OZTYPEWRITER

http://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/

FAVOURITE WEBSITES

• The Classic Typewriter Page (Richard Polt)
• Machines of Loving Grace (Alan Seaver)
• Typewriters by Will Davis
• Portable Typewriters (Richard Milton)
• The Virtual Typewriter Museum (Paul Robert)
• The Chestnut Ridge Typewriter Museum (Herman Price)
• typewriter.be (Wim Van Rompuy)
• typewriter.ch (Georg Sommeregger)
• Antique Typewriters (Martin Howard)
• Typewriters (Arnold Betzwieser)

Tennessee William's Typewriters

ETCetera

http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/etc.html

The Fine Press Book Association (FPBA) is an organization of individuals interested in the art of fine printing, formed with the goal of promoting the appreciation of beautiful books and printing skills.

FPBA had its first official meeting and issued the first issue ofParenthesis in 1998. Today it has a worldwide membership of those interested in the fine book and contemporary fine printing: collectors, printers, artists, illustrators, museums, libraries, and dealers.

It publishes Parenthesis, a journal devoted to fine printing and book-making, issues an occasional e-newsletter, organizes events for members and non-members, and has run competitions in book design.

Parenthesis is published twice a year and is free to members. To bring vitality and variety to Parenthesis, its production alternates between North America and the UK. In the Americas, Paul Razzell brings out the Fall issue, while production of the Spring issue is led by Sebastian Carter of Rampant Lions Press.

Each issue typically is 64 pages of articles and illustrations, many in color. Up to 90 de luxe members receive a special limited edition ofParenthesis, which is case-bound and presented in a slip case with a parcel of items specially printed by presses from around the world. For example, past parcels have included wood engravings by Gaylord Shanilec, Frank Martin, and Simon King, printing from Henry Morris and Nicolas McDowall, pochoir by Peter Allen and Ian Beck, and a poster for the Pennyroyal Caxton Press edition of the Holy Bible.

http://www.fpba.com/

Hello World is the story of a life online. Part travelogue, part memoir, Sue Thomas draws on her online travels as well as her physical journeys in the USA, Australia, Spain and England. While the book is non-fiction, it is a direct descendent of Correspondence, Thomas’ extraordinary novel that also deals with the synergies between digital and physical worlds. Like its fictional counterpart, Hello World will trigger feelings in readers of both recognition and irritation and will stimulate debate on the nature of the physical in a wired world for years to come.




Hello World is now available as a free download from Raw Nerve Books. It was first published in 2004, along with this web complement containing extra materials, and you can still buy the print version.



Sue Thomas was born in England in 1951. Both her parents were Dutch but made their home in the UK and her interest in cultural outsiders - physical and virtual, android and androgynous - probably stems from those somewhat confused beginnings. Her books include the novel Correspondence, a mix of flesh and machine short-listed for several prizes including the Arthur C Clarke Award (London: The Women's Press, 1992; New York: Overlook, 1993); Water, a novel of fluids, imaginations and passions (New York: Overlook, 1994; UK: Five Leaves, 1995) and an edited anthology Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women (New York: Overlook, 1994; London: Vintage, 1994).

In 1995 Sue Thomas founded the trAce Online Writing Centre at The Nottingham Trent University and was Artistic Director for ten years. She is now Professor of New Media in the School of Media and Cultural Production, Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Her web-based work includes a reconfiguration of Correspondence at Riding the Meridian; and Lines at Lux: notes for an electronic writing. With Teri Hoskin, she co-edited the Noon Quilt website and book, and her work appears in In Place of the Page an ongoing cross-platform discourse on space created by Brigid Mc Leer. An excerpt from Correspondence appears in Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture (MIT Press, 2002). 'Spivak', an excerpt from Hello World, was published online at The Barcelona Review in 2003. A short piece 'Travelling with Joni' appears in Raw Nerve's 2003 collection The Feminist Seventies.

email: sue.thomas@dmu.ac.uk
web: Sue Thomas' web page

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan I'd like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to think    (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computers as if they were flowers with spinning blossoms. I like to think    (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace. Reprinted in The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, copyright 1968 by Richard Brautigan.

Skeptic Trumps

http://www.crispian.net/page3/page3.html

Experience the Art and Craft of Letterpress Printing on your iPad

LetterMpress™ will be a virtual letterpress environment—released first on the iPad—that will allow anyone to create authentic-looking letterpress designs and prints.

The design process is the same as the letterpress process—you place and arrange type and cuts on a press bed, lock the type, ink the type, and print. You will be able to create unlimited designs, with multiple colors, using authentic vintage wood type and art cuts. And you can print your design directly from LetterMpress or save it as an image for import it into other applications.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/821242145/lettermpress-a-virtual-letterpress-on-your-ipad

Here's Looking At You...

Philosophrenic

http://philosophrenic.blogspot.com/

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More Philosophrenic

http://philosophrenic.blogspot.com/

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"Time and the Art of Living" by Robert Grudin

Ideally, a bold and lavishly imaginative individual should begin a project; a methodical and tireless individual, who stands in awe of his partner's brilliance but is affectionately critical of his excesses and lapses, should be in charge of the middle; and a third individual, patient, elegant and scrupulous, deeply impressed by his colleagues' joint achievement but aware that it will fail without his serene overview and inspired refinements, should complete the work. Even more ideally, these three should be one and the same person.

We consult troops of specialists on the question of how to live, when memory alone, heard with common sense and compassion, will tell us most of what we need to know.

Anyone who applies himself regularly, lengthily and energetically to a single project is certain, no matter what else happens, to encounter days of profound delight or unprecedented inspiration.

"Time and the Art of Living" by Robert Grudin

Boy meets girl. Both have typewriters.

2nd Place, Regent Short Film Festival, Runner Up, Shorts on the Green 2010, Official Selection Katoomba Short Film Festival

http://vimeo.com/12601290

U-District Incident Report
by Heather McHugh


Apparently they want your body parts. They frisk you for

Your handset, earbud, bluetooth, cellphone, iPad, thumb drive, memory stick

And laptop.    You won't need any of it soon.    Give them

The finger too.

LEROY ANDERSON, THE TYPEWRITER

http://www.amazon.com/Typewriter-Anderson/dp/B0040O3IP6/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1297801972&sr=1-3

New Forever Stamp

Best Pictures of 2010.

I should have been a steam engine...

“We are Anonymous.  We are Legion.  We do not forgive.  We do not forget.  Expect us.”

http://anonops.blogspot.com/

Visual Typewriter lets you write using a virtual typewriter from the 20th century and enjoy an original and inspiring writing experience.

http://www.nolad.com/vt/index.php

I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement:

To consider dear to me, as my parents, him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and, if necessary, to share my goods with him; To look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art.

I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.

I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.

But I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts.

I will not cut for stone, even for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners, specialists in this art.

In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction and especially from the pleasures of love with women or with men, be they free or slaves.

All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal.

If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, respected by all men and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my lot.

I, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Flight Surgeon, USAF

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung

High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there

I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung

My eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,

I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace

Where never lark, or even eagle flew -

And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod

The high untresspassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee

No 412 squadron, RCAF

Killed 11 December 1941

Spider Jerusalem

        Spider Jerusalem, Journalist for The Truth

1926 Chandler & Price Letterpress

                    




















1926 Chandler & Price Letterpress

Simple and light equals freedom, agility and mobility.
- Anonymous

There is a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn’t change.
People wonder about what things you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can’t get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and grow old.
Nothing you do can stop times unfolding.
But you don’t ever let go of the thread.

William Stafford

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill