
Day 89: wed, 26 mar 2014. “Innovators.”

Day 89: wed, 26 mar 2014. “Innovators.”

Frank Blokland’s “First Principles of Calligraphy”. Too cool.
The children explored the limited repetition of movements required to make the ‘Foundational Hand’, by exploring Blokland’s ‘LetterModel’. They filled in the ‘primary harmonic model’ (leaving out the ‘secondary harmonic model’, which maps the adapted characters from the capitals, i.e. k,s,v,w,x,y,z) using colored pencils. This was meant to create a notion of the fact that calligraphy comprises more than just the copying of ‘hands’, and was the first step to generate real insight. Above all, the young students enjoyed doing this.
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Penguin Books’ Legends from the Ancient North series
Five classics of Norse literature that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic vision in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Let’s hope that the orange disc labels are removable stickers
Oh man! These.
Golden era White Castle posters. Yes, please.