Graphite sculptures you use as giant pencils
Sculptor Ageli Batle makes elaborate, highly detailed sculptures of everyday objects in graphite that can then be used as gorgeous pencils -- you can write with anything from an antler to an olive branch to a callalily or a wing. They write with surprising smoothness and accuracy and are a joy to hold and behold. Link
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beautiful! Are they sealed so your hand stays clean?
Fablous!
Apparently so.
"They have been formulated to resist smudging onto your hands. The multiple surfaces of each graphite sculpture can write."
My grandfather has one of these shaped like a quill, very cool!
It was hard enough that it didn't come off on your hands, and require a little bit of pressure to write/draw with.
Fused with smudge resistant compounds, according to the site. That should mean they'll be cleaner than pure graphite, which is a smeary mess. Still, you probably wouldn't drop one in the pocket of a white dress shirt.
That's awesome. I'd really love one shaped like a quill! I've always liked using graphite sticks for drawing, I'd buy a quill-one in a heartbeat. Do you know where your grandfather got his, Mr. Davis?
But can you chew up the eraser end? I thought not.
I have a solid graphite pencil, I like it but the messiness I don't care for. I like chalks and pastels and don't mind that kind of messy. Graphite can be sort of greasy, that's the part I don't care for I guess. I think I'd be afraid to use these though. I would treat them like sculptures rather than instruments.
I want one shaped like a pencil.
Shaped like an English teacher...
I want this shape then
http://www.scifun.ed.ac.uk/card/images/flakes/graphite.jpg
I want one shaped like a pencil.
Check your local craft store.
Agelio Batle makes a great graphite hand that fits in your hand: http://www.gallery5.com/agelio-batle-graphite-hand-that-draws-p-33.html
Very pretty. I don't know if I'd be able to bring myself to actually use one. because it would gradually wear away to nothing.
to nothing? It will transmute to something even more wonderful
These are sold at a lot of galleries; I've experimented with the sample out for everyone to play with, and I think that the smudge-resistant properties result in a line that is much less flowing than standard graphite. An art piece, but not well-suited for creating art.
I sense a great Rule 34 in our future.
Why don't you just come out and say it Agent 86. You want one shaped like a knob :)
Brain is puzzling over looking at a picture of a horn and reading the words 'everyday objects', I mean seriously, who sees things like antlers, callalilies, severed wings and olive branches (or is that a stick?) every day.
a horn is a common haberdasher's item, as are mousetraps and crucifixes. I fail to take your point, Sir!
Bet they're pricey. How much gas can I get for the cost of one of these?
these days? an eyedropper maybe
#18 right there with you, i have never come across a disembodied hand in my daily travails, but then i lead a prosaic existence...
never made a Hand of Glory?
I mean seriously, who sees things like antlers, calla lilies, severed wings and olive branches (or is that a stick?) every day.
Um, me.
I've had one for several years, there is no problem w/ it smudging. But I have to say I rarely use it for writing.
I'd like to have one of these, but the idea for using it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Wow, if I don't use it to write with it is Fine Art, and if I do it is simply Art.
these have been around a while, yet they are still cool. Amazing
T
Dear Bender
Sense? Art? Just buy one. Use it.
Wow, how much do those things cost? I have several pure graphite sticks for drawing, but I would kill for one of those. The olive branch and horn are especially beautiful. Does anybody know the price range? (Yes, I've already emailed his studio to inquire, but I'm impatient!)
Yet another pointless juxtaposition of form and function where each factor is compromised for the sake of the other. Well done humans, another futile venture into forgetable cleverness. I will eat all your souls.
These have been for sale forever in a Sebastopol, CA art shop... I've given a couple as presents, they're quite fun to use (the store has a little trial station set up).
>I mean seriously, who sees things like antlers, callalilies, severed wings and olive branches (or is that a stick?) every day.
I see those every day.
Granted, it's in biology labs, but still.