What is Now Visible

Transcript

Welcome beautiful thinkers! I’d like to talk to you about what is now visible.

So, recently, within the last month, I was thinking up calligraphy. I saw people doing this on TikTok, and doing their live videos and people were commenting names in the chat, and the person doing the live video would start to write their names, or write different phrases.

And people liked seen their names written with this beautiful lettering. And I thought, “Oh, that’s really cool” “.

So, when I was downtown, a few weeks backs, three or four weeks back, I went to America González Martínez, which is the street in Guadalajara which has all this odd stores, and all this wonderful fountain pens and brush pens.

This” “pigma” brush pen. It comes from this Japanese organisation called “Sakura”, which is quite an idea. I had no idea that such a thing existed, I mean, it makes perfect sense now that I know it.

This is the thing, I had no idea and now, having practiced just for a few weeks with calligraphy, with this pigma brush pen I can see the copperplate hand, that is one of the prominent classic calligraphy hands. Imprinting you a code of thought.

But in calligraphy is written by hand, so you call it “a hand”. So, copperplate calligraphy, this classic style of of writing, I see it just about everywhere. I see it on bottles of beer and tequila, and in advertising like if you see an add for a Miller light. You can see this style of calligraphy.

Also you see this black caleta, which some people refer to as gothic or old English writing, which you see with a lot of people who have tattoos. Like, I think two tattoos that said “tough life” in the black letter hand. And you see this simil things everywhere, and when I’ve seen the calligraphy, or even modern calligraphy, which is a different style again, which is a bit more free flowing or improvised I suppose.

I can see it and I start to think, “Hm, how would those strokes go? How would I do that with a brush pen, or how would I do the black letter with a nipped pen?” And I start to wonder and this whole other level of detail is revealed to me.

Now this things have become relevant, we have this reticular activating system and my eyes start to light up when I see this styles of typography, previously invisible to me, now, wide and out in the open, completely obvious. It did probably always been there, but now it gains this prominence with my eyes.

And I noticed this whole levels of detail that were previously unknown to me.

Sometimes, when I take some photos with my camera, I have been practicing photography for a couple of years now and, I suppose I’ve been working on my eye one way or another for many years, then gave up.

Yeah, when I started to think about photography or other things, or handwriting, other elements of composition, some basic graphic design, whatever it is. And people say to me, when they see the photos, they say this to many photographers, and many photographers get annoyed, they say, “Oh, this photos are so good. You must have a very nice camera.”

And, of course people will get offended, because it’s like, you wanna go, this is what some photographers say, you wanna go to complement the chef and say, “Oh, you must have very good knives”. Well, it’s the chef that is doing all the work. But I don’t get offended when people say this because they don’t know any better, they are just so ignorant of the subject that there is no way they could know.

And I’m sure I am ignorant of many other aspects of life. And this is the beautiful thing about it. We might have no idea. “We don’t know what we don’t know”.

Is that often mocked phrase goes. All of this things around us, which we have no idea about, we have no idea how they were created. Just like in that essay by, I try to remember his name, I think it was Leonard Reed, he wrote that essay, “I pencil”, glorified by anarcho capitalists and libertarians, they say, “All of this magic of the market is going on without us having any idea”.

There are always wonderful things, all this levels of detail in this world, that begin to open up to us.

When we just learn a little bit, when we take a few weeks to understand something about a discipline, we might well notice it everywhere.

And this is the remarkable thing about this world, it’s like, sometimes people say this world is a simulation and the level of detail is only created as is necessary.

And that’s why you have this strange phenomena that go on in quantic physics.

Perhaps that’s true, I don’t claim to know anything about that, but, the point is that it is real. That you can move your awareness into a certain discipline and greater and greater levels of detail will be opened up to you with just a bare minimum effort.

And it’s incredible, it’s incredible what you can know.

So let’s move boldly into this wonderful adventure, exploring those details and disciplines which line up our passions which bring us to life, and which create new life.

Creating those things, bringing them into our view of what is now visible.