The Karl Young article was very interesting to me. I found all the different mediums, and notations to be very informative. It was fun to compare strategies in learning from back then to now. Below are some notations that stuck out to me.
1. Chinese calligraphy - I particularly enjoyed reading the idea of how the Chinese revered the beauty of the style of poetry just as much as the content of what has been reading. In current western culture, a lot of poetry reading focuses on content and the visual imagery that can be created in the head rather than what is actually written on the page. According to this article a dual art form was created in poetry written in calligraphy.
2. Chinese brushwork - The article outlines the skills that were used to be a successful calligrapher. Young asserts that holding a brush stroke on the page would assume that the calligrapher was unsure of himself, and unsure of what he was writing. The most beautiful calligraphy was made when the artist was either spontaneous and quick, or very prepared for the most detailed of symbols.
3. Chinese chanting and songs - Continuing with my fascination and appreciation for the Chinese art forms, the chanting of poems was very interesting to me. The Chinese found this as a way of stimulating minds, and soothing the souls. Not only was the singer vocally talented, but he was a skilled lutanest. People were encouraged to turn their poetry in to music in a culture where their vocation was based around variations in pitch and timbre. Further, in modern culture music and emotional affect is something that people of even the youngest ages find to be particularly significant.
The way we use the internet now is somewhat similar to the way the Chinese did in the year 810. We still use writing as a form of expression -- blogs for example. But long before there were blogs, people wrote in journals, newspapers were published, and music was written. We live in a world, and in a society where any person can find a computer, open an account on blogger.com, write something, and share what they are thinking to literally every single corner of the globe. Before the internet, even 20 years ago, this thought of INSTANT access was something people thought would never happen. How will technology develop next? As technology advances and new means of communication are presented, new opportunities for written work to be displayed will present themselves.
The way we use the internet now is somewhat similar to the way the Chinese did in the year 810. We still use writing as a form of expression -- blogs for example. But long before there were blogs, people wrote in journals, newspapers were published, and music was written. We live in a world, and in a society where any person can find a computer, open an account on blogger.com, write something, and share what they are thinking to literally every single corner of the globe. Before the internet, even 20 years ago, this thought of INSTANT access was something people thought would never happen. How will technology develop next? As technology advances and new means of communication are presented, new opportunities for written work to be displayed will present themselves.
