deluxetrashqueen:

deluxetrashqueen:

deluxetrashqueen:

We desperately need to get stay at home moms into 3D modeling/3D printing. I say this every day and it never gets any less true.

We need to give these women the tools to do with 3D printers what they’ve accomplished with cutting machines. There are youtube videos out there with a woman who looks like she is personally your mom clearly using her own phone camera to record and saying “Ok we’re going to learn how to make a suuuper easy and fun cricut project! I whipped up the design for this while the kids were at school :)” and then shows off some 3D paper masterpiece that would take me 3 years in an architectural college to have designed.

We need this for the 3D printing world.

“Waah but then people might take the art less seriously and we’d see a bunch of people making a printing 3D knick knacks for etsy and it won’t be an exclusive club anymore :(((”

GOOD. I would LOVE for 3d printing to be relegated to the realm of “mom craft” the way laser/cnc cutting and engraving have. I would love for companies that know they can hike prices because it’s seen as a “techie” thing to have to make their product more accessible for lower income people to stay competitive with the market. I would love to see a bunch of little cute 3d crap on etsy or at craft fairs. I see no downside to this.

And if you see an art form as “less serious” or “less legitimate” because women are getting into it, then that’s on you.