IDEOGRAMIC KEYBOARD?
Musing on the ideogramic method of Ezra Pound and how he remixed some of the Chinese Characters into his great poem including History “The Cantos”; i asked myself “how much more quickly and effectively someone like POUND or Ernest FENOLLOSA could have worked with the kind of webnet tools we have freely available in 2008? (For translation, etymological research etc.) If he could have had access to a kind of KEYBOARD with interchangable SYMBOLS upon it, to experiment with and develope a language/poem?
Or maybe Pound might think that there is something to the action of the brush strokes upon the surface (Canvas) that makes each hand crafted ideogram more personal, as a sigil or tag does. (Calligraphy vs. The Printing Press/Stencil art) (Ideogramic Keyboard vs. Alphabetical Keyboard). A Stenciltype method maybe akin to the KEYBOARD method in that its REPRESENTATION is definite. Prefabricated. Plus the comparatively effortless application–METHOD ACTIVITY–of stencil/keyboard TYPE to quickly reproduce the same image/symbol. But possibly at the expense of the of some personal characteristics. Some related to the space-time sequence of events (activities) involved in painting something freehanded, in opposition to reproducing Images, pushing the button on the CAN of paint down– like a Button on a camera to create a photograph–Photography vs. Painting?
Can you define the ACTIVITY. The sequence of events that led to the MARK. SIGN. Ideogram. Picture. Mural. Full Burning. Masterpiece? Of ANY and EVERY Communication?
Thus a new IDEOGRAMIC Keyboard that formulates a brandal KNU and REVOLUTIONARY language of GODISTURBER (in the minds of the people) will be a tool to show how a more poetical means of communication is possible in 2008 and beyond.
IMHO, in 2008 in the western lands these days, it seems to me that the mainstream corporate media, the T.V and the papers, very generally speaking have lost the ability to represent anything and everything unless it fits into their comfortable corporate patterns and game plan. Playing by their rules. Games designed by their bosses, backers and rule enforcement agencies. Meanwhile ART, and especially GRAFFITI ART, Street ART, THE ART of the PEOPLE? The ART of the COMMON MAN (HOMO GRAFFITUS) has suffered and seems to be suffering at the hands of dull writers (not to mean GRAFF writers), but butt-hole journalists, cock-sucking critics and brown lipstick covered mouth-pieces that drag everything and anything–down with them–into their filthy pit of either/or logic, sensationalism, band-wagon commentary and skull-fucking. Whimsical like’s and dislike’s based mostly upon whatever their bosses throw at them, and mostly unable to think out side THE BOX (T.V)
An IDEOGRAMIC KEYBOARD for the purposes helping to formulate a new REVOLUTIONARY language seems an essential tool for GODISTURBER. To decide which IDEOGRAMS TO USE. What they mean and why we chose them will fill up much of my coming contributions.–fly. In the Minds of the people 
Some examples i have copied from the webnet!
Towards the end of Pound’s “Cantos” he includes reference to the Chinese NAXI language. Here is a copy of some NAXI script, followed by a more detailed account of how the NAXI script PULLS itself together.
And PROJECT THE PROJECT.
Tags: ideogram, pictograph