Berlin,
November 2013

I found an amazing shop in Berlin a few weeks ago full of typewriters. Since then I've been thinking I'd quite like one. They're strange things in 2013 — these things that were once ubiquitous and completely associated with thinking, ideas, creativity and articulation, have been completely replaced. I mean completely replaced, by computers. But they still work, and billions of people used them very effectively for years. Anyway, I might get one. And see what happens next.

Four Olympia typewriters on a red surface in a Berlin shop, November 2013

Four Olympias on a red surface, Berlin, November 2013  ·  View on Flickr  ·  Photograph by Mark Charmer

(I want the orange one, yes that orange Olympia one.)