I wish your videos had more upvotes because every one is a banger (on those keys!) and such high quality! Here's hoping your content continues to find the eyes that need to see it :)
It is August 2018. How is your grandson. I'm 67. My first typewriter was a gift from my best friend. I was 12 he was 14 and he got me a 1938 Olivetti ICO first portable edition with glass keys and a Spanish keyboard made in Italy. The following year I got published in a little magazine under a pen name. I got a lot of typewriters as gifts throughout the years in different brands but that has always been my favorite.
Outstanding chapter! It’s flush with all kinds of sentiment! Please allow me to wish to you : may your son get well soon and may the memory of your mother ever live in your heart!
So very sorry to hear about your grandson's accident, my prayers are with him for a fast recovery. In reference to Larry McMurtry he used a Hermes 3000 when he wrote Lonesome Dove and also gave credit to his typewriter when he won a Golden Globe per Wikipedia. Thank you for your videos Joe they are both helpful and fun to watch! Best regards! Diane "Globe award In 2006, he was cowinner (with Diana Ossana) of both the Best Screenplay Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Brokeback Mountain. He accepted his Oscar wearing jeans and cowboy boots along with his dinner jacket, and used his speech to promote books by reminding his audience that "Brokeback Mountain" was a short story by E. Annie Proulx before it was a movie. In his Golden Globe acceptance speech, he paid tribute to his Swiss-made Hermes 3000 typewriter."
Your wonderful comments about typewriters that come into our lives reminded me of these words from Robert R. McCammon's "Boy's Life." Maybe a bike, once discarded, pines away year after year for the first hand that steered it, and as it grows old it dreams, in its bike way, of the young roads. It was never really mine, then; it traveled with me, but its pedals and handlebars held the memory of another master. - McCammon, Robert R.. Boy's Life (p. 78). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.
I hope your grandson is better. One of the great things about typewriters is that you have the physical copy immediately, as opposed to writing on the computer where it's just words on a screen until the printer has done its job. I still have an electric typewriter which I used to love, but I used it so much the A dropped off the printing arm.
This reminded me of a great anecdote once shared by sci-fi/horror great Harlan Ellison (of I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream and A Boy and His Dog fame) about L. Ron Hubbard, who he knew personally back when he was just a broke pulp fiction author getting paid by the word and trying to survive with his young family in the 1930s and 40s: “He wrote Dianetics in one weekend, and you know how he used to write? He used to take a roll of white paper, like paper you wrap fish in. He had it on the wall, and he would roll it into the typewriter and he would begin typing. When he was done, he would tear it off and leave it as one whole long novel. We were sitting around one night... who else was there? Alfred Bester, and Cyril Kornbluth, and Lester Del Rey, and Ron Hubbard, who was making a penny a word, and had been for years. And he said "This bullshit's got to stop!" He says, "I gotta get money." He says, "I want to get rich".
Prayers and good wishes for your grandson's fast recovery. Nice that you have that connection with him. My grandfather passed away when I was only 3. 30 years after he died (when my grandmother passed), I was given his old, scuffed up pocket knife. It is very special to me, even though I have several pocket knives that are in much better shape. I barely remember my grandfather, but he was a carpenter. Every time I use the knife, I think about him and all of the work that he might have done with it.
On the topic of Beats and typewriters, the novel "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs (perhaps the most "out there" of all the Beats) was adapted into a movie by David Cronenberg in the 90's; and the film has lots of typewriters in it! The protagonist William Lee (based off Burroughs himself) goes through lots of 'dreadful' typewriters himself in it. The main attraction is another characters Arabic script Olympia, a very beautiful machine, which unfortunately gets thrown out a window. It's a very, very strange & 'adult' film; yet is a great watch for anyone interested in the Beats & typewriters.
Sorry to hear about your grandson's accident, I hope he recovers through the difficult process. Isaac Asimov is often seen typing on IBM Selectric. I think that was his favorite typewriter, I've seen pictures with several different models.
Personal anecdote, not necessarily typewriter related. You spoke about associating machines with the people who used them. About a year ago or so, I saw an Amstrad 8512 on ebay in the UK. I bought it, as it was the same model my favorite fantasy author (David Gemmell) used right up to the moment he died. He had recently had quite a serious heart surgery when shortly after his wife woke to find him slumped over his word processor, dead. I bought it knowing I could not use it here in the states. For me, it was more of a totem connecting with the spirit of my now deceased favorite author. I hope you and your family recover and are doing well.
