Collective forces for a new age of industrial art Collective forces for a new age of industrial art

David Patchen uses wooden paddles on public glass in San Francisco to create the shape of a sculpture container for his Foglio collection.July 19, 2013.David Patchen uses wooden paddles on public glass in San Francisco to create the shape of a sculpture container for his Foglio collection.July 19, 2013.Now, the industrial art collective makes it possible for you to grind wood, blow glass, and weld metal yourself, and students find that home design is available from their own hands.Mark Hatch, CEO of TechShop Inc., said: \"Access is everything .\"\"From time on, we made our own tools.Capitalism makes the machine very expensive over time, which leads to today\'s collective, so now injection molding machines or 3-The price of the D printer is the same as the daily addiction cost of Starbucks.\"Students can now move from idea to creation at an amazing pace, eliminating the frustrating search for the exact furniture they want and reinventing themselves as artists and inventors.We found three students.Architects, market strategists and home buildersHe sampled industrial art and then turnedTime Design careerMax Gunawan, inspired by MicroThe residential movement in San Francisco and Hong Kong wants to build a modular folding house.Imagine the intersection between origami and pop music.A book, a wall and furniture collapsed into 4-foot-A square cube that can be placed in a small car.A friend bought him a member of TechShop.In San Francisco, a workshop for industrial manufacturing machines allows manufacturers to learn skills and develop prototypes.The first thing he learned in his laser cutting class was that his ideas were very ambitious and very expensive, and it took only a few million dollars to create the first model home.He rummaged over his Moleskine notebook and didn\'t know what to do, he put all the drawings there.Then, the beauty of the floating pages gave him an idea --Turn on the book that becomes a lamp.\"There are portable lighting devices designed,\" said Gunawan, 32 .\".\"There\'s really nothing on the market to use except camping lights and mission lights, but there\'s nothing beautiful.His Lumio light is wood.When the user opens it, the led light that opens the covered book will be brighter and brighter, eight times the lighting of the iPhone.Lumio\'s accordion Tyvek plastic page reminds you of mid-The classic George Nelson Bubble light of the century can be expanded into an arc or a circle.The magnet embedded in the lid allows Lumio to stick to the metal surface, the accessory allows it to hang on the wall or leather strap like a lantern, and it can stand independently like a desk lamp.A USB-The wire is used to charge it and it can stay lit for 8 hours.Gunawan began working on his ideas in August 2012 and produced a prototype by October.He took it to meet his friends for dinner, and the light caught the attention of diners and waiters, many of whom approached his table and asked where they could buy it.Two months later, Gunawan quit his comfortable job as a Gap architect.He made a beautiful video to put on a Kickstarter and asked for $60,000 so he could buy his own laser cutting machine and electronics for lighting, hire a few people to assemble more Lumios.Within a month, the donor for Kickstarter gave $600,000 and placed 5,500 orders --Half from outside the United States.Lights for $125\"I\'m ecstatic,\" Gunawan said .\"\"But I have to figure out how to get into production.I can\'t cut so much glue alone.\"After a two-During a month-long study tour of Asia, Gunawan chose a factory in Shenzhen, China, to make Lumio.No less than 200,000 of any product produced by this factory, it decided to help Gunawan because it was interested in his lights and because he was enthusiastic about asking for exceptions to produce only 10,000.After paying for materials including wood, Tyvek plastic, electronics, Gunawan spent almost all his Kickstarter funds.One eye is put into production.This gave him an idea, he said, to add courses to TechShop to help inventors understand what it takes to put into production.\"I\'m glad I was naive when I started;\"Otherwise I might give up,\" he said .\".\"It\'s crazy trying to figure it out.\"There are currently 6,000 pre-orders in Lumio and delivery is expected in October.\"Places like TechShop open doors for possible things;\"People like me who don\'t have the money can work here and turn an idea into reality with Kickstarter, which is unthinkable,\" Gunawan said .