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Posted on 06/08/10 08:05:26 AM

Steve Caplin
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Challenge 312: Pencil carving

An intriguing article in the free London newspaper Metro last week about Dalton Ghetti, an artist who carves sculptures from pencil leads. Read the story here, and there are more examples here.

Extraordinary stuff. He says he takes up to two and a half years to create each carving - you've got a week to do a similar job. And it occurred to me it might be interesting to carve the wood, as well as the graphite.

This week's challenge was suggested by Nick Curtain, who also provided the excellent macro photography. Cheers, Nick.

High res is here.

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Note: I'm off to France for a couple of weeks to get my batteries recharged (and, of course, to stock up on Friday Challenge subjects). About 40 minutes inland from La Rochelle, if anyone's in the neighbourhood.

David Asch will be posting Friday Challenge entries while I'm away, and I'll write up this and next week's when I return in the last week in August. Have fun while I'm away, and no squabbling.

Posted on 06/08/10 08:14:22 AM

Stefano Giacomuzzi
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Enjoy your holidays Steve. This Friday Challenge isn't going to be easy.
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Posted on 06/08/10 2:22:54 PM

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Challenge 312: Pencil carving

Note: I'm off to France for a couple of weeks to get my batteries recharged (and, of course, to stock up on Friday Challenge subjects). About 40 minutes inland from La Rochelle, if anyone's in the neighbourhood.

You are more than welcome to pop in for a proper cup of tea if you happen to be in the Limoges area, which is in department 'La Creuse'
Directions can be found on our site: www.bigbobsbb.net
Bon voyage!

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Posted on 06/08/10 5:43:54 PM

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Posted on 06/08/10 6:45:26 PM

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I only had to make one aircraft. The others are carbon copies!

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s93/GKBphoto/TheGraphiteArrowsv2.jpg

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Posted on 06/08/10 9:03:59 PM

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http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8324/fridaychallengepencil.jpg

Posted on 07/08/10 01:33:36 AM

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Posted on 07/08/10 4:45:56 PM

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Posted on 07/08/10 9:02:15 PM

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Posted on 07/08/10 9:22:30 PM

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Technical difficulties - please stand by

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Posted on 07/08/10 9:32:49 PM

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Excellent concepts going on. Who knew pencils could be so interesting?

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Posted on 07/08/10 10:10:24 PM

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@brewell Love it! Wish I had thought of it =]

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Posted on 07/08/10 10:32:01 PM

Stefano Giacomuzzi
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Better colors here: http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2841/fridaychallengepencilbe.jpg

Posted on 08/08/10 00:42:23 AM

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Brilliant Lonnie! Tip top!!

Posted on 08/08/10 07:18:41 AM

Neal
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Hi, I'm back with the Easter Island Pencil Heads.

It's amazing what Dalton Ghetti can do with a razor blade.

Posted on 08/08/10 2:09:01 PM

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Buckminster Fullerene molecule or 'Buckyball'.

A Fullerene is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube. Spherical Fullerenes are also called buckyballs, and cylindrical ones are called carbon nanotubes or buckytubes. Fullerenes are similar in structure to graphite, which is composed of stacked graphene sheets of linked hexagonal rings; but they may also contain pentagonal (or sometimes heptagonal) rings.