Re: Mind's Eye Re: Common sense solutions

I controlled a horse with reins my thighs and feet, Don. :-)

On Jan 9, 10:47 pm, Don Johnson <daj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Technology has the answer.
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> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5476622&tag=1
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> I think you can still buy buggy whips too. Plastic ones with nylon tips
> instead of horse hair.
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> dj
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> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:53 AM, rigsy03 <rigs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I have never used my sumi stick- perhaps I was preparing for
> > eternity? :-) And one can carve a pen from bamboo- the brushes seem
> > too floppy for me. Anyway, there are hundreds of inks but are dyes/
> > stains and not colorfast or allergic to light- but so are many paints.
> > My felt tips would dry out or lose their edge but liquid inks in their
> > jars would also evaporate.//I like the waterbased pencils or chalk for
> > base lines in painting as they dissolve.
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> > On Jan 8, 12:30 pm, malcymo <malc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello Rigsy,
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> > > At least many museums are preserving the written word in the form of
> > > old letters, invoices, account books etc. The penmanship on many is
> > > beautiful on others a drunken spider could improve upon it.
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> > > I, like you, had to mix my ink from powder and water and had to
> > > contend with the lumps on my nib. I ended up as one of those with a
> > > very mediocre style. I agree with your ball point pen comment, our
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> > > teachers banned them in the late 50s. I hope that my memory is serving
> > > me well. However, some of the modern fine felt tips I engoy using but
> > > being cylindrical one cannot impose any calligraphic effect maybe
> > > someone should
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> > > work on this..
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> > > On Jan 9, 3:03 am, rigsy03 <rigs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > > One could reflect on the impact calligraphy had on Steve Jobs perhaps-
> > > > yet the new technology will eventually turn most into typers, won't
> > > > it? I think handwriting began its decline with the ball point pen and
> > > > absence of an expressive nib. My penmanship class started in third or
> > > > fourth grade in the days of bladder pens and a near sport of avoiding
> > > > ink mishaps. I continued using ink for a long time- even used sealing
> > > > wax- but I do think the days are numbered. I can't compose on a
> > > > typewriter or computer- it must be some old pathway between
> > > > imagination- brain/compostiion- and hand---like playing music-
> > > > artwork- needlearts- cooking, etc. the hand becomes the perfect tool
> > > > of expression.//Remembering a studio course one summer and an old
> > > > female nude was thrust upon the class to sketch which so surprised me
> > > > I spilled my India ink on my dress and two male students lifted me up
> > > > under the arms and carried me to the sink in the back of the
> > > > classroom, lifted my skirt and washed it out but forget how I managed
> > > > the rest of the morning in a wet dress!// The pen is related to the
> > > > chisel.//Anyway, I tickle a neighbor's funny bone and she keeps urging
> > > > me to write my quips down in longhand which will not happen though I
> > > > do marvel at all that has been set down in writing/notation over the
> > > > centuries and poor Sophie Tolstoy with all her children in somewhat
> > > > enforced labor to smooth Leo's prose. Let's face it- formality of any
> > > > sort is doomed.
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> > > > On Jan 5, 3:37 pm, malcymo <malc...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > There so much more to a written message than just the message. There
> > > > > is the style of the hand writing, if not word processed, whic in many
> > > > > cases are works of art. It would be a great loss to lose it.
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> > > > > On Dec 22 2011, 3:17 am, rigsy03 <rigs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > The loss of the USA postal service would be a loss, indeed. It's
> > time
> > > > > > to charge a small fee for all electronic communications and bail
> > the
> > > > > > mail.
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> > > > > > Weigh garbage and charge accordingly.
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> > > > > > Invent a gizmo to see what is being drained/flushed onto land and
> > into
> > > > > > water supplies.
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