\".William Ross signed up for the welding class at the melting pot in Auckland for purely utilitarian reasons.He wanted to build a handrail for his staircase in the south of the market loft with square steel pipes and woven cables.But he liked the class very much and he took the second welding class and the third welding class.He then signed up for stone carvings, bronze casting and furniture manufacturing.His mentor noticed the way Rose holds any tool as if he was born to know how to use it.To some extent, he is.The son of a carpenter, Rose has a 40-As a custom home builder, he built the house in his adult career, designed the interior, installed counters, tiled bathrooms, and created original doors, cabinetsHe can imagine the form.Ross, 59, is one of the most competitive sand sculpture masters in the United States, commissioned by the company and the city to build 8-foot-Tall castles, dragons, soldiers and trains leave the beach in public places and beaches.When his Crucible StoneThe carving instructor asked him to take a boulder and start carving, Rose carved a mermaid face and her hair was blown back into a squeaky wave with two dolphins flying by her sideHe turned a large orange alabaster into a \"Koi heel\", a Ladies Open --The heel extends the tail fin from the back, and there is a fish opening on the toe.When his welding instructor sent the used propane tank to the classroom and asked them to make something, Ross grabbed a plasma cutter, carved on top of a grimace tiki 10-1 nose and Mohawkinch saw blade.He put a red light in it, and it sparkled like a Polynesia demon.\"The furnace is one-\"Stop shopping,\" he said.\"If I want to learn this, I will come here.If I want to learn this, I will go to the other side of the room.\"In the furniture class, he was the only student to complete an item for the family --A building bar stool with a rotating seat with a curved metal arc hanging underneath it.Then a surprising thing happened.People began to call him an artist.People began to buy his sculptures and tiki lights.It\'s been five years since Ross first entered the furnace, and now his Nautilus --In Marin\'s home, as well as in the furnace director\'s home, there are inspired stone carvings.Capitola\'s Surf Lodge has his tiki lights in the surf shopEach dress has a unique color, shape and personality and is sold for $60 to $220 depending on the size.Every year he is invited to present his work at crucble\'s annual fundraising party and every year he sells anything he brings.He stopped building houses and worked full-time in art.\"I don\'t know a lot of construction workers, they are all artists, and I found my tribe in the furnace,\" Ross said .\" When he used a welder in the garage to attach his ears to the red tiki tank.He did all the welding in his SoMa garage, did his stone carving in his furnace instructor\'s East Bay studio, and he treated him as his protester.He is busy building a batch of stone works to show interest in representing his gallery.In the corner of his attic, there is a rock weighing more than 100 pounds, in a variety of states to become a racing car, a curve with a fan at one end, female naked.He also collected a lot of tanks.From fire extinguishers to spray lamps and BBQ propane cylinders-Become tiki lights in his garage.Ross admitted that he was too busy to have time to go to another class, but he arranged the time for the crucble class nearby just in case.He really wants to be a blacksmith.But he thinks the LED lighting might be better, so he can make his tiki light cordless with a battery --Operating lighting to change color.\"I feel like my brain has been tied up for the last 30 years and now it\'s running around and smelling everything.David Patchen and his assistant, Ian Whitt, are stretching a glass ball between the two sticks, in the hallway of the San Francisco public glass, separated from each other until the glass is as thin as a pencil.It\'s a tricky danceIf you walk too fast, the rope will be separated.Walking too slowly, it drooping and hitting the concrete floor.But 13 years later, Patchen\'s hands and feet learned how to make crutches.The fine bars of stained glass are the cornerstone of his art.\"Everyone has an adrenaline response to the hot glass, but you need to calm down and move slowly and really focus on it,\" he said .\".The logo of Patchen glassware is its very detailed patternThe fractal with electric color hanging on the glass is reminiscent of underwater coral.Self-Patchen, who teaches at the public glass blowing studio, is one of a small number of American Glass blowing artists who dare to accept the complex Italian glass art style, first making exquisite patterns with glass, then blow his work into the shape of a vase, Globe and curved horn.As a result, the color of Moulin Rouge broke out.Some are like vases in peacock feathers.Another manta ray, which looks like black, has its skin peeled back to reveal a colored Afghan quilt inside.His works attracted the attention of glass craftsmen in Venice, Italy, who volunteered to guide him;He exhibited in more than 20 galleries in the United States and was invited to become an artist in Seto City, Japan, and sold through Agam\'s artists and private commissions.The CEOs of Nike, IBM and GE all put glass in their homes.Two of his works are next to the reception desk of the Ritz Hotel.Carlton hotels in Hong KongPatchen, a pottery artist and grandson of a carpenter, remembers being fascinated by the art at his grandparents\' house, especially the glass.\"The idea that glass might be liquid is fascinating to me,\" says Patchen .\".But Patchen grew up, took responsibility, followed his father into the advertising world and won a live marketing for Silicon Valley tech startups.During his 14 years in his career, he picked up a brochure, performed a glass blowing demonstration on public glass, and decided to go and have a look.He was shocked to see a woman make a huge cylinder with melted glass.He signed up for class.In 2001, a year later, he decided to take a summer vacation to go diving.Dive more and get better at glass work.