A HUNDRED TYPEWRITTEN THINGS

100 days of projects with a typewriter.
May 2020, ongoing.

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Day 15. t r o p i k a l teknologiez [pt. 10] • needle, thimble, thread • My Lola was a seamstress, and I spent much of my childhood with her in the house, or a short 10-minute drive away. She painted her nails pink and showed me how to thre
Day 14. Typewriting towards an exploration of patternmaking. Another iteration of an obsession with ::symmetry, counting, geometric sensibilities, ‘the long way’, weaving, textile patterning (particularly from the Philippines and Mexico):
Day 13. t r o p i k a l teknologiez [pt. 9] • the technology of subtext • //embodied cryptology, im sayin//
Day 11. t r o p i k a l teknologiez [pt. 7] waterkulay trials + another card guide • warp, weft, hands •
Day 10. t r o p i k a l teknologiez [pt. 6] Another day, another card guide. • constellation of literacies • . Thinking of them as mini-poems, starting points, suggestions, examples, writing/artistic prompts, just a few of the many possibil
Day 9. t r o p i k a l teknologiez [pt. 5, card guides] Starting the write ups for the cards, doing a few a day to keep it manageable 🤪 . Had to push myself to keep going on this today. Worked a full day’s worth in a weird patching of hours, a
Day 7. t r o p i k a l teknologiez [pt. 3, intro] Whew. Trying to get the wording, spacing, and length just right to fit into a specific size and format 🤪 ❤️, futuredeaddarlings, ur fav ‘sf-born, queens-based, city-kid pinay full of tropikal
Day 6. t r o p i k a l teknologiez [pt. 2, booklet mockups + title patternz] Bringing in some book binding elements, which I’m finding go hand in hand with typewriting in my brain. Did a few different style mockups, and ultimately decided on
Day 5. T R O P I C A L T E C H N O L O G I E S [pt. 1] A deck of cards naming inherited technologies, so many of which we take for granted as ingenious human innovations developed in tandem with the natural world; technologies as in the ways our peo
Day 4. once upon (a carried-away quaranzine) Started off with the idea for a simple little quickwrite zine, which very quickly spiraled out into a whole bookartsy experiment with tracing paper and multiply-oriented readings. . Glad to have gotten car
Day 3. a n d , o r , i s Typed over a print I made last month with carved styrofoam and marker ink (make! art! with! anything!). I spent two days obsessing over making the prints but ultimately they didn’t turn out as clear as I wanted. . Anywa
Day 2. Would Search plus Key. Link in bio for pdf if u wanna play ✏️ . . . f i l l f r e e t o f e e l i n t h e s p a c e b e l o w . . .
Day 1 of 100 days of typewriting. Today, some kinda recipe. First time using this Olivetti Lettera 35l with the two-toned ribbon ⚫️🔴