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Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · 7d

"Stairs 02" stop motion animation, 13 frames, 2025

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Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · 9d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/r...

Why Leaving the Leaves Is Better for Your Yard

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Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · 10d

I use Rhino 3D for design, and Blender for art projects

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Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · 12d

Stairs Test (reversed)

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Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · 12d

Stairs test

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Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · 12d

More blocks

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Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · 13d

Blocks

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Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · 14d

Stairs

Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · 17d

More little glaze batches. The more you test, the more ideas for additional tests you can have

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Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · 19d

Updating my clay printer designs again for a new body of work

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Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · 25d

Moving toward more color and less control. 'Cascade', glazed ceramic

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Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · Sep 18

'Surface 01' (from 2021) Animated line drawing depicting a slightly vibrating surface. Hand drawn and animated in #blender 200 frames, 720x720 px.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 25

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 23

This feels like a spot of good news

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Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold

Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

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Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · Jul 23

Taughannock Falls, Ulysses, New York

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Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · Jul 14

More glaze tests. Moving from more saturated color to more nuanced things

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · Jun 30

Polyphonic Architecture https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/17586/

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Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · Jul 13

Thanks! I use a clay 3d printer I designed to extrude clay layer by layer to create the objects, which I design in 3d modeling software. There is also a lot of more traditional hand work involved. I've worked with clay for many years www.tomlauerman.com

INTRO | Tom Lauerman

www.tomlauerman.com

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Jul 12

Do not talk of him

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Tom Lauerman @tomlauerman.bsky.social · Jul 12

Working on making gray and charcoal glaze colors. This one has cobalt, manganese, nickel, and tin as colorants

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 9

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.