I'm so very sorry to hear such tragic news and will pray for you all. Thank God he survived. I hope it is OK to ask this, I would be grateful if you could let us know if there is a crowd funding page so we can contribute to his medical bills/help him generally as he recuperates. Thinking of you and your family, Penelope, UK.
I like your Nekked writer a lot, the woodwork you did looked great, however, the 70's boxy shape is growing on me. I think it's the colour of Noah's machine. I feel like I've seen some purely grey tones. The carriage looks really beefy on that machine. I wonder how the touch of the 70's one compares to first generation in green, the really round ones. I saw one on eBay and it was made somewhere other than Switzerland, so I wonder what they are like.The abacus on the wall is very smart and you've got really good taste in paint. Love that soft green on the walls. I bet you get light in your house all the time in Albuquerque. My house is always dark. Thanks for the video. I hope you enjoy using Noah's typewriter for your blogs.
Thanks, Richard. I agree with you about the color of Noah's machine. The Nekkid-Riter's was just beige, not as attractive, color-wise. Both of them have a great touch and feel. I understand the older H3Ks are very similar mechanically, so I'd expect them to feel similar. Credit my wife for the color scheme in the office. We do get good light here, almost too bright in the summer. I actually like doing street photography in the winter, the sun angle is lower to the south and the light is more subdued.
I read on the road reading the scroll edition! I loved it but had a hard time picking places to put the book mark ! You make a point about the use of the tool to achieve a certain effect, you may not achieve results as someone who used the tool but you can take on their example on how they used the tool to be inspired to do something very specific. What I notice about the scroll that is unique unto it compared to other works I've read is that the pacing was break- neck. I've read books with a fast pace but this one also felt unique. I can very much imagine looking into getting a writing set up as similar to this as possible to get myself in the head space to write in that mode for a narrative.
Kerouac used an Underwood four bank portable that he received from Neal Cassidy and his wife. he didn't own it but that was what was used. Cormac McCarthy used the lettera 32.
I just purchased from eBay a 6020 Xerox Memory writer. It's so heavy. I'm in a wheelchair now, so I can't lift it at all. I'll have to get a desk, and some more supplies for it. But I'm sure it will work. Hello from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan!
If I'm not wrong, Nietszche wrote about the relation between the instruments we use to write and the thoughts produced. I don't remember anymore where.
Not sure how I missed the sad news about Noah. I hope he's healing up well in the meantime Joe. Wishing you all the very best. I enjoy your videos immensely. In addition to Larry McMurtry, the Lettera 32 of Cormac McCarthy sold for $254,500 to charity back in 2009, and he replaced it with an identical model in much better shape (he'd written over five million words on his over 50 years) for less than $20. I've always loved that story. artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/cormac-mccarthys-typewriter-brings-254500-at-auction/
My FIL was a native French speaker and for a long time he broadcast in French to Africa via the South African Broadcasting service. He had a typewriter which I never looked at (I do remember his first computer on which I installed MultiMate). Since his death a long time ago I found his typewriter in the house. It is a Hermes 3000 of 1965 (I looked up the serial number). It is obviously a special European (not British) model as it has all the French and German accents including a key for the cedille. You type the accent first and the platen does not move. Then you overtype the actual vowel required. I noticed with interest that there is no key for the French Franc although it does have a key for the British pound (above 5). No Euros of course. Unfortunately I do not have any copies of what he wrote. I do remember that he always used the same file for MM even when I told him he didn't need to do that. So he used to open the file, delete everything in it and then type the next submission. I do reckon he bought the Hermes as it was the only typewriter with all the accents.
My Dad was a professional writer and magazine editor in New York City, had stories published in New Yorker Magazine, etc......he had two typewriters that were in the house for all of my child and teen hood, a green Hermes 2000 and a dark blue IBM Selectric. And one day those machines just disappeared, and it's one of the pains of my life that I don't have them, don't even know what happened to them. He liked to work very late at night, and the sound of him typing on that Hermes at 3AM was a very comforting sound to me when I was a little boy.
I wish your videos had more upvotes because every one is a banger (on those keys!) and such high quality!
Here's hoping your content continues to find the eyes that need to see it :)
Thank you!
@@Joe_VanCleave You're more than welcome :) Always glad to share a happy truth :)
It is August 2018. How is your grandson. I'm 67. My first typewriter was a gift from my best friend. I was 12 he was 14 and he got me a 1938 Olivetti ICO first portable edition with glass keys and a Spanish keyboard made in Italy. The following year I got published in a little magazine under a pen name. I got a lot of typewriters as gifts throughout the years in different brands but that has always been my favorite.
