The Amateur Everything

Karthik Kakarala, head of Solar Shadows Records, 2nd year student in the Xavier University School of Medicine at Aruba, contains a sampling of what rattles around in his mind upon this Tumblr. This is not a Twitter. Expect bouts of verbosity, regardless of whether it's for better or for worse.
Sun Oct 24
singulus: ‘Steampunk Circa 1865 … Our Thanks To InOtherNews ♥ Bet you’ve never seen a typewriter like this before—from Dark Roasted Blend: What many consider to be the true ancestor to true, efficient, and financially successful typewriter was developed by Rasmus Malling-Hansen: The Writing Ball. Not only was it efficient, but also strangely elegant, even beautiful: just look at it - a brass half-sphere covered with keys above a cylinder that held the paper. It was finely made, unlike some of the unsuccessful machines before, looking more like a gentleman’s watch than a piece of office equipment. More about unusual typewriter designs here. (via Neatorama) The IBM Selectric (and possibly one other typewriter) have a ball with all of the characters on it, the electric motor and computer-esque electronics guiding what part strikes.  This seems to just outright take out the middleman on all counts, so I definitely approve.   This is probably the most relevant thing that I could reblog today.

singulus:

‘Steampunk Circa 1865 …

Our Thanks To InOtherNews ♥

Bet you’ve never seen a typewriter like this before—from Dark Roasted Blend:

What many consider to be the true ancestor to true, efficient, and financially successful typewriter was developed by Rasmus Malling-Hansen: The Writing Ball. Not only was it efficient, but also strangely elegant, even beautiful: just look at it - a brass half-sphere covered with keys above a cylinder that held the paper. It was finely made, unlike some of the unsuccessful machines before, looking more like a gentleman’s watch than a piece of office equipment.

More about unusual typewriter designs here.

(via Neatorama)

The IBM Selectric (and possibly one other typewriter) have a ball with all of the characters on it, the electric motor and computer-esque electronics guiding what part strikes.  This seems to just outright take out the middleman on all counts, so I definitely approve.  

This is probably the most relevant thing that I could reblog today.

(via helloclarice)

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    ‘Steampunk Circa 1865 … Our Thanks To InOtherNews ♥
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