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Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Paint into Each Bubble

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Re: Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Paint into Each Bubble

#32

Cool idea, but tbh I want to see what it looks like once some of the bubbles have been popped.

You can't pop them because the paint dries inside leaving no air pocket (This was mentioned in the video at the bottom of the page).

Re: Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Paint into Each Bubble

#34

> When he started out, Hart was only able to inject a few cells at a time before having to step back to review his progress. He’s since invented a computer algorithm that gives him a working bird’s eye view. While it makes the process faster, it’s still time-consuming. A cool hacker project would be to make a “bubble printer” with an automatic injector that given an image will try to reproduce it in bubble wrap.

But then it wouldn't be the same kind of art anymore. Just like you can have a machine paint 50000 exact copy of Mona Lisa and you wouldn't even be able to sell them for the price of wood making up the frame

Re: Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Paint into Each Bubble

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post #34

> When he started out, Hart was only able to inject a few cells at a time before having to step back to review his progress. He’s since invented a computer algorithm that gives him a working bird’s eye view. While it makes the process faster, it’s still time-consuming. A cool hacker project would be to make a “bubble printer” with an automatic injector that given an image will try to reproduce it in bubble wrap.

But then it wouldn't be the same kind of art anymore. Just like you can have a machine paint 50000 exact copy of Mona Lisa and you wouldn't even be able to sell them for the price of wood making up the frame

How do you tell hand injected vs machine injected bubbles apart?

Re: Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Paint into Each Bubble

#36

Cool idea, but tbh I want to see what it looks like once some of the bubbles have been popped.

I was confused for a minute to but then realized how it works.

> “Each project produces two separate paintings—the pixelated picture in front, and an impressionist image rendered by the drippings from the back”

Re: Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Paint into Each Bubble

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post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But then it wouldn't be the same kind of art anymore. Just like you can have a machine paint 50000 exact copy of Mona Lisa and you wouldn't even be able to sell them for the price of wood making up the frame

How do you tell hand injected vs machine injected bubbles apart?

You don't need to be able to tell them apart to value one at $15,000 and another at $15.

Hand-injected and machine-injected history of a given bubble may not be a distinguishable property within the natural universe, but it's important to art collectors, in a similar way that the copyrighted or not-copyrighted status of bits gives them an invisible color to lawyers: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

Re: Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Paint into Each Bubble

#38

> When he started out, Hart was only able to inject a few cells at a time before having to step back to review his progress. He’s since invented a computer algorithm that gives him a working bird’s eye view. While it makes the process faster, it’s still time-consuming. A cool hacker project would be to make a “bubble printer” with an automatic injector that given an image will try to reproduce it in bubble wrap.

You mean something like https://www.robotmuralist.com/ but for bubblewrap instead of graffiti on walls? Lot of R&D could be shared, I guess.

Re: Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Paint into Each Bubble

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post #34

> When he started out, Hart was only able to inject a few cells at a time before having to step back to review his progress. He’s since invented a computer algorithm that gives him a working bird’s eye view. While it makes the process faster, it’s still time-consuming. A cool hacker project would be to make a “bubble printer” with an automatic injector that given an image will try to reproduce it in bubble wrap.

But then it wouldn't be the same kind of art anymore. Just like you can have a machine paint 50000 exact copy of Mona Lisa and you wouldn't even be able to sell them for the price of wood making up the frame

didn't andy warhol manage to make valued art from prints?
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