The Rabbit Room

Wow…that guy takes his pencils seriously.

Throughout the whole video, I couldn’t tell if this guy was absolutely serious or pulling my chain. Still not completely sure, actually.

This isn’t as artisanal as Mr. Rees’s approach, but here’s an interesting video about how pencils are made in a pencil factory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwYTibTbYHQ&feature=player_embedded

Mesmerizing!

Sort of off topic, but if you haven’t seen the work of Dalton Ghetti and his pencil lead carvings….man. Talk about mesmerizing!

http://oddstuffmagazine.com/extraordinary-art-on-pencil-tips-by-dalton-ghetti.html

I can think of other artisanal ways to spend $1000.00.

I find myself drawn to buy (and read) his book.

Wow. I was just going to go sit down with my notebooks when I saw this and suddenly my Sharpie Pen seems so very inferior.

@Whipple: Haha! Your pun is sharp.

“And this is why you don’t sharpen pencils with sandpaper on an airplane or a moving bus.”

Wow. That is devotion to an art.

@david… i think the latter. but he does do an excellent mimic of dead-earnest sincerity.

I couldn’t help but laughing and comparing the seriousness of his pencil sharpening to my third grade students who sharpen and resharpen, break, lose, step on, and chew on their pencils all day long as well as spill pencil shavings all over the floor on a regular basis! Pencils and sharpening pencils are a curse to any elementary school teacher. I never thought of it as an art form! I’ll have to share the tweezer tip at my next collaborative meeting.

I came *this close* to buying a super heavy duty, electric pencil sharpener at a yard sale today b/c of Mr. Rees. If for no other reason than to mail it to him.

There is no way this isn’t a parody, but I’m stunned by the attention to detail in the execution. Quite impressive.

Favorite line: “the plastic bag is to collect the pencil shavings, which are property of the pencil’s owner and must be returned to them.”

Observation Window…….Nice! Those are handy for those rainy days when you like to watch pencils being sharpened for hours on hours.

@EmmaJ, @David,
If you go on his website there’s a page in which he lets you know just how serious it is. Though somewhat enigmatic, it is also quite humorous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hN89U_XD9E

He needs to date this woman.

I want one of his pencil sharpeners. None of the ones at our house work at the moment. Though maybe the reason our pencils constantly break and need to be resharpened is because they’re the cheapest available, given as birthday “treats” by my kids’ classmates. I hear Rees charges $15 per sharpened pencil. Think I should send some in?

Becca, the title on that video is frighteningly appropriate!

“Artis what?”

He’s so punny on so many levels.

@Becca – hand model video – so weird!