It's hard to describe, exactly, the experience of watching a story being transacted and transformed in the span of three minutes. To see the quick trust and connection that develops between storyteller and typist.
"(I)Witness" is a collaborative story exchange between two people that is a updated version of the old game of "Telephone." One person takes the role of storyteller and the other is the typist.
At some point, your ironic mustache became sincere. Like the hippie parents who ended up voting for Reagan, we may have come full circle: from mocking the bourgeoisie to being it.
When comedian Chris Hardwick decided he wanted Tom Hanks to be a guest on his podcast, "Nerdist," he didn't mess around. He sent the actor and typewri...
Every time a newer and better form of technology comes out, we tend to assume the old ones are no longer useful. It's too easy to just drop our old ph...
Paul Schweitzer stands like a relic from a bygone era in a three-piece suit and tells us that he ļ¬xes typewriters for a living. His story needs to be told precisely because he makes up the fabric of this city.
It was sleekly engineered, came in cool colors, and folded up into a compact square that you could hold with one hand. You could use it on a train or a plane, or in a cafƩ in Paris to tap out a novel. The first Mac laptop? No, it was the Corona 3 Portable Typewriter invented in 1912.
Fifty years ago this month, the IBM Selectric typewriter was introduced to the public. In the 25 years that followed, more than 13 million of the t...
Thereās something magical about catching a glimpse of one of your favorite authors at work ā even a photo of the epic event can send an anxious th...
Jack Zylkin has invented a Typewriter Convertor process that turns any manual typewriter into a keyboard for your computer! He sells ready to purchase...
My misleading last name (I'm not rich!) begins with "A." I hold a position (archivist) on the National Society of Newspaper Columnists board that also...
History-philes and Beat-philes will love this one: Christie's is auctioning off Jack Kerouac's last typewriter....
In the future, it is thought, we will all be tethered to the great teat of the collective mind by some teeny implement that is smarter than we are. This seems counter-intuitive to me, but then I've always bet against sea changes.
Moderator: Welcome to Obsolete Anonymous! I've gathered you all here to welcome our latest member, the Print Industry.
Skye Ferrante has spent six years at the Writers Room in Greenwich Village, blissfully banging away on his grandmother's 1929 Royal typewriter. The 3...
In my last blog, I wrote about the contribution of marketing strategy, and more specifically marketing research, to develop new recipes and ideas that...
Cormac McCarthy has written more than a dozen novels, several screenplays, two plays, two short stories, countless drafts, letters and more -- and nea...
When other girls were asking for Barbie dolls, I was wishing for a typewriter, one that would actually tap out a world of my own creation.
The city is plunking down nearly $1 million on typewriters for its keystroke cops. That's right -- typewriters. ...
In the days before the internet, how did out-of-town journalists transmit typewritten stories to their editors? They folded the stories into paper airplanes and hurled them out of hotel windows.
