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This youtube film depicts the key-by-key evisceration of a Royal by a typewriter key cutter. "How many words per minute can you type on your bracelet?" says a commenter. Touché!
In cheerier news, I saw links to this vintage typewriter repair kit all over the Twitter today.
Just forced the husband to compare typing action on an Olympia SM9, a Hermes 3000, and a Smith-Corona Silent-Super. Oh, how the loved ones of a typeophile pay for our sins.
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I refuse to watch that video.
There's a similar but newer typewriter repair kit on the 'Bay right now. Item # 140340228298. It's already at the far reaches of my budget.
I need to enlist the spousal unit in a typing comparison test. Specifically, between a Hermes 2000, Torpedo 18b, and an Olympia SM4. They all feel nearly identical to me, but then I'm used to switching between multiple models and may no longer be able to be subjective.
Typewriter snuff film? No thanks.
Oh the agony. Even if a typewriter is in piss pore condition and doesn't work you can still clean it up and use it as a decoration to your living room or something. Anything but taking a scalpel to it and performing a ahhtypeseee.
Strikethru which typer did he prefer??? It's always good to get the opinion from someone who, like Oli said doesn't switch between machines like we do.
He seemed to prefer the Smith Corona, but only vaguely. He is very enthusiastic about the Royal Quiet De Luxe and the Royal 10's. A Royal kind of guy.
When did this become popular? Why did this become popular? ...using vintage typewriter keys for jewelry, for decoration?
Aaaargh!!!!
I think, in a few decades, we will regret doing this to these old typewriters, just as New Yorkers, only a few years after the deed was done, regret having torn down the "old" and beautiful Pennsylvania Station. Once you tear it down, wreck it, you can never get it back.
Seeing those bracelets is like seeing jewellery made out of human teeth. Extremely disturbing. Typewriters have been my very good friends and to see people turning my friends into adornment...well, let's just say it's the penultimate in bad taste.
Hey, you can get your husband to type on your machines? I can't get my SO to do more than look at them and he doesn't much care to do that. :\
I couldn't watch it after the first few snips.
I'm beginning to feel like a Royal gal, so I understand. All the more reason that video was horrifying
If you have a strong stomach, you can look online for "upcycling" vinyl records. Making notebook covers and fruit bowls out of them. Not vinyl record covers... the records themselves.
I caught myself thinking about something very similar to what TR said.
The comments on a couple of blogs seemed to suggest that only people my age (50+) would think of this as vandalism. However, old music of all kinds can become fascinating to young people, who collect it on vinyl records.
Music should be preserved, not destroyed.
snuff film indeed. that was disturbing, especially the musical accompaniment.
Here's a blog entry from another apologist:
http://kristybowen.blogspot.com/2009/08/save-smith-coronas.html
Just goes to show you that the self-styled avante-guard, enlightened ones can be every bit as mindlessly destructive and exploitative pursuing their money-making agenda-disguised-as-art as the people they rail against in their poetry and prose.
Lest we forget: broken typewriters can supply no longer available parts for other broken typewriters.
I wonder what she would think of cutting up antique, irreplaceable books that have damaged spines and pasting random sentences onto a sheet of paper to sell on Etsy as the next form of self-expressive kitsch.
"I wonder what she would think of cutting up antique, irreplaceable books that have damaged spines and pasting random sentences onto a sheet of paper to sell on Etsy as the next form of self-expressive kitsch."
I hate to tell you this, Rich, but something similar it's already happening.
Word ver: sollum: Gollum's suicidal brother.
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