Sentences with phrase «typewriter as»

Of his work, Mayer says «I think of the typewriter as a product of nature — it was designed by minds immersed in nature around them, and mimicked the curves, geometry, and physical processes abounding in nature.

Pillars of words and wild strings of letters served for him as found objects, much like what another show called «Ecstatic Alphabets,» with the typewriter as much an industrial fixture as his steel plates or fluorescent lights for Dan Flavin.

The great thing about the typewriter as a save point, especially in the first Resident Evil game, is that it just sort of fit with the setting.

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

The film features interviews with artists, writers, and collectors (including Tom Hanks, David McCullough and Sam Shepard) who remain steadfastly loyal to the typewriter as a tool and a muse.

A documentary portrait of artists, writers, and collectors who remain steadfastly loyal to the typewriter as a tool and muse, this intriguing and beautiful film features Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, Sam Shepard, and others.

CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER is a documentary portrait of artists, writers, and collectors who remain steadfastly loyal to the typewriter as a tool and muse, featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, Sam Shepard, and others.

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.

Not exact matches

But look beyond the huge typewriters, hair pomade and prodigious liquor supplies and you'll find some pretty smart business lessons that are as relevant today as they were then.

The process for writing a book is almost the same as it was 50 years ago, except you type on a computer instead of a typewriter now.

For example, I tell of getting a typewriter in kindergarten, because it ties into my story as a writer.

In the short - term, some people will hang on to the notion of driving on their own of course, much as some holdouts who insist on typing on typewriters, or putting two spaces after a period.

Considering that a fax machine is apt to need service as frequently as a laser printer or an electronic typewriter — about one and a half times a year — learning to perform even a minor repair (for example: «Soldering Tips and Techniques») will sooner or later cover the price of the book.

Would Bill Gates have succeeded at Microsoft if he had thought of a computer as an oversized typewriter?

As Steve Jobs likes to point out, «In the past 15 years, there have been only a few tools that have actually increased the efficiency of the office worker — the IBM Selectric typewriters, the calculator, the Xerox copier, and the newer, advanced phone systems.

«They see it as a fancy typewriter and use it for mailing lists and word processing,» says Fields.

Instead, as Richardson's pregnant housewife, she carried his typewriter home in the midst of a snowstorm; she wanted him to have it when he woke in case inspiration struck.

Here we had a minister in his study with some books, clearly including the Bible, an open window showing some symbols (like a factory) of the activity and confusion of modern society, and something like a typewriter to show the minister as an active scholar and not just a passive recipient.

Habitual patterns of response, such as getting dressed, riding a bicycle, using a typewriter, so painfully and self - consciously learned at the time, become quite unconscious.37 A centralized nervous system or its close analogue may be the necessary basis for consciousness, but consciousness itself is the inner concomitant of the presence of some novelty which has not yet faded into the background through incessant repetition.

If we're really honest, we might admit that hymnals seem about as relevant to our lives as eight - tracks and typewriters.

My wife, who is always helpful about such things, listened to each chapter as it came out of the typewriter.

It would be roughly as persuasive as the allegations Jose Canseco made against Pudge Rodriguez, the back acne seen on the back of Mike Piazza by a dingus with a typewriter, or the stray whispers that people worried about with Jeff Bagwell.

These days, that kind of postseason thinking is about as current as a typewriter or a pay phone.

Having found this form in the Constitution, I had it set up on the typewriter, and the oath was administered by my father in his capacity as a notary public, an office he had held for a great many years.

That is why I say in my book Emergency Politics that, without the events that proceduralists want to marginalise — like the crowd protests in the streets of Philadelphia (discussed by Jason Frank in Constituent Moments)-- for example, the idea of attachment to a constitution is about as «attractive as kissing a typewriter.»

«John obviously got on the late - night typewriter, as it used to be, and out of frustration penned this»

Only about 60 per cent of laser printers have flaws on their drums, so the technique is not as universally applicable as imperfections in the type of a typewriter.

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, pacifists, cranks, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.

Those inventions helped Remington remain one of the leading typewriter manufacturers, and the company continued to use QWERTY even as its typewriters evolved in other respects.

As of 1900, many typewriter engineers still disliked shift keys.

For one thing, QWERTY enjoyed a head start, as the keyboard layout of the first commercially successful typewriter.

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.

A lapsed American, Jenny appears occasionally on TV, radio, documentaries, podcasts, live panels and in print as a science / lit / art / culture pundit, tweets as @jennyrohn and blogs about the scientific lifestyle at Mind the Gap on Occam's Typewriter.

Aptly named as your body skims along like the cartridge in a typewriter.

With vintage touches like soft gold candelabras as centerpieces, and a cute typewriter and vintage suitcase at the gift and guest book tables, Julia and Braden created a softly romantic summer wedding, perfectly suited to their personalities.

As the drama heats up, the typewriters furiously clack — and the political becomes increasingly personal, and the personal turns political — Katharine finds both a new purpose and identity.

Insipid musical with one great song, Too Marvelous for Words, which is staged as a number with the terrific effect of girls legs as typewriter keys.

Commercially speaking, it's a fair question to ask how many people under 40 will be drawn to a tale rooted in such quaint realities as manual typewriters, daily deadlines, midnight print runs and reporters sneaking down to the street to use a pay phone so they won't be overheard speaking with confidential sources.

Multiple genre cliches are affectionately trotted out — the trenchcoats, the cigarettes, the Venetian blinds, the clattering typewriters, the alleys, the pool halls, the gambling parlor, the clattering typewriters, the shadowy stalkers, the apartment trashed in a futile search, the gun pointed through a pocket — as Hammett pursues both the lost girl and an overdue manuscript which he has foolishly dropped.

He is often referred to as being learned, and following his death, the area of his hideout can be explored, revealing a small library and a desk with a typewriter, meaning he was interested in consuming and producing literature.

Hoult is as good as anyone could be in the part of a man staring at his typewriter.

After letting Cochrane bloviate for several minutes, using up as many racial slurs as he can manage for the Japanese, Leto's character bludgeons him with a typewriter.

The film, which first began as a brief look at a struggling Berkeley repair and sales shop called California Typewriter, was expanded to explore the heart and soul of the device as well as to profile a cross-section of typewriter afTypewriter, was expanded to explore the heart and soul of the device as well as to profile a cross-section of typewriter aftypewriter aficionados.

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.

When her father (Jim Beaver) presents her with a resplendent foundation pen as a preemptive congratulations, she requests to employ his typewriter instead.

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.

Nichol, who also deftly shot and edited the film, never fetishizes or aggrandizes the typewriter, but instead smartly contextualizes its place as a classic symbol of American ingenuity, practicality and style.

First mentioned in the dining room during the film's opening, he is a hypothetical person whom Barton sees as a kindred spirit; one he searches for on blank pages and a typewriter.

As automation and robotics become more ubiquitous, California Typewriter feels remarkably relevant and, thankfully, a bit hopeful.

Soon, though, the British discovered a way to intercept the signal utilizing a piece of spook hardware known as the enigma typewriter.