Coolplay EDC | Titanium Ballpoint Pen – Mermaid

Extremely glamorous titanium alloy ballpoint pen!

Made by Russian jewelry master and master pen maker Dmitri Stretsov, Dmitri is a master of titanium alloy. He is good at making all kinds of jewelry with titanium alloy, engraving and plating of titanium alloy Color has a very profound skill.

The overall length is 12.8 cm, and the overall body is made of titanium alloy. The full bullet shape is very impactful.

The surface is engraved with water ripples of Damascus texture, and the figure of a graceful mermaid emerges in the center of the pen barrel, which is gold-plated and very beautiful.

Mermaid is not only gorgeous in appearance, but also smooth in writing and excellent in touch. It is a high-end toy with cool personality.

 

EDC’s Past and Present——Men have never grown up, but toys are evolving

EDC English refers to things that are carried every day, and it has gradually become fashionable in China recently. These pieces are rarely personal, matching the personality of the wearer.

If EDC is defined according to the concept of daily carrying and playing, then its history is very long.

From the Neolithic age, there are such works. Most belong to the ritual supplies of priests. For example, the following ivory-carved phoenix bird dagger-shaped utensils. Ivory products have been unearthed in Sanxingdui and the tomb of Fuhao in the Shang Dynasty, which shows that people have a long history of liking ivory.

15.8 cm long, unearthed in Hemudu, Yuyao, Zhejiang in 1977

This dagger-shaped device is carved in the shape of a bird from ivory, with round eyes and hooked beak, folded wings, a hole drilled in the abdomen and back, and engraved with string and oblique lines, and the tail extends into a flat tongue shape. The fine texture, smooth appearance, vivid image and exquisite production are the essence of the plastic arts of Hemudu culture.

A dagger is an ancient feeding utensil with a long handle and a shallow bucket shaped like a spoon. The ivory-carved phoenix-shaped dagger is very similar to a dagger in appearance, but it is not a dagger. The flat tongue-shaped bird tail is not very practical for serving soup or rice. Judging from the drilled holes on its back and belly, it should be worn and fastened for use, most likely a ritual utensil or decoration used in primitive belief activities.

ancient Egyptian pharaoh dagger

Except that China likes to use the shape of a dagger as an EDC to show its identity. The pharaohs in ancient Egypt also liked the dagger as an object.

This “golden dagger” unearthed from the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh is more than 3,300 years ago. The appearance is exquisite, and the whole body is glittering with gold, which is amazing. After the researchers of Tutankha’s Mongolian tomb studied the dagger with X-rays, the experts exclaimed: “This is not something from the earth.”

In the Han Dynasty, the Chinese jade sword was undoubtedly an EDC carried by the scholar-official class. We can think of Qu Yuan’s beautiful image of “Lu Lixi with a long clip”, and the allusion of Ji Zha hanging the sword.

Jade swords, Warring States daily necessities

It consists of a bronze sword, a jade sword head, a jade sword case, and a jade sword pen. The jade sword head is the jade ornament on the top of the sword. It is light green and looks round when viewed from above. The center is a swirl pattern, with lying silkworm patterns and swirl patterns engraved around it. The polished surface is trapezoidal. The jade sword grid is the jade decoration between the sword stem and the sword body. It is light green, with hidden lying silkworm patterns and swirl patterns on the surface. It looks like a rhombus when viewed from above. It is hollow and the hilt passes through the hole. Jade sword pen is a jade ornament on the scabbard for wearing and hanging. It is light green with purple tints. It is rectangular when viewed from above, with a slightly curved surface. It is decorated with hidden silkworm patterns and scroll patterns. There is a hole at the bottom, the hole is larger, and the sword can be worn with a saber.

The Song Dynasty was the pinnacle of EDC in China. Its cultural prosperity and exquisite products are the highest in Chinese history. When literati go out, they can see EDC in their hands, in their waists, drinking, tea, reading, and talking.

Ru Kiln Celadon Washer, Northern Song Dynasty, National Museum Collection

Ru kiln is famous, it was also an official kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty, and its output was extremely rare. Collectors in the Southern Song Dynasty already thought that Ru kiln was “very rare”. Among them, the National Palace Museum in Taipei has the richest collection, which is not to be missed if you go to Taipei.

The most important color of Ru kiln is probably azure, which is the favorite color of Song Huizong, the artist emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty. It is like the blue sky after the rain. Ru Kiln began to be popular in the court of the Northern Song Dynasty, and this tendency of emphasizing blue and light white continued until the end of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Song Huizong’s artistic taste is high. The Ru kiln gives people the feeling that regardless of shape or color, one point is too much to increase, and one point to be reduced is too little.

Wen Zhenheng thinks that the beautiful things in the world are: cooking tea with snow water, smelling the fragrance and playing the zither, “talking for a long time, sitting up in the cold night” Inkstones, fans, vases, stools, calligraphy and paintings, and tea cups are all long-term objects, and they are also part of today’s EDC predecessor

Wen Zhenheng, the great-grandson of Wen Zhengming in the Ming Dynasty, wrote a book called Changwuzhi, which was written about things that could not be eaten or clothed, and some of them belonged to EDC.

In short, it can be summed up as follows: small gadgets that can be carried around to embody temperament are not more luxurious, but anything that can embody spirit, watch and play is called EDC.

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Showing the infinite imagination of human beings between square inches, the material is very important. It turns out that our ancients can use olive stones for carving, wood, stone, jade for creation, and even gadgets such as snuff bottles can be included in the ranks of EDC. It’s just that today’s fashionable people in office buildings are no longer old players in robes and jackets, or even men with chains.

Today’s players are newcomers who are knowledgeable, cultured, talented and interesting. They need to show their aesthetics from design to materials.

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