Meet Keira Rathbone, typewriter artist. I did a Q&A with her for ReadyMade.com. Go forth and follow this link. Or the one before it. They both link to the same place. It’s like a choose your own adventure, but there’s no choice.
The site just got a new editor. She is…my friend! It’s good to have friends in high places. Although, it’s good to have friends in low places too. I guess it’s just good to have friends.
Anyway, All Hail Liz Armstrong, new editor-in-chief of ReadyMade.com. Liz and I once had an impromptu photo shoot with a stuffed grizzly bear in a Russian bath house in Sheepshead Bay. None of my other friends ever want to do that kind of thing.
ReadyMade.com
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People are so darn emotional about the iPhones today. Way back when, those kinds of feelings were reserved for typewriters.
This little gem of a personal essay that ran in The New York Times in 1915.
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In recent months I’ve been dabbling in the world of embroidery. Dangerous territory, I know. But I try to use clean needles.
I’ve mostly been making up my own designs as I go, but there are some fun patterns out there that you can buy for pretty cheap. Apparently, obsolete things are especially fun to embroider! Feeling Stitchy just offered up this lovely set of CRT screens she stitched using patterns from the store andwabisabi, which also makes a pattern for a stitched boombox.
This got me curious about what other embroidered images of obsolete objects were available online. Here are some of my findings.
By Lucky Jackson. Original hand embroidered piece on vintage fabric.
Cassette tape pattern by PeptoGirl.
Embroidered Molkeskines by Nowvember.
Embroidered cameras by TinyBazaar.
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I’ve given up emoticons. New Years resolution! Still, that doesn’t mean I can’t ENJOY them. Take, for example, this 1972 exercise on a typewriters…
A film by Mitch Ansara: Man Blowing a Bubble (1972) (Monoscope)
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In 1970, Smith-Corona and Ghia, designer of racecars, had a baby! Click to read about “The racecar of Typewritters”
(via fuckyeahtypewriters)
Make your Mac a typewriter!
Want your Mac to sound like a typewriter? I just downloaded this. It was amusing for a minute. And then it became kind of annoying. I think I’m too fast a typer for it. It sounds like I’m about to bust the machine.
(via fuckyeahtypewriters)
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I just found this on Flickr. Wow. When is this from? Who made it? What’s with the letter layout? I have so many questions!
(via zsíta)
2 7 No Country for Old Typewriters - A Well-Used One Heads to Auction
No fewer than five people today sent me this article about how Cormac McCarthy is auctioning off his old Olivetti Lettera —the typewriter on which he’s written all of his highly-praised MacArthur-genius-grant-worthy novels. I’m touched that all these people thought of me—they are good folk—but when people tell me I MUST read a certain article or book or pamphlet on safe sex, there’s a part of me that bucks. Don’t tell me what to read, dammit! I will not be put in a box! Besides, I know what happens: there’s nuclear fallout, everyone dies, the son eats the father (Viggo Mortensen!) while watching I Am Legend and then Wall-e shows up and develops a new language based on the symbols found on an odd object stamped with the word Lettera. Then Clive Owen arrives just in time for London to explode and it all ends with everyone singing songs from Hello Dolly. As the credits roll, we see an old man at the Genius Bar asking for a bourbon, neat, with a MacBook Pro on the side.
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