Blog Detail
Strikethru
http://www.strikethru.net
A blog about: writing, typewriters, typecasting, pre-digital media, notebooks, Alphasmart Neo's, fountain pens, pencils, retrocomputing, retrotech, old cameras, pencasting, papercasting, ephemera, vintage office supplies, journaling, Apica, Myndology, Rhodia, and Moleskine products, papercrafts, and other curiosities
- Added on: Jul 4th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Strikethru
- Listed in: Writing Mixed Media
- Tags: notebooks ephemera typewriter pens papercasting pencasting
Recent Posts
\'The Manual Typewriter ideal,\' or why Linda Holmes thinks you are a moron
Just read an interesting article in The UK Guardian Observer by Tim Adams about the pitfalls of our general cultural movement toward the "always on" model of personal digital engagement. Some interesting quotes: Slowly all the aspects of the world th...
Rhodia Meeting Book, and Blue Diamond stamps
Rhodia, it's official. You are better than e-mail. This weekend I went to the Urban Craft Uprising in Seattle and bought the two Blue Diamond stamps that you see on this page. I've always been a skeptic of the acrylic style stamps, being that your tr...
Typewriter tales, before its too late
I don't know about you, but every time I read a story about an old typewriter repairman like this, I immediately want to grab a microphone or video camera and get his story recorded. I am no documentarian (as the poor iMovie editing maneuvers in this...
Typecast: "Like new"
Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter manual and warranty card. Oh, and a typecast.
Here's the post that talks about the first Lettera that joined my typewriting fleet. It could be yours for the low, low price of telling me you want a Lettera, and could probably fix the ribbon advance thingymabob.Oh, here's that Tippa.Olivetti Lette...
Review and drawing: Kiki James Tuscan leather wrap journal
The folk of Kiki James, London-based purveyor of leather goods, kindly sent me a free Tuscan Wrap journal to review here on the site. I want to stop right here and let the Kiki Jamesians know right off that they should have sent this journal instead ...
