Nový Mlýn - green tech south bohemia

After some initial investigation into the idea, it looks like some Blender Artists may be interested in letting me sell their 3d work in glass. Work that won’t look like this (see left).

I need to do a little more research first, but it’s looking positive at the moment. On the way to Interspar (taking back a bike we bought - which broke within 5 km of being brand new), I had an idea for a 3d counting system based on a cube - made up of nine cubes, which could be used to hallmark all of the artworks created by Blender Artists. It’s really important that they are numbered so that we can track them, and ensure that images are not faked or reproduced. The cubes could be positioned in the blocks of glass at a really fine resolution, so invisible to the naked eye. A digital system based on a 3×3 cube must have been used before…

I need to check with the manufacturers the resolutions which are possible - obviously the finer the better. However, such technology is constantly improving.  It would be lovely to have some Blender art on a really small scale - such as to be used in jewellery.  If I could, I’d have a cube on a necklace with a picture of our home at Novy Mlyn.

Yet another incident fraught attempt to travel. This time via bicycle. We bought M a bike on Friday, so that we could reach the house (20km, no saturday bus, no car because we don’t have paperwork yet). After 5 km it had started misbehaving - the bit the pedal was attached to had worked loose.

Luckily we were able to fix it - with the help of a stranger innocently working on his garden in a small Czech village. He even gave us the tool we needed! Some people are so bloody nice. We managed to get to Novy Mlyn, though stopping every so often to tighten up the loose fitting. The countryside was beautiful (something we’re nearly taking for-granted now) and the journey felt like very good exercise (ie it is nearly constantly up hill from Tábor). Read the rest of this entry »