Welcome to the Typosphere: July 2015

The Mighty Blogroll

Tyler Knott

“Sun breaks through the clouds, and in the light it lends... - “Sun breaks through the clouds, and in the light it lends hope, that darkness can’t last.” . Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (at Helena, Montana...
5 hours ago
Wrong Way, Write Way

Vox Poplar - The photographs in this post are from a project called Vox Poplar. It is an installation at the Bown branch of the Boise Idaho Library System. Art, typewri...
6 hours ago
The Typewriter Revolution

Analog College - high tech Florida Polytechnic University's bookless "library": Typewriters are technology. Smart speakers are evil. Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio)...
8 hours ago
Knotmagick

Petite Critique: The Vampire Knitting Club - Title: The Vampire Knitting Club Author: Nancy Warren Age group: Adult Genre: cozy mystery Subgenre: urban fantasy Page count: 219 Rating: * * * This book ...
9 hours ago
Chad Comello

Not a proper typewriter - Among my blog’s available stats are search terms people used that brought them to my site. One recent search made me chuckle: “smith corona corsair not a...
9 hours ago
POEMS WHILE YOU WAIT

We’ll be treading the lyrical boards at the Chicago Opera... - We’ll be treading the lyrical boards at the Chicago Opera Theater’s *The Scarlet Ibis*, “a moving tale about brother, nature, and family.” Hope to see yo...
10 hours ago
Type-Writer.org

Love on a typewriter - For an opposing view to yesterday’s piece on typewritten love letters, I offer the following from an interview with J. Walter Earle of Remington in England...
10 hours ago
A New Mexican Trying to Type

Vanity -
20 hours ago
anchoredscraps.com/feed/

Cooper, Valentine’s Pictorial Postmarks 2019 & Celebrating AnchoredScraps 1450th Daily Blog Post Milestone Today - Cooper, Valentine’s Pictorial Postmarks 2019 & Celebrating AnchoredScraps 1450th Daily Blog Post Milestone Today is our blog title. Happy Valentine’s 20...
20 hours ago
The Untimely Typewriter: Daily Writings Against the Tides of Distraction

Valentine’s Day: A School Shooting Remembered -
23 hours ago
Type The Clouds | on paper, with typewriters

It was a bright cold day in February - My pre-chosen spot turned out to be very quiet, so I headed back across the road to Kings Cross where I had a lot more luck finding willing recipients. Aft...
1 day ago
Valentine J. Brkich

Save the Last Dance for Me - I don’t like dancing. Don’t get me wrong, I got rhythm. When a song comes on with a good beat, I can tap my foot just as good as the next guy. Just don’t...
1 day ago
Do Haeng

April 21, 2018: at Chattanooga FC (Friendly) - April 21, 2018 Pre-Season Friendly Finley Stadium, Chattanooga, TN Chattanooga FC 1, Detroit City FC 2 Attendance: 5,248 DCFC Roddy Green 63′ DCFC Shawn La...
1 day ago
Tales From The Typer

all the leaves are brown and the sky is grey -
1 day ago
oz.Typewriter

Covering the Cuban Revolution With Typewriters - From Westinghouse typist to the Western World's insight into Cuba: Ruby Hart Phillips covered the Cuba Revolution at her typewriter in an office a block fr...
1 day ago
Little Shovel Types

Solvitur ambulando -
1 day ago
Magic Margin

Typecasting after an interval -
1 day ago
Typical

The Tragedy of the Smith Corona Super-G -
2 days ago
A Type of Madness

The Dawn of the Lettera 22 - On Thursday, Troy Dawes wrote on the Antique Typewriter Collectors Facebook group: “I have a Lettera 22 with a serial number S678161. Can’t find anything i...
3 days ago
nathanguitars

Snow, man! - Advertisements
3 days ago
The Other Side of the Desk

The Perfect Storm: A Vacation Travelogue (Part 10) - It’s Thursday, I think. We’ve docked in Roatan, Honduras, and the weather is ultra-warm. Gosh, I love cruise vacations in December. We pack up all our gear...
3 days ago
Kirjutusmas.in | Kirjutusmasinad

Patria - Tootja: Patria Toodetud: 1947. aastal. Šveits. Font: Pica, 10 märki tolli kohta Seisukord: Väga heas korras.
3 days ago
CS4819

Windows goes out with a #!...Part 2 - Hi everyone! If you've been with me for a while, you might remember my post from July 2012 when I proudly announced I had installed CrunchBang Linux 10 on m...
3 days ago
Mike Types

Oh, the weather outside is frightful. -
4 days ago
writelephant

Canon Fodder (Part Eight) - The Canon S-300 (introduced in March 1987 and also sold as the UTAX T-3300) occupies the same ambiguous “portable-compact” territory as machines like the B...
4 days ago
Type OH! The manual typewriter experience...

