Pocket Rhino

Print and save! Your very own Rhinoceros unicornis nagaloticus to glue to your typewriter.

Friday Typewriter Doodles

Messing around with the Android "Kids Paint" app this morning. I deny any and all artistic ability, and the resemblance to any real-life machines is purely unintentional and coincidental. Richard Polt has nothing to fear!









My wife originally found this app and installed it on her phone a while back as a kid-entertainer for my youngest. As you can probably tell, it randomly changes the color of your "pen" for each stroke, which gives the artwork a very pop-art sensibility. This hopefully compensates for lack of perspective, realism or (in the case of the upstrike) screen space.

Wide Load

Speaking of depreciation, the price I paid for this (in 2010 dollars) equates to $0.93 in 1967 dollars, roughly the price of a pound of ground coffee in the supermarket. This machine stayed local, as you can see from the owner's notes. Interestingly, our dining room table and living room furniture in our current home came from the same store, about 30 years later, just a handful of years before "Monkey Ward" disappeared entirely.

Teaser photo: test-typed on a Montgomery Ward Signature 513 (made by Brother)

O HAI

(For the origins, see the post on dictation software.)

UPDATE: full size images for your remixing pleasure. Download the above image or a simpler vertical version.

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