Although, to be fair, life-sized cow sculptures aren’t really all that weird; after all, Iowa has been attracting people to their state fair for over a century with their 1,000 pound Butter Cow. Frankly a cow made completely of butter, while delicious, sounds a lot weirder than a 3D printed cow to me. But that may simply be a case of me catching the weirds from my Portland family members. Whatever they tell you, I was not weird before they moved to Portland, that is simply slander and lies.
“We have maybe 10 minutes of operational talk at meetings, then the rest is ‘we could do this, we could do that. We found kindred spirits with Urban Farmer. They appreciate what we are doing and we appreciate what they are doing. Let the imagination run wild for a little bit,” Jain explained to the city’s largest paper, The Oregonian.
After being assembled, the large cow sculpture, called the CrowdCow, will be displayed in the front window of the Urban Farmer restaurant. Once installed, the steakhouse famous for using organic and locally sourced ingredients will add an interactive, multimedia component showcasing the various cuts of meat taken from a typical cow. Something that the uptight and snobby Butter Cow doesn’t even try to do.
Here is a brief time lapsed video of the cow being assembled:
Moore had her first 3D printer built for her by her partner in order to print her own line of jewelry. Moore has a background in 3D design and modelling, so now that she has a 3D printer she can design and print her projects within a day. That is a huge improvement over the several-week turnaround that was required when she ordered 3D printed parts online.
“It’s way more affordable, $20-30 per roll of material, AND it’s ready in a few hours,” Moore explains.
Urban Farmer is located in The Nines Hotel, and that is where several members of PDX 3D Printing Lab met up to assemble CrowdCow. They had several 3D printers on hand to print custom connectors to holds the parts in place until they could be connected permanently. Have any local Portland steak enthusiasts seen CrowdCow in the wild? Tell us how she looks in the Life Sized 3D Printed Cow forum at 3DPrintBoard.com.