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Postal Scales Now and Then
I've tried to stage it properly. But it just looks sad. Functional - and not inspiring: Modern postal scales, photo by elkement. The white plastic casing already starts to yellow at the top, from years of bombardment with UV photons. Miraculously, the battery does still work. I've called it modern, but its function in our office had been replaced ... by not sending invoices or contracts on paper anymore. Would a time-traveler from the future see beauty in this object? Did people of the […] -
Postal Scales Now and Then
I've tried to stage it properly. But it just looks sad. Functional - and not inspiring: Modern postal scales, photo by elkement. The white plastic casing already starts to yellow at the top, from years of bombardment with UV photons. Miraculously, the battery does still work. I've called it modern, but its function in our office had been replaced ... by not sending invoices or contracts on paper anymore. Would a time-traveler from the future see beauty in this object? Did people of the […] -
Magneto Compass – Inverted Art
It has been quite a while since I have drawn my antique rotary phone as "negative art". This phone features white letters on black background. At that time I had no idea that white gel pens exist, for drawing such letters. So, I "invented" inverted art - as usual, only to discover that many artists had done this before. The process: ~ Take a photo with a large amount of dark areas.~ Turn it into black and white, and digitally invert it.~ Use this photo as a reference, and draw the object […]https://elkement.art/2026/05/20/magneto-compass-inverted-art/
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Magneto Compass – Inverted Art
It has been quite a while since I have drawn my antique rotary phone as "negative art". This phone features white letters on black background. At that time I had no idea that white gel pens exist, for drawing such letters. So, I "invented" inverted art - as usual, only to discover that many artists had done this before. The process: ~ Take a photo with a large amount of dark areas.~ Turn it into black and white, and digitally invert it.~ Use this photo as a reference, and draw the object […]https://elkement.art/2026/05/20/magneto-compass-inverted-art/