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April 4, 2007
Becoming a pencil; more
//na// Interesting art bits to pass along:
- Most disturbing. Art supply. Ever.: Pencils made from cremated humans. I have no idea what to say. [Via]
- Less outlandish body art: peeling manuscript as tattoo. [Via]
- Flickr is hosting a photo set on Swiss graphic design.
- Veerle Pieters showcases the tasty illustrations of Catalina Estrada.
Comments
Gah, almost as disturbing as http://www.lifegem.com/, they are making diamonds of your "beloved ones". Juk!
[Bah--but I suppose it's no worse than those people who embalm themselves *while still alive*. Just walking through LAX yesterday gave me the creeps. --J. (who will be using the interjection "Juk" with gusto from this point onwards]
THEY'RE PEOPLE !!!! THEY'RE PEOPLE !!! SOYLENT GREEN ARE PEOPLE !!
not far away?
Hey John,
I've just seen the news about you comming to Brazil for the Photoshop Conference. That is great! I hope I'll get to be there so we can talk a little and get to know!
Cya.
I heard about those pencils, and they reminded me of another macabre artist's supply: caput mortuum, a pigment found in oil paintings from the 1600s to the late 19th Century. It was made from ground-up mummy (OK, "mummy wrappings", but still...)! Nowadays they use iron oxide or hematite to get the approximate color, I assume to the Egyptologist's great relief.
[Nice! At least they weren't burning the mummies.]
I may have to update my will with "Please don't make me into pencils, or let Keith Richards anywhere near me"...
[I hear that... --J.]
With those cremation pencils, I could still be sharp, even when I am dead.
People used me in life...they might as well use me when I am dead.