Monospaced fonts are another holdover
from the typewriter era.
New York artist Will Yackulic's futuristic landscapes are created by thousands of marks
from his typewriter on paper, or with palladium leaf and ink jet images of aluminum foil on polygonal canvases.
Artistic experiments with a range of text technologies
from the typewriter to the computer provide exciting insights into the materiality of the text and the way in which text interacts with our senses as readers and writers.
Published in 1983, it is the account of his transition
from typewriter to computer.
Charles Henry Miller explained, «Most writing is done away
from the typewriter, away from the desk.
The only «music» comes
from typewriter keys and pens scratching on paper.
Steve Zaillian — «Searching for Bobby Fischer «Before stepping away
from the typewriter / computer (or whatever we had all those aeons ago in 1993 — dinosaur quills and parchment?)
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«Today's computer interfaces have moved on very little
from the typewriter,» says Jackson.
His manuscript came
from his typewriter so clean that he rarely needed to change a single word.
What about if it was on PC now, these monkeys have probably moved on
from typewriters, you'd think so anyway, I mean it is 2017, they'd still have to print things if that was the case, wonder where they'd get their A4 from, do they have it delivered, is one the monkeys a shopper monkey or do they order it online?
In America, electronics companies foolishly believed that the world would go straight
from typewriters to e-mail.
The men argued constantly (Brackett thought that Wilder was «dirty - minded»), but what flowed
from their typewriters was pure gold.
The transfer's 5.1 DTS - HD Master Audio soundtrack is similarly stellar: Voices come through as loud and clear as you'd expect, but what's most surprising is how rich and varied everything else is,
from typewriters clacking away in the ad offices to the busy drone of traffic in New York's city streets.
And, while sales of beige box desktops (or laptops just one step up
from typewriters) have indeed tanked, sales figures around PC gaming show it is more than thriving.
Document creation evolved
from typewriters to various early types of word processing machines through to the modern computer with its integrated response in all forms of communication.
During the past 25 years, we've seen technology grow
from typewriters and pagers to tablets and smartphones.
Not exact matches
One of my favourites is
from an Italian company that was the first
typewriter manufacturer.
Imagine that the next Steve Jobs being held back by rules
from the age of the
typewriter.
The title refers to the distinction Thiel draws between transformative, «vertical» change — going
from zero to one — and incremental, «horizontal» change — going
from one to n. «If you take one
typewriter and build 100, you have made horizontal progress,» he explains in the book's first chapter.
Not pausing for lunch, they spend their days passing 900,000 sheets through each copier, pounding 20 million strokes on every electric
typewriter, sitting down on the same chair 20,000 times, and outputting 7,500 sheets of paper
from every printer.
Hugh was struggling to support his growing family... And there was I, absolutely stuck in bucology, with the washing machine freezing at least once a week, the kitchen never above 55 degrees when the wind blew
from the northwest, not able to write until after my little ones were in bed, by which time I was so tired that I often quite literally fell asleep with my head on the
typewriter.»
Orwell next attacks what he calls «operators or false limbs» — the shoddy phrases that slip so easily
from the tongue (or the
typewriter) and fill such embarrassingly large blanks both in the thought processes and on paper that we actually grow rather fond of them.
In 1873, when Japan suppressed feudalism and was turning Westward and the Remington
typewriter was invented, Legge returned
from China to become professor of Chinese at Oxford.
Even the carpentry of the
typewriter table upon which these words are being written (the top was made
from an old and discarded wooden organ pipe
from Miller Chapel of Princeton Seminary) was something I got into in terms of principles only after I had begun some «functions.»
The first recorded
typewriter patent was filed in 1714 by the British engineer Henry Mill, for an artificial machine or method for the impressing or transcribing of letters singly or progressively one after another, as in writing... so neat and exact as not to be distinguished
from print.
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Typewriter.
Christa, is the local designer behind Pistoli, a line of accessories made
from vintage
typewriter keys.
Critic Consensus: California
Typewriter is an affectionate, nostalgic love letter to the typed word
from enthusiasts and experts alike.
Although the film would benefit
from a more reined - in focus, «California
Typewriter» is a love letter to an antiquated device - one that retains its charm and utility even in the digital age.
BEST DIRECTOR Evgeny Afineevsky — Cries
from Syria (HBO / Afineevsky — Tolmor Production, Cinepost Barrandov, Levy Entertainment Group, Studio Malibu) Amir Bar - Lev — Long Strange Trip (Amazon / Amazon Studios, Double E Pictures, Sikelia Productions, AOMA Sunshine Films) Matthew Heineman — City of Ghosts (Amazon Studios, A&E IndieFilms, IFC Films / Our Time Projects) Bill Morrison — Dawson City: Frozen Time (Kino Lorber / Hypnotic Pictures, Picture Palace Pictures) Doug Nichol — California
Typewriter (Gravitas Ventures / American Buffalo Pictures) Jeff Orlowski — Chasing Coral (Netflix / Exposure Labs) Irene Taylor Brodsky — Beware the Slenderman (HBO, Warner Bros..