Looking for the line… - There seems to be a movement where actions of youth carry over without any mediation for growing older, becoming mature, reflection, reform and wisdom. Thi...
4 days ago
Rev. Ari Rambles Again

Acquisition trip - It’s been… quite the week for technology. Not typewriter woes — they are fine. Well… read they typecast. Some of them aren’t. My phone died this week and w...
5 days ago
Brian's Blog-A-Ma-Jig

Notes on (or at least next to) a Grilled Cheese Sandwich - This afternoon my mom asked me to ride along with her to her dog’s obedience class, since it was in North Scottsdale, a long 45 minute drive each way. She...
1 week ago
Joe Van Cleave's Blog

Super Bowl LIII Typecast - [image: Super Bowl LIII Commercial] [image: Typecast081] [image: Typecast082] *Post-Script: *I'm no football fan, don't have a favorite team (except the 19...
1 week ago
To Type, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth...

Dynasty Typewriter Type-In Feb 9 2018 in Los Angeles! - There’s a free type-in/paper arts event in Los Angeles, and you’re invited. The event is Saturday, February 9, noon-4pm at Dynasty Typewriter at the Haywor...
1 week ago
typingink.wordpress.com

Agent Aristocrat gets a debriefing. - I took some time this morning for well needed servicing and cleaning of my Empire Aristocrat, Amazing Results! Bye the way, here’s what it use to look ...
1 week ago
Typewriter Review

Olivetti Lettera 35L - I’ve often considered the 1960s the pinnacle of manual typewriter technology. While some of the top American brands suffered declines in usability, Olympia...
1 week ago
Typewriters and Beer

Hermes 3000 and Blackburne Imperial Stout - Two remarkable subjects to start off 2019: One of the most desirable post-war typewriters in the 21st Century, and a brand new, incredible bourbon barrel-a...
1 week ago
American Stationer

McGill’s Single-Stroke Staple Press No. 1 - It’s fascinating to read articles on the internet about the invention of the stapler. There aren’t that many of them. … Continue reading →
1 week ago
Die Schreibmaschinisten

Im Farbrausch - Auf den tippenden Straßenpoeten Luke Winter bin ich bereits 2017 gestoßen, als der Brite über Crowdfunding sein Buch „Stories for Strangers Vol. II“ (hätte...
2 weeks ago
Dante's Wardrobe

The Art of a Paeleontological Pie - Image source There is National Pi Day (March 14 . . . 3/14 . . . clever) and there is National Pi Approximation Day (July 22 ... 2/27 . . . *see here *fo...
2 weeks ago
Amsterdam Assassin Series

TYPEWRITER: Replacing The Drawband On A Remington Portable. - This is a photo article on how to replace the often broken drawband on a Remington Portable typewwriter.
2 weeks ago
Life in a Typewriter Shop

Back From My Hiatus and Reporting for Duty! - This 1961 Voss DeLuxe is a joy to type on! This 1936 Corona Standard looks very spiffy! It even has a turbo platen. Click here to listen to the au...
2 weeks ago
Seldom Speedy

Olivetti Lettera 22 Repaint - Here are the "before" pictures: Here is the work in progress: Here us the final result: A classy typewriter like this deserves a nice carrying ca...
2 weeks ago
Typewriter Heaven

Pre-Brexit Iberian preserve with Caledonian spirit -
2 weeks ago
taliesinsmandolin

Southern Maryland Type-In, Lexington Park, Maryland - Update on Southern Maryland Type-in Info: Met with the wonderful and enthusiastic owner, Jenny, of the Mad Moon Cafe & Lounge: Type-in date range: April-Ma...
3 weeks ago
Bodemer Typewriter Collection

Typewriter Research Service - Do you have a portable typewriter you'd like to learn more about? As a fundraiser for the Bodemer Typewriter Collection, I would love to research your port...
3 weeks ago
Vanessa Berry Мир

Walking at Bundanon - For the first two weeks of January I was an artist in residence at Bundanon, a property on the Shoalhaven River on the NSW south coast, which was the forme...
4 weeks ago
Mathilda-Anne Florence

Five Months in and… - I’m going back to work. Part-time. And I’m not doing this on a typewriter because I have a very plugged up six month old nephew finally taking his nap on m...
4 weeks ago
TotallyYourType

Poem: I Am Listening - слушаю is Russian for "I am listening" and is pronounced like the English words slew-shy-you.
4 weeks ago
IBM Selectric Typewriters

Garnet Rose IBM Selectric II - Refurbished - Here's a terrific IBM Selectric II with correction that I just finished. I gave it a complete overhaul including a chemical wash, synthetic lubrication, hi...
4 weeks ago
THE TEERITZ AGENDA

My Most-Worn Wristwatches of 2018 + What Came In & What's Going Out - Okay, first of all, Happy New Year! I hope 2019 has started off nicely for you. Now that we're in the year of *Blade Runner*, I'm keeping an eye out for re...
5 weeks ago
From the Desk of Living Museum

Direct from Latvia: The '59 Moscow -
5 weeks ago
Typewriter Poetry

Private Drafts - In the spirit of Tehching Hsieh’s “One Year Performance,” I, Billimarie Lubiano Robinson, plan to do a one year performance entitled “Private Drafts.” I ...
1 month ago
The Mechanical Typewriter Page

