I think it’s an interesting and pretty exciting idea to create a blog that will be mostly ‘typecast’. Especially in your case, Dirk. So I actually hope you will persist… Looking forward to the next one …
(I put up some other more or less related observations here …
Interesting observations. As regards the digital interface, I recently finished Neal Stephenson’s book/essay “In the Beginning…Was the Command Line”. You might find it interesting if you haven’t already read it.
Typewriters, film cameras, even pianos. There appears to be a desire to ‘naturalise’ or embody these machines to make a distinction between the mechanics with its feedback/relationship to the operator on the one hand, and the digitised ‘platform’ with behaviours programed on the other.
Thanks for this thought provoking ‘typecast’. I recollect that photographers like James Ravillous and Markéta Luskacovà used a camera for most of their career - 30 years, and I find that many writers are similar.
I work as a teacher, and I have been observing teachers earlier in their careers this year. I especially remember sitting in on a tutorial with a 17 year old student. This lad was working on a long project about a copse of trees near the college. He was sketching, scanning, importing into Illustrator, modifying, and then printing and modifying the results with pencil, pastel, paint, and scanning… to him, the computer was just another tool - no big divide. But I am rambling.
one of the big advantages of a typewriter: it’s so simple to use for a poet
you type a line, you take the page out, you cut out the words you can use, you type another line…
(you don’t need a goddamn printer)
another advantage: words can be touched - words have a backside - words can dance along the line
I think this is really beautiful.
Comment by Strikethru — June 9, 2008 @ 7:10 am
I think it’s an interesting and pretty exciting idea to create a blog that will be mostly ‘typecast’. Especially in your case, Dirk. So I actually hope you will persist… Looking forward to the next one …
(I put up some other more or less related observations here …
cheers, Harold S.
Comment by Har$ — June 9, 2008 @ 5:20 pm
Stunning piece. Can’t wait to read more of your typecasts.
Comment by Monda — June 11, 2008 @ 5:17 am
Interesting observations. As regards the digital interface, I recently finished Neal Stephenson’s book/essay “In the Beginning…Was the Command Line”. You might find it interesting if you haven’t already read it.
Comment by matthb — July 20, 2008 @ 10:46 pm
Typewriters, film cameras, even pianos. There appears to be a desire to ‘naturalise’ or embody these machines to make a distinction between the mechanics with its feedback/relationship to the operator on the one hand, and the digitised ‘platform’ with behaviours programed on the other.
Thanks for this thought provoking ‘typecast’. I recollect that photographers like James Ravillous and Markéta Luskacovà used a camera for most of their career - 30 years, and I find that many writers are similar.
I work as a teacher, and I have been observing teachers earlier in their careers this year. I especially remember sitting in on a tutorial with a 17 year old student. This lad was working on a long project about a copse of trees near the college. He was sketching, scanning, importing into Illustrator, modifying, and then printing and modifying the results with pencil, pastel, paint, and scanning… to him, the computer was just another tool - no big divide. But I am rambling.
Comment by Keithpeter — July 23, 2008 @ 10:33 pm
one of the big advantages of a typewriter: it’s so simple to use for a poet
you type a line, you take the page out, you cut out the words you can use, you type another line…
(you don’t need a goddamn printer)
another advantage: words can be touched - words have a backside - words can dance along the line
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Comment by Jan pollet — August 8, 2008 @ 8:14 pm