\"Dave\'s summer turned into Dave for a year and a half, and then I was never full again --\"It\'s another job,\" he said .\".\"I realized I was too much myself.Respect is closely related to my career. I am very enthusiastic about Glass.At first, Patchen sold vases just to make enough money to support his hobbies.The cost of the glass blowing class could be $700, the studio time was $160 per hour, plus Patchen hired a lecturer to guide him for $100 per hour.One of Santa Cruz\'s galleries was the first to buy his work.After a year of glass blowing, he attended the glass art conference in New Orleans and presented his work to an impressive art dealer, he offered to introduce Patchen to one of the world\'s most famous glass blowers, from Murano Island.\"I spent a week at the Afro\'s hot shop and we had to communicate by drawing pictures, but I learned the right way to do everything I tried to do myself,\" said patchen.Celotto teaches Patchen an effective way to close the glass hole after removing the pipe and how to move slowly and confidently with Orangehot glass.Now Patchen has a studio inside the public glass and a production schedule.He blew the glass several times a week and was still working on the design the other day.He started at 12.foot-Long stick glass in different colors.He cut the stick down, and then put a few canes together to make a pattern.Once fused, he dipped the roll into more colored molten glass until he had a log about the size of a sushi roll.When he cooled, he sliced the roll and arranged the glass circles (called murrini) into a rectangular pattern on the ceramic plate.The rectangle is heated to 900 degrees in the stove, and then wrapped around transparent liquid glass bubbles when soft.When Patchen blows and rotates the glass, it stretches and pulls the pattern to create a uniform but organic cell color kaleidoscope.His works range from $800 to $15,000, earning a few a day.It\'s actually the fastest part.It takes time to figure out the pattern and make murrini.Patchen has dozens of pallets in his workshop, where he keeps rearranging murrini slices to reconsider the color and shape.It\'s like a huge Tetris game, perfect for guitarist Patchen who likes math problems.\"I like to listen to \'Math Metal\' when I design \'--\"Music has a lot of time-changing features,\" he said .\".Last year, his book David Pachen, glass was added to the permanent collection of the Library of the Italian glass research center in Venice.I guess that means Patchen is a master now.Now, the industrial art group can grind wood by itself, blow glass by itself, and weld metal by itself. students find that home design can be obtained from their own hands.Mark Hatch, CEO of TechShop Inc., said: \"Access is everything .\"\"From time on, we made our own tools.Capitalism has made machines very expensive over time, which has led to today\'s collective, so now injection molding machines or 3D-The price of the printer is the same as the daily consumption of Starbucks.\"Students can now move from idea to creation at an amazing pace, eliminating the frustrating search for the exact furniture they want and reinventing themselves as artists and inventors.We found three students.Architects, market strategists and home buildersHe sampled industrial art and then turnedTime Design careerMax Gunawan, inspired by macro motionHomes in San Francisco and Hong Kong want to build a modular folding house.Imagine the intersection between origami and pop music.A book, a wall and furniture collapsed into 4-A square-foot cube that a small car can accommodate.A friend bought him a member of TechShop.In San Francisco, a workshop for industrial manufacturing machines allows manufacturers to learn new skills and develop prototypes.The first thing he learned in his laser cutting class was that his ideas were very ambitious and very expensive, and it took only a few million dollars to create the first model home.He rummaged over his Moleskine notebook and didn\'t know what to do, he put all the folded drawings there.Then, the beauty of the floating pages gave him an idea --A book folded into a lighting lamp.\"There are portable lighting devices designed,\" said Gunawan, 32 .\".\"There\'s really nothing on the market to use except camping lights and mission lights, but there\'s nothing beautiful.His Lumio lamp is wooden.When the user opens it, the led light that opens the covered book will be brighter and brighter, eight times the lighting of the iPhone.Lumio\'s accordion Tyvek plastic page reminds you of mid-The classic George Nelson Bubble light of the century can be expanded into an arc or a circle.The magnet embedded in the lid allows Lumio to stick to the metal surface, the accessory allows it to hang on the wall or leather strap like a lantern, and it can stand independently like a desk lamp.A USB-The wire is used to charge it and it can stay lit for 8 hours.Gunawan began working on his ideas in August 2012 and produced a prototype by October.He took it to meet his friends for dinner, and the light caught the attention of diners and waiters, many of whom approached his table and asked where they could buy it.Two months later, Gunawan quit his comfortable job as a Gap architect.He made a beautiful video to put on a Kickstarter and asked for $60,000 so he could buy his own laser cutting machine and electronics for lighting, hire a few people to assemble more Lumios.Within a month, the donor for Kickstarter gave $600,000 and placed 5,500 orders --Half from outside the United States.Lights for $125\"I\'m ecstatic,\" Gunawan said .