Outstanding chapter! It’s flush with all kinds of sentiment! Please allow me to wish to you : may your son get well soon and may the memory of your mother ever live in your heart!
So very sorry to hear about your grandson's accident, my prayers are with him for a fast recovery.
In reference to Larry McMurtry he used a Hermes 3000 when he wrote Lonesome Dove and also gave credit to his typewriter when he won a Golden Globe per Wikipedia. Thank you for your videos Joe they are both helpful and fun to watch! Best regards! Diane
"Globe award In 2006, he was cowinner (with Diana Ossana) of both the Best Screenplay Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Brokeback Mountain. He accepted his Oscar wearing jeans and cowboy boots along with his dinner jacket, and used his speech to promote books by reminding his audience that "Brokeback Mountain" was a short story by E. Annie Proulx before it was a movie. In his Golden Globe acceptance speech, he paid tribute to his Swiss-made Hermes 3000 typewriter."
OMG - 6 years on I hope your son has made a full recovery and this is just a bad memory...!
Yes, we are blessed, thank you,
Your wonderful comments about typewriters that come into our lives reminded me of these words from Robert R. McCammon's "Boy's Life."
Maybe a bike, once discarded, pines away year after year for the first hand that steered it, and as it grows old it dreams, in its bike way, of the young roads. It was never really mine, then; it traveled with me, but its pedals and handlebars held the memory of another master.
- McCammon, Robert R.. Boy's Life (p. 78). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.
Wonderful! I need to read some of those back issues.
I hope your grandson is better.
One of the great things about typewriters is that you have the physical copy immediately, as opposed to writing on the computer where it's just words on a screen until the printer has done its job.
I still have an electric typewriter which I used to love, but I used it so much the A dropped off the printing arm.
Thank you, my grandson is much better.
This is the first I've heard that sad news. I'll keep you both in my prayers.
This reminded me of a great anecdote once shared by sci-fi/horror great Harlan Ellison (of I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream and A Boy and His Dog fame) about L. Ron Hubbard, who he knew personally back when he was just a broke pulp fiction author getting paid by the word and trying to survive with his young family in the 1930s and 40s:
“He wrote Dianetics in one weekend, and you know how he used to write? He used to take a roll of white paper, like paper you wrap fish in. He had it on the wall, and he would roll it into the typewriter and he would begin typing. When he was done, he would tear it off and leave it as one whole long novel.
We were sitting around one night... who else was there? Alfred Bester, and Cyril Kornbluth, and Lester Del Rey, and Ron Hubbard, who was making a penny a word, and had been for years. And he said "This bullshit's got to stop!" He says, "I gotta get money." He says, "I want to get rich".
Prayers and good wishes for your grandson's fast recovery. Nice that you have that connection with him. My grandfather passed away when I was only 3. 30 years after he died (when my grandmother passed), I was given his old, scuffed up pocket knife. It is very special to me, even though I have several pocket knives that are in much better shape. I barely remember my grandfather, but he was a carpenter. Every time I use the knife, I think about him and all of the work that he might have done with it.
On the topic of Beats and typewriters, the novel "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs (perhaps the most "out there" of all the Beats) was adapted into a movie by David Cronenberg in the 90's; and the film has lots of typewriters in it! The protagonist William Lee (based off Burroughs himself) goes through lots of 'dreadful' typewriters himself in it. The main attraction is another characters Arabic script Olympia, a very beautiful machine, which unfortunately gets thrown out a window. It's a very, very strange & 'adult' film; yet is a great watch for anyone interested in the Beats & typewriters.
Sorry to hear about your grandson's accident, I hope he recovers through the difficult process. Isaac Asimov is often seen typing on IBM Selectric. I think that was his favorite typewriter, I've seen pictures with several different models.
Personal anecdote, not necessarily typewriter related. You spoke about associating machines with the people who used them. About a year ago or so, I saw an Amstrad 8512 on ebay in the UK. I bought it, as it was the same model my favorite fantasy author (David Gemmell) used right up to the moment he died. He had recently had quite a serious heart surgery when shortly after his wife woke to find him slumped over his word processor, dead. I bought it knowing I could not use it here in the states. For me, it was more of a totem connecting with the spirit of my now deceased favorite author. I hope you and your family recover and are doing well.
