Penmanship and Photos

Well, as you can see I’ve found a way to keep the Letter Project up on the home page (besides mentioning it in every damn post). We’ll see how long I can handle looking at my godawful penmanship before I’m forced to swap it out for something less personally offensive… heh.

(Update: June 26, 11:52pm: The handwritten notice lasted exactly 23 hours, 50 minutes. I got sick of it pretty quick.)

Oh, and there’s a new cutoff date for signup - it’s July 7th (subject to being extended at my most fickle whims). See the Letter Project page for more details.

Out of curiousity, does anyone actually write anymore? As in cursive writing? Every single person I know either prints, or “cursive” prints - another way of saying, “they squash all of their printed letters together so it might as well be cursive”. Perhaps that could a dying art, like letter writing, good conversations, those itsy-bitsy Japanese trees, and adding a P.S. at the bottom of correspondence…

At any rate, there’ll be some more iPhoto movies coming very soon; I’m just trying to find suitable soundtracks for the photos and then I’ll post them. Oh goody, goody, right?

Comments

1 | Jonas said on June 26, 2002 1:56 AM

Neil, you brilliant person you! Your views on the slow demise of 'real' letters are spot on. I think I might join your project to try to keep the noble artform of writing letters alive.

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2 | andrea said on June 26, 2002 10:48 PM

I still occasionally write in cursive, but my handwriting is so bad I should print. In large block letters.

Oh, count me in on your Letter Project, by the way.

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3 | jennifer said on June 27, 2002 9:28 AM

I remember writing letters too and receiving them. It was so very long ago. I still have some of my old letters in a scrapbook I will keep forever. They are moments captured forever in a tangible way. That is so reassuring and comforting in it's own right.

I love digital, but it seems so about the moment that it could be gone in a flash. All I have to do is erase my hard drive or something and it's all gone. (Yikes!)

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4 | Natalie said on June 27, 2002 11:50 AM

I have to admit that I'm one of those people who neither prints nor writes, but does something in between that might be either.

All I really know, is that it looks odd, and it's difficult to read.

And almost everyone else I know, especially those people under 40, always print rather than write.

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