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Writing Spoon Turns Your Coffee Into Ink
Posted by Sean Fallon at 8:00 AM on August 22, 2008
Admit it, you like those inexpensive restaurants where they use paper tablecloths and servers write their names upside down with crayons. Why? Because you love to doodle (and you love crayons). If only you could combine your passion for food and drink with your passion for doodling in one simple device. Believe it or not, a gadget like that does exist. The Writing Spoon by Spanish artist, Julie Mariscal incorporates a makeshift fountain pen into the spoon, making it possible to use things like coffee or soup as ink. You can pick one up on her website for around US$31, which is a hell of a lot cheaper than it would be to get your own Gizuccino-making machine. [Julie Mariscal via Trend Hunter via Coolest Gadgets]
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citizen024
Posted 8:44 AM 22/8/08
what does that drawing represent?
citizen024
agscala
Posted 8:42 AM 22/8/08
Yes, I would like one of those 'writting' spoons please.
agscala
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Posted 8:39 AM 22/8/08
I'd rather to take my water based brushes to Starbucks, thanks. :P
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
mildretard
Posted 8:31 AM 22/8/08
Stupid. But the artist is hot, so I'll pretend it's cool.
mildretard
om nom de plume
Posted 8:26 AM 22/8/08
so... really it's not much different then using a normal spoon to mess up a table cloth.... since this just has the split and the fountain tip... no reservoir...
I don't get it.
Hey, ch3eck out these chopsticks.. they can be skewers or even hold up your hair!! $75 please
om nom de plume
TerryinSt.Paul
Posted 8:08 AM 22/8/08
What the hell was he/she TRYING to draw?
My puppy can "draw" on my kitchen floor better than that!
The same 8 people who bought that iphone app "I am rich" will buy these like they are going out/in to style. I want my 1 minute 26 seconds back a**holes.
TerryinSt.Paul
whatnot22
Posted 8:07 AM 22/8/08
At $6 a cup at Starbucks, that some expensive doodling.
whatnot22
Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish
Posted 8:03 AM 22/8/08
Not sure if he's still alive, but if he is, Ralph Steadman may be getting lots more coffee.
Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish
bosskev
Posted 9:38 AM 22/8/08
@DaveExile: "2. Drawing abstract crap DOES NOT make you a Picasso. "
Actually, it kind of CAN:
(Preparatory drawing for Guernica, 1937, Pablo Picasso)
Not unlike Julie's lunch-counter-culture doodling (with a nod to rcast1986's phrasing), is it?
bosskev
ibelli
Posted 9:31 AM 22/8/08
...until you slice your lip on it.
ibelli
aeroworks
Posted 9:27 AM 22/8/08
2 days later you can enjoy the mold for which is to come and spread.
aeroworks
rcast1986
Posted 9:22 AM 22/8/08
Chyeah y'all just don't get the drawing so stop hating on it. It's art, guys. Just because it looks like an indistinguishable, useless series of java squiggles doesn't mean the drawing has no merit.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go buy a Mac and be a part of counter-counter culture that understands an artistic message when they see one.
rcast1986
LenPict
Posted 9:19 AM 22/8/08
@DaveExile:
Titling your work in Spanish can, however, signify that an artist was born (and possibly raised?) in Barcelona.
LenPict
fatASCurtis
Posted 9:19 AM 22/8/08
where the hell did she get that paper table
fatASCurtis
DaveExile
Posted 9:13 AM 22/8/08
1. Titling your work in Spanish DOES NOT make you a Picasso.
2. Drawing abstract crap DOES NOT make you a Picasso.
DaveExile
Aristeia
Posted 9:12 AM 22/8/08
I actually like it. Woulda been more impressed with the video if 1) the drawing was actually something, not just doodles, and 2) that image of the girl holding the spoon upside down in front of her face didn't exist because it looks really stupid.
Aristeia
wenderson
Posted 9:03 AM 22/8/08
@om nom de plume: It actually is different, the split in the spoon works just like those ink pens, holding the "ink", until you press it on the "canvas"
wenderson
JackTheTripper
Posted 9:02 AM 22/8/08
Chick should stick to washing dish..... er...... sculptures and leave the sketching to real artists.
JackTheTripper
gamecrazychris
Posted 10:14 AM 22/8/08
How do you erase? a paper towel? a straw?
gamecrazychris
ludwigk
Posted 9:58 AM 22/8/08
[pulls Sharpie out of backpack] PWNT!
ludwigk
rjupiter
Posted 10:18 AM 22/8/08
how is that any different from me using my finger?
rjupiter
rallycar27
Posted 11:50 AM 22/8/08
I don't talk trash on a lot of stuff, but wow. does it get more retarded than this?
rallycar27
bosskev
Posted 12:00 PM 22/8/08
@rallycar27:
You must be new around here.
Yes. Yes it does.
bosskev
Eptin
Posted 3:15 PM 22/8/08
Ah, cute and playful! Scribbling with coffee is a good show if whimsey. While $31 is too much for a spoon, even one as ingenuous as that one, can't you guys still admire the creativity to come up with that?
Eptin
Crow
Posted 6:02 PM 22/8/08
Great! Now you can write poetry... With coffee!
Crow
cy3
Posted 6:32 PM 22/8/08
WHO THE FUCK KEEPS DRAWING ON MY TABLES WITH COFFEE!?
I'd imagined waiters & waitresses won't enjoy this that much
$31 is way too much for a "writting" spoon, even if they r hard to come by.
@rjupiter: more finer drawing/writing
this reminds me of the quill and ink pens where u have to keep dipping ur writing utensil into the liquid
@Aristeia: it looked a bit like a boat/ship
cy3
dedalus987
Posted 2:05 AM 23/8/08
yea what if you just split the tip of a plastic displosable spoon...
also, i prefer ink.
dedalus987
ichi1
Posted 4:19 AM 23/8/08
I think it's a good idea, the picture of her holding spoon was lame and seriously I really thought it was going to be something all the way to the end , you know those drawings that look like nothing until the final pen stroke and you go ahhh it's a elephant. Did anyone think it was going to make sense aswell?? then very disappointed when it turn out to be some crazy lines.
ichi1
Revvy
Posted 1:55 PM 23/8/08
20 euros is not too much for what would be a fabulous gift to several of my friends.
The kicker is the 75 euros in shipping to the US. That's just stupid.
Revvy