Cutting edge calligraphy
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This is a truly impressive form of calligraphy, the likes of which I've never seen before:
What won't they think of next as means for writing sinographs?
Selected readings
- "Writ in water" (7/4/14)
- "Calligraphy as a 'first level discipline' in the PRC" (9/28/22)
- "Robot calligraphy" (12/27/19)
- "Robotic copying" (2/22/19)
- "Mechanistic writing of Chinese characters" (9/14/19)
- "Writing characters and writing letters" (11/7/18)
- "The esthetics of handwriting" (5/8/16)
- "The esthetics of East Asian writing" (4/7/12)
- "Bad Chinese handwriting or just another style?" (10/3/17)
- "Handwriting legibility" (10/19/15)
- "Learning to write Chinese characters" (7/29/17)
- "Copying characters" (2/11/13)
- "Writing Chinese characters as a form of punishment" (11/1/15)
- "Cursive" (3/30/14)
- "Cursive and Characters: Dying Arts" (4/29/11)
- "The wrong way to write Chinese characters" (11/28/18)
- "Stroke order of Chinese characters" (9/4/18)
- "Idiosyncratic stroke order" (11/23/18) — and the long list of earlier posts at the bottom
- "Chaotic calligraphy" (8/6/18)
- "Character Amnesia" (7/22/10)
- "Chinese character inputting" (10/17/15)
- "The cost of illiteracy in China" (3/31/12)
- "The sociolinguistics of the Chinese script" (8/20/17)
- "The benefits of handwriting" (9/16/19)
- "'Collapsed' calligraphy" (12/3/19)
- "'Collapsed' calligraphy, part 2"
- "Badge of honor: Language Log is blocked in China" (12/26/19)
- "Christian Dior's 'Quiproquo' cocktail dress and the florid rhubarb prescription written on it" (6/5/15)
- "Calligraphic tie: 'Letter on the Controversy over Seating Protocol'"
[h.t. Tim Leonard]
Annie Gottlieb said,
January 3, 2025 @ 10:03 pm
What IS that green substance?
Victor Mair said,
January 3, 2025 @ 10:22 pm
My guess is that it's probably malachite particles, Annie.
If you ask how I know that, well, I've read historical texts about it being rubbed into engraved characters to make them look green. So it's something that calligraphers would have around and be familiar with.
Jonathan Smith said,
January 3, 2025 @ 11:12 pm
source
Michael Vnuk said,
January 4, 2025 @ 12:43 am
The source linked by Jonathan Smith has a few more characters, including 'biang' (subject of many other Language Log posts). There's even a couple of English words. I'm impressed by the way that the angle of the lighting accentuates the three-dimensional nature of the strokes. The source includes a few other colours, besides the beautiful green in the original shown by Victor. Perhaps the grains are just artificially coloured sand. Clever title, too, Victor.
Victor Mair said,
January 4, 2025 @ 7:46 am
Looks like you might even be able to buy it at Walmart. Click on the Walmart "Crushed Stone Inlay" photo here and you'll find a variety of shades and sizes.
David Marjanović said,
January 5, 2025 @ 8:39 am
!!!