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• Colour of the year

  
  journal — Authority: 469
  Looks like 2010 will be a very good year for UPPERCASE. My favourite UPPERCASE turquoise blue/Royal Typewriter blue is forecasted as Pantone colour of the year ! How very 1956.
  11 hours ago

• The writings on the wall...

  
  bringing up charlie — Authority: 121
  US crime-writer Cormac McCarthy sold his typewriter on Friday. The one he used to tap out all his novels. The one he bought for $50 fifty years ago in Tennessee. If youre a typewriter-geek like I am youll want to know that it was a light blue Lettera 32 Olivetti with the slightly battered case. And no doubt one very, ...
  5 days ago

• Google Buys AppJet Inc !

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 142
  Google buys another company AppJet it is an innovative online word processor. The EtherPad team includes three former Googlers and the EtherPad will be available for the existing users until March 31, 2010. But at the same time, other real time editors like Google Docs will broadcast an updated copy of the documents ...
  5 days ago

• Authorly Artefacts

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 130
  Cormac McCarthys typewriter sold Friday at Christie’s to an unidentified American collector for $254,500 . This is more than 10 times its high estimate of $20,000. But why do we seem to venerate the artifacts of famous authors? (Remember, for example, Dickens writing desk ?) Do the buyers of such objects hope ...
  5 days ago

• five finds: week twelve

  
  Sacred Lotus Photography — Authority: 137
  1. vintage royal heritage typewriter ($49) 2. vintage 1960s royal blue typewriter ($100) 3. vintage remington orange starfire typewriter ($250) 4. vintage hermes 3000 typewriter ($220) 5. vintage 1924 red corona typewriter ($425)
  6 days ago

• A Fox No.5 found, or, Hey, Jude

  
  Collapsing World — Authority: 92
  Good news! I finally found a Fox upstrike! Bad news . It’s being sold by a keychopper, and he’s already pulled off its keys. Good news! The keychopper will throw in the whole typewriter for the cost of the keys! Bad news. The typewriter is a disaster. Worse news. There’s a wasps’ nest inside it. ...
  6 days ago

• ASCII Art, Circa 1934 [Retromodo]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 887
  And so a timeless truth is revealed: If you put enough nerds in front of a set of lettered keys, one of them will produce awkward art, eventually. Strictly speaking, this should be called typewriter art, since the ASCII acronym didnt come into use until 1963, and this piece, but a young gentleman named Bob, ...
  1 week ago

• The typewriter is the best friend of some writers

  
  disassociated.com — Authority: 147
  There are still some authors who prefer to use typewriters – rather than computers – when writing . “I need the sound of the keys, the keys of a manual typewriter,” he told one interviewer. “The hammers striking the page. I like to see the words, the sentences, as they take shape. It’s an aesthetic ...
  1 week ago

• Disambiguations™ for December 2, 2009

  
  Disambiguation — Authority: 127
  I. Exciting news: Dave Tompkinss decade-in-the-making How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From Stalin to Frampton to Bambaataa is forthcoming from Melville House next spring. (A sample of his vocoder musings can be found in an old Believer .) The books title, we learn, is "from a mishearing of the ...
  1 week ago

• Tap Tap

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 130
  More on the topic of typewriters : The Guardian blog responds to the news of McCartys auction with a piece about other authors and their typewriters . Julian Barnes says : I think you need the technology that suits the way your brain works. Sometimes you need your thoughts to go down your arm in what feels like ...
  1 week ago

• Cormac McCarthy’s 46 Year-Old Typewriter On Auction

  
  Book Case — Authority: 116
  He bought it in a Tennessee pawnshop in 1963 for $50 but Cormac McCarthy’s Olivetti Lettera 32 is beginning to show signs of strain and it’s going up for auction on Friday. “I have typed on this typewriter every book I have written including three not published. Including all drafts and correspondence, I would ...
  1 week ago

• Every Single One of Cormac McCarthys Works Was Typed on This [Retromodo]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 887
  Cormac McCarthy has spent many years bent over this typewriter banging out books and screenplays, including All the Pretty Horses , No Country for Old Men , and The Road . Now, after many decades, hes giving up his trusty old gadget. Hes not giving it up because he yearns for a newfangled bit of gear though. Hes ...
  1 week ago

• Every Single One of Cormac McCarthy’s Works Was Typed on This [Retromodo]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 468
      Cormac McCarthy has spent many years bent over this typewriter banging out books and screenplays, including All the Pretty Horses , No Country for Old Men , and The Road . Now, after many decades, he’s giving up his trusty old gadget. Read the original here: Every Single One of Cormac McCarthy’s Works ...
  1 week ago

• Typewriters, Cormac McCarthy, and the Austin Museum

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  My love of all things typewriters, and the various ways I get/could get my fix. (via Dishevelled Stars)
  1 week ago

• Mel’s ATCs

  
  Words & Eggs — Authority: 131
  I was looking up some vintage Remington ads, and I randomly stumbled upon a Flickr set devoted to ATCs (Artist Trading Cards), which I had never heard of. In case you haven’t heard of them either: they’re basically mini collages, and there’s this whole community of artists who make and trade them. I have to ...
  1 week ago

• [lit] Cormac McCarthys Auctioning Off His Manual Typewriter.

  
  The ZehnKatzen Times — Authority: 122
  2267. Yes, really. According to the New York Times : Cormac McCarthy has written more than a dozen novels, several screenplays, two plays, two short stories, countless drafts, letters and more — and nearly every one of them was tapped out on a portable Olivetti manual typewriter he bought in a Knoxville, Tenn., ...
  1 week ago

• On the first day of December...

  
  Fragments — Authority: 107
  We made this!! Okay, it wasnt the first it was the 29th, but Luka and I made this fabulous house together, and it tastes great too. The hands are holding it in place as at the time the roof was sagging and neither the toffee or the royal icing were doing their job. For a moment there we thought wed have to resort to ...
  1 week ago

• Cormac McCarthy to Sell Magic Typewriter

  
  Vulture — Authority: 757
  This Friday, Cormac McCarthy will auction off the portable Olivetti manual typewriter on which he wrote The Road , No Country for Old Men , and eleven other novels; Christies estimates itll go for between $15,000 and $20,000. Related: Well sell the half-functioning netbook used to write this Vulture post for $50. [ ...
  1 week ago

• Another Manual Type-Writer

  
  Tim Lennox OFFair and ONline — Authority: 135
       Having just finished a story for WBHM Radio in Birmingham about three Alabamians who still use manual typewriters, I was interested to read  a N.Y. Times story  on the same theme...though it focuses on one well-known writer who has pretty much worn out an Ollivetti.      Its Cormac McCarthy, whos ...
  1 week ago

• No Country for Old Typewriters - A Well-Used One Heads to...

  
  daily discoveries on design — Authority: 534
  No Country for Old Typewriters - A Well-Used One Heads to Auction “…Christie’s, which plans to auction the machine on Friday, estimated that it would fetch between $15,000 and $20,000. Mr. McCarthy wrote an authentication letter — typed on the Olivetti, of course…” —via NYTimes.com
  1 week ago

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