Darth Vader made from old Typewriters
Nette Vader-Skulptur aus alten Schreibmaschinen von Gabriel Dishaw. (via My Modern Metropolis)
Typewriter-Protest der Piraten gegen Laptopverbot
Die Piratenpartei hat heute im Kieler Landtag gegen das dort beschlossene Laptop-Verbot protestiert und eine Schreibmaschine ausgepackt. So macht man das, bitte mehr davon. (Bild via Stefan Appelius)
[update] Im Bild oben: Patrick Breyer, hier noch ein Bild mit Angelika Beer beim Tippen.
Schreibmaschinenschädel
Jeremy Mayer hat einen Schädel aus alten Schreibmaschinen gebaut und man kann da bestimmt total gut irgendwas über den Verlust der Kreativität in der modernen Gesellschaft hinein interpretieren. Für mich sieht es aber einfach wie ein Terminatorschädel aus den 80ern aus, obwohl der in den 80ern gar nicht so aussah. Ihr wisst schon. (via)
Eigentlich heisse ich Marco und habe auch einen Schädel. Aber so richtig oldschool aus Knochen.
Vintage Typewriters
Martin Howard hat eine fantastische Sammlung oller Schreibmaschinen und auf seiner Website dazu gibt’s tolle Bilder mit vielen Details und sogar alte Anzeigen. Oben die 1886er Crandall:
The Crandall – New Model is one of the most beautiful typewriters ever made. It has a wonderful curved and ornate Victorian design and is lavishly decorated with hand painted roses, accented with inlaid mother-of-pearl!
Lucien S. Crandall was born in Broome County New York in 1844. He would become one of the great early typewriter pioneers during the 1860s and 1870s. He patented perhaps ten typewriters with six or so being manufactured. All of his designs are very intriguing and brilliantly imagined machines. The Crandall – New Model was his third typewriter to be manufactured but the first to have some success in sales.
The Crandall was the first typewriter to print from a single element or “type-sleeve”, well before IBM’s ‘Golf ball’ of 1961. The Crandall’s type-sleeve is a cylinder, about the size of your finger (see photo below), which rotates and rises up one or two positions before striking the roller, achieving 84 characters with only 28 keys. The type-sleeve is easy to remove, allowing for change of font style and character size.
Antique Typewriters (via Boing Boing), ein paar meiner Favs nach dem Klick.
Chromatic Typewriter
Tyree Callahan hat für einen Wettbewerb eine Underwood Standard Schreibmaschine aus dem Jahr 1937 so modifiziert, dass man auf ihr mit Farben tippen kann. Sweet!
Vintage Music Typewriter
Auf Etsy kann man für nur 6000$ eine olle Musiknoten-Schreibmaschine kaufen. Ich hatte keine Ahnung, dass sowas existiert.
The Keaton Music Typewriter was first patented in 1936 (14 keys) by Robert H. Keaton from San Francisco, California. Another patent was taken out in 1953 (33 keys) which included improvements to the machine. The machine types on a sheet of paper lying flat under the typing mechanism. There are several Keaton music typewriters thought to be in existence in museums and private collections. It was marketed in the 1950s and sold for around $225. The typewriter made it easier for publishers, educators, and other musicians to produce music copies in quantity. Composers, however, preferred to write the music out by hand.
Textadventure on a Typewriter
(Vimeo Direktzork, via Interweb3000)
Jonathan M. Guberman hat eine Schreibmaschine so gehackt, dass sie Text ausgeben kann (ach!) aus einer digitalen Quelle (ach so!) und getippten Text lesen und interpretieren kann (what?). Und darauf spielt Guberman im obigen Video eine Runde Zork.
The Automatypewriter is a typewriter that can type by itself. It can also detect what’s being typed on it. It can be used to send text to and/or receive text from a computer via USB. It was designed as a platform for playing interactive fiction games, in particular to play custom software being developed for it by Jim Munroe.
Vintage USB-Typewriters
Im Juni hatte ich über den USB-Typewriter gebloggt, mittlerweile gibt es für das Ding eine Anleitung zum Selberbauen und in ihrem Etsy-Shop verkaufen sie total tolle olle Schreibmaschinen als schicke USB-Tastaturen. Müsste man sich eigentlich zulegen, wenn die Dinger nicht noch unpraktikabler als die interne iPad-Tastatur und so teuer wären. (via Unplggd)
History Of The Typewriter Recited By Michael Winslow
History of the typewriter recited by Michael Winslow via kfmw
Michael Winslow, der damals in Police Academy die Sound Effekte gemacht hat, arbeitet sich mit seinem alles imitierenden Mundwerk quer durch die Geschichte der Schreibmaschine angefangen bei der Barlock Mod.4 bis hin zur Olympia Monika Deluxe und ich bin overwhelmed. Der Mann ist einfach nur grandios!
