{"id":12798,"date":"2016-03-30T13:22:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=12798"},"modified":"2016-03-30T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:22:20","slug":"happy-pencil-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2016\/03\/30\/happy-pencil-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Pencil-Vania! Over 185K Pencils Artfully Arranged in a San Francisco’s Home Stairwell!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Pencil Day, I picked out something\u00a0VERY PENCIL-Y!<\/strong><\/p>\n

In San Francisco, California there is a home, called Granny’s Empire of Art<\/a>, with a three-story stairwell covered in PENCILS (and rulers and erasers and crayons and other school supplies)!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s an art piece by Jason Mecier called “Pencil Vania”<\/a> and it’s AMAZING!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don’t take my word for it… TAKE A LOOK FOR YOURSELF!<\/strong><\/p>\n\"socia\"\n\"ALP_131219_Jainas-351\"\n

The home’s owner Jaina Davis commissioned her friend Jason to start creating the piece in 1997. He wasn’t finished until 2002! FIVE YEARS!<\/strong><\/p>\n\"ALP_131217_Jainas-164\"\n

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How much did it cost?<\/strong><\/div>\n
A lot.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\"ALP_131217_Jainas-179\"\n
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Do you have a favorite part of the pencil mosaic?<\/strong><\/div>\n
After living with pencils for a decade, Jaina’s favorite part is discovering the little details she never noticed before\u2014like the pencil with erasers at both ends!<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\"ALP_131219_Jainas-367\"\n

This is “Granny,” a futuristic portrait of what Jaina will look like when she’s 88, and if she was made of pencils!<\/strong><\/p>\n\"ALP_131217_Jainas-210\"\n

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How many pencils are there?<\/strong><\/div>\n
Eleventy billion. OK, really, according to our number cruncher …there are 185,252 pencils.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\"ALP_131219_Jainas-222\"\n\"ALP_131219_Jainas-295\"\n

NEAT-O! Read the answers to Pencil-Vania’s FAQ here<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

photos by Anthony Lindsey\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s Jaina and Pencil-Vania’s artist, Jason Mecier<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n\"grannyandjason\"\n

Happy Pencil Day!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Pencil Day, I picked out something\u00a0VERY PENCIL-Y! In San Francisco, California there is a home, called Granny’s Empire of Art, with a three-story stairwell covered in PENCILS (and rulers and erasers and crayons and other school supplies)!! It’s an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,9,10,2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesome","category-cool","category-fun","category-hall-of-fame","category-holidays","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12824,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798\/revisions\/12824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}