{"id":3142,"date":"2011-06-13T06:08:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T20:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2011-06-12T15:55:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T05:55:05","slug":"calligraphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=3142","title":{"rendered":"calligraphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit of a fan of calligraphy, as in, the writing thereof. I have owned a few cartridge calligraphy pens in my time, and have been known to fashion my own <a title=\"Reed pen via Wikipedia, of course!\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reed_pen\" target=\"_blank\">reed pens<\/a>, from the clump of reeds that popped up uninvited in my parents otherwise well-manicured front garden.<\/p>\n<p>I saw this <a title=\"Handwritten Newspapers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/23\/handwritten-newspapers\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> on Handwritten Newspapers a while back, and finally got around to watching the attached videos (gotta love a long weekend)\u00a0 this weekend. The documentary on the calligraphic newspaper in Chennai is an interesting one, which I think I could appreciate more if I could actually read it. Funnily enough, upon heading to the main page I found that Steve Jobs is in the <a title=\"Words To Live By: 5 Timeless Commencement Addresses\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2011\/06\/10\/best-commencement-graduation-speeches\/\" target=\"_blank\">latest post<\/a> on that <a title=\"Brainpickings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>, waxing lyrical about calligraphy (that part is about 10 minutes in) and the influence that the study thereof had on the fonts within the Apple Mac.<\/p>\n<p>I remember reading an article in a craft magazine some years ago now about calligraphy, and thinking that it is a great medium. Yet I found that some of the images alongside the article really bored me. I find it hard to get behind calligraphy, or typography, for its own sake. Maybe that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s a medium best linked to a message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa drawls about scrawls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}