Really happy my #penmanship is starting to improve. I put it down to one simple writing exercise, over and over again: "abracadabra"!
#penmanship
Figured out an excellent #penmanship exercise: "abracadabra"!
How do y'all study your handwriting and penmanship? Really wanna get better at it, but idk what exactly is good to practice.
Been getting decent control of pens and pencils via my art studying, but it hasn't really translated into beautiful handwriting like I'd like it to. #handwriting #penmanship #caligraphy
"The biggest enemy of legible script is haste." #penmanship
Something I photograped years ago when I was trying my new Lamy Safari fountain pen. I lost that original transparent pen, but have purchased several others since that time in different colours. #fountainpen #lamy #writing #penmanship
Terrible #UX for looking at such wonderful content – ugh! 😩
“800 Years Of English Handwriting”, Google Arts And Culture (https://artsandculture.google.com/story/800-years-of-english-handwriting/eAURodcOgMzFIw).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45342121
#England #English #History #Handwriting #Penmanship #Manuscripts #Medieval
Free Session by Dr. Anita at #MIPS2025
Learn how #penmanship and writing with #fountainpens affects focus, memory, and even regulate our nerves.
Sunday 4-5pm at MIPS, Free admission for all ticket holders. Check out all our Sessions at https://mips.show
#Accounting, #SlideRules, #penmanship, #shorthand, #typing, #telegraphy, and #carpentry were taught to school children in Burma, well into the 1980s. I think it would be socially beneficial to teach these skills to young American kids, today.
Basic accounting and personal finance are useful skills for adults, and indispensable for college kids wielding credit cards.
The slide rule endows the student with a keener understanding of various functions and, more importantly, always to check one's results, mentally.
Being able to write in a beautiful, cursive script with a fountain pen may now be but a party trick, but it still is an important social skill.
Shorthand offers a massive advantage in note taking. Given that every child learns to type social media posts well before they first learn to speak, proper typing technique should be taught to children, for efficiency, for preventing repetitive stress injuries, etc.
Telegraphy is valuable in aviation: VOR and NDB navigation aids transmit their identifiers in Morse code. And Morse code is still a thing in the amateur radio scene.
Teaching kids basic carpentry, like making a rough table, is of limited utility, but they will never forget that experience of making something out of raw materials.
Above all, these old skills are cool, at least in some circles. And if nothing else, these activities will surely keep them off social media.
Technology Killed My Handwriting https://mtwb.blog/technology-killed-my-handwriting/ #writing #amwritign #penmanship #handwriting #lostskills #blogging #blog #blogpost #bloggingcommunity
From my journal:
Picked up some "primary ruled" paper and some grid/graph paper. I'm not sure which will feel most helpful in getting my proportions right, but I'm happy to try both. #graphpaper #stationery #penmanship
🇮🇹 🖋️ :youtube: **Why don’t they teach this anymore??**
#Video length: thirty-seven seconds.
🖋 **Why Cursive Writing and Penmanship Is Important**
Jennifer A. Freeman
“_While penmanship is still rigorously taught in many European schools, current American schoolchildren spend more time mastering typing and computer skills than practicing neat handwriting. But traditional handwriting offers unique cognitive benefits that typing simply can’t replicate_”
I have been getting back into calligraphy practice. Have a joyful day!
#Penmanship #Authors #Writing #Legal #FediLaw #AI
👉Important for all authors, esp. if #US-based: how to protect your copyright against #AI firms👈
"*Class Action Lawsuits Cover All Writers Whose Books Were Used *
Legal action is already underway against #Meta, #OpenAI, #Microsoft, #Anthropic, and other AI companies for using pirated books.
You don’t need to be a named plaintiff to benefit or receive damages if you qualify as part of the class;... "
cc @alison
https://authorsguild.org/news/meta-libgen-ai-training-book-heist-what-authors-need-to-know/
If you can read #cursive #NationalArchives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 yrs worth of US #documents need #transcribing (or at least classifying) vast majority from #RevolutionaryWar era are handwritten in #cursive requiring people who know the flowing, looped form of #penmanship. “Reading cursive is a superpower." Some 5,000 Citizen Archivists R helping the Archive read & transcribe some of the more than 300 million digitized objects in its catalog https://www.bespacific.com/can-you-read-cursive-its-a-superpower-the-national-archives-is-looking-for/
Can you read cursive? It's a #superpower the #NationalArchives is looking for.
More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need #transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from the #RevolutionaryWar era are #handwritten in #cursive – requiring people who know the flowing, looped form of #penmanship
#history
Lázaro Cárdenas was president of Mexico from 1934-1940. History education in the U.S. pays far more attention to Europe than to Mexico and Canada, but in short: for his nationalization of the petroleum industry alone, he's one of the most important figures in North America of the past century.
Anyway. Point is he joined the Mexican Revolution at age 15 and first got promoted for having excellent penmanship!
#mexicanhistory #mexico #education #penmanship #lazarocardenas
ok #handlettering #penmanship #calligraphy people i bring u a fun challenge: lefty slogans in handlettering.
tags i am using so far: #handleftering #classCalligraphy #letteringPraxis
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