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What Would The Alternative Be?
Oct. 18th, 2015 07:49 pmSo I've been sick for the past week, and in spite of that I've been putting in a run of 10+ hour days doing relief work (I overbooked myself for this month, not anticipating how busy I'd be with hospice). So I promised myself and those who love me and worry about me that I'd take this weekend as downtime.
This meant that I spent most of yesterday in an exhausted semi-doze on the sofa, indulging in Guilty Pleasure TV. Which, in this case, meant Project Runway. Yes, it's silly. But it's entertaining, and the plot is something I can follow even when on heavy cold meds. And this season there's a woman from Boston in the running, and she's adorable.
But the most recent challenge was for the designers to make clothes..... in 3D.
I'm serious.
3D clothes.
As opposed to.... I have no idea. All those times they just held a sheet flat against their model?
There was also much drama and squealing about the use of 3D printing in making the 3D dresses, which mostly amounted to little plastic stick-ons. I'm all for technology, and progress, and all that, but there's a part of me that really wants to mandate replacing the phrase '3D printing' with 'extruding,' just to counteract the glamour factor. The process becomes a lot less sexy when you realize it's the same thing they've been doing with Cheetos for sixty years.....
This meant that I spent most of yesterday in an exhausted semi-doze on the sofa, indulging in Guilty Pleasure TV. Which, in this case, meant Project Runway. Yes, it's silly. But it's entertaining, and the plot is something I can follow even when on heavy cold meds. And this season there's a woman from Boston in the running, and she's adorable.
But the most recent challenge was for the designers to make clothes..... in 3D.
I'm serious.
3D clothes.
As opposed to.... I have no idea. All those times they just held a sheet flat against their model?
There was also much drama and squealing about the use of 3D printing in making the 3D dresses, which mostly amounted to little plastic stick-ons. I'm all for technology, and progress, and all that, but there's a part of me that really wants to mandate replacing the phrase '3D printing' with 'extruding,' just to counteract the glamour factor. The process becomes a lot less sexy when you realize it's the same thing they've been doing with Cheetos for sixty years.....
