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These sculptures of flames by artist Herb Williams are an outdoor installation at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas. The name of the work is “Unwanted Visitor, Portrait of Wildfire.” But take a closer look -the flames are made of crayons! As the suns hits them, temperatures rise and fall, and the wind blows, the sculptures will melt, move, and change considerably, as they are designed to do. Link -via Laughing Squid
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Reddit user Katiedidit was making some art by melting crayons on a canvas in the hot Texas sun. She had a couple of brands on hand and decided to try each on a canvas. Surprisingly, the Roseart barely melted, making you wonder… What’s in those things if not paraffin?
Link via Geekologie
These marvelous sculptures of Star Wars characters have been attributed to an artist named Steve Thompson. The detailed work on the stormtrooper helmet is particularly nice.
via blastr | Previously: Crayon Sculpture
The Canadian documentary show How It’s Made shows viewers how ordinary objects in their lives are created. This segment explains how crayons are made. The factory in the video can produce 30,000 crayons an hour.
via Flavorwire | Show Website (warning: sound)
How much attention did you pay to Crayola crayon colors when you were a kid (or parent)? Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, will test your memory, or maybe your guessing skills! Match the crayon scrawl to the color’s name. I scored 100%, which is totally due to my guessing skills. Link
Etsy seller zeebree specializes in molding crayons into unique shapes. Here’s a picture of a set that she made in the shape of LEGO minifigs. Each is about an inch tall.
When I played with crayons I never checked out the packaging but I assume they were Crayola. It appears I missed out on some great design. Documentary photographer Christian Montone gets it all together in his Flickr set.
Photo: nathangibbs [Flickr]
It may only be skin deep, but having only Barbie pink to color in the skin color in the drawings of people sure gets kind of annoying in today’s modern, multiethnic society. Fear not! Crayola has the solution: a set of "multicultural" crayons.
From Flickr user nathangibb’s photo, the multicultural crayons are composed of black, sepia, burnt sienna, mahogany, tan, peach, apricot, and white.
Someone mentioned that John Coker’s homemade rockets looked like crayons, so he ran with the idea. His crayon rockets were launched all together from a crayon box! Well, OK, half of them worked. See how he made them in this account of the adventure. Link -via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
In this infographic, Stephen Von Worley observes that the number of discrete colors in a box of Caryola Crayons doubles about every 28 years. That’s an annual growth rate of 2.56%. Von Worley writes:
If the Law holds true, Crayola’s gonna need a bigger box, because by the year 2050, there’ll be 330 different crayons! Shortly thereafter, frazzled packaging designers rejoice, for to the rescue comes a revolution in household appliances: the new-fangled Replicator-Dissociator! Load it with the Crayola plugin, and you’re seconds away from every shade in the rainbow – no boxes required!
Who doesn’t remember the feeling of opening a brand new box of crayons?
Click through the original link to see the hex codes for all 120 colours as well as learn some interesting facts such as:
Crayola crayons currently come in 120 colors including 23 reds, 20 greens, 19 blues, 16 purples, 14 oranges, 11 browns, 8 yellows, 2 grays, 2 coppers, 2 blacks, 1 white, 1 gold and 1 silver. Although Crayola crayons come in 120 different colors, the labels are only made in 18, which cover the full color spectrum. Nearly 3 billion crayons are made each year, an average of 12 million daily. That’s enough to circle the globe 6 times with color!
120 Crayon Names and Color Codes
Aaron at ColorSchemer.com created a fun list of all 120 Crayon Colors with their hex codes and RGB values. “All of these colors are rough approximations from Crayola’s current list of 120 Crayon Colors. -CS”
Link – via mynameiskate
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