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Tag Archives: 1950s

2012-06-01

1950s, 1958, animation, canada.

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Le Merle (The Blackbird) by Norman McLaren, 1958. More.

2012-05-30

1950s, 1956, book, typewriter, usa.

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Fun With Your Typewriter is a book from the 1950s by Madge Roemer for “church suppers or high school dances”.

More Roemer here

2012-05-30

1950s, 1958, poetry, typewriter, usa.

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Like attracts like by the Fluxus poet Emmett Williams, 1958. See his Selected Shorter Poems (1950-1970), and also UbuWeb.

via unjustlyunread

2012-05-10

1950s, germany, typewriter.

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[clip removed from youtube]

Live action typewriter art in a video from the 1950s. It’s presented on German TV by a man who is as big as a coffee cup.

2012-04-25

1950s, 1956, brazil, poetry, print.

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Terremoto (Earthquake) by Augusto de Campos, 1956. Published in Concrete Poetry by Mary Ellen Solt.

2012-04-09

1950s, print, typewriter, usa.

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By Marge Roemer in the 1950s. She published her book Fun With Your Typewriter in 1956, and it was reviewed by a magazine called Woman’s Day. It has a conservative house-wife/secretary kind of vibe to it.

“Now that fall is upon us, you may find this typewriter cartooning useful in turning out entertaining programs, posters and place cards, appropriately illustrated, for school or club affairs.”

(via ascii-art)

2012-03-21

1950s, 1958, poetry, typewriter, usa.

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Meditation no.1 by Emmett Williams, 1958. Also see Wikipedia.

2012-02-17

1950s, 1956, animation, canada.

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Rythmetic by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart, 1956. Mathemagical text art poetry.

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