Scheduled for release this summer, in slow motion.
The Summer House
Month: April 2015
Convert your portable to a wide carriage?
No Screwdriver!
Of course, this is a stop-gap until I find the perfect wide-carriage typewriter, but I like this format.
Vintage sleuthing
I wouldn’t like to admit how long I spent with a magnifying glass perusing these stamps!
Aloe, aloe.
Usually I find these plants really annoying as pets. They attract spiderwebs, and though low maintenance and forgiving if you forget them accidentally on purpose, will attack you if you try to move them to clean the windows. As subjects for drawing though, they are challenging in a much better way. This one came from the market without any id label, and seems to want to be a tree.
blue silk
Billowing clouds –
An ant climbs
On to the ink stone.
(Shiki)
cloud gazing again
Clouds –
a chance to dodge
moon-viewing.
(BashÅ)
Lasso practise
Keys you can’t chop!
from the Skyriter,with a few details from the Remington de luxe model 5.
My oldest machine is not a typewriter!
Typewriters revolutionised the way we write; these machines also revolutionised lives. You could clothe a person in a day, rather than a week or two weeks, depending on the outfit. These chaps took about 3 days each to make, but only because I had to stop and do other things!
Releasing one back into the wild
Type The Clouds 