Máquinas de Escribir GRATIS - En el libro JUST OUR TYPE de NEWSEUMA finales del 2018, el museo, vía su página web, regaló este libro a sus visitantes.En apoyo a tal generosidad, quiero ...
1 month ago
monkey at a typewriter

TOLIK -
1 month ago
Fountain Pens & Typewriters

Royal KMG - Typed on the KMG This is the KMG when I started to clean it. Looks like and accumulation of decades of dirt under the platen. After the repairs and a few ho...
1 month ago
brokestuff

Booth - [image: TW20_Pet_Peeves_Booth] Booth – There are actually companies making pods and booths for open office situations. [image: HermesBooth] British Phone ...
1 month ago
Backspace does not erase

Was that an American Caligraph 2 typewriter? - In a light and (then) slightly risqué comedy film, released in 1933, one of the main characters is a playwright who uses a typewriter. Perhaps to illustrat...
1 month ago
SpiderWebz

2018: a year of reading - With the year almost over, “everybody” is doing a recaps again. And well, to be honest, too many things happened this year and I don’t feel like sharing al...
1 month ago
diane-maher.com

Typing Assignment #20 – Pet Peeves - It has been a while since I posted anything on my blog. I really should take the time to post more often. 🙂 Well, perhaps that should be a New Year’s r...
1 month ago
La Vie Graphite

leaf raking - *“It is pleasant to walk over the beds of these fresh, crisp, and rustling leaves. How beautifully they go to their graves! how gently lay themselves...
1 month ago
In Mechanica Antiqua

making a pin-hole lens - A long long time ago, cameras utilized what we call a pin-hole lens. This was a close fitting lens without glass or plastic, but rather a tiny pin-prick...
1 month ago
Vermont Vintage Typewriter

Patiently Waiting for an Electric Typewriter -
1 month ago
typewriters.ch

Anton Waltisbühl – Remington Schreibmaschinen – Zürich - Anton Waltisbühl (1855–1940) war als Generalvertreter von Remington Schreibmaschinen ein Pionier der Schweizer Büromaschinenbranche. In der Folge beleuchte...
1 month ago
Escrituras Mecánicas

La Underwood de Hugh Hefner - La casa de subastas Julien’s colocó la máquina de escribir de Hugh Hefner en 162 mil 500 dólares. La máquina de marca Underwood con la que el editor de la ...
2 months ago
The Quirky QWERTY

3rd CSL Type-In Report - And yet another type-in is concluded. These events always lift my spirits. All the usuals showed up, such as Bill of Mesa Typewriter Exchange, Ted of the D...
2 months ago
True Life and Fiction

Is Amazon Unfair to Independent Authors? - Is Amazon unfair to independent authors? Of course, I'm discussing here Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform or KDP. I hope you don't stop reading at...
2 months ago
dingasty.org

Facit – Carriage Removal, and Revival of a Seized Escapement Bearing - Here’s how I like to fix the seized bearing problem: Place the typewriter on its back on a soft work surface (I use a piece of “BORRIS” or “KRISTRUP” door ...
2 months ago
The Daily Platen

An internal debate on prose-on-demand - Typewriters have so many ribs because they have to hold so much in. During the Typewriter Harvest, a local poet laureate who does poetry-on-demand asked ...
2 months ago
Building Custom Desks

Pet Peeve - Joe Van Cleave's Typing Assignment No.20
2 months ago
Typewriter Fox Studios

NSFW- The Naked Lettera 22 - After perusing one of the local antique malls recently (on my birthday, actually), tucked way in a quiet corner of the very last vendor booth I happened ...
2 months ago
Sotto Voce.

Redefining Political Journalism’s Front Line: a Response to Masha Gessen - In a recent New Yorker essay, staff writer Masha Gessen argued that the press should not boycott the White House in the wake of the Jim Acosta debacle (“Af...
2 months ago
Manual Entry

typewriters in use -
3 months ago
Guts of Imagination

All Quiet - The dead, the dead, the dead Our dead Ours all Our young men once so handsome and so joyous, taken from us The son from the mother, the husband from the...
3 months ago
The Filthy Platen

Cold Hard Type. - In a group email recently Richard Polt discussed the idea of producing a book made up of contributed stories about typewriters and typing in a post apocaly...
3 months ago
Words are Winged

Standard Folding Typewriter, Cleaned Up - The Standard Folding is nearly done, with just some final adjustments and tuning required for it to work 100% as designed. It is currently able to type, ju...
3 months ago
Gypsy Bohemian Life

On Refugee Road - On February 9, 2017, I attended an event called Refugee Road. The significance of this event was to shed light on the hardships of the Syrian refugees—what...
3 months ago
myoldtypewriter | Resurrecting a Remington Rand KMC Typewriter

Typewriter Jamboree at Herman’s - My brain is kind of pickled by pop culture and the internet, so in my failing state, I made this. I apologize for acting like somebody’s mom who just disc...
3 months ago
Release the margins!

