‘The complete Metropolis’ – Film. As most of you know, I am a film lover. And I’d just like to share with you some of my thoughts, and recent experiences of my all-time favourite film. Oh, and as usual pardon the normal ‘typecast’ typos and mistakes. One of the most iconic robots of cinema. This…
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The pages are now split in two, so that Blogger will display them better. You can click to enlarge for a better view. For the catch up – Episode 1.
It took a little while, but I excitingly got a letter from the International Typewriter Initiative. I find people’s life stories fascinating – and Michael from ‘Typewriter a day keeps the doctor away‘ seems to have had a somewhat interesting life. He’s only briefly touched on it in this email, but I reckon he’s got a…
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Lettera 22, and Lettera 32 I’ll be talking a little more about these two typewriters sometime in the near future, but right now I want to talk about my most recent attempt at dunking typewriters. You may recall that I successfully attempted a dunking on a Hermes 3000 70’s model a little while ago. Since then…
Some names below have been changed to protect the person’s identity. Correction: *made in a way. Last night I sat down and decided to try out a few ideas I had to fix a couple of the problems with the Bijou that Robert gave me. I fell in love with the type action of this…
Warning: This blog entry is rated MA – for mature audiences. *Occasional coarse language. Which has nominally been bleeped out for you protection.*Low level violence.*Frequent bad movie references. This war, like all wars, started in a period of relative peace. I like relative peace. It is so peaceful in a relative way that I almost lull myself…
I’d taken an RDO from work, but I still woke up at 5am. I collected a passenger and dropped them at work before I dropped my car into airport parking. The courtesy bus from the parking place was crammed with a Maori family heading to the international airport, and their baggage took up the entire…
The Filthy Platen 