This popped up during my Sunday morning DCAS (drink coffee and surf). The artists is from Turkey. The video is on some kind of FaceBook page - so if you are anti FB - sorry. I've never linked to FB before so I have no idea if this will work.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/calligraphists/permalink/10155600454626172/
This is the mast head of the site where I found the video. Quite lovely. It is by Sachin Shah. There is a myth out there that calligraphy is a dying art. Not true. Not true at all.
FB is so controversial.
I can understand why.
It has super sneaky ways of getting you to click on stuff.
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Jean Wilson Hippolite.
In the olden days, there was only one other Jean Wilson of note - Jean Wilson in Texas who was(is) a research doctor. He was annoyed with me because I would try to send emails to myself - but he had claimed the name JeanWilson - so he was getting emails about envelope addressing. He is now on YouTube and listed as a Giant in Medicine. If time permits, I will start a series - Giants in Envelopes.
After Pinterest got rolling, I found a lot of Ruby Jean Wilson stuff on Pinterest. She is a model in Australia. And now this - a politician in Haiti. It's really fun how wildly international the name is. To me it seems so generic and white-bread-midwestern.
https://www.facebook.com/Jean-Wilson-Hippolite-D%C3%A9put%C3%A9-Leogane-832267330154597/
I should also mention other Jean Wilsons - the Canadian speed skater, the Welsh JW who stole money for gastric bypass surgery, and my favorite - the Jean Wilson whose life was saved by a pizza delivery person:
https://pushingtheenvelopes.blogspot.com/2011/06/pizza-story.html
I fully expect someone at Taco John's to save my life. Probably a Heimlich Maneuver when I choke.
Such fun in this post! And the calligraphy video was wonderfully inspiring. Thanks, Jean.
ReplyDeleteYour post is hilarious! I check it every morning and it really made me chuckle out loud. This video and other links you provide are really inspiring, thank you!
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