I'm so very sorry to hear such tragic news and will pray for you all. Thank God he survived. I hope it is OK to ask this, I would be grateful if you could let us know if there is a crowd funding page so we can contribute to his medical bills/help him generally as he recuperates. Thinking of you and your family, Penelope, UK.
I like your Nekked writer a lot, the woodwork you did looked great, however, the 70's boxy shape is growing on me. I think it's the colour of Noah's machine. I feel like I've seen some purely grey tones. The carriage looks really beefy on that machine. I wonder how the touch of the 70's one compares to first generation in green, the really round ones. I saw one on eBay and it was made somewhere other than Switzerland, so I wonder what they are like.The abacus on the wall is very smart and you've got really good taste in paint. Love that soft green on the walls. I bet you get light in your house all the time in Albuquerque. My house is always dark. Thanks for the video. I hope you enjoy using Noah's typewriter for your blogs.
Thanks, Richard. I agree with you about the color of Noah's machine. The Nekkid-Riter's was just beige, not as attractive, color-wise. Both of them have a great touch and feel. I understand the older H3Ks are very similar mechanically, so I'd expect them to feel similar.
Credit my wife for the color scheme in the office. We do get good light here, almost too bright in the summer. I actually like doing street photography in the winter, the sun angle is lower to the south and the light is more subdued.
I am viewing this video a year on - I hope your Grandson has recovered well. Best wishes.
He's recovered remarkably well, aside from a few scars. He's currently working a construction job, he's a strong young man.
I read on the road reading the scroll edition!
I loved it but had a hard time picking places to put the book mark !
You make a point about the use of the tool to achieve a certain effect, you may not achieve results as someone who used the tool but you can take on their example on how they used the tool to be inspired to do something very specific.
What I notice about the scroll that is unique unto it compared to other works I've read is that the pacing was break- neck. I've read books with a fast pace but this one also felt unique.
I can very much imagine looking into getting a writing set up as similar to this as possible to get myself in the head space to write in that mode for a narrative.
Kerouac used an Underwood four bank portable that he received from Neal Cassidy and his wife. he didn't own it but that was what was used. Cormac McCarthy used the lettera 32.
I just purchased from eBay a 6020 Xerox Memory writer. It's so heavy. I'm in a wheelchair now, so I can't lift it at all. I'll have to get a desk, and some more supplies for it. But I'm sure it will work. Hello from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan!
Let me know how you get on with it.
If I'm not wrong, Nietszche wrote about the relation between the instruments we use to write and the thoughts produced. I don't remember anymore where.
Not sure how I missed the sad news about Noah. I hope he's healing up well in the meantime Joe. Wishing you all the very best. I enjoy your videos immensely.
In addition to Larry McMurtry, the Lettera 32 of Cormac McCarthy sold for $254,500 to charity back in 2009, and he replaced it with an identical model in much better shape (he'd written over five million words on his over 50 years) for less than $20. I've always loved that story.
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/cormac-mccarthys-typewriter-brings-254500-at-auction/
My FIL was a native French speaker and for a long time he broadcast in French to Africa via the South African Broadcasting service. He had a typewriter which I never looked at (I do remember his first computer on which I installed MultiMate). Since his death a long time ago I found his typewriter in the house. It is a Hermes 3000 of 1965 (I looked up the serial number). It is obviously a special European (not British) model as it has all the French and German accents including a key for the cedille. You type the accent first and the platen does not move. Then you overtype the actual vowel required. I noticed with interest that there is no key for the French Franc although it does have a key for the British pound (above 5). No Euros of course. Unfortunately I do not have any copies of what he wrote. I do remember that he always used the same file for MM even when I told him he didn't need to do that. So he used to open the file, delete everything in it and then type the next submission.
I do reckon he bought the Hermes as it was the only typewriter with all the accents.
Thank you for sharing with us about your FIL!
My Dad was a professional writer and magazine editor in New York City, had stories published in New Yorker Magazine, etc......he had two typewriters that were in the house for all of my child and teen hood, a green Hermes 2000 and a dark blue IBM Selectric. And one day those machines just disappeared, and it's one of the pains of my life that I don't have them, don't even know what happened to them. He liked to work very late at night, and the sound of him typing on that Hermes at 3AM was a very comforting sound to me when I was a little boy.
McMurtry used the Hermes 3000 in the older rounded form.
Sylvia Plath’s machine.
I'll let you know how it goes.