the problem: to convert 40 years of my paper writing into the digital orbit of the www.
photo via flickr.com by Martin Howard
A friend of mine, watching my self portrait with typewriter on my wordpress frontpage – he asked, if I have an input door / mouth in my PC tower for all those paper outputs coming from my old fashioned typewriter. Yes, he comes near to the problem: to convert 40 years of paper writing into the digital orbit of the world wide web.
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related:
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https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/think-tank/
actually I’m trying to combine my writings with photographies.
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/kierkegaards-courage/
modern times need photos as memory-landmarks for thoughts.
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/nietzsche/
who remembers words without any photo-bridge?
google maybe …
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old fashioned tools for printing and publishing
starting a kind of basic iconography for writers …
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http://eof737.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/on-writing-is-there-an-app-for-that/
I read daily the inspiring blog of Elizabeth Obih-Frank
another photo by Martin Howard, featuring his antique typewriter collection!
another photo by Martin Howard, featuring “2011 Canadian National Steampunk Exhibition”!
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Scan, convert to pdf. I for one can compose better with a notebook and a pencil, not to hard, not to soft, but with the aroma of the cider essence: i love the smell of freshly sharpened pencil, mangling with that of coffee…Handwriting has its privileges.
Thanks for the reverie.
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What a great looking typewriter. 🙂
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It is astounding how far we have come. I did like the old fashioned typewriters. BUT … no spell check .~~~~ : – )
Isadora
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title=”2011 Canadian National Steampunk
Exhibition” by antique typewriters –
click on the photo to enter the
galleries of MARTIN HOWARD!
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