{"id":1226,"date":"2010-01-26T18:52:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T01:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2010-02-26T08:03:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:03:52","slug":"bring-it-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=1226","title":{"rendered":"Bring it on&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Bringhurst\">Robert Bringhurst<\/a> visited Edmonton and gave a free talk on the pleasure of type. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"shadowbox[bringhurst]\" href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l_1620_1485_D9CFB255-EF9C-4A19-97EF-1E6BD8EDB0FD.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l_1620_1485_D9CFB255-EF9C-4A19-97EF-1E6BD8EDB0FD.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little pompous, but interesting in a philosophical way.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"shadowbox[bringhurst]\" href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l_2048_1536_D54F022B-9DFD-4718-87A6-C3A6F05205DF.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l_2048_1536_D54F022B-9DFD-4718-87A6-C3A6F05205DF.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Going from Arabic to Latin penstrokes. The talk starts to to get interesting when considering what typographers did to cursive to simplify the letterforms.<\/p>\n<p>Next a study of Latin (Cicero) and cramming the letters together for the sake of conserving papyrus vs. the 9th century version that emphasizes the pacing of the oral text. Thus typography and the scribe&#8217;s job becomes the representation of oratory.   <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"shadowbox[bringhurst]\" href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l_2048_1536_CB5BDA92-3366-47C4-AD92-7736D740CEBD.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l_2048_1536_CB5BDA92-3366-47C4-AD92-7736D740CEBD.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rhetorical and oratory vs editorial.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"shadowbox[bringhurst]\" href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l_2048_1536_CB337D08-4ED9-4F36-9B2D-1105ED94836B.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l_2048_1536_CB337D08-4ED9-4F36-9B2D-1105ED94836B.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Navaho story broken in 4 parts with sub parts and an epilogue represented vs a more linear representation of the same story. <\/p>\n<p>But the linear version is more representative of the ebook of the future with no page breaks, endnotes, footnotes etc.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between the hand and the word. Writing is drawing.  We now drive instead of walking but can we forsake the skill of walking. Inevitabley we must collapse upon ourselves and relearn the skill of the hand. <\/p>\n<p>Or so Robert Bringhust posits&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Bringhurst visited Edmonton and gave a free talk on the pleasure of type. A little pompous, but interesting in a philosophical way. Going from Arabic to Latin penstrokes. The talk starts to to get interesting when considering what typographers did to cursive to simplify the letterforms. Next a study of Latin (Cicero) and cramming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}