Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Typewriter Cover Story in New Australian Magazine
The first edition (surely already a collector's item!) of a new Australian magazine, Smith Journal, was published today. It features a cover story about writers and their typewriters - all the typewriters are from the Messenger collection (though they are not my selection). There are nine full-page spreads inside. The stories about writers which go with the nine typewriters are far from factual - but, then, who's complaining? Any publicity for typewriters is, as they say, good publicity ...
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Wonderful! What's the overall theme of Smith Journal?
Glad to learns that type-ins "are becoming big among hipsters." A couple of dozen hipsters on the planet, anyway... although Australia is more hip that the US, as I know from your report on the I Am Typewriter festival in Melbourne.
Thanks, Richard. I was taken a bit by surprise by the delivery of these mags this morning. All along I had been under the impression the feature was for a mag called Frankie, which is very much aimed at a younger (18-20) audience. Unbeknown to me, the same publishing house decided to launch a new mag with this as the first cover story. The theme is very general (Esquire springs to mind, except a larger-paged, bigger format.) It is aimed at an older audience, with features on furniture, distillerys, adventure, music, philosophy, collectors .. and Gideon A. Mantell! Plus the usual fashion stuff etc.
As for hipsters, not sure we are all that hip. Those young people in Melbourne definitely were. Got a panic call yesterday from two young ladies getting married (to each other) in Adelaide. They bought a Valentine for the wedding guests to write with, but it arrived (Australia Post strikes yet again!) with the carriage knocked off - which must have taken some doing! It's irreparable, apparently.
Is there any way we could see the article way over here? I'd like to read it and see the layout. That's nifty though.
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