Herman’s or bust - Got half way from Boston to Herman’s yesterday and stayed overnight in the poconos. Time to finish the drive this morning Advertisements
3 months ago
Just Typewriters

Take me home, West Virginia. - See you all at Herman’s on Friday! Until then good luck & Happy typing! Advertisements
3 months ago
The long slow {typecast} blog

What's wrong with Australia (brief but corrective list) - [image: Australia is... the many wrongs of Australia] This is a corrective list to contrast the lifestyle positives, and not exhaustive. I'm focusing on the...
4 months ago
Lazy Dog Bites Irritating Fox!

33. International Poetry Day – In Memoriam, James Joyce - Today, 4th October, is International Poetry Day, and I wrote the following poem for the occasion. I’d been re-reading “Giacomo Joyce” – written by Joyce in...
4 months ago
SycamoreTypeShop - typewritten lovelies.

Fall Flavor -
5 months ago
loadedremington

- Annonser
5 months ago
Vintage Technology Obsessions

Vintage Cars Through a Vintage Lens - "I'm not dead yet!" this blog, probably. I have been AWOL for longer than I had recalled. Dang, the last post was from late 2016. Much has happened since t...
5 months ago
Kenny Powers meets the Glass family.

Young lungs at work. via Instagram https://ift.tt/2MEbKp9 - Young lungs at work. via Instagram https://ift.tt/2MEbKp9
5 months ago
Platens & Prose

Thinking outside the margins -
6 months ago
crazy-type.blog

Schreibmaschine und Bürotechnik – ein Rätsel der Archäologie - Es wird so manchen geben, der sich die Frage stellt, was haben Schreibmaschinen bzw. Bürotechnik mit Archäologie zu tun? Denken die meisten bei Archäologie...
6 months ago
Deser(e)t Loon

First corn - This is the second year in a row that we have planted a garden in the yard of our new house - for which we are and will ever be grateful. Last year we had...
6 months ago
Michigan Typochondriacs

Ann Arbor Type-In Preview - Charly’s Typewriter Collection and Repair will host a Type-In at Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on August 4, 2918. Literati is home to the new ...
6 months ago
Future Tense Memories

It Is Time to Shout into the Void - Time to dust off the ol' blog... Annnd it is a time for writing. But it has been for a while. While the pen-and-paper method is satisfying texturally and t...
7 months ago
Your Good Enough Life

Power – a poem (missing a few words, oh well) -
7 months ago
clickthing

The Challenge of Being - [image: 20180623 typecast pt1] Oh Baby Celebrating #TypewriterDay 2018 with a Swiss friend #hermes #typewriter #vintage #typography A post shared by Michae...
7 months ago
A Place of Truth

7 years after first being inspired by @abimott’s poetry we... - 7 years after first being inspired by @abimott’s poetry we are proud to see her invited to @tedxmilehigh. Her spontaneously rapturous approach to poetry ...
8 months ago
Type O +VE

Episode 6 - From Rome With Love / 3D Printing - [image: itunes pic] In todays episode I explore the Olivetti exhibition in the Galleria Nazionale D'arte Moderna in Rome. In the filthy labs segment, I revi...
8 months ago
A Machine for the End of the World.

Ch-Ch-Changes -
10 months ago
E.A. Feliu

Photo essay: Poetry in the parking lot - I’ll let you decide on my definition of poetry. The premise is that beauty, or at least traces of it, surrounds us in urbanscapes. Among concrete, asphalt ...
10 months ago
Reflections In Type

CBD Oil Days 3 through 9 - An honest look at the effects of CBD Oil on an injured, hormonal woman and her Autistic adult son. The Journal Continues… CBD Oil Days 3 through 9 Advertis...
10 months ago
Davis Typewriter Works

Sometimes You Forget - Commodore 2000 - While looking around in the vault for Consul machines to show in the previous post I happened into the ABC - Cole Steel area and spotted two similar cases....
11 months ago
Swinging Typebars

Nor'Easter Part II: Electric Boogaloo - Here are some before and after shots: Here's Dog helping me edit this post.
11 months ago
scriptophile

Underwood portable 3 banks - Advertisements
11 months ago
Free Poetry Traverse City

The Smith-Corona Silent - When I was first getting into the world of typewriters, my parents took me to see a movie called California Typewriter. It was mostly about a small office ...
11 months ago
On the Margin

AWMCo Rebuilt – Union Enters the Fray - An interesting ink blotter recalls the days of the giant Union Typewriter Company – really, a trust company that would eventually be made illegal – and its...
11 months ago
The Reports Of Agent T.W. Lee, Interzone Intelligence

Snail-Mail Correspondence - In the process of switching to a PO Box in a branch closer to home. Will let everyone know as soon as I get it.
1 year ago
Strikethru.net

Coin purse - Like a lot of sewing techniques, I can’t seem to commit blanket stitch to long term memory, and have to look it up every time I do it. Someday, it will stick.
1 year ago
FRANK´S TYPEMACHINE PAGINA

