handwriting

How can a handwritten journal enable more drawing, confession, weirdness, divergence? I sense that analog explosions might cause some friction in uploading. It might be a shot in productivity, but it’s a boost in something else.

Montaigne’s handwriting is incredible. You see him writing on and in the margins of his essay. I’m not sure how much restructuring actually went on, and how much was further explorations, and meta-streams on old ideas. TBD. Still. It’s a neat and analog form of externalized though.

Wonderings of directional thrust; the pen wielder drags foots in fields of syrup. With each word comes a thousand thoughts, a thousand variants, a thousands simulations. The friction of shaping ornate letters enables a parallel process, where some second self maps the future. Is ink the well of poetry? Was it that obvious?

We underestimate how malleable our handwriting is. Penmanship is an art, a meditation, and unlocks a mode of being and creating.

Long letters, matching angles, short thin marks hugging the top and bottom. Is there a name for this style of handwriting? Separate from fonts, are there names of styles? (Looking for styles that are more specific that serif and sans serif).

Try writing a whole page left-handed.

Today’s freshman architecture students are almost immediately thrown into a pickle around technology: should we use software to automate the creation of our drawings and models? I was fortunate to take my first semester at the University of Miami, a classical program where there wasn’t even an option. No automation allowed. I literally turned

Maybe there’s an advantage to phone-prose-logging over handwriting? It’s definitely faster, though I should definitely figure out how to turn off auto-correct. I don’t have a good answer over when to use pens or thumbs. Obviously thumbs are portable. Handwriting probably makes sense for sketching, breadcrumbs in the apartment, and mid-range