Working with our Personal Computer we do not need anymore a pencil-sharpener or a stapler / stitcher / tucker; we don’t need a blotter and his blotter paper – hey, we are writing faster than ever, we don’t need a postman, some thin airpost-letter-paper, or a slow postship: my father once was proud of his pencil-sharpener like a medieval knight was proud of his sword and shield. But then came the pistols and canons. I feel like riding on a rocket, when I’m writing nowadays …
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photos by frizztext; click on the pictures to enter his flickr galleries (and to read the commenzts there)…
P.S.:
thanks for permission to use some old-fashioned objects of his bureau tools collection in his shop-window-museum at Karl-Marx-Allee 74, 10243 Berlin: to Malte Jablonski, www.Buchhalterfabrik.com
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4 – Old fashioned tools
old-fashioned communication technology
to write with a pencil is like walking barefoot on the ground – whereas a PC with wireless technology is like a two mach airplane at least:
title=”SR-71 & F-106s” – photo by Tim Heinse = “Alabama Geographer”, on Flickr
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Schade dass die den gerätschaften eigene taktile komponente verloren gegangen ist
Und.
Das bedächtige handeln
Da bedächtige Handeln – gut gesagt!
P.S.:
nowadays they write tattoos!
It is a time the younger generation will only read about one day.
I still have a pencil-sharpener .. I love it .. .. like your post
Love this series of nostalgia.
I love these vintage writing materials Frizz!
That’s a great idea. “riding a rocket.”
comments to the pencil-sharpener from my flickr community:
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maistora (17 hours ago)
I like to keep a few sharp pencils around – and use them. I don’t use this kind of sharpener, though – just the small ‘manual’ ones. In fact, what I like most of all in a wooden pencil is the act of sharpening with a pocket knife…
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Frizztext (Reply)
I remember myself sharpening with a pocket knife or a stole kitchen knife – but my father was the proud owner of such a machine – he never allowed me to use it … – like a rich man cannot allow his five year old son to drive his Ferrari …
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maistora:
Technology has moved on a little bit (Bureaucracy hasn’t )
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onkel_wart (busy) (6 hours ago)
damit treibt man alles auf die spitze!
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Frizztext (Reply)
Ich sah einmal eine revolutionäre Karikatur – da wurden Menschen in einem überdimensionalen Bleistift-Anspitzer zurecht gestutzt – Kopf zuerst – wie so eine Art XXXL-Spargel-Schälmaschine …
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Dirigentens (84 minutes ago)
Ahh – memories
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looks like my house!
I hope you at least have some electricity there in your house?
The convenience of a computer and email, etc. is nice, but it’s also a shame to see such a decrease in handwritten cards and letters. Email doesn’t replace the personal touch these provide. I still try to make and snail mail my own cards when time permits.
You are quite the gadget guy! Yahoo!
maistora / Vladimir Dimitroff commented (read above):
technology has developed (bureaucracy hasn’t )
frizz-reply:
= banking has developed (morality hasn’t)
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photo by maistora / Vladimir Dimitroff, click
on the picture to enter his flickr galleries
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frizz-comment:
it’s good, if the girl learns early to analyse what could get wrong / too much / dangerous / too wild / out of control; I like humorous metaphor about how helpless we are staring sometimes to the financial crisis…
I still carry my pencil and eraser with me…….
old fashioned according to my children but very often very helpful.
The beauty of form and function combined!
As a child I know how tempted I would have been to turn the handle on the pencil sharpener . . .
All that history…
I love it, Frizz!
G’day Frizz…After browsing around your posts, and being inspired by them, many writing tips are always welcome, I feel honoured that you are following my blog. Incidently I still have an old state of the art pencil sharpener, this post made me think of older, slower days when you waited anxiously for the mail man.
vintage nostalgia test:
http://theopen.tumblr.com/post/26140034434/rico-besserdich-the-open
I was given a Kindle: suddenly my whole library has been made redundant.
The computer relegated the typewriter to the museum along with dip-pens, quills, wax tablets, and wet clay; the e-book reader with wireless technology will close many libraries. Conventional bookshops will become places for collectors of fine prints (and good coffee) only.
Sadly, I love it!
shy reply:
http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/moleskine-still-attractive/
of course to write with a pencil is like walking barefoot on the ground – whereas a PC with wireless technology is like a two mach airplane at least:
title=”SR-71 & F-106s” – photo by Tim Heinse = “Alabama Geographer”, on Flickr