Oh my God, this is so cool. It’s one of the coolest things I’ve seen this year. I love things like this that are both technically impressive and also beautiful. It’s unfortunate that it requires more effort from you to keep it watered, but the effort seems worth it by far (if you’re able to keep on top of it, that is)
This makes so happy that you point this out because this is exactly what I was aiming for: while technically impressive I tried to hide any sign of technology, even the cable is sleeved with natural fibers. All things visible are only natural materials.
I was just going through my inbox and seeing your reply reminded me of this project, and I’m blown away all over again. Like, ugh, it’s so cool it’s practically painful. I find it deeply and profoundly beautiful because of how elegantly you’ve synthesised something that contains both the natural world, and technology.
The grim world we live in means that many of us reflexively end up hating technology, because of how it is so often used to facilitate our oppression — even the devices we own don’t feel like our own. I find your post to be an essential reminder that it’s not actually the technology itself that we hate, but the way it’s used against us (and the people who are doing it). Some might find the way that I’m raving about this floating plant pot to be silly but this feels like a legitimately powerful symbol of what technology can be; it can empower us to make cool stuff, and rather than existing in opposition to nature, we can actually use it to glorify the natural world.
Seeing people make cool stuff like this always makes me feel inspired. I aspire to be someone who is always at least a little bit ridiculous, and this is exactly the vibe I love. Like, this is an objectively absurd thing that you’ve made here. I can’t fathom how long it must have taken to make this (and the various kinds of expertise), and even now it’s done, you’ve basically got a pointless ornament that requires more care than before. It’s fundamentally quite silly, but that’s why it’s so cool!
Ok this the best comment on my work I got so far, thank you so much! I really appreciate it that there are other people who value the outcome as much as I do.
As you said it is quite silly but I think it represents our surrounding nature and our world so good: as a quite fragile ball floating in space which we have to take good care about :)
Oh my God, this is so cool. It’s one of the coolest things I’ve seen this year. I love things like this that are both technically impressive and also beautiful. It’s unfortunate that it requires more effort from you to keep it watered, but the effort seems worth it by far (if you’re able to keep on top of it, that is)
Ahh thank you!
This makes so happy that you point this out because this is exactly what I was aiming for: while technically impressive I tried to hide any sign of technology, even the cable is sleeved with natural fibers. All things visible are only natural materials.
I was just going through my inbox and seeing your reply reminded me of this project, and I’m blown away all over again. Like, ugh, it’s so cool it’s practically painful. I find it deeply and profoundly beautiful because of how elegantly you’ve synthesised something that contains both the natural world, and technology.
The grim world we live in means that many of us reflexively end up hating technology, because of how it is so often used to facilitate our oppression — even the devices we own don’t feel like our own. I find your post to be an essential reminder that it’s not actually the technology itself that we hate, but the way it’s used against us (and the people who are doing it). Some might find the way that I’m raving about this floating plant pot to be silly but this feels like a legitimately powerful symbol of what technology can be; it can empower us to make cool stuff, and rather than existing in opposition to nature, we can actually use it to glorify the natural world.
Seeing people make cool stuff like this always makes me feel inspired. I aspire to be someone who is always at least a little bit ridiculous, and this is exactly the vibe I love. Like, this is an objectively absurd thing that you’ve made here. I can’t fathom how long it must have taken to make this (and the various kinds of expertise), and even now it’s done, you’ve basically got a pointless ornament that requires more care than before. It’s fundamentally quite silly, but that’s why it’s so cool!
Ok this the best comment on my work I got so far, thank you so much! I really appreciate it that there are other people who value the outcome as much as I do.
As you said it is quite silly but I think it represents our surrounding nature and our world so good: as a quite fragile ball floating in space which we have to take good care about :)