Typewriters, Typers & Ephemera (in a secret agent scrapbook montage)

Over-stuffing an adorable pink #scrapbook with Lettraset letters and a mix of hidden messages, and a barrage of #typewriters: Remington, Olivetti, Olympia, LC Smith, Underwood, etc. (if you've got a keen eye, please make a list for me :-)) & eager typists, plus curious ephemera, bits of artistic inspiration and an "Ancillary Dossier" of extra cards + to add/swap out blank pages.

Checkpoints and characters includes (not in order):

* Beat Museum in North Beach, San Francisco
* Last Word books in Olympia, Washington
* British war museum + Winston Churchill resplendent in a smoking robe, London, UK
* Motel lobby and Papery stationery shop in Victoria, Canada
* Hip Inn in Phitsanulok, Thailand
* Ceylon-era documenters in Fort Galle, plus another at a school in Dikwella, Sri Lanka

My Swag:
* My daily drivers at: in Sanur & Nusa Ceningan, Bali, Indonesia; Okayama, Japan; Karapithiya, Sri Lanka; Pe ELL, WA, USA, & a "decoy" typewriter-like computer keyboard
* Me with stand-in model Jack Kerouac's LC Smith on which he typed On The Road, in Kobe, Japan (ty MT)
* Generational Remington at Grammy's in Langley BC

Plus typists at work or their machines and other notables from my "art and inspiration" dossier:

{with hand-written credit to the photographer as possible, my pardon if I've missed your name, please let me know #BestIntentions)

* Allen Ginsberg in overalls
* Harlan Ellison looking tired
* Jack Kerouac with cats
* Neal Cassady’s written letter to JK
* William Burroughs with Joe Strummer and Kurt Cobain
* Courtney Barnett, along with her certificate for great sentences
* Ian Fleming's gold-plated machine
* Jack London's machine
* Lawrence Ferlinghetti's in the Smithsonian
* Peter O'Toole on set of Lawrence of Arabia
* William Faulkner thinking Southern Gothic things
* Edward Abbey on a high peak fire lookout
* Lafcadio Hearn / Koizumi Yakumo with pipe in woodblock print
* Duke Ellington, blue in an ad
* Penelope Cruz in bed
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* Jacqueline Kennedy reading Dharma Bums on Air Force 1 (while JFK eats clam chowder out of frame)
* Betty Gillies, pioneering aviator
* Amelia Earhart, aviator and fashionista
* Gary Snyder, Zen poet returning from climbing Mt Hood (Oregon, USA) ins spectacular outfit and ice axe at The Oregonian
* Me in character as a "young archaeologist" in Orem high school, Utah 1988 yearbook, (with ascot)
& peeking into a black suitcase of secrets in kura barn (ty T.Dub) + me w/ magic potion wizard smoke (ty again T.Dub), & with usual hat, spectacles & beard in an ink stamp by KT

Also:
* Remington Japanese kana typewriter in an ad
* Olivetti, crocheted (non-functional), thank you however made this beautiful creation
* Telegraph station at a museum in White Rock, BC
* Ledger-size Japanese typewriter at a secondhand store in Okayama

More:
* City Lights books, Café Vesuvio and JK alley with Robbie Robertson, Bob Dylan, Michael McClure hanging out (& me hanging out decades later in a puff of smoke)
* Vincent van Gogh's funeral announcement (with train schedule)
* Titanic White Star Line menu (obviously not from the ship)
* Letters from Russia, notes from my epistolary literature project typed on the accompanying Underwood
* Swallow Brand typewriter ribbon can in Indonesia
* Scissors, mine, green handle, new 2023 (insert brand here) made in Tennessee, or is it Kentucky?

Go On:
* Letter from the Front, a pre-formatted postcard with checkboxes, World War II, European front
* "Map of the ocean" showing cardinal directions of emptiness
* Cafe Wha? and stairs down to The Gaslight (counterculture literary/music "basket houses" Greenwich Village, NYC)
* Shodo ink drawing of a Swiss-type multi-purpose tool knife
* Nick Bantock (noted artist and epistolary literature creator) envelope covered with stamps (addressed to me)
* Shodo ink mantra "Fck Stats, Make Art" on silver tray, by me (ty ML)
* Aerogrammes from Ethiopia, augmented with poetry + various ink stamps, photo corners, probably something from Nepal, various stacks of suitcases, and more typewriters that I can't remember where they came (is it from you?)

Finishing Up:
* "Foreign Letters" postbox by an immigration office, somewhere during the Sri Lanka mistake (that blue though!) + three scripts
* A cute Shiba Inu dog all packed up and ready to go on an quest (cheers me up every time)
* Wonder Hotel: Rooms for Rent, Clean Quiet, Free Cable, Fridge, Secure
* Yumeji Takahisa pink cat washi tape
* Lettraset rub-on letters from my dear late Mother's stash
* 419-1/2 Quebec City
* More postcards with semi-relevant but entirely-important postage stamps and secret messages (not for you)
* And a few snaps of the finished overstuffed book on verge of collapse to round out the montage

Music: Charles Lloyd, Sombrero Sam (pardon typo in video)

Created, crafted and photograph/filmed at Giggling Piglet Studio, April 2024

Sent to _________?.

Fondly, dvo

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