An der Stelle dürft ihr euch jetzt gerne alles von ihm ansehen was man so auf youtube findet.
Martin aka Mister Honk ist seines Zeichens Herzblut-Mediendesigner, Vollzeit-Nerd, leidenschaftlicher Biertrinker und für die nächsten Tage wieder im NC Gastblogger.
iPad USB-Typewriter
(Youtube Direkttype, via Technabob)
Wer bringt als erster den ollen Witz mit demTipEx auf dem Monitor?
The USBTypewriter™ is a new and groundbreaking innovation in the field of obsolescence. Lovers of the look, feel, and quality of old fashioned manual typewriters can now use them as keyboards for any USB-capable computer, such as a PC, Mac, or even iPad! The modification is easy to install, it involves no messy wiring, and does not change the outward appearance of the typewriter. So the end result is a retro-style USB keyboard that not only looks great, but feels great to use.
Jeremy Mayers Typewriter-Sculptures
Jeremy Mayer baut Skulpturen aus alten Schreibmaschinen. Seine Arbeiten hatte ich schonmal vor zwei Jahren, oder so, jetzt hat er eine neue Skulptur gebaut. 1400 Stunden Arbeit und jede Menge alter Schreibmaschinen stecken in Delilah. Wired hat ein Interview mit Mayer:
The rules: “It took a little over a year (1,400 hours) to make Delilah. I have a couple of rules about my process: I have to use only connections and parts indigenous to the typewriter — no soldering, welding, gluing or wire wrapping is allowed. Second, I try to bend, drill or cut the typewriter components as little as possible. I do cheat a little, but only serious typewriter buffs would be able to tell which parts I’ve modified from their original form. I don’t tap new threads at all.”
Disassembly: “My process involves disassembling typewriters first, which is pretty time-intensive. You can’t really use power tools to do that kind of work because all the screws are slotted, the slots are narrow and the machines are old and require some delicate handling. Beside that, there are a lot of parts and connections in a typewriter. In eight hours I can disassemble two typewriters and categorize, memorize and store their parts in bins and boxes.”
The Type-Writer! A Machine To Supersede The Pen.
Gentlemen: An instruction manual for the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer, distributed by Densmore, Yost & Co. The Sholes and Glidden was the first of its kind to be commercially successful, and coined the term “typewriter”. Included in the manual is a handy QWERTY layout which allows future typists to practice, as well as testimonials from the likes of R.H. Badcock, a blind man from Kalamazoo, Edward H. Magill, president of Swathmore College, and this guy:
What “Mark Twain” says About it.
Old typewriters turned into beautiful, expressive animals and people
Brilliant assemblage sculptor Jeremy Mayer has put up a new gallery of his work, which transforms parts from old typewriters into exotic, fanciful and expressive humans and animals.
Douglas Adams Schreibmaschine für 25000$
Bei Abebooks.com kann man eine Erstausgabe des Anhalters kaufen, zusammen mit der Schreibmaschine, auf der Adams das Buch geschrieben hat. Für nur 25000$, bei dem Dollarkurs momentan ein echtes Schnäppchen, denn jetzt mal ehrlich: setze eine Million Affen an eine Schreibmaschine, und einer schreibt Shakespear. Setze allerdings eine Millarde Affen an Schreibmaschinen, und keiner von ihnen kommt auf die Idee des pangalaktischen Donnergurglers, so viel ist sicher.
This is a thrilling object to possess with a fascinating history. It is as certain as can be that Adams wrote his most famous work ‘The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy’ on this Hermes Standard 8. Aside from the supporting provenance, it still contains much evidence of his ownership and regular use. It bears an anti-apartheid sticker on one side of the object and is boldly signed across the front casing by Adams in his unmistakeable hand. It comes housed in its cardboard box which Adams used to transport it, namely packaging from Simon and Schuster, originally containing copies of Adams and Terry Jones’ collaboration ‘Starship Titanic’.
An address label to Adams’ office at the Digital Village, London, remains stuck on the box too. The typewriter itself is in attractive condition to display, but is entirely unrestored and as precisely as it was when it was owned by Adams. It is frequently mentioned by all who knew him that writing was often a torment for him and as such his lateness was legendary. He once said ‘I love deadlines. I love the whoosing sound they make as they fly by’, and such was his difficulty in producing work on time that in a well-documented act of desperation his publishers once locked him in a hotel room until he typed enough pages to be let out!
