January Newsflash
Hot off the press news from Platen HQ. New to the Junkyard…. Type-in, and type-in workshop news. A QWERTY Blick 8. Speaking of 8….. One more thing… Mmmmm diamonds. Made in 1922.
Pt 4 – The race for the AMC typewriter.
A traditional ring-road morning. Don’t let the google photo fool you. This place is huge. A couple of the machines sitting lonely in the glass cabinets. An AMC in a box. Just beautiful. Bing Model No2: A gift that John gave me last year. …
Pt 3 – To the moon and back to Melbourne.
To the moon and back… to Melbourne. Part 1 – The lonely lost highway Part 2 – The Dubbo wildlife. Hello? Is there anybody out there? Parkes Observatory. Hello…. I was here! Tee hee…. Is anyone cooking up a crock pot? Soggy ol’…
Part 2 – The Dubbo wildlife.
Let us in! Let us in! Oh, Hi! Would you like to check out my horn? Come a little closer…. A meerkat keeping sentry on top of a log. Crickets are my favourite! How did you know? It’s too damn hot! “Harold, don’t look now but I think…
Pt 1 – The lonely lost highway.
Somewhere in New South Wales: the lonely lost highway – The Newell. They make pubs big in Queensland. But why the palm trees 300km from the beach? *watching in the rear-view mirror* Link to the ‘Worlds largest virtual solar system’.
I’ve been on a little adventure. Can’t wait to tell you all.
Tis the end of the year, my friends.
Greetings Typospherians, readers and lovers of the printed and/or electronic word. And I wish you the sincerest of holiday greetings, and the best for the new year. It has been a trying year for me in Brisbane but I have always enjoyed writing this blog, and writing with my typewriter. These elegant and beautiful writing…
Coppola’s typewriter
Most of us have seen this image of Coppola typing on an Olivetti DL, while he was working on his classic film; the Godfather. Well, it turns out that Coppola now has another typewriter out there that has become famous. Back when he was working on Apocalypse Now, another of his cinema masterpieces, close to…
The ‘Not a Valentine’ – Sottsass’s Olivetti leather and steel bad girl.
Sottsass referred to his Valentine typewriter as a ‘too obvious tart’. And looking at the design, it is easy to see why. Inserting the typewriter into its case is described as a ‘woman sliding into her stockings’, while the design of the machine itself clearly displays a set of exposed – to paraphrase Richard Polt,…
What Holden and the Australian government could have learned from typewriters.
Going so soon? See ya Holden… The model car our umbrella was being designed for. Got keys? So I should buy this Cruze instead of (insert X car) just because it is a Holden – the ‘legendary Australian brand Holden’? No thanks.. I prefer my Nissan Exxy. This little guy won’t go far, right? Bah-ha-ha..…
The Filthy Platen 