Sentences with phrase «manual typewriter»

When I first started out in law publishing, authors produced copy on manual typewriters, editors used pens and literal cut and paste to hack it into shape, typesetters set the copy in movable lead type or «slugs» and made it up... [more]

H. J. Lee weaves an LED dance through spilled rice, Marco Antonio Castro grows basil and wheat grass, Keiko Miyamori embalms old manual typewriters in resin and tree growth, and Sean Slemon paints a pine trunk in gold leaf.

If California Typewriter slightly overstays its welcome, as Nichol pushes past a natural end point to make the case for manual typewriters as the new vinyl... well, that seems somehow appropriate, too.

In the days of manual typewriters and snail mail, people put more effort into deciding they weren't interested in you.

Then, writers used manual typewriters to create their manuscripts and Linotype operators set type in hot metal.

He began his career as a typewriter repairman in Berkeley in 1975 and has been working at California Typewriter for the past twenty years repairing manual typewriters.

He also brought his work along with him, in the form of a stack of paper and a tall, klunky manual typewriter that looked as if it might have come out of one of the newsrooms where he had pounded out stories nearly half a century earlier as a tabloid reporter in New York.

Using two spaces is a habit left over from manual typewriters and should not be done when using modern - day word processors or page layout software.

Bestselling author Danielle Steel has written more than 100 books — all on her trusty 1946 Olympia manual typewriter.

His proposals, seemingly produced on an antediluvian manual typewriter, are primly framed on the wall adjacent to the gallery space.

By Michael Ehline - In the old days, lawyers hunted and pecked on ink ribbon manual typewriters, and... [Read More...]

«Have a supply of purchase and sales agreements printed out and a working manual typewriter,» Ferrara says.

I was recently given my Mum's old portable manual typewriter, and it was perfect for making some labels.

The men and women who wrote for the pulps and slicks from before 1900 up until 1958 were hard - working writers who would spend long hours pounding out stories on manual typewriters and getting paid a penny a word.

World Cup soccer, the charms of manual typewriters and the films of William Wyler are given equal space alongside more weighty concerns.

Quaintly but lovingly, Simon Okstheyn for Black and White in Williamsburg has photographed old manual typewriters.

They opt for vinyl records and VHS tapes, disdain Facebook, use manual typewriters, and ride bicycles to get around.

O'Connor's regimen was to sit at her manual typewriter for two or three hours and follow her characters around.

But Porchers can appreciate the comparison of the union movement to the manual typewriter.

I won't be surprised to find a manual typewriter in his office.

For my first, I typed my copy on a manual typewriter with paper and carbon.

All Nick does is briefly press his hands on the belly wound and yell for the guard, but he's rewarded, upon his own release, with the job of silent yakuza muscle, forever on hand to punch some recalcitrant salaryman in the throat or beat him over the head with a manual typewriter.

And so he sits in his writer's room, despairing in front of his manual typewriter.

After a dream of meeting a lovely girl in the park, Calvin's fingers tear through his manual typewriter and develop a story around his literal dream girl.

The year is 1971 and the newsroom is filled with manual typewriters, rotary telephones, and other now - antiquated objects we used to take for granted.

There was a recurring story line featuring Snoopy atop his dog house with his old manual typewriter, beginning his book.

Work that was done on a manual typewriter:) If I squint hard enough I can still make out the words.

Unless you've been living in a rural cabin, pounding away on a manual typewriter, you know that technology and social media have been rapidly evolving over the past five years.

And, of course, the pulp writers, pounding out thousands of words a day, actually were working hard on those manual typewriters.

It's a great app for anyone looking for the experience of a manual typewriter with the ease and speed of an iPad.

My parents bought me a manual typewriter and I began writing novels about horses.

In 1995, J. K. Rowling typed the manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on a manual typewriter and, after numerous rejections, sold it to Bloomsbury Press for an -LSB-...]

Later, I typed stories on a manual typewriter, keeping copious amounts of Wite - Out on hand.

Go ahead, don't believe me, try pounding out a single page on a manual typewriter as fast as you can.

And, of course, the pulp writers, pounding out thousands of words a day, actually were working physically hard on those manual typewriters.

In her series Static, the much - loved American painter Jessica Brilli engages us with objects from another era: Kodak cameras, transistor radios, and manual typewriters.

They might not care either for his text art, its only tools a manual typewriter and language itself.

Every element in an exhibition of work by Peter Liversidge begins at the artist's kitchen table with Liversidge sitting alone writing proposals on an old manual typewriter.

The proposals start life on an old manual typewriter, typed at his kitchen table.

For each project, Liversidge writes the texts on an old manual typewriter.

He types with a manual typewriter directly onto the fabric adding a partially buried yet powerful element — the micro-geographies of thread and text reveal more the closer you get.

For this project, Oring sets up a portable public office — complete with a manual typewriter — and invites people to write postcards to the President.

They've gone from rotary phones, operator - assisted calls, manual typewriters, and carbon paper to faxes, copy machines, word processors, the internet, email, teleconferencing, and «the cloud.»

When I first started out in law publishing, authors produced copy on manual typewriters, editors used pens and literal cut and paste to hack it into shape, typesetters set the copy in movable lead type or «slugs» and made it up to page in print trays, and then the presses rolled.