus self-portrait

GEB ..?

MORE is a tale of inventor who puts too much of himself into his work: 

We have a future project of making the ‘greatest inventor ever’ statue 3d print. Maybe with MINI 13?