Lost: Gorham Silver Smith Corona Portable Typewriter - On September 12, 2017, I bought on Ebay.com a (what to me seems to be) Gorham Sterling Silver Smith Corona Portable typewriter. After paying for it, howeve...
1 year ago
Tony's Vision . . . The Blog

Knickerbocker Flats - One of my favorite local trails follows the edge of oak woods on one side and open rolling meadow on the other, leads past the ruins of a gold rush era ran...
1 year ago
x over it

Chicago on film - After so many years of wanting to, I finally had a chance to spend a few days in Chicago! W and I had the best tour guide, my good friend Don, who used ...
1 year ago
Frederic S Durbin

Gathering - One weekend last month, I attended an amazing gathering so ultra-nerdy that, according to someone living with me who will remain anonymous, “it makes the W...
1 year ago
I dream lo-tech

About some typewriter guy - A colleague sent me this clipping from Boston Sunday Globe– "Thought you might enjoy this... about some typewriter guy." Why hello, Tom Furrier.
1 year ago
typewriter stories

about Piano Rats... - “At times mundane, awkward, offensive, and, ultimately heartbreaking.” *- The Paris Review* “Sometimes I run across a poem that makes me second guess my ...
1 year ago
thesterlingmeasure

Restoring a Remington Standard 2 Typewriter…from 1886 - Found seized with rust, and covered in bird droppings in an abandoned barn in southeastern Ontario, Canada, this 1885 Remington 2 Standard took almost a ye...
1 year ago
Typing and Tinkering

White Noise - On Saturday, August 12, violence erupted on the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia as counter-protesters clashed with the Unite the Right rally, supposed...
1 year ago
Modernidad y Obsolescencia

Publicado! - Amigos, miren! En la portada del número 75 de la revista Garage Clásico salen dos de los dibujos CAD hechos por su servidor! Me siento muy honrado, y mu...
1 year ago
The Cynthia Project

Your problem is that you’re neurotypical - I’m just like you, only a little bit quirky. I sit somewhere on the higher end of the autism spectrum. I did not choose to have my strange personality trai...
1 year ago
No, I don't want your credit card

It’s a quote, from a movie or something… - It’s a quote, from a movie or something…
1 year ago
The Typewriter Resurgence

Dad’s Typewriter - The quest to find the machine that began it all.
1 year ago
The Carriage of No Return

- Forgive me, O Great Typosphere... ... for I might have sinned. My love story with the Smith Corona PWP is detailed in the letter (typed on funky teddy bea...
1 year ago
Traveling Typer

Kentucky Derby, Las Vegas & Philadelphia - The last several weeks have been very busy with some really fun weekends! Plus a pink ribbon in a pink typewriter!
1 year ago
The Daily Clipper

The Gala Premiere for ‘California Typewriter’ - Typospherians- On Wednesday I went and saw the new documentary California Typewriter. In short, the film was wonderful. It began on an interesting note –...
1 year ago
Typecasting in China

My very first Video-Blog -
1 year ago
Click, Clack, DING!

Art Skill, Typewriter Mechanic in Vancouver BC - I just spent a much-needed weekend at Harrison Hot Springs, just east of Chilliwack, BC and not far over the border from Washington State. We visited with ...
1 year ago
ElWeavo's World

Smith-Corona Sterling 1949 - I stated using these cork squares for a non-slip pad under my typewriters. it works pretty good and I got 3 of them at the thrift store for 1.00. I‘m sure...
1 year ago
Click Clackety Clink

- So, I crushed my hand and wrist. Had surgery, but right hand still useless for the next few weeks. No prognosis yet on recovery. No typing for several more...
1 year ago
Twenty-First Century Blues

Where I will be at Boskone - Boskone is a fantastic, book-minded science-fiction convention that I have been attending for the past several years. This year, I have graduated to "panel...
2 years ago
sommeregger's sammelsurium

Typo 360 - I made a short video using a new gimmick for filming - essentially a revolving platform allowing to showcase some of the machines in motion, 360°. I poste...
2 years ago
Retro Tech Geneva

Artificial Intelligence - An innovation I can get behind - cable cars in Funchal Thanks to technology, a constellation of lights passes for a Christmas tree these days - this one wa...
2 years ago
Mustard Yellow Silverette

Replacing the silencer spring on an Olympia SM4 - Hi Ladies and Gents, Richard Bill Wood here, AKA Platenboy/Coronaboy I am not a typewriter engineer, just a collector who hated the rasping zip of his SM4 ...
2 years ago
Nothing is Unfixable

Gratuitous Shiny Pictures - Finally going to post this guy on TWDB, so I took a few glamour shots. It still needs a bit of work, and I may take a few more pictures when the lighting ...
2 years ago
b4cksp4ce

My grail of 2016 -
2 years ago
The Reports Of Agent T.W. Lee, Interzone Intelligence

07NOV2016 - Agent Lee talks about Election day -
2 years ago
natslaptaps

Three things I want to remember as a freelancer - One: Not perfect is alright. It’s hard being the slightly OCD person that I am. I’ve found myself coining in too many hours trying “fix a thing” just becau...
2 years ago
The Impatient Typewriter Mechanic

