1 comments Tuesday, January 26, 2010

I love the sound of a typewriter typing. I love increasing my vocabulary. I also love note cards. Imagine the love discovered by combining these three disciplines.
Mr. Clark was emphatically instructed to insure the removal of all personal property upon vacating the premises at Lincoln Pl during his hopeful yet doomed relocation from Brooklyn to Orem. With all this required - he did a bang up job. However, some personal items remained upon my habitation of his old apartment. Among them: two pool cues, various church manuals, assortment of pens, pencils, & other miscellaneous art supplies and one 12x9x6 box from St. Louis Business Forms, Inc. of Fenton, Missouri originally purchased by Climate Source, Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah filled with 4000 white continuous 6x3 index cards for computer printout.

The pool cues have been kept on the premises for protection from potential intruders. The church manuals have be turned over to those that can best utilize them. The pens, pencils, and other miscellaneous art supplies have been enlisted in various fashion up-start ventures. Finally, the continuous cards for computer printout (A.K.A 6x3 white index card) have been employed to more efficiently "learn me some new words".

Below is my homage to Jack Kerouac's 120ft teletype paper that he wrote On The Road with.

Would you like a tour?

First we start out with:
Later on we run into the unpleasant topic of:
Deeper in the roll we come across a real shrill:

*editor's note: cacophony is a lovely sounding word despite the fact that it is use to express something sounding unlovely.

Moving along we happen upon:
I hope you took time to notice the beauty of the type in the above picture. The uneven inking of each letter. The unique texture of each word. The type feels imbued with sincerity. It's nonuniform uniformity gives it a greater sense of legitimacy. For example - if you got two identical letters in the mail, one was typed and one was printed, which would you be drawn too read first?

Finally we finish with:
Isn't typing and vocabulary mixed with continuous cards for computer printout fun?