Something we are trying to procure for a theater piece is a typewriter. As a stand in, I and another apprentice made one out of a box, duct tape, and a marker.
(A project I was super happy to work on because I miss creating things)
But anyways. The making of this typewriter had us talking about typewriters, and how we still loved them, because you need to take time and care with the words - there is none of this backspacing business.
There is also a physicality to the typewriter that is missing with a computer - on the scale of human to robot, handwriting is the most human, computers most robotics, but typewriters fall on the human side of center.
There is an art to each word, a rhythm.
<3
(A project I was super happy to work on because I miss creating things)
But anyways. The making of this typewriter had us talking about typewriters, and how we still loved them, because you need to take time and care with the words - there is none of this backspacing business.
There is also a physicality to the typewriter that is missing with a computer - on the scale of human to robot, handwriting is the most human, computers most robotics, but typewriters fall on the human side of center.
There is an art to each word, a rhythm.
<3
No comments:
Post a Comment