1) Ladies and Gentleman, The Singing Pencils! or 2) When Pencils Attack!

            So if four pencils w/erasers looked good, 77 would look even better.  At least that's what I was thinking as I was crafting up an idea for the group, "Looking close... on Friday!" with the theme "Eraser".  After I organized the pencils into neat rows, my first thought was that they looked like some kind of choir; yeah a choir, that would be good, "The Singing Pencils", I liked that. Looked like this week was going to be a piece of cake.  Then, without warning and quite unexpectedly, this innocent assemblage of pencils started to look like your typical alien invasion and I could hear one proclaiming, "Planet Earth, Resistance is Futile" I'm sure the pencil heard that line while monitoring our airwaves and for the life of me I can't place the line, Star Trek, Dr. Who, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, OK, maybe that line is used a lot, maybe even by you and me at different times.  Perhaps it originated in Arthur J. Burks’s (1930) Monsters of Moyen, I don't know.  All this led me to my current dilemma of what to title this group of pencils (w/erasers of course because that's the theme). It was about this time that the thought bubbles popped into my head and here we are!  I will leave the final decision to the viewer, I just can't decide...  

BTW: Do you know how to stop an invasion of alien pencils?
ANSWER: Send them crossword puzzles with mistakes.

Taken in: United States / New Jersey / Blairstown Township / Jacksonburg (show map)

Taken on: January 23, 2023

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Looking close...on Friday

Theme

Pencil

The Singing Pencils

Choir

Takeover

Invasion

Resistance is Futile

Alien

The Borg

Star Trek

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Sets appears in: • Looking Close...on Friday • Art 2023 more » • Heavy Treatment « less

Groups appears in: • Looking close... on Friday!

Camera: Nikon D850, f/11.0, 1.6 sec, 55mm, ISO 64 (more info) (hide info)

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Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
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