5/9/2006: Record-setting letter

via 20 Minutos. We have a new record: largest letter ever written with a brush. Zhang Kesi, apparently a famous expert in handwriting in China, uses a giant brush here to write a Chinese character that means "dragon", in the Exposición Internacional de Horticultura (so the Spanish site calls it) of Shenyang, China.

Not sure what horticulture has to do with giant letters. But there you go.

Undertoad wrote:

Not sure what horticulture has to do with giant letters. But there you go.

soybean ink? or else one huge stinkin' pile o' squids:yeldead:

Anyone else think of Charlie Brown and his pencil pal?

Looks more Seussian to me.

Um.. No overhead shots of the letter? :-)

only less pixelatted

Not sure what horticulture has to do with giant letters.

Brush. ;)

http://www.mediafaxfoto.ro/afisare.asp?lang=0&id=1831305

the result

wow thats a huge ass brush

barckio wrote:

wow thats a huge ass brush

It's just the angle of the picture. That brush isn't really coming out of his ass.

this is stupid! its just giving people the idea of making huge letters! one someone will make a letter so big, it will devour us all!!

At least it's one continuous line. Picking up that brush would be impossible.

Hi barckio, welcome to the Cellar. :D

One line??

That character is 18 strokes, by my count. Could only be 17 though.

How do you get 17/18 strokes from the image linked in post #8? :confused:

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Brush. ;)

You're fired.;)

oops, missed that link, I was under the impression he actually wrote "long" (thats how you pronounce that character), not the scribble that usually passes for cursive in chinese.

sorry about the long post



awww, i actually felt physically ill after writing bad joke. im so sorry

It's all in fun until it's time to wash your brush out.

What's the story on the hose coming out of the brush? Is that the ink feed so he doesn't have to dip it?

I'm impressed that with the two loops in the final product, he didn't leave tracks on the paper.

So how large is this character (the one he's writing, not the one writing it), anyway?

Also, I'm wondering about the qualifier "written with a brush." What is the largest character ever written with a disposable ball-point pen? The easiest way to try to claim this record would be to lash one to the bumper of a car and drive down a straight stretch of interstate, afterwards telling the record book keepers that it was supposed to be the letter I.

"kilometrico's" can write for a kilometre