All Lined Up iPhoneography © 2105 by Jann Alexander
“I like the sound a typewriter makes.” —Paul Auster
iType Royal iPhoneography © 2105 by Jann Alexander
“I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.” —P. G. Wodehouse
iType Woodstock iPhoneography © 2105 by Jann Alexander
“The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.” —Robert Benchley
iType Fabulator iPhoneography © 2105 by Jann Alexander
“I’ve spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.” —Howard Rheingold
iType Underwood iPhoneography © 2105 by Jann Alexander
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” —Ernest Hemingway
iType Rusty iPhoneography © 2105 by Jann Alexander
“I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.”—Clarence Budington Kelland
There’s a reason Austin, Texas is known for its invented slogan, Keep Austin Weird. Witness the collection of old typewriters I discovered on the annual Weird Homes Tour last week, aligned in the back yard of a local collector-artist-sculptor of repurposed things (also known as other peoples’ trash). Each typewriter was arrayed on an old metal lawn chair you’d have sat upon in the Sixties (also discards), inside upturned grocery carts, the odd pedal-style Singer sewing machine mixed in, and all collecting rainwater and leaves to provide a glorious tableaux for some iPhoneography. I love mixing the old with the new, don’t you? ♣
My ode to vintage was photographed with my iPhone 5s on a day that was drizzly, overcast and filled with thunderstorms, as our Austin, Texas weather frequently is this month, and all the better for the lack of harsh shadows. For more of my iPhoneography tips and tricks, click HERE.
My very first typewriter was a Smith-Corona, but the simple black Underwood was a mainstay at my home when I was growing up. What about yours?
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