Two Mature Technologies Walk Into A Bar…
Oh, so sorry for the long delay in posting here… stuck in ActualSpace, neglecting PixelSpace.
So… one day I realized that both typewriters and cassette recorders have this ribbon-y thing running through them, back and forth.
Both are chunky, and both create permanent artifacts. Both are occasionally feeling a bit, er, neglected under a wave of glowing tablets.
So, let’s invite fans of both to a cozy bar (restaurant, too, so yes Matt “Manyfingers” Cidoni, you are legal/invited!) in Philly, I thought, and called Mr. Fergus Carey before I could re-think. Fergie of course being Fergie, said, “Why not?” and now hello Tape N Type. A Type-IN, but louder. Activities will include: (but are not limited to) : Typing Speed Competition with wifty prizes, Mystery Mixtape Box (“One Tape Enters, One Tape Leaves”), Headphone Charades, Typewriter/Boom Box Swap, Instant Interviews and no doubt more. Bring Typewriters, Audio Cassettes and machines to play same, headphones/earbuds, journalist-style portable tape decks, Carbon Paper, and mixtapes to toss in said MM Box.
WHEN: Sat., 15 Oct. 2-6 pm
WHERE: Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom St., downtown Philadelphia, just blocks from Market East Station.
PRICE: Free, if you’re carrying anything relevant to the above list of Mature Technologies!
RSVP to phillytyper@gmail.com.
Here’s the poster below as a pdf
Ready, Aim….click!
Banged out on an Olivetti Lettera 32--guest techno wonder item: iPhone 4 used to make a pic of the above...
Filed under Olivetti Lettera 32, public typewriting
No robot typeface, is a robot okay?
Along a busy road and train tracks, he stands, tall and eternally startled...
Filed under manual typewriter, Olympia SM9
Filed under Olympia Socialite, Uncategorized
Unearned Income Credits
Nothing to do, and a whole city to do it in.....
Filed under manual typewriter, Olivetti Lettera 32
Message on a woven, waterproof Medium
GIant leap sideways--this is a scan, not a photo, like I've been doing. Better? Who knows?
Filed under Olympia Socialite, public typewriting
Now we are Wiki’d
In a fit of web connectivismo, have posted a small, dry listing on WIKIPEDIA titled “Type-In.”
Let the modifying, addifying, or just dignifying begin. (do feel free to add valid links, refs, chutes, ladders, etc., as it’s my first-ever wikifying)
Search for Type-In, or, er just go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-In
cheers,
–mcget
PS — there’s a small entry for Typecasting–but nothing yet for “Typosphere” — so , hey, hope someone gets a definition up there in the cloud.
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ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO TYPE
Okay, a nice story in the New York Times right now about the rebooting of typewriters…
Makes typing sound visionary, yet normal.
I’d better go down and type something!
cheers
–mcget
Filed under Olivetti Valentine typewriter, public typewriting
NYTimes puts a typewriter pic up….
Today’s Times (3/24/11) had an Olympia (SM 3?) on D1, front of the Home section, and sharing desk space with a MacBook inside… hmmm, looks a bit “proppy”, and no way to tell if the West Village’s Mr. David Coggins typewrites or not. But better keys atop the desk than around the wrist, I always say!
Elsewhere, in Business, Times Personal Tech writer Sam Grobart ponders, “Ditch it or Keep It?” regarding digital jetsam (things purposefully thrown away to lighten a craft–or maybe a life).
His take:
LOSE: Desktop computer, point-and-shoot, camcorder, MP3 player, thumb drive, GPS unit.
MAYBE LOSE: Cable TV.
KEEP: Alarm clock, books. (Yay!)
Hmmm, nothing about my Sony TCM 5000 portable mono cassette recorder, as beloved by NPR correspondents. It weighs as much as three iPads, but has a tanklike quality and is very simple to use. Oh, and since it’s the size of a Webster’s (an ancient, paper-based dictionary), it’s impossible to misplace and functions as a doorstop/bookend between interviews. Keep!
(er, and buy 2 more, and trashpick a box of Maxell Cro II cassettes in perfect condition)
Filed under manual typewriter, Olympia SM 3
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