Topic awaiting preservation: Pencil carving

Picked up via iamcal (from somewhere else, etc.):
www.infofreako.com/jad/pencil/0list-e.html

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Damn cults. They should be made to write lines until they're deprogrammed.

Dear lord.

The chain ones are cool.

~puts his pencils far far away from those mean men~

We need to start a "people with too much time on their hands" collection...

Ay um...

Shit. Don't look at those when you first wake up.

Damn... I need more coffee. The world just suddenly stopped making sence again.

Suho - I think it's more a matter of some very misguided determination.

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I'm frightened.

Me thinks that some one was just bored in math class... lol.

Wo...Uh...Mm...Hu...

...Wow...

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I reserve the following hyphenate for very special circumstances and, in the right context, I consider it a great compliment ? I apologize if it causes anyone offense...

Unbe-fucking-lievable.

ooohohohohohhhhhhoooo

The ball and joint one is....ummm...interesting.

That`s some seriously nice work.

That shit is hard. I`ve carved open spirals and chains and stuff out of a 1 1/2 in piece, but PENCILS ?
Just for the *unbelieveable* dept, I`ve also seen photos of similar pieces done from toothpics.

Toothpicks!? Those must be the same people that write sutras on grains of rice...

Maw Gawd...whoohoo! I love the ball and chain one...and the double spiral...talk about getting 'wrapped up' in your work...

But on toothpicks?

That's insane!


WebShaman

These aren`t the ones I saw before, but...yea.
http://www.shamey.com/tooth/tooth.htm

Something about: From p.125 of "Gyakusetsu Ronrigaku" un-nerves me, especially this soon after waking.

[Emp edit: making the link work]

[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 03-04-2003).]

Stuff like this just makes me wonder what we could do, as a race, if we applied our skills and intelligence to bettering the human condition.

Suho: Screw that, there's obviously more entertainment value in carving pencils. Everything's gotta be marketable. The human race isn't marketable - unless it's unclothed.

Sarcasm aside, that's really cool Emps. Thanks for sharing.

*picks up a pencil and hunts down his trusty x-acto knife*

Suho the real problem is we don't better our lives as a race because we are carving pencils and toothpicks.....

"Freedom of speech is by no means freedom to insult others" from the Razorart goodbye letter.

Um, yeah... that was kind of my point... or did I miss something?

The toothpick guy also carves fruit seeds:
www.shamey.com/pit/pit.htm

[edit: and some others:

Pencils
www.daltonghetti.com - he also carves chains out of pencil lead

Toothpicks
http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/mrkei/english/youji.htm - amazing and it even has a tutorial

microminiature sculpture
www.mjt.org/hagop/hagop1.html
www.armeniaweek.com/feb082002/miniature.html
www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Prayer.html -

and I found this on geometric paper folding:
http://www.sgi.com/grafica/huffman/index.html

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

This guy is making me sick... a monkey biting his tail carved out of the seed inside the red berry from a Dogwood tree!!!???

It has occurred to me that this man's sole purpose on this earth may be to carve stuff out of ridiculously small items... how sad that would be...

Suho: Could say the same about the sand mandellas' the monks do... or is it the scale?

Hehe, no, it was the scale. But thanks for bringing that up.

I was gonna say that nano sculptures are smaller, but that'd probably be easier to do.....



Maskkkk

- Face the Present
- AIM: MASKKKK

Well, unless someone starts carving an atom...*shudders*

That guy who carved all those words on pinheads...actually went blind!

^ And grew hair on his palms.... I'm sure.