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Writing brush calligraphy at Houston Zen Center, Houston, TX on April 29, 2011
Freehand from photo < two hours after event
Pen / Moleskine
Language Arts Classroom Poster.
Created by The Writing Doctor.
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Tipocracia + Caligrafia SC
c/ Andréa Branco
www.tipocracia.com.br/mais/caligrafia
Dias 8 (19h às 22h) e 9 (9h às 17h) de abril
na Univali Florianópolis
Rodovia SC 401, nº 5.025, 2º andar - Business Decor
Bairro Saco Grande CEP: 88032-005 Florianópolis, SC
(duração 10h)
Inscrições encerradas.
Lista de espera: cursos@tipocracia.com.br
*edição de Balneário Camboriu cancelada.
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Inscription within the Plantin Polyglot Bible (Vol. 1) / printed as "Biblia Polyglotta" by Christopher Plantin in Antwerp between 1568 and 1573 as an expression of loyalty to King Philip II of Spain / purchased in 1669 by Chetham's Library, Manchester, UK
What drew my eye initially to this stack of orphans what the use of decorative border on each page of letterpress. many of the designs were later copied by the Monotype and Linotype companies during the typographic revival in the 1920s. I recently bought a Thompson-cast version of this Linotype border from Sky Shipley's Skyline Type Foundry. It's a delight to see it in its natural state.
Historiae naturalis de quadrupedibus libri :.
Amstelodami :Apud Ioannem Iacobi Fil. Schipper,MDCLVII [1657].
Early morning sunrise on Labor Day. Early bird gets the shot I guess. Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park, Southern Alberta.
001/365 Bought myself a journal to have a place to jot down, work out, keep safe, ideas for photos. I won't make you suffer through my process more then this (probably). I hope that I can, by better planning and outlining, produce a few good stories for those who would like to see them.
Happy New Year, and good luck to everyone taking on a project 365 this year.
Lighting info: Single speedlite in my 13 inch DIY Softbox box, bottom edge level with the journal, camera left and above the left hand corner of the photo, feathered up 30ish degrees.
Cpl. David Merwin (1842-1916) letters, Company I, 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Gift of Fred D. Merwin
Copyright Massillon Museum
Transcription:
To: Parents
From: David Merwin
Date: August 17, 1863
Black River Bridge, Mississippi
Dear Parents
I received a letter from you this morning also a package of paper. I wrote you a letter yesterday, I filled two sheets full of nonsense. You will get plenty of letters from me now for while we lay here and I have nothing to pass away the time with I will write often.
I am glad you got that money alright, for it is a good ways to send it and then are so many accidents happens on the river. I gave Perry Wiseman money to pay the express charges but he did not do it, it would only have cost a dollar if he had, he said he thought that if the money was lost I would not lose the charges.
Our Major returned from the enemy lines with a flag of truce, Albert Goble (?) was with him. He says they are three miles on this side of Clinton. I did not hear what they went for.
I suppose that we will not be paid for sometime now, on account of the burning of the steamer Reuth (?), with two million five hundred thousand dollars on board. It will be no loss to the Government for if lost, they will never have to be redeemed.
If I had known that there would have been furloughs given, I would not have sent those forty dollars home until I found out whether I would get a furlough or not.
I have received and answered _____ letter I also wrote one to Brownburgers yesterday. I have answered all my letters except one to Gray. Ema owes me one yet, and I have never received that letter that George spoke about writing.
I wrote you a letter telling you to make me a couple of shirts and to send by Johnathan Miller, also a handkerchief and a couple pairs of socks. If you have not got them yet I don’t care if they are half cotton, but I want something good and strong.
What in the world makes you write such little short letters, write often and long letters, write anything at all, papers also are always welcome, you can’t imagine how blue it makes a fellow feel to have a mail come and you running almost to break your neck, and have whoever is distributing it ring out “no mail for you”. Then long days are very _______ , but if a fellow gets a mail, why he can dream of the good things at home and those that are near and dear to him, now write long letters, things that appear uninteresting to you will not appear so to me, but will be interesting to me, tell me of the improvements that are going on about town, and if nothing else will do tell me how often father goes down town of a week and what he buys of a Saturday night. I think that after this long lecture that I will get a good long letter.
Our Lieutenant is a little fellow about the size of the famous Bob F. who says that Cr.S. run a Pittsburgh Landing, though he don’t put on so much style. He has old _____ and a contrary hand to cook and wait upon him.
But here I have written a sheet nearly full and I started to write only a few words. Remember the lecture above and write good long letter to Your Son
David P. Merwin
Charley was learning Burt, a negro, to spell. He asked him what pi spelled, he did not know and Charley asked him what he baked so often, Burt commenced to grin and said Pi back.