Typewriters on Travels - As mentioned in my last post, as fun as living in a tiny flat above a shop in Southampton has been, it has all but closed the door on my typewriter colle...
2 years ago
schmasch

Umbau einer Smith-Corona Electric 12 - Einige Stunden (und Euro) sind in den Umbau einer Smith-Corona Electric 12 geflossen. Als ich sie erhielt, war die gesamte Antriebseinheit leider sehr laut...
2 years ago
The Official Mike Speegle Web Site

Mary Poppins, Klingons, and Elephants - How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. -Ancient Klingon Proverb My son stands in the middle of his room, which is – in the parlance of … Continue ...
2 years ago
Little Flower Petals

Moving On! - [image: Deii] OK, I swear, last time I'm gonna do this! For awhile there, I had a blog in my own name on a Big Scary Real Domain Name. I also thought I co...
2 years ago
Nothing to say

Everest 92 - Among the characters you can see some pretty unusual ones: mt for meters mq for square meters (metri quadrati in italian) ige: an italian tax introduced in ...
2 years ago
Typewriter Athene

Nachlese - Zurück vom Schreibmaschinenmuseum Partschins teile ich sehr gerne den Blogbeitrag von den Schreibmaschinisten: https://dieschreibmaschinisten.wordpress.com...
2 years ago
Streamlines DeLuxe

New Typewriters? - I’ve been out of the loop for quite a while… Life gets busy. So busy that I don’t even have time to typecast this post. However, my wife shared something s...
2 years ago
phillytyper

Tool of their trade… - Filed under: NRA, Uncategorized Tagged: Every Town for Gun Safety, Gun Huggers, National Rifle Association, NRA, public typewriting, Sick AR-15 Owners
2 years ago
A Softer World

A Softer World: 1248 - buy this comic as a print! Or share on: facebookreddit If you enjoy the comic, please consider supporting A Softer World on Patreon
2 years ago
tam-lee.com

Pregnancy blues - In exactly a week I will be entering my third trimester. I wish I could say, like some lucky moms out there, that I am loving this pregnancy. The truth i...
2 years ago
Word Rebel

Hello World! (Again) - [image: image.jpg]
2 years ago
Claire La Secretaire

Pastel Green Imperial Typewriter - I am very pleased to announce our latest typewriter is available! An Imperial Good companion model T, a 1950s model reconditioned and painted in a beautifu...
2 years ago
9.ai Typewriting in Zürich

Montblanc Peggy Guggenheim 888 Limited Edition - Montblanc Peggy Guggenheim 888 Limited Edition Part of the Patron of the Arts series
2 years ago
TYPE CLACK

April 26, 2016 -
2 years ago
The Wayward Wanderer – JUST A FEW WORDS AS I WEND MY WAY

More poetry - Hey everybody, here’s some more! #4 is a pretty lighthearted ditty about the joys of coffee. #5 is an imagist poem about a bridge. #6 is called a cinquain,...
2 years ago
Analog Communications

DIY Film Holder for Developing 3x4 Sheet Film - This is the first true post I have made since converting this blog to focus on vintage cameras and photography. I thought I would jump right in with a blo...
2 years ago
BrumTypia

Lulled into a Digital Lullaby... - The date of my last blog post probably corresponds eerily closely with the date the I put together my storefront page on Facebook. In contradiction to my a...
2 years ago
Living in the Woods

Smith-Corona Galaxie in cursive -
2 years ago
write away.

Such Kids Fail To Understand That Reality And The Situations Presented In Video Games Do Not Go Along. - It starts out as a minor tingling sensation, then sets in and movements of characters, objects, animations, backgrounds, texts and interface designs. G...
2 years ago
Dottle On The Keys

The First Premiere Gigantic Unforgettable Type-in -
2 years ago
. Serendipity This .

How I Feel About the New YNAB - This was originally posted on the YNAB forum A while back, I wrote about my move to a finance app called YNAB and how much I loved it. I’ve been using it f...
3 years ago
DHIATENSOR

Vintage [Typewritten] Style - *Please read it right through at least once. … Perhaps we would then avoid the need for executives to issue memos reminding reporters and sub-editors of ...
3 years ago
A Typewriter A Day Keeps the Doctor Away

You couldn't have typewritten it any better: Polt brings the typewriter to Los Angeles - Los Angeles. The Monday after Christmas. Los Angeles. At rush hour no less. Despite this, the question remains: How do you end the year with the proverbial b...
3 years ago
Claudia's Tappy Typewriters

Murakami (and his 'muse') ... - Oops, this most definitely isn't Murakami's Olivetti, but upon coming across the quote, I knew I had to get down to typing it out right away :) Happy we...
3 years ago
Manual Typewriters

1963 Smith-Corona SterlingThis recent $15 find was too nice to... - 1963 Smith-Corona Sterling This recent $15 find was too nice to pass up. It’s in virtually mint condition and in a great color. The Ste...
3 years ago
Art of the Letter

Secret - I didn't share something with Twitter tonight. I had a lovely revelation about what my life on Twitter is, but I don't think that Twitter needs to know jus...
3 years ago
Types of America

