Revolution in the mailbox: From one Remington Noiseless to another

I was happy to find this missive in my mail today, but it turned out that it wasn't addressed to me ...

Upcoming events in SF, LA, DC, and Michigan

A visit to W. F. Hermans' typewriters

Correspondent Hans Boersma reports on a mechanographo-literary pilgrimage.

New York, New York!

 

 

Patrick gives the Tippa a try at the Onegin Russian restaurant. (Here's his blog.)

Rob also takes it for a whirl. (His blogs.)

A few more beauty shots of the Tippa and the view from the porthole:

Underwood Building:

 

And here is the Lopate interview. They've titled the segment "Be prepared for 'no typewriter' signs in cafes," which I hope means that the cafes will apologize for not having typewriters available!

Interview on The Beat with Mike Wesson

I'm interviewed about the typewriter revolution on The Beat with Mike Wesson.

Remington Fleetwing

I thought readers might enjoy some shots of a machine I just cleaned up for sale at The Urban Legend Institute.

What a difference a few years make. What used to be a metal-clad, bulbous Quiet-Riter is now a plastic fantastic, angular '60s creation made in Holland—but the interior mechanism is the same, sturdy design.

This is the color known as Sapphire Blue, although the plastic has yellowed a bit.



Here's the user's manual.

Signing in San Francisco & Failure interview

Q&A in Failure Magazine

“Typewriters and the art of self-sufficiency”

“It's possible to spend a fair length of time doing something intuitively, just because you can sense somehow that that thing is good and right and beneficial for you; then there is an added pleasure that can be gotten after someone else comes along and articulates — using clear language and beautifully reasoned arguments — what you had so far only felt on instinct.

This unexpected but entirely welcome articulation is what typewriter expert and philosophy professor Richard Polt's new book, "The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century," came along this fall and did for me and my roughly four-years-and-counting intuitive love of writing on typewriters.”

This lovely essay / book review by Kathleen Rooney of Poems While You Wait appears in today's Chicago Tribune.

PDF version here.

VisOmatic Electrite font

I hadn't made a typewriter font for a while, so with an hour to spare last night, I did.

I don't think I've seen this typeface on another typewriter. Isn't that ampersand a beauty?

Download the font here.

Also available: VisOmatic, with more regular alignment.

You can make your own font, for free, at paintfont.com.

Here's a closeup of the type. 

#WhyWait: On the Internet of Everything

Going (briefly) off the grid

Meanwhile, if you'd like to anticipate what my next blog post may be 

about, take a look at this ad. I feel a good, old-fashioned typewritten rant coming on!