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Now You Can 3-D Print Your Own Copy of NYC's Illegal Snowden Bust

• Wired.com

It's been a month since anonymous artists surreptitiously and illegally erected a 4-foot, bronze-plated bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in a Brooklyn park, only to see police remove it hours later. But the artists behind the guerrilla project have found a new way to share Snowden's head with the masses: They've uploaded a 3-D printable file of the bust to Thingiverse, the world's largest repository of 3-D printable files, so that anyone can download it, print it, and seed Snowden heads of all sizes and colors around the world.

"We thought, 'Let's put the data out there, and find a way for it to proliferate to anyone who wants it,'" says Andrew Tider, who along with fellow artist Jeff Greenspan had remained anonymous until being outed by a police summons to retrieve the massive Snowden head earlier this week. "We've heard from people that they want one for their lawn or to put in their home … so we're letting the world do whatever it wants to do with this."


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