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Culture: Book: Picture
Rub Out The Lines   (+8, -1)  [vote for, against]
the opposite of join up the dots

Rub Out The Lines is a book of printed images where each page is a mass of straight lines, curved lines and numbered dots. Some of the lines have been printed using a graphite based ink which can be easily rubbed out using a variety of standard erasers - ie some thick and some fine for detail.

To reveal and enjoy the image, you must rub out the lines which connect the dots together according to a set of instructions.
-- xenzag, Oct 18 2007

Erased De Kooning http://www.tate.org.../erasuregenteel.htm
Robert Rauschenberg's rubbing out of a drawing by Willem de Kooning [xenzag, Oct 18 2007]

Comes with a special pencil. When you make a mistake, you can scribble it all out and start again.
-- Ling, Oct 18 2007


not terribly original or interesting. how'd you think up this one? (although my favorite graffiti artist "draws" by erasing)
-- k_sra, Oct 18 2007


//not terribly original// meaning someone else has already thought of it, which I will accept and delete accordingly upon your presentation. As for not being interesting - what can I say? We all have different interests.
-- xenzag, Oct 18 2007


+ I think it would be fun, esp. if the lines were terribly complicated and overlapping.
-- xandram, Oct 19 2007


And the 3d version would be a statue packed in clay for you to carefully remove with toothpick and teaspoon?
-- the dog's breakfast, Oct 19 2007


Wasn't there a type of kids' lollipop thing where they had to lick away the candy to reveal some kind of toy? Or was that someone's idea elsewhere on the 1/2b? (dog's anno brought this to mind right after the thought of a statue packed in chocolate flew through)
-- Canuck, Oct 19 2007



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