
Artist Spends 1 Year Using Only Discarded Ballpoint Pens To Draw Giant Octopus
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When his designer friends questioned the utility of ballpoint pens, artist Raymond Cicin took that as a challenge. He collected their discarded ballpoint pens and spent more than a year creating this enormous and highly-detailed octopus drawing.
This drawing isn’t the only one – he has created other amazing artwork as well using nothing but these commonplace, lowly pens. It just goes to show that it’s often the artist, not the tool!
The octopus in question was inspired by a German biologist named Ernst Haeckl who died in 1919. His drawing was of the common octopus, or octopus vulgaris.
More info: raymondcicin.com | Instagram | Twitter (h/t: colossal, demilked)
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This is FANTASTIC!! I love octopuses (yes, that's correct) and this one is beautiful!!
The plural is octopi
http://grammarist.com/usage/octopi-octopuses/
LOL - I hope this ends the debate? :) http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/index.php?id=0015-octopus&pid=mw_video
All of that is beside the point, though, as octopus has been in English for centuries and is now an English word when English speakers use it, so there is no reason not to pluralize it in the English manner. Granted, some Latin and Greek plurals survive in English by convention, but octopi/octopodes is not one of them. Octopuses is far more common than octopi in edited writing of all kinds, including scientific writing. Still, while the use of octopi can’t be justified on an etymological basis, it is not wrong. It is old enough and common enough to be considered an accepted variant.
Octopi vs. octopuses Octopi, the supposed plural of octopus, is a favorite among fans of quirky words, but it has no etymological basis. The form was created by English speakers out of a mistaken belief that octopus is Latin and hence pluralized with an -i ending. But octopus comes from ancient Greek, where its plural is octopodes, and though it came to English via scientific Latin—one of the late varieties of Latin that kept the language alive long after it had died out as a first language—it was never a native Latin word and didn’t exist in that language until scientists borrowed it from Greek in the 18th century (and if it were a Latin word, it would take a different form and would not be pluralized with the -i ending).
Exactly what I was going to say!
It can be octopi, octopuses, or octopodes. Any way is acceptable!
That's amazing. I can barely draw stick figures and he goes and does this masterpiece.
Stunning!!
This is FANTASTIC!! I love octopuses (yes, that's correct) and this one is beautiful!!
The plural is octopi
http://grammarist.com/usage/octopi-octopuses/
LOL - I hope this ends the debate? :) http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/index.php?id=0015-octopus&pid=mw_video
All of that is beside the point, though, as octopus has been in English for centuries and is now an English word when English speakers use it, so there is no reason not to pluralize it in the English manner. Granted, some Latin and Greek plurals survive in English by convention, but octopi/octopodes is not one of them. Octopuses is far more common than octopi in edited writing of all kinds, including scientific writing. Still, while the use of octopi can’t be justified on an etymological basis, it is not wrong. It is old enough and common enough to be considered an accepted variant.
Octopi vs. octopuses Octopi, the supposed plural of octopus, is a favorite among fans of quirky words, but it has no etymological basis. The form was created by English speakers out of a mistaken belief that octopus is Latin and hence pluralized with an -i ending. But octopus comes from ancient Greek, where its plural is octopodes, and though it came to English via scientific Latin—one of the late varieties of Latin that kept the language alive long after it had died out as a first language—it was never a native Latin word and didn’t exist in that language until scientists borrowed it from Greek in the 18th century (and if it were a Latin word, it would take a different form and would not be pluralized with the -i ending).
Exactly what I was going to say!
It can be octopi, octopuses, or octopodes. Any way is acceptable!
That's amazing. I can barely draw stick figures and he goes and does this masterpiece.
Stunning!!