The Continuing Adventures of Ed’s Tiny Head

Confession time: I have a terrible sense of which posts are going to resonate and which aren’t. The last post is a perfect example. It was something I had been meaning to get off my chest for awhile and nothing more. Even after a coworker said, “That’d be great for the Museum’s blog!”, I remained unconvinced. Oh well…

The other thing that always catches me by surprise it seems is how the strangest things you put out into the world will have life. My head scan, for instance. I did it mainly to test the scanner Don Undeen was using at the Met. I didn’t think so much of the resolution, but didn’t delete file luckily. I played with it as a way to explore TinkerCAD and the Shapeways 3D printing pipeline. When Simon Sherrin asked me for a copy, I figured I print one out for myself, mainly to see how long it took Shapeways to deliver and what their least expensive plastics looked like.

And then, things started to happen…

Then the remixing starts…

Then things get weirder…

And Mia decides to take mini Ed with her. So Traveling Mini Ed is off to London and Oxford, via Singapore. but first, he goes to some museums.

We’ll have to see what else he gets up to. In the interim, my copy from Shapeways arrived.

He was a big hit around the office, and actually came in quite handy as a tangible example of what a 3D printed object was like. And then somebody suggested it for my social media headshot. So…

We’ll see what next week holds.