Suitcase: Gothenburg colour

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Alas, our time in Gothenburg and visit with Camilla has already passed—Glen and I are sitting in the railway station in Oslo, awaiting a night train to Bergen, Norway. There are hundreds of photos and videos to edit and upload, but time with computers is short these days! {here are some highlights, including meeting Sandra and Johan}

Camilla and her husband Ingvar were lovely and generous hosts; we only wish we had more time to stay!

Typewriter Television

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You can probably guess that I'm a fan of the television series Mad Men, but Glen and I are also hooked on Fringe! (This paranormal appreciation must go back to my post-college years when friends would gather every Friday night to watch the X-files! We even composed a song, called "Foxy Mulder".) It has been a while since the previous episode of Fringe and the plot hangs on a typewritten manuscript. It is not often that a typewriter is integral to a tv story line. There's a new show tonight!

wow.

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My hands are shaking and my heart is fluttering.

The idea of publishing a magazine has been floating in my mind for many years, but I didn't make the decision to proceed with it until this past Christmas. Deidre and I began working on it in earnest in January. I still can't quite believe that we accomplished so much in just three months. UPPERCASE magazine is really the culmination of a dozen years of freelance graphic design experience and four years of this creative entrepreneurial adventure called UPPERCASE. All the skills I have acquired over the years have been put to use... and then some! It has been an amazing learning experience and so creatively satisfying.

Blanca Gomez provided the perfect cover image. Blanca, I am so grateful for your generosity. Thank you.

Deidre, thank you for your inexhaustable flow of ideas. And for truly putting your heart into it.

Thank you, Glen, for writing some terrific articles and for listening to me talk about the minutiae of the magazine's progression.

The shipment of magazines is on its way from Winnipeg and we expect them tomorrow. Everything's on schedule for the launch celebration this Thursday from 5pm - 9pm. In the meantime, I'm transforming the gallery space for the treehouse show, adding new subscribers (thank you!), filling our biggest Eclectonote order ever, and sending out Jen11 orders. I'm going to leave this post up for a while, to bask in the moment... and I've got a lot more work to do!

See you on Thursday!

Typewriter Week

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In conclusion of "Typewriter Week", here are portraits of each of my main machines and snapshots of some of my typewriter memorabilia collection. I hope you've enjoyed this week's posts — I've certainly had fun finding all these images and celebrating my obsession. I will continue to post about typewriters in the UPPERCASE journal, but we'll also resume to our usual content next week.

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadians, and I'll see you soon. (Please note that UPPERCASE and the Art Central building will be closed on Sunday and Monday. The online shop is open, though, for a final weekend of Old School art. Click on the link on the righthand side of the site.)

Ephemera

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Writing machines are terrific objects, but of even greater appeal to me is the visual culture of typewriters. I have collected numerous advertisements, typing and secretarial books, sales brochures and promotions, ribbon tins, accessories and typewriter manuals. It is an ongoing obsession. Here are a few images from my personal archive. (I covet these colourful Royals, illustrated below. One of each, please! They are indeed "breathtaking".)