Tag Archives: typewriter

Disillusionment of 10 point font by Greg Condon. Typewriter-animated and soundtracked words.

G-AAAH – an award-winning typewriter animation about the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. By Lizzy Hobbs. These GIFs don’t do it justice – watch the full clip.

Beck – Black Tambourine. ASCII-video by Adam Levite, 2004.

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It’s typewriter week! For the next 7 days we’ll post only works made with those magical typewriter machines. It’ll be our usual mix of old and new, classy and trashy. The images here are from old posts we’ve made, see http://text-mode.tumblr.com/tagged/typewriter. They are: 

Typewriter Town by William Jay Smith (1960)
– Steve McCaffery, panel from Carnival (1967-75)
Dirk Krecker
Typewriter/Bird in the Bush, by Karl Kempton (1980)
– Pietro (de) Saga (Stefi Kiesler)
– Nico Vassilakis, 24 Typewriter Visual Poems (2011)

Primiti Too Taa by Ed Ackerman and Colin Morton, 1987. More details on Wikipedia.

More typewriter animations

Cellulose by Tapir, 2002. Made on a typewriter with color graphics, plus custom hardware for music and software. More info. Video also available at scene.org.