Fake ambrotype typewriter bits… just for grins. Have a great weekend, everyone!
Elvin: “It’s 2012 Winston. Typing is not a special skill.”
– Blake Garrett Rosenthal – New Girl
About this image: digital photograph (Canon 600D) heavily modified to replicate wet plate collodion
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Nice choice of processing for an old typewriter, Robert.
Please consider the like button pressed, I can’t do that from my phone anymore. 😦
Thank you so much, S.E… I sincerely appreciate that! 🙂
Ugh… things look a bit different on my end, too (there’s a scroll down arrow by all the avatars of the people who click on ‘like’. Also, I’ve noticed on some blogs those avitars seem to overlap the ‘like’ button and I often have a difficult time getting to it, too. Hmm… I think I liked the old set-up better…
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Could it be a secret message?
If I’m the one who has been typing it just might be! Where is the spell-check on this thing?!
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Cool!
Thank you very, very much, sir!
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I love typewritters . . . and typesetting . . . and typical topical type! 😉
Thank you very much, Nancy – me, too! And metal has such great textures (always more than I’m expecting), too, so win, win!
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I am loving these wet plate reproductions, Inky. Seriously cool stuff. Hope you’re staying warm though! 😉
Thank you so much, Dishy! I really like doing these, because they’re always different, and I never really know what to expect (although I still have lots of room to ‘tweek’ the serendipity). The best of both worlds, I think.
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There is a scene in the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower where the main character receives an old typewriter as a gift. I can’t help but be reminded of this from your photo. If you haven’t seen the movie, you should. It just came out on dvd.
Love this!
Thanks for the tip, Nancy – I’ll have to see if I can find it! After a quick ‘Googling’ it looks vaguely familiar to me for some reason… I wonder if I’ve seen a preview somewhere… hmm…
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I love this, so old looking and very authentic looking! 🙂
Have a great weekend! 🙂
Covered with some genuine antique dust, too. Which helps, I think.
Thanks so much, Deb! I hope you have a wonderful weekend as well!
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Love the image and the processing. Very nice work.
How incredibly kind of you to say, sir!
Thank you very, very much!
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I love this one extremely. But then again, I’m pretty sure you could do a fake ambrotype of a twist-tie and I’d love it.
Aw thanks, Madame!
Hmm… I’m SO tempted to try that now…
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Do it! Do it!
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Because nothing makes me grin more than . . . typewriters. I remember when my mom got her first one with the ability to “erase”. Major. (I like the cobwebby look.)
*thwack thwack thwack* *ding*
Thank you very much, U.M!
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Couldn’t you have thrown water on it so it could be real wet instead of faux?
Hahaha… I might have been in real trouble with Annabelle if there was any real rusting, though.
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While you have that handy will you take a letter for me?
No problem, Bo… just give me a second to see if I can find a spot on the ribbon that still works a bit…
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I don’t miss ribbons at all. 🙂
I’m with you on that, Bo!
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Very atmospheric. Typing is TOO a skill – it was the most useful class I took in high school!
Thanks, Peg!
You do some pretty amazing things with it – and that’s definitely a skill-set!
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Old typewriters are great! (to look at, dust, and create art around)
Thanks, Patti!
As you can see it’s been a while since this one was dusted… I may or may not be responsible.
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Mary Shelley’s typewriter by any chance ?????
IT’S… ALIVE!
No… wait… I think it’s too dusty to be alive.
False alarm, sorry.
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Oh, this is cool, antique feel to it, Robert. Once upon time, I owned a typewriter and I knew how to use it. Boy, I feel old. Those were the days…liquid paper, and getting the paper in straight. I’m glad that’s done. It is nice to reminisce though.
Thank you very much, B.F! Definitely not as convenient, were they (particularly for editing)?! This is Anna’s – very, very old (if we could find a ribbon for it I’d be kind of nervous to use it – although it is built like a tank). Too bad, in a way, because although I’d hate to use one for too long every now and then I’d like to have some ‘type’ for a project (I really like how each letter is just a bit different… a hint of the creator in that, and much ‘warmer’, I think).
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Love this “Type” of processing. 😀
HA!
Well played, sir… well played!
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Oh for the days when writing was such a dirty business . . .
It takes me SO long to type a paragraph on a computer…
I shudder to think / remember!
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Very interesting effect. It’d make a good mystery novel cover.
Thank you very much, sir! I sure like the sound of that!
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you just brought to mind memories of my Grade 9 typing class. good old Mrs Laurie was very cool, and had us type to songs like ‘Cracklin’ Rosie’ and ‘Sweet Caroline’ etc to get us typing in a steady rhythm rather than the conventional boring ones. They were on 45 discs and she put them on a record player, the kind with a needle… yikes i am dating myself.
but this is not about typing class, this is about your image. very cool it is. even though now i am humming Neil Diamond tunes…. 🙂
That sounds much more entertaining then my typing classes, P&K! We had some pretty… ‘standard-ish’ stuff. And I usually stared at it all for quite some time, too, because I was painfully slow!
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Oh, typwriter is very nostalgic. Your photo bring us old age. 🙂
Thank you very much, sir! I really like looking at things that have a history to them.
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I love the rusty feeling! I’ve seen this type of typewriter when I was at high school. My speed of typing was quite slow. 😛
Thank you very much, Cristina!
My speed of typing is still quite slow! Even on a computer!
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I used to have a typewriter with these strike keys. Can’t tell you how many times I pinched my fingers against them trying to change the ribbon. Oh, the good old days! 😛
This one is Annabelle’s (it’s very, very old). My mother has a newer older typewriter somewhere, too. That one is in need of giving a finger pinching – might have to do some serious searching to find a replacement ribbon somewhere, first, though!
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What are these mysterious bits with digits? Are they from ancient Egypt? 🙂
Ancient Egypt?! Just how much younger than me are you?!
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Cool photo…I was thinking glyphs same as Japanese Ghost 😀
Hahaha… that was a bit AFTER my time, Mary!
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I reeeeeally like this one, too!
I’m so happy to hear that! Thank you!
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Man just immagin trying to text on that.
HA! And trying to carry it around in your pocket!
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I couldn’t help but think of this
That’s pretty cool, Tony – I’ve never seen this before! 🙂
I’m beginning to think that bell was rigged, though. 😉
Yes, but fun wasn’t it – I can remember that from when I was a kid 🙂 Good spot Tony!
You have been busy since I was gone 🙂
But what treats you have added, I really
like this one, I used to have an old version
and boy was that heavy 😦 lol
Enjoy your Hump Day SIG 🙂
You know me, Andro… always up to no good!
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Nice work on the good old Tripewriter Bob. Just watch out for those teeth 😉
*thwack thwack thwack*
Thank you very much, sir!
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