Television Distribution / HBO Documentary Films, Vermilion Films) Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds — Directors: Alexis Bloom, Fisher Stevens (HBO / Bloomfish Pictures, HBO Documentary Films, Insurgent Docs, RatPac Documentary Films) California
Typewriter — Director: Doug Nichol (Gravitas Ventures / American Buffalo Pictures) Chasing Coral — Director: Jeff Orlowski (Netflix / Exposure Labs) City of Ghosts — Director: Matthew Heineman (Amazon Studios, A&E IndieFilms, IFC Films / Our Time Projects) Cries
From Syria — Director: Evgeny Afineevsky (HBO / Afineevsky — Tolmor Production, Cinepost Barrandov, Levy Entertainment Group, Studio Malibu) Dawson City: Frozen Time — Director: Bill Morrison (Kino Lorber / Hypnotic Pictures, Picture Palace Pictures) Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis — Director: Colin Hanks (HBO / Live Nation Productions, Company Name) Ex Libris: The New York Public Library — Director: Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah Films) Faces Places — Directors: Agnès Varda & JR (Cohen Media Group / Ciné Tamaris, Social Animals, Rouge International, Arte France Cinéma, Arches Films) Jane — Director: Brett Morgen (National Geographic Documentary Films / National Geographic Studios, Public Road Productions) Kedi — Director: Ceyda Torun (Oscilloscope Laboratories, YouTube Red / Termite Films) One of Us — Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady (Netflix / Loki Films) Spettacolo — Directors: Jeff Malmberg, Chris Shellen (Grasshopper Film / Open Face) Strong Island — Director: Yance Ford (Netflix / Yanceville Films, Louverture Films)
Coming
from the same
typewriter that created the men of Neil LaBute's In the Company of Men and Your Friends & Neighbors (an underrated masterpiece), Roger seems to have it all, but that's only because the version of him we know is merely the one he shows.
Answers ranged
from handkerchiefs and boxing gloves to
typewriters and tools.
It helped greatly that they weren't just trying to get laughs
from an overabundance of fart jokes or bouncing breasts, but that the writers had a spark or two of comedy left in their magic
typewriters.
From CALIFORNIA
TYPEWRITER WEBSITE.
Along this unique journey you get to see and hear
from some iconic figures but also grow to love a small
typewriter repair store and it's family of workers.
act, only to find he had created her in real life out of his novel, and has retained some sense of control via the power of his
typewriter rewriting scenes
from his life.
Despite the advent of personal computers, word processors, and emoticons, there is something exceedingly romantic about sitting in front of a
typewriter and just writing, stream of consciousness - style, while temporarily liberated
from the red squiggly spell checks and grammatical judgments of Microsoft Word.
Working
from a script by Gaby Chiappe, Scherfig — best known for the winsome coming - of - age drama «An Education» — skillfully keeps the tonal shifts in working order, keeping the story afloat in a series of crisp, sharply focused vignettes awash in clattering
typewriters, smoldering cigarettes and other appurtenances of a bygone age.
Taking its name
from an Oakland repair shop, «California
Typewriter» opens with the reminiscence of musician Mason Williams, who, with his friend, painter Ed Ruscha, once threw a Royal typewriter out the window of a moving car, documenting the predictable results, with photographer Robert Blackwell, in the 1967 art book «Royal Road Te
Typewriter» opens with the reminiscence of musician Mason Williams, who, with his friend, painter Ed Ruscha, once threw a Royal
typewriter out the window of a moving car, documenting the predictable results, with photographer Robert Blackwell, in the 1967 art book «Royal Road Te
typewriter out the window of a moving car, documenting the predictable results, with photographer Robert Blackwell, in the 1967 art book «Royal Road Test.»
HANDOUT IMAGE: A scene
from the film, California
Typewriter.
A black and white re-enactment of a true - crime grabber starts it: artist Ed Ruscha and his buddy, the musician Mason Williams, autopsied a junked
typewriter they threw
from a car window at 90mph on a deserted road, per Ruscha's conceptual piece, Royal Road Test.
As we see in the opening credits of Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate, we've gone
from cave paintings to hieroglyphics to the written word to the printing press to the
typewriter and currently...
As such, we like to give the writers some props
from time to time, and having looked at some bright young actors, actresses, cinematographers and composers who are worth paying attention in 2013, we want to focus on the noble
typewriter monkeys today.
Ruby Sparks starts in earnest with a flight of fancy: A writer not only manages to create life just
from the effort of his imagination and the punching of keys on his
typewriter but also brings into existence the girl of his dreams.
Antoine even steals a
typewriter from his father's workplace, but is caught returning it when he's unable to pawn it without a receipt.
Brainstorm with your students how the forms of written communication have changed over the years:
from writing on stones, feather pens and ink bottles, the Pony Express,
typewriters, computers, email, and text messages.