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A digital picture of non-digital music made to look like an old film shot. Something is not right here.
One of the old film presets in Color Efex Pro 4. Over sharpened a bit in Nik Sharpener Pro 3.
For the flickr group 113 pictures in 2013. No. 108 Musical Instrument.
This image won the Gold Medal in a Worth1000 Photography Competition in January/February 2007.
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The traditional knife sharpener with a basic contraption still survives. The sharpener is made of an abrasive wheel mounted on a pedestal and connected by a belt to an old cycle rim driven by a foot pedal.
Melbourne has seen the end of mobile fruit merchants, bakers, and the milkman for many years. So it was a surprise to see a mobile sharpening van. This merchant will sharpen, not only your kitchen knives but any metal object that can be sharpened. Simply a marvellous sight.
In the days before computer assisted navigation, the pencil sharpener was the most important aid for a navigator.
Form x Function And a Little History
The day I tweeted this twin lens camera look alike pencil sharpener, many responded asking where to get it. Combining the look of one thing with the function of another may not be a new formula of design, but this hybrid so to speak is definitely getting a lot of attentions, I bet you will just fall for it in no time. I first saw it briefly on the 10x10.co.kr Korean online shopping site, a day later I couldn't find it anymore. Just so happened I needed to go to Seoul and I checked the brick and mortar 10x10 shop, they said this item was sold only through online. Bummer. Luckily my Korean friend helped me to dig deeper and got one somehow, I was able to locate the manufacturer and perhaps we can have this in our stores in a few months. It is far more user friendly and efficient than most of the other heavy duty built-for-a-lifetime sharpeners, and it is cheap.
This another "form + function" brainchild existed for quite a long time but worth mentioning. It is a name card case which looks and works like a real aluminum suitcase, yes you open the case by sliding the two locks sideway. Definitely a conversation starter I tell you, remember that silence during your name card exchange ritual? It helps.
Each one of these aluminum suitcases are made in Tokyo and hand inspected there by Daiichi Aluminum. There is something special about Daiichi Aluminum you might not know. I was probably the first to use these banker's clasp on Moleskine back in 2005 while they were made by certain factory, the production finally stopped and still there were great demand of these clasps. SLIP-ON repeatedly requested Daiichi Aluminum to reproduce them and finally they made it, these two companies deserve credits for keeping these simple but useful tools alive.
Well my MoleskineArt web site is now in archive, in case you were my readers back then, you can still access the contents here.
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Two car-shaped pencil sharpeners made in Germany. Although the larger one is not marked, I have seen one with 'Germany' on the spare wheel
This links to more images of the large one: www.flickr.com/photos/adrianz-toyz/52265727732 and this to the small one: www.flickr.com/photos/adrianz-toyz/52340016637
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Purchased at the thrift store at the Galiano Island Saturday Market
Dual blades
2x Precision Cosmetic Pencil Sharpener for Eyebrow Lip Liner Eyeliner 2Hole
Sturdies Bay, British Columbia, Canada
Mamiya RB67, Mamiya-Sekor 90mm. Kodak Tri-X, Xtol, printed on Oriental Warmtone FB. Scanned on HP Photosmart 4599.
He came with the pencil sharpener I got from Alex today. The Pencil Sharpener is also in the picture.
This is the smallest thing on my desk which is what the theme was for today...it is just a tad over a half inch square and gets a point quickly.
I was arranging store displays the other day and suddenly realized we had been selling these different versions of Boston sharpeners over the years. They are all out of stock now, what's remaining in store are now for display only. Except for Dulton's sharpener (second from the left in this picture) which we only have a few pieces left. According to Dulton in Japan, they also stop producing this mechanical sharpener too.
Boston Pencil Sharpener Company was founded in 1899, acquired by Hunt Manufacturing Company in 1925, X-Acto bought Hunt's Boston sharpener line, Elmer's bought X-Acto. Today if you want to get a relatively low priced, metal, hand-cranked planetary Boston style sharpener, you can still get a new one from X-ACTO either in desk or vacuum mount. Although these X-ACTO branded sharpeners have their origins from the original Boston Pencil Sharpener Company, they are now made in China and the charisma is almost all gone.
Some retailers like Blick may still have old stocks of Boston sharpeners but it won't last long, they will soon be eBay items. I would recommend to get one now while you still can. Have money to spare for luxury desk accessories? Try El Caso sharpeners from Spain.
Talking about mount, even though Dulton's sharpener is strong like a brick, the butterfly screw mount is its weakest point, you can't sharpen a pencil without holding the body. Perhaps that's the reason why Dulton is discontinuing it. It could be such a great product if it were vacuum mounted for desk use.
Of these sharpeners, Boston Ranger 55 (the black one in picture) is the most durable, heavy-duty and virtually indestructible, it is like a single piece of metal casted right from the factory furnace. While I like the steadiness of a self feeder, adjustable pencil guide is more like a classic to me.
The death of Boston Pencil Sharpener Company's classic happened slowly over a hundred year. The sad thing is the disappearing of its name which once touched so many people's life especially in America. Elmer's should immortalize the Boston brand instead of burying it's dignity in its ever growing brand list. Worse, check out the "Visit Site" link of Boston under Elmer's web site, you will be directed to www.bostonschoolpro.com/, an under-construction site with several pop up windows of Chinese online game advertisements. I feel so sorry about this and I've emailed to Elmer's a moment ago for this.
If you are into the history of mechanical sharpeners, Early Office Museum has great coverage and collection of photos for sharpeners dated as early as 1860.
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