Erect a Monument to Freedom by 3D Printing This Bust of Edward Snowden

A few week ago , two artist carefully placed a bronze bout of Edward Snowden atop a vacant war memorial in a Brooklyn parking area . It was quickly take away , of class , by police , who fine the artists $ 50 each for trespassing . But now anyone can bring a Snowden statue to their city — the artists have shared the three-D printing files .

Andrew Tider and Jeff Greenspantold Wiredthat even though their monument was toppled , they want other activists to christen their local park with the head o ’ Snowden :

“ It would be capital if people put these in public space and Instagrammed them , or put photos on Twitter and Facebook to protrude them around the world , ” says Greenspan . “ Anywhere it can get people thinking about surveillance , your right and liberties , it would be wonderful . ”

Tider and Greenspan were fresh enough to digitally document their original bust — made by sculptor Doyle Tankina from Henry Clay — with a handheld scanner . It was then sick in fibreglass and concrete and coated with bronze . Even though police removed the flop from the stand they did allow the artists to call back it from a metropolis storage adroitness . They plan to sell it to a gallery .

The 3D file cabinet of the flop isavailable on Thingverse , however the current data file is n’t optimized for fused alluviation modeling or FDM , which would make it sluttish to print on a Makerbot . But that has n’t stopped some from experiment with more advanced printers . The possibilities are rightfully dateless .

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