\"\"But I have to figure out how to get into production.I can\'t cut so much glue alone.\"After a two-During a month-long study tour of Asia, Gunawan chose a factory in Shenzhen, China, to make Lumio.No less than 200,000 of any product produced by this factory, it decided to help Gunawan because it was interested in his lights and because he was enthusiastic about asking for exceptions to produce only 10,000.After paying for materials including wood, Tyvek plastic, electronics, Gunawan spent almost all his Kickstarter funds.One eye is put into production.This gave him an idea, he said, to add courses to TechShop to help inventors understand what it takes to put into production.\"I\'m glad I was naive when I started;\"Otherwise I might give up,\" he said .\".\"It\'s crazy trying to figure it out.\"There are currently 6,000 pre-orders in Lumio and delivery is expected in October.\"Places like TechShop open doors for possible things;\"People like me who don\'t have the money can work here and turn an idea into reality with Kickstarter, which is unthinkable,\" Gunawan said .\".William Ross signed up for the welding class at the melting pot in Auckland for purely utilitarian reasons.He wanted to build a handrail for his staircase in the south of the market loft with square steel pipes and woven cables.But he liked the class very much and he took the second welding class and the third welding class.He then signed up for stone carvings, bronze casting and furniture manufacturing.His mentor noticed the way Rose holds any tool as if he was born to know how to use it.To some extent, he is.The son of a carpenter, Rose has a 40-As a custom home builder, he built the house in his adult career, designed the interior, installed counters, tiled bathrooms, and created original doors, cabinetsHe can imagine the form.Ross, 59, is one of the most competitive sand sculpture masters in the United States, commissioned by the company and the city to build 8-Walk tall castles, dragons, soldiers and trains off the beach in public places and on the beach.When his crucble stone carving instructor asked him to start carving with a boulder, Rose carved the face of a mermaid whose hair was blown back into a squeaky wave, twoHe turned a large orange alabaster into a \"Koi heel\", a lady with a tailfin sticking out from behind, with a fish opening on her toes.When his welding instructor sent the used propane tank to the classroom and asked them to make something, Ross grabbed a plasma cutter, carved on top of a grimace tiki 10-1 nose and Mohawkinch saw blade.He put a red light in it, and it sparkled like a Polynesia demon.\"The furnace is one-\"Stop shopping,\" he said.\"If I want to learn this, I will come here.If I want to learn this, I will go to the other side of the room.\"In the furniture class, he was the only student to complete an item for the family --A building bar stool with a rotating seat with a curved metal arc hanging underneath it.Then a surprising thing happened.People began to call him an \"artist \".People began to buy his sculptures and tiki lights.It\'s been five years since Ross first entered the furnace, and now his Nautilus --In Marin\'s home, as well as in the furnace director\'s home, there are inspired stone carvings.Capitola\'s Surf Lodge has his tiki lights in the surf shopEach color, shape and personality is unique and sells for $60 to $220 depending on the size.Every year he is invited to present his work at crucble\'s annual fundraising party and every year he sells anything he brings.He stopped building houses and his works of art were not complete.time.\"I don\'t know a lot of construction workers, they are all artists, and I found my tribe in the furnace,\" Ross said .\" When he used the MIG welder in the garage to connect his ears to the red propane tiki tank.He did all the welding in his SoMa garage, did his stone carving in his furnace instructor\'s East Bay studio, and he treated him as his protester.He is busy building a batch of stone works to show interest in representing his gallery.In the corner of his attic, there is a rock weighing more than 100 pounds, in a variety of states to become a racing car, a curve with a fan at one end, female naked.He also collected a lot of tanks.From fire extinguishers to spray lamps and BBQ propane cylinders-The tiki lights up in his garage.Ross admitted that he was too busy to have time to go to another class, but he arranged the time for the crucble class nearby just in case.He really wants to be a blacksmith.But he thinks the LED lighting might be better, so he can make his tiki light cordless with a battery --Operating lighting to change color.