Giant graphite sculpture/pencils in the shapes of iconic weapons

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 16, 2009 1:57 AM | permalink

AS Batle, who makes gorgeous graphite sculptures that double as huge pencils that last for eight years, has a new line of tools in the shape of iconic weapons. Noah sez, "They're really gorgeous and have a unique poetic/pacifist bent: the more you draw or write poetry with them, the more they transform from weapon to art."

The newest line in this series features weapons: a 30mm shell, and AK-47 and "Little Boy" the bomb dropped over Hiroshima. The text on the box reads: "This [weapon] will change into words and pictures with normal use. To begin, place [weapon] in hand as if it were a pencil. Drag [weapon] across paper until poems and drawings appear. Continue using until [weapon] disappears."
The "hand" designs are cast from his young son's own hands and are the most remarkable thing to hold and draw with. Available in right- and left-handed models.

A. S. Batle Graphite "Pencils" (Thanks, Noah!)

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#1 posted by eclectro , March 16, 2009 2:36 AM

Weapons of mass instruction?

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#2 posted by Big Ed Dunkel , March 16, 2009 2:57 AM

Love to get an enormous graphite statue made of Rush Limbaugh with his head up his ass.

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#3 posted by PaulR , March 16, 2009 3:25 AM

Can we get a photograph of the pencil hand drawing MC Escher's iconic pencil drawing of hands drawing each other, please?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/DrawingHands.jpg

And I just had a thought: I wonder if the hand screams when you poke its finger in a sharpener...

(I know, no mouth. Phew!)

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#4 posted by Andrew B. , March 16, 2009 5:55 AM

@ #2, you wouldn't be able to tell it from any other politician!

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#5 posted by Lobster , March 16, 2009 6:04 AM

Question: do they transform more and more into art even if you're not specifically writing poetry with them? I'm a lousy poet.

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#6 posted by wilmo , March 16, 2009 6:06 AM

I think an m16 would make a much better pencil than that AK; its pencil shaped and has less felt recoil :-D

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#7 posted by ihabime , March 16, 2009 8:21 AM

I saw the hand versions at my local trendy kitsch shop this last christmas and thought they were clever and cute and would be just the thing for a couple of friends, then I saw the price.

Far be it from me to poo-poo on someone else's artistic vision, but clever does not rate $58 a pop to me, especially when it's a lump of graphic pumped out in the thousands by a tool and die shop.

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#8 posted by SuperDoop , March 16, 2009 9:37 AM

@#7

Agreed: overpriced crap.

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#9 posted by StudioRobot