I stumbled upon this blog article, and thought it was so cool. Not necessarily TV/Video or Broadcasting related, but the art can certainly be appreciated. What patience it must take to create these micro sculptures all on the tip of a pencil! Would you have that kind of tenacity? Or attention span?
Brazilian born, Connecticut based, Dalton Ghetti carefully crafts the tips of pencils into amazing micro sculptures. These miniature masterpieces are a side project for the professional carpenter, who has been perfecting this art for the last 25 years. Dalton uses a razor blade, sewing needle, a sculpting knife, a steady hand and lots of patience to meticulously carve the graphite which can take anywhere between a few months to a few years. Over time he has broken many works in progress and keeps them in what he calls the cemetery collection. One of the most fascinating things about these tiny works of art is that he has never sold them, only given away to friends as gifts.
Check out the pictures, and click the link to learn more about Dalton Ghetti.
When it comes down to it, it's all about attitude, isn't it? Check out what Dalton had to say: When Dalton, from Connecticut, USA, first started he would become frustrated when a piece would break before being finished after he had spent months working on it. He said: “It would drive me mad when I would be just a bit too heavy handed and the pencil’s tip would break. I would get very nervous sometimes, particularly when the piece was almost finished, and then I would make a mistake. I decided to change the way I thought about the work – when I started a new piece my attitude would be ‘well this will break eventually but let’s see how far I get. It helped me break fewer pencils, and although I still do break them, it’s not as often”.
Let me know what you think. How has your attitude helped you accomplish things? What can be said about his patience, precision and attention to detail? How can you relate?
9 comments:
That's cool how he can a take pencil and make things out of it.That take lots of skills.-arletha ward
This is REALLY cool. I can not even imagine how long that would take! The minute detail is quite impressive.
Lauren Rinkus
This is great work. How long does it take you to think of an idea to work on and how long to make the sculptures.
Larry Silas
It is amazing to see the new talents people are coming up with in todays society. Carving things out of the lead of a pencil would be the last thing i would think of! He is very intelligent and must have the most patients there is in this world. Dalton should start selling these creations and maybe a company will recognize his talent that way and he can start his own company for these creations.
I love this! When I stumbled across it I couldn't wait to share it with you guys. How cool! I can't believe the talent, and the patience that it must take! Insane! I've never claimed to be especially creative, so when I see someone who really takes it to the next level it is definitely appreciated!
This man is really a innovator when it comes to art. The time this has to take must be enormous to get everything absolutely precise.
This is a REALLY fascinating hobby that he is doing with these pencils. I worried where he got the idea from, his friends must feel very special to get this as a gift; one of a kind. I wonder if he can scalp one in the image of spongebob? =)
Wow, its pretty impressive to see someone come up with an idea like that. Who would have ever thought that something that we use daily can have other use for it. Its amazing to see what weird places art rises from. Who knows, maybe sometime later he will realize that it is more than a hobby and can make a profit out of it. It must take real talent and a whole lot of patience, as well as a lot of scrupulosity to accomplish something extrodinary like that.
This is really cool. Everyone can do ordinary ary like painting and what not but you are a true artist when you can take something ordinary and make it extrordinary. It's awesome to see some one take something simple, that's used on a daily bases and make something so cretive out of it. Usually when people look at a pencil they can't see what you can really do with it. But this guy took it many levels further. I wouldn't not have the patience to carve all of that detail into something so tiny.
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