\"I feel like my brain has been tied up for the last 30 years and now it\'s running around and smelling everything.David Patchen and his assistant, Ian Whitt, are stretching a glass ball between the two sticks, in the hallway of the San Francisco public glass, separated from each other until the glass is as thin as a pencil.It\'s a tricky danceIf you walk too fast, the rope will be separated.Walking too slowly, it drooping and hitting the concrete floor.But 13 years later, Patchen\'s hands and feet learned how to make crutches.The fine bars of stained glass are the cornerstone of his art.\"Everyone has an adrenaline response to the hot glass, but you need to calm down and move slowly and really focus on it,\" he said .\".The logo of Patchen glassware is its very detailed patternThe fractal with electric color hanging on the glass is reminiscent of underwater coral.Self-Patchen, who teaches at the public glass blowing studio, is one of a small number of American Glass blowing artists who dare to accept the complex Italian glass art style, first making exquisite patterns with glass, then blow his work into the shape of a vase, Globe and curved horn.As a result, the color of Moulin Rouge exploded.Some are like vases in peacock feathers.Another manta ray, which looks like black, has its skin peeled back to reveal a colored Afghan quilt inside.His works attracted the attention of glass craftsmen in Venice, Italy, who volunteered to guide him;He exhibited in more than 20 galleries in the United States and was invited to become an artist.in-Located in the city of Seto, Japan, the residence is sold through artfulhome, which is passed by Forrest Gump.Com and private commission.The CEO of Nike, IBM and GE has Patchen glass at home.Two of his works are next to the reception desk of the Ritz Hotel.Carlton hotels in Hong KongPatchen, a pottery artist and grandson of a carpenter, remembers being fascinated by the art at his grandparents\' house, especially the glass.\"The idea that glass might be liquid is fascinating to me,\" said Patchen, 47 .\".However, when Patchen grew up, he got the responsibility and followed his father into the advertising industry, winning a living marketing for Silicon Valley technology startups --ups.During his 14 years in his career, he picked up a brochure, performed a glass blowing demonstration on public glass, and decided to go and have a look.He was shocked to see a woman make a huge cylinder with melted glass.He signed up for class.In 2001, a year later, he decided to take a summer vacation to dive in order to do better in glass products.\"Dave\'s summer turned into Dave for a year and a half, and then I was never full again --\"It\'s another job,\" he said .\".\"I realized I was too much myself.Respect is closely related to my career. I am very enthusiastic about Glass.At first, Patchen sold vases just to make enough money to support his hobbies.The cost of the glass blowing class could be $700, the studio time was $160 per hour, plus Patchen hired a lecturer to guide him for $100 per hour.One of Santa Cruz\'s galleries was the first to buy his work.After a year of glass blowing, he attended the glass art conference in New Orleans and presented his work to an impressive art dealer, he offered to introduce Patchen to one of the world\'s most famous glass blowers, from Murano Island.\"I spent a week at the Afro\'s hot shop and we had to communicate by drawing pictures, but I learned the right way to do everything I tried to do myself,\" said patchen.Celotto teaches Patchen an effective way to close the glass hole after removing the pipe and how to move slowly and confidently with Orangehot glass.Now Patchen has a studio inside the public glass and a production schedule.He blew the glass several times a week and was still working on the design the other day.He started at 12.foot-Long stick glass in different colors.He cut the rod down and then put together several different canes to form a pattern.Once fused, he dipped the roll into more colored molten glass until he had a log about the size of a sushi roll.When he cooled, he sliced the roll and arranged the glass circles (called murrini) into a rectangular pattern on the ceramic plate.The rectangle is heated to 900 degrees in the stove, and then wrapped around transparent liquid glass bubbles when soft.When Patchen blows and rotates the glass, it stretches and pulls the pattern to create a uniform but organic cell color kaleidoscope.His works range from $800 to $15,000, earning a few a day.It\'s actually the fastest part.It takes time to figure out the pattern and make murrini.Patchen has dozens of pallets in his workshop, where he keeps rearranging murrini slices to reconsider the color and shape.It\'s like a big game of Tetris, perfect for people like guitarist Patchen who likes math problems.\"I like to listen to \'Math Metal\' when I design \'--\"Music has a lot of time-changing features,\" he said .\".Last year, his book David Pachen, glass was added to the permanent collection of the Library of the Italian glass research center in Venice.I guess that means Patchen is a master now.Meredith May is a staff member of the San Francisco Chronicle.E-Postage: mmay @ sfchronicle.com.