Description on front of card: Water Works Park, Canton, Ohio
Postmark: June 28, 1918 (Canton, Ohio)
Message on the back of the card:
Hello Myrtle,
Can’t you come here tomorrow evening [?]
All night with [?] work tomorrow night [?]
Your phone whether you can come or not.
If you can’t, we will be up about 8:15 if nothing happens Sunday morning.
Will look for you.
By by Mrs HA [?]
He was out [?] yesterday
I am cleaning today
Come if you can
Addressed to:
Miss Myrtle Shaub
North Canton, Ohio
Cancel Type: Flag cancel
Stamp: Red 2-cent
Era: White Border Era
Condition: Used. Writing on back. Heavy corner wear. Posted.
Publisher: L. Schartenberg & Co., Inc., Akron, Ohio. / C.T. American Art by Curt Teich Co., Chicago, Illinois
Publisher Note:
Curt Teich emigrated to Chicago in 1895. He had worked as a lithographer in Lobenstein, Germany.
He founded the Curt Teich Company in 1898, concentrating on newspaper and magazine printing. He was an early publisher of postcards, but he didn't begin printing them himself until 1908.
According to MetroPostcard.com, "As his competition dwindled, his sales expanded and his American factories would eventually turn out more postcards than any other in the United States. "
The company was best known for its wide range of advertising and postcards of North America. By the 1920s, it was producing so many postcards with borders that they became recognized as a type dubbed "White Border Cards," creating an "era."
Curt Teich started using offset presses in 1907, but it took a number of years before he had offset presses made to his satisfaction and many more years for him to perfect the method.
His innovations in this printing technique directly led to the production of what we now call "linens" by the early 1930s.
The company aided the war effort during the second world war by also printing many military maps.
Curt Teich eventually turned management of the company over to his son, but he remained active in company operations throughout its history.
Curt Teich died in 1974 and the family business was sold to Regensteiner Publishers who continued to print postcards at the Chicago plant until 1978 when the rights to the company name and processes were sold to the Irish company, John Hinde Ltd. Their California subsidiary now prints postcards under the name John Hinde Curteich, Inc.
Source:
I'd written this on my whiteboard late one afternoon, just before I left work; I took a photo of it, in the idea of perhaps creating a series of whiteboard quotes/scribbles/daily meanderings with dry erase markers. The next morning, just as I was settling in to the workday, a group of suits from HR walked past my cube. A few minutes later, our department's admin came and whispered to me, "What do you have on your whiteboard?"
"Oh," I looked at what I'd written. "A quote from Patti Smith."
"Well, you better erase it; those people from HR saw it and were commenting on it; a couple of them were offended, but they thot maybe someone had played a joke on you by writing that."
I sighed. The opening lines of Smith's "Babelouge" are certainly not a joke. But I erased it. I still need this job.
Its a very very rare sight!
Found on this crummy video... news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7409475.stm
Oh and kids - heres some do's and don'ts for graffiti. Always listen to the BBC!
news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7910000/newsid_7910300/...
On October 30, 2013, I found a small cardboard box amid a stack of larger boxes that put into storage in the basement of my mother’s home in Pretoria, South Africa, about three decades ago. When I pack stuff away, I usually record what's in the box by writing an inventory list on the outside. This one had nothing written on it, so I decided to take it upstairs to investigate. Back in my former bedroom, I opened the box up and found it to contain all manner of military ephemera from my two years compulsory national service in the South African Defence Force (July 1979 - July 1981). A menacing little time capsule from the worst years of my life.
The label from a bottle of Kronenbräu 1308 beer and a ball of nylon pantyhose used to buff boots after polishing and "boning".
On October 30, 2013, I found a small cardboard box amid a stack of larger boxes that put into storage in the basement of my mother’s home in Pretoria, South Africa, about three decades ago. When I pack stuff away, I usually record what's in the box by writing an inventory list on the outside. This one had nothing written on it, so I decided to take it upstairs to investigate. Back in my former bedroom, I opened the box up and found it to contain all manner of military ephemera from my two years compulsory national service in the South African Defence Force (July 1979 - July 1981). A menacing little time capsule from the worst years of my life.
The label from a bottle of Kronenbräu 1308 beer and a ball of nylon pantyhose used to buff boots after polishing and "boning".
Can you sing me the sweetest lovin' lullaby...
Fly me over the moon
With your love so high...
If it's not our day
Will you Give it another try...
Would you Listen for a symphony
In my softest sigh...
Tint my stained glass wings
I'm your pretty Butterfly