So these people seem really sweet, and I love the idea/motivation in theory...........but am I the only one that thinks both the colors and the actual spread of the crayon on paper doesn't look the best? Like set aside the color issue, we'll assume for the sake of argument that one can find a large enough market for the natural colors to make it a viable business venture, but the actual mark left on the paper looked rough and was hardly even visible :( There are SO many uses for wood that already exist, this seems aggressively unnecessary. What do I know though. Regardless I'm glad there are people like them in the world exploring new ideas.
The pigmentation is pretty lacking silly idea overall as using the dirt the tree grows in, the seeds the tree produces, the leaves it grows and the ash from burning the wood would make most of the pigments that already exist.
I enjoy the idea and it seems like fun, but if you are creating art, then I would worry about long term color changes and fading through aging and light influence. I doubt that there is an archival quality.
Wait. So, Japan is covered by 70% trees. 40% of that is due to planting trees after the war to rebuild. However, now that the forest is ready (took time to grow) Japan realized importing trees was easier and they did not want to use Japan's own forest now. So, for some reason Japan has "way too much wood" from importing it, and in 2021 when lumber prices were SKYROCKETED during the pandemic, Japan asks scientists to make crayons? If someone can tell me what I'm missing...thanks.
It could be the price of wood suitable for construction skyrocketed and it looks like they are using smaller pieces and tree limbs that isn't as expensive or don't have as much demand. Japan could be looking for ways to recycle the wood because they don't want that stuff taking space on a small island
Tasmania is logged to death. Continually because of our ignorant and greedy govt. The cutting down of our Heritage Forests that are supposed to be protected goes on every single day, creating extinctions of “protected” species and these ancient trees we have are then sold to JAPAN for WOODCHIPS!! This should be seen as a crime!! Absolutely sickening and infuriating. How dare they have “too many trees” and yet kill the planet by buying trees from other countries. So called Protected World Heritage forest trees. The oldest on the planet.
I love this! I absolutely love trees and wood and the creativity is lovely! I like that they have really tried to find what we can make and create with wood….but… they’re 💩 unfortunately 😬 they don’t look good or work that well on paper and if you’re making chips why not use them to smoke more foods or add it into drinks other than wine to see what flavours you can create or revive the raku clay firing tradition that uses the shavings to create the unique patterns in the glaze/on the pots or use the wood for more things that are now plastic or something, like maybe more wooden cups and plates etc than plastic ones or have all plastic pens be replaced with turned wooden ones or whatever, to slowly faze out the stuff that’s causing more pollution cuz this creativity has kinda been a nice experiment but it’s not really produced much useable stuff at the end of it and it seems like maybe we should direct it back to useable things that would help reduce pollution etc in the long run too? Or even experiment more with what can be made from the fibres, can we make fabric/packaging etc using more than just the pulp, that sort of thing, I don’t think the answer is wood crayons tbh 😬
From 2011 to 2018 a medical university in Tokyo automatically deducted points from female students grades. Their reasoning was because Japan is facing a child shortage and when women become pregnant they often leave the workforce. So they figured who needs more female doctors... Japan does. There's also a doctor shortage.
It is immensely frustrating that these crayons are out of stock at the moment. My latest art class subject has been looking at tree forms, growth patterns and how the leaves are displayed. How very, very, cool it would have been to create my sketches of trees with crayons made from trees!
Absurd. There has GOT to be better things to do with wood than using time energy to process it into crayons. Put your time and energy into making something worthwhile.
I never expected to see playfool here what a pleasant surprise
So these people seem really sweet, and I love the idea/motivation in theory...........but am I the only one that thinks both the colors and the actual spread of the crayon on paper doesn't look the best? Like set aside the color issue, we'll assume for the sake of argument that one can find a large enough market for the natural colors to make it a viable business venture, but the actual mark left on the paper looked rough and was hardly even visible :(
There are SO many uses for wood that already exist, this seems aggressively unnecessary. What do I know though. Regardless I'm glad there are people like them in the world exploring new ideas.
The pigmentation is pretty lacking silly idea overall as using the dirt the tree grows in, the seeds the tree produces, the leaves it grows and the ash from burning the wood would make most of the pigments that already exist.
@@harkejuice Exactly! Imagine spending years of your life on such a transparently useless idea.
@@KC-nr3ou I guess that's academia for ya. Interesting for a thesis paper but ultimately quaint in reality.
I enjoy the idea and it seems like fun, but if you are creating art, then I would worry about long term color changes and fading through aging and light influence. I doubt that there is an archival quality.
Wait. So, Japan is covered by 70% trees. 40% of that is due to planting trees after the war to rebuild. However, now that the forest is ready (took time to grow) Japan realized importing trees was easier and they did not want to use Japan's own forest now. So, for some reason Japan has "way too much wood" from importing it, and in 2021 when lumber prices were SKYROCKETED during the pandemic, Japan asks scientists to make crayons? If someone can tell me what I'm missing...thanks.
You are not missing anything. Also shocked a bit but get used that world is full of absurd and stupidity.
It could be the price of wood suitable for construction skyrocketed and it looks like they are using smaller pieces and tree limbs that isn't as expensive or don't have as much demand. Japan could be looking for ways to recycle the wood because they don't want that stuff taking space on a small island
Tasmania is logged to death. Continually because of our ignorant and greedy govt. The cutting down of our Heritage Forests that are supposed to be protected goes on every single day, creating extinctions of “protected” species and these ancient trees we have are then sold to JAPAN for WOODCHIPS!! This should be seen as a crime!! Absolutely sickening and infuriating. How dare they have “too many trees” and yet kill the planet by buying trees from other countries. So called Protected World Heritage forest trees. The oldest on the planet.
I love this! I absolutely love trees and wood and the creativity is lovely! I like that they have really tried to find what we can make and create with wood….but… they’re 💩 unfortunately 😬 they don’t look good or work that well on paper and if you’re making chips why not use them to smoke more foods or add it into drinks other than wine to see what flavours you can create or revive the raku clay firing tradition that uses the shavings to create the unique patterns in the glaze/on the pots or use the wood for more things that are now plastic or something, like maybe more wooden cups and plates etc than plastic ones or have all plastic pens be replaced with turned wooden ones or whatever, to slowly faze out the stuff that’s causing more pollution cuz this creativity has kinda been a nice experiment but it’s not really produced much useable stuff at the end of it and it seems like maybe we should direct it back to useable things that would help reduce pollution etc in the long run too? Or even experiment more with what can be made from the fibres, can we make fabric/packaging etc using more than just the pulp, that sort of thing, I don’t think the answer is wood crayons tbh 😬
From 2011 to 2018 a medical university in Tokyo automatically deducted points from female students grades. Their reasoning was because Japan is facing a child shortage and when women become pregnant they often leave the workforce. So they figured who needs more female doctors... Japan does. There's also a doctor shortage.
It is immensely frustrating that these crayons are out of stock at the moment. My latest art class subject has been looking at tree forms, growth patterns and how the leaves are displayed. How very, very, cool it would have been to create my sketches of trees with crayons made from trees!
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...make treehouses?
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Absurd. There has GOT to be better things to do with wood than using time energy to process it into crayons. Put your time and energy into making something worthwhile.
I for SURE thought these were Himalayan Dog Chews in the cover photo😂
Sounds like a $50 brown crayon
Looks like a silly use of wood
aren't they kind of useless as crayons, though ?
We're causing a mass extinction and you're busy making Crayons out of trees? WHY???
Give them another goverment grant already... I cant' watch this absurd...
Why not process that wood and export it to increase GNP?
Dan’s cute 😏
Out of wax. Not trees. Clickbait lies 👎
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