I love the vibe of this video, especially the audio.
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The end of this video features a Justowriter, which typed from a punched paper tape, allowing reuse of layouts and variable-spaced type to simulate professional typesetting — a real precursor to digital typesetting and word processors. A machine like this must’ve been a really big deal back in the day when everything was done manually. Leave a Comment
Solenoids turn typewriter into a printer. Hacker Konstantin Schauwecker transformed a vintage Silver Reed 2200 CR electric typewriter into a functional printer by outfitting it with 50 low-voltage solenoids arranged in a matrix, controlled by a Raspberry Pi that translates PDF files into keystrokes. Despite minor formatting quirks, this creative project effectively repurposes obsolete technology for modern use.
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Shot of the snow on the mountains from the back parking lot of a grocery store.
Sandy inserting herself into the ceramic display
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So, yes, here is the tape rolled across my driveway. And, Yes, my yard needs some cleaning up after a few rare winter storms in my neck of the woods.
The poem unspooled from the Phomeme thermal printer like an EKG readout of a dying dream, line after heat-sensitive line, until the machine itself whispered the inevitable: a spectral blue strip, the color of an old lover’s veins. That was the ending, foretold by the medium itself — an apocalyptic omen baked into the banal mechanics of a cash register’s entrails.
And then my wife (Sandy) and I did what any two prophets of the mundane would do: we took that serpentine scripture, my holy writ of impulse and thermal imprints, and unfurled it in a madcap relay, watching it slither across the driveway like a tape measure of fleeting genius. It was a ticker-tape parade for two, a celebration of nothing and everything, as the wind attempted to edit my masterpiece, scattering syllables like the last words of the dying.
I used a plastic bucket to catch it as it emerged from my Phomeme thermal printer.
I’m in the process or securing the use of the Claremont, CA, Helen Renwick Library to hold a type-in this May. For those who’ve done this sort of thing, organized them, etc., I have a few questions.
The library wants a $60 fee as well as proof of 1,000,000 liability insurance, which can be purchased for one day.
Are these fees usual for such an event? Would I be better off finding another site?
The facilities there are excellent. But I’ve never organized a type-in before (actually I’ve never attended one) and want to get some input from the Typosphere before I pull the trigger on the deal.
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