"When Nasa first started sending astronauts into space, they realized that the ballpoint pen would work at zero gravity. A million dollar investment and two years of tests resulted in a pen that would write in space, upside down, on any surface and that at any temperature from below freezing to over 300 degrees centigrade. When confronted with the same problem, the Russians used a pencil."[1]
“ The classical Greek story describes an act of tracing by the potter Boutades’ daughter. She is distraught that her departing lover is about to set sail, perhaps never to return. Whilst he sleeps, she watches, and draws around the shadow his face casts upon the wall with a burnt coal that she takes from the fire”[2]
“In Walt Disney’s Peter Pan, the 1953 adaption of JM Barrie’s novel of a journey to and from Neverland, a shadow provides the meeting point for the sweethearts rather than the moment of parting. Peter first meets Wendy while searching for his shadow, which he has lost…Peter finds his shadow but it tries to escape him, only eventually being caught after much tumbling through the drawn space of the nursery.”[3]
Friday, 2 April 2010
Drawing stories and myths
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