Awesome book. Get it if you love typewriters – I mean it! - Awesome book. Get it if you love typewriters – I mean it!
3 years ago
The Typewriter Foundation

...From Mount Olympus - This is my newest typewriter. It's a beautiful pre-war Olympia Model 8. I'll explain how and where I got it, as well as all details, in a different post, b...
3 years ago
Mysteries of M.T.Coalhopper

- An Unexpected Departure “Did you hear?” “Of course. Terrible news for everyone involved.” “Yeah, especially for... what was his name, again?” “It doesn’t...
3 years ago
The Typography

Four Hour Work Day. -
3 years ago
Of Type and Ink | An Eclectic Typewritten Blog

Busy, Busy - So… I’ve filed to register a company. I’m starting a photography company. Notice, I didn’t say “studio”. I have my reasons for that, but… I won’t get into ...
3 years ago
A Typeface Called Obsession

Book Recommendation: The Fall of Poppies - I am all about stories written in and around the times when letter writing and typewriters would have been the main form of instrument used to create com...
3 years ago
typecast

Nicholas Ray Quiz - Over on twitter dot com @mimbale asked me about what my summed frames process would look like in the case of director Nicholas Ray. But first, a quiz: can ...
3 years ago
Touch Taipu

The Other Side of Grand - I recently published my first novel The Other Side of Grand. See the book trailer here. "Theme" by Justin Gerblick and Frankie Ward.
3 years ago
People for the Ethical Treatment of Typewriters

Help Wanted - Hello everyone! Just a quick post today. I recently stumbled across this image on Wikipedia, and I have never seen anything like it before. Here is a link....
3 years ago
A Kid, A Mouse, and a Typewriter

It's time for a rant! - Early in the morning a few months ago, I typed up this page while I was on a caffeine high from a rather large cup of coffee. I posted it quickly, taking a...
3 years ago
Oblivion Sphere

Name Change In Effect - Here it comes!
3 years ago
Tlogger T(ype Writer)log

Children of the Type Writer - Part II - *In our second installment of "Children of the Type Writer," Alyssa becomes a little upset with me because I didn't tell her abo...
3 years ago
Words from Outer Space

Bill C51 - "In its present guise, bill C-51 violates a cardinal principle we believe should be embedded in national security law: any law that grants powers (especi...
3 years ago
talkbabble.rambly.net

Moving to a new domain~ - For my friends on the typosphere (and whoever else is interested!) I’m moving to a new blog/domain: http://tam-lee.com. I will be blogging mostly about li...
3 years ago
Woman Who Types......

USB begone! -
4 years ago
aitype from singapore

hello 2015 - helllooo! it’s been a long, long …pause. hmm…where do i start? out of sight but still am an avid typewriter fan/collector /hoarder. the last time i checke...
4 years ago
McTaggart's Typewriter Workshop

Show and Tell - Adler32 Optima Elite Mercedes Royal Electric
4 years ago
The Naked Typewriter: Revealing What's There

Try, Try, Try Again! Back to the Future with this blog! - Well, Hello! After many false starts, real-world excuses (I promise, no more of that!)... I'm attempting to stick with this blog for good. Simply put, Hoo...
4 years ago
Plogger

A Visit to Pippi's Pen Shop -
4 years ago
The Daily Clipper

Update No.2 - -Typospherians: This is the second update in the interim between official series posts, intended as both an update on the progress of the series as well as...
4 years ago
Winterthype

IBM Selectric III - The same typecast again but in pure text format: IBM Selectric III After some very busy months, I finally found some time for an update on my blog. Even if...
4 years ago
papel y maquina

Hello again :-) -
4 years ago
Typewriter Confessions

Community Chest - PayPal claim investigation decides in your favor. You collect $45.
4 years ago
Typewriter Alley

12 May 2014 - "This is the profound power of a landmark, that its present cannot be abstracted from its past." -Paul Dorpat
4 years ago
Absolute Analog

Happy Easter - Poor margin management.
4 years ago
Urgent typewriter correspondence

Hon. Gov. Jerry Brown - Leave your suggestions for how we can conserve water in the comments and we can include them in the next letter.
4 years ago
The Occasional Blogger

I Thought About You Today - I wrote this a while ago. Had it posted on another site I write for, but didn't like it there, so I decided to move it here. Thanks for reading.
5 years ago
getippse | Schreibmaschinen, Fotografie und mehr.

New blog in English - I’ve created a new blog where I will post typecasts and photos about typewriters in English. In this blog here I will continue to post typecasts and other ...
5 years ago
Knot Magick

Moved - Okay guys, update your bookmarks. Knotmagick is now located here. Starting Wednesday that's where you'll find all future posts.
5 years ago
montana writer

MontanaWriter is now ClimbingSky - Three and a half years ago when I began blogging, I chose the name MontanaWriter. At the time, I had a vague notion that I wanted to blog and that it shoul...
5 years ago
Anything Goes.

