ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 1月13日 01時26分

“In an era of infinite screens, the humble pencil feels revolutionarily direct: It does exactly what it does, when it does it, right in front of you,” Sam Anderson writes in @nytmag. As a tool, he writes, “it’s admirably sensitive. The lines it makes can be fat or thin, screams or whispers, blocks of concrete or blades of grass, all depending on subtle changes of pressure. And while a pencil is sophisticated enough to track every gradation of the human hand, it’s also simple enough for a toddler to use.” Simplicity like this isn’t easy to produce. Since 1889, @GeneralPencil has been converting raw materials into products you can find in art and office-supply stores everywhere: watercolor #pencils, sticks of charcoal, pastel chalks. Over the past few years, @christopherpaynephoto visited the company’s factory — one of the last in the U.S. — dozens of times. He conveys the incidental beauty of functional machines: strange architectures of chains, conveyor belts, glue pots, metal discs and gears thick with generations of grease. He captures the strangeness of seeing a tool as simple as a pencil disassembled into its even simpler component parts. And he shows us the aesthetic magic of scale. Visit the link in our profile to see the full photo essay in @nytmag. #✏️✏️✏️

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