Arabic Calligraphy

The Dashti Pen from ArabicCalligrapher on Vimeo.

I found this video completely fascinating. I don't even want to begin to comprehend the amount of work that this man had to put in to be able to create such beautiful calligraphy. Seriously, I hated the handwriting lessons I had last year. It's hours upon hours of practice and a lot of repetition and so considering that it wasn't of much importance in the scheme of things I kind of ignored it hence I have Arabic handwriting that wouldn't look out of place in a 1st grade Syrian classroom.

If I knew that learning a new script could lead to something this stunning, I would have perhaps paid more attention in those classes.