Many (very late) Thanks from the Chestnut Ridge Typewriter Gathering - Sorry for the delay in this getting put up... I have been meaning to do it and have started three different times (which you'll see in the particularly ...
5 years ago
My Hermie

Hermie, Goya and Gala - Excuse the I's. Thursdays thru Sundays, I continue to pound away on my Hermes' keys, making a nightly ritual out of ten minute writing exercises. When ...
5 years ago
Analog Dog

walnuts are not just for eating... - ...they're for inking, too! some goodies came in today from a good friend who shopped online with me. (yay!) there's a couple of inks, and a few nibs to t...
5 years ago
Key Snap

1940s US Navy Typewriter Maintenance Manual - I'm probably late to the party with this, but I figure it never hurts to share. I was looking for an online version of the Royal HH user's manual when I s...
5 years ago
Typed On Paper

L. C. Smith & Corona: Foundation Brailler - The history of Braille and modern Braillers are well know, but before the Perkins, there were a variety of Braillers. One of the last designs which never...
5 years ago
The Pipe and Grumble

This is what August is supposed to feel like. - Enough of that *pre-autumn,* that *cool breeze,* that *chill.* If I'd wanted to be reminded of impending Winter I'd have spent the Springtime in Australi...
5 years ago
The Written Word

Ya know, The Usual... -
5 years ago
SEMI-Automatic

Typewriter porn - OK – I don’t know anything about this movie, but I might see it just because it has a Hermes Ambassador on the poster.
5 years ago
The Brown Book

An End And A New Beginning - Dearest Typosphere, After much consideration, I have decided to drop my Henri Bergotte pseudonym. Unfortunately, with an end to this name comes an end to t...
5 years ago
No Telling

Decoration Day - Out in the counties, Decoration Day is a pre-Memorial Day sacrament. Families drive in from all over to tidy-up plots, to place flowers both real and oth...
5 years ago
The Broken Machine

Stardust -
5 years ago
an *sshole with a typewriter

moving soon! -
5 years ago
Typewriters 101

Info. Needed! New Blick Universal typewriter in the collection. - Here is a rare Blick Universal typewriter, which is like an Adler clone. It has a thrust mechanism, and a 3 bank keyboard. The ribbon is very tall, but w...
5 years ago
maschinengeschrieben

. - Last Post -
5 years ago
Key Strokes

The Right Tool For The Job -
5 years ago
Typebarhead

Hello Chief! - Tower Chieftain III (Sears Skyriter) I finally got to photograph this typer. It was the last addition of 2012. It was a remnant of my California restoratio...
5 years ago
The Happy Typewriter

Return to the Typosphere -
6 years ago
Fresh Ribbon

NaNoWriMo Calendar: Because the Novel Wants Out - [image: NaNoWriMo Calendar 2012 Fresh Ribbon A] Tomorrow is October, and you know what that means. Just to get everyone in the mood, I whipped up a few cou...
6 years ago
typewriter

negozi dell’usato - A volte capita di passare davanti alla vetrina di qualche negozio dell’usato e vedere cose interessanti, magari anche qualche macchina per scrivere, in ven...
6 years ago
Six Mile Press

Harvey Girls - *In 1875, businessman Fred Harvey (1835-1901) opened two restaurants in Kansas and Oklahoma along the Kansas Pacific Railway. At that time, the railway...
6 years ago
Life in Sunny Seattle

- Hey, Really quick post as i'm about to go to bed but I just wanted to let everyone know that I will resume posting soon. My internet was down so I was unab...
6 years ago
Máquinas de Outrora

The Typewriter Insurgency - Typewriter Insurgency manifesto's translated to Portuguese http://typewriterinsurgency.webstarts.com/
6 years ago
Typewriter Blog « SK To Tremé

Day 71: Brewe, Hoshun & Yogurtland -
6 years ago
IRON & RIBBON

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7 years ago
Back Space Typewriters

The End - This is mostly likely the last post I'll put up on this site. You can still follow my various musings on The Red Electric or, if you live around here in Po...
7 years ago
Olympiaman's Typecast

September 8, 2011 - [image: Typecast 9-8-2011]
7 years ago
Re-Typing

New Acquisition - I mistyped when I said I paid 12 times the cost of the typewriter. In reality it was more like 7 times. My math failed me! Also, Olympia looks really s...
7 years ago
Stroke & Bore

Linotype’s 125th - The Atlantic has a nice piece up today about Linotype machines, the backbone of the 20th century newspaper industry, with their distinctive keyboards and “...
7 years ago
Collapsing World

Sunday Supplement: Le Chercheurs - “All I know is that when we do find this geocache, it had better not be a stinkin’ keychain!”
7 years ago
Emerson Harris

Kinda Missing the Point - So, apparently some company has developed a way for an author to sign an ebook. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like that's missing the whole idea of ...
7 years ago
from the keys of my 1949 Remington Portable

- We are a gentle angry people We are a land of many colors We are gay and straight together We are a peaceful loving people And we are singing, singing for ou...
8 years ago

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

1st Vienna Type-In

Friday, July 10, 2015

Berkeley type-in July 17