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The art of brainstorming 26 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm
First draft for a few paragraphs in my book. Yes, the left margin needs work.
Revolution in the mailbox: PNW, Magic City, Switzerland, and more 25 Aug 2013 | 03:16 am
While I was in the UK and California, correspondence from cells of the Typewriter Insurgency trickled into my mailbox in the most NSA-proof manner possible: on slow pieces of paper! First is a dispat...
Olympia typewriter postcards 18 Aug 2013 | 11:29 am
I'm developing quite a collection of '50s and ’60s Olympia postcard images (just pixels, no paper). There are plenty for the SM's, just a couple for the SG's, and I have only one for the little SF. Of...
Carmen's Carmen and a new documentary 15 Aug 2013 | 06:10 am
I stopped by California Typewriter in Berkeley recently. It was nice to see Carmen Permillion, shown here with her recently acquired namesake, a '20s Carmen typewriter from Germany. I also got to mee...
iPad: almost as good as a typewriter 13 Aug 2013 | 05:28 am
The iPad: it's almost as good as a book, almost as good as a camera, and almost as good as a typewriter! Should we be appalled at the presumption that a flickering pane of glass can substitute for a ...
Sholes Visible: native habitat redux 7 Aug 2013 | 04:08 am
About 11 months ago I published this photo from Peter Weil's collection: I'll repeat Peter's analysis of the photo: Sholes Visible Typewriter #2 (1901); in the office of the shipping department of t...
Devices 3 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
(This post is scheduled to go live after I've endured my cramped flight back to the US. So long, London!)
They're everywhere! 1 Aug 2013 | 02:49 am
In the London borough of Islington, in your typical Persian-Ethiopian-Cypriot-Vietnamese neighborhood ... ... there's an office above a print shop, full of glorious clutter ... ... with text-produci...
London type-in no. 3 30 Jul 2013 | 04:07 am
Today's third London Type-In was a success, with four maniacs in attendance: yours truly, Adriana Chua from Singapore (who got the ball rolling on this meeting), Bikethru, and Jim Pennington. Adri....
London type-in no. 2 29 Jul 2013 | 02:52 am
Richard Nick Jim Piotr Bikethru Story by Bike: Photos by Piotr: Minutes by Jim (who was ready with carbon paper so we could all have copies): "Hash tag in the urinal"? Yes, some supposedly N....
