Time and innovation consistently reduce famous equipment to quaint relics and landfill elements. Some brands are reborn as technology advances. Some are acquired and some simply die. Underwood, Smith Corona, Olivetti and Remington are some of the most remembered forgotten names in typewriters. Now found under inches of dust, most of these machines are destined for history’s trash heap. A lucky few will undergo a robot-rebirth at the hands of artist Jeremy Mayer.
Via Murketing.
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Having hammered out many a newspaper story on both a manual Olympia and Underwood, I really appreciate the thought Mayer puts into his art. It's fitting that a machine used to crank out so much creativity (novels, features, ad copy, etc.) be recycled into something with artistic merit like Mayer's work. The thought of these machines (who knows, maybe one belonged to Ernest Hemingway) being tossed on the scrap heap just doesn't sound right. Recycling them into works of art is a far more appropriate use for these mechanical word mills.
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