A large number of people end up as adults who have little or no sense of themselves as legitimate creators. This blog explores the idea of creativity in its widest sense (painting, dancing, felting, cooking, writing, poetry, film-making etc.) and starts with the question 'how do we inhibit and block our naturally creative response to life?'
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
miniature obsessions
This strikes me as even more amazing than the watermelon swimmer, if perhaps a bit less original in terms of breadth (it's carved out of a pencil lead...).
Trust me to notice but the fact that the lead isn't rounded made me wonder what's going on. Then it hit me: that's no ordinary pencil- it's a carpenter's pencil which makes it even more brilliant to my mind. It reminds me of the time when I took a life drawing class with sculpture students and got them to carve their charcoal instead of drawing with it!
Not sure where else to post the following link but I thought you might be interested in it (unless you've seen it already): http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vhw1d/Horizon_20102011_Is_Seeing_Believing/
Trust me to notice but the fact that the lead isn't rounded made me wonder what's going on. Then it hit me: that's no ordinary pencil- it's a carpenter's pencil which makes it even more brilliant to my mind. It reminds me of the time when I took a life drawing class with sculpture students and got them to carve their charcoal instead of drawing with it!
ReplyDeleteoh my lordy lordy!I am in humble awe:)
ReplyDeleteNot sure where else to post the following link but I thought you might be interested in it (unless you've seen it already): http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vhw1d/Horizon_20102011_Is_Seeing_Believing/
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