Arneson

Robert Arneson’s funk typewriter. Ceramic, 1966.

Found via gramatologia

Dylan

‘Taken by Douglas R.Gilbert as Dylan was typing the liner notes for his fourth album, Another Side of Bob Dylan, in his writing studio above the Café Espresso on Tinker Street, Woodstock, New York, in August 1964.’

Last month, Bob Dylan turned 70.


Bob Dylan: I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) (Live)

Photo found via oz.Typewriter

Bukowski

Charles Bukowski and typewriter. Doc here.

Brodsky

‘With a combination of live-action and animation, Khrzhanovskiy weaves a magical portrait of Brodsky and his milieu from post-war Leningrad to an imaginary visit to the new St. Petersburg’

Above, trailer for Andrey Khrzhanovskiy’s A Room and a Half – based on the life of poet Joseph Brodsky (1940-96).


Joseph Brodsky, baby Hermes typewriter

Fabert

‘I found the Candidates of Politburo in the loft of an old, hidden soviet theatre near my hometown Brandenburg. The colored b/w pictures on wooden boards are exposed to sun and rain because the roof is already gone. Some are perforated by bullets.’

The photography of Fritz Fabert.


Self portrait, Fritz Fabert

‘Seldom was covered with snow and an old oak’

Mercedes typewriter

Mercedes Schreibmaschine poster by Ernst Dryden, 1911.

Found via Divinely Elegant: The World of Ernst Dryden

‘Safety Matches, Made in Japan’

Vintage western-influenced Japanese matchbox cover.

Article here.

Money: ‘This is your god’

Video for N.A.S.A.’s Money. Feat. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, Z-Trip and the work of Shepard Fairey.

A set of Russian avant garde books

More here.

Found via Mr. Mule’s

Chaubin, CCCP

‘The beauty of Soviet brutalism’

Frédéric Chaubin’s photographs of 90 oddly-designed buildings constructed in the final decades of the Soviet Union.

And thru Taschen, available in handy book form.

Found via RebeccaWho


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