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Micah Springut

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Founder, @Monumental_Labs. Building the infrastructure for the aesthetic renaissance of cities. Sculpture + architecture + urban design.

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We really hope Scott is right that hand craft makes a comeback. People (usually on Insta) are always crying that we’re killing stone carvers but I’m like, dude, we employ half the stone carvers in the country! I’m exaggerating a bit, but all we’ve done with robots is create a market for stone carvers again. Sculpture that was so wildly inaccessible has been made just affordable enough that all these talented craftspeople can now get jobs working in stone (handling the details a robot can’t). Some of our carvers were accomplished carvers already but most of them are recent art school grads and fabricators getting trained up in the old ways.

We really hope Scott is right that hand craft makes a comeback. People (usually on Insta) are always crying that we’re killing stone carvers but I’m like, dude, we employ half the stone carvers in the country! I’m exaggerating a bit, but all we’ve done with robots is create a market for stone carvers again. Sculpture that was so wildly inaccessible has been made just affordable enough that all these talented craftspeople can now get jobs working in stone (handling the details a robot can’t). Some of our carvers were accomplished carvers already but most of them are recent art school grads and fabricators getting trained up in the old ways.

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Hello, new followers. We make sculptures with robots…and we’re making entire buildings soon.

Hello, new followers. We make sculptures with robots…and we’re making entire buildings soon.

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.Jalen Brunson we want to make a bust of you. Can you drop by Greenpoint?

.Jalen Brunson we want to make a bust of you. Can you drop by Greenpoint?

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Without midtown bike lanes, emergency vehicles would have been completely unable to move last night.

Without midtown bike lanes, emergency vehicles would have been completely unable to move last night.

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The world’s first marble boom box (probably, go fact check me)

The world’s first marble boom box (probably, go fact check me)

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Coming soon, to a building near you.

Coming soon, to a building near you.

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One of our stone carvers taking jobs away from robots.

One of our stone carvers taking jobs away from robots.

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The tap tap tap of the chisel is alive and well

The tap tap tap of the chisel is alive and well

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Michelangelo didn’t carve any astronauts

Michelangelo didn’t carve any astronauts

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Trigger warning: robots make things.

Trigger warning: robots make things.

68,219 views • 1 month ago

I’ll really miss this old beat up factory. Soon we’ll move to our new long term home.

I’ll really miss this old beat up factory. Soon we’ll move to our new long term home.

55,583 views • 1 month ago

.Jalen Brunson we want to make a bust of you. Can you drop by Greenpoint?

.Jalen Brunson we want to make a bust of you. Can you drop by Greenpoint?

53,632 views • 1 month ago

Saturday morning, new sculptures getting started. These may be the last big projects in Mt. Vernon. We’re moving to a much bigger space in Brooklyn this summer.

Saturday morning, new sculptures getting started. These may be the last big projects in Mt. Vernon. We’re moving to a much bigger space in Brooklyn this summer.

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Happy technology

Happy technology

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