He is an amazing comedian! Yet, Simon is a simple capitalist… Kev told recently in an interview that Simon suggested him to sign a contract with Simon to give 33% of his earnings for 6 years. Kev refused on the day of this exact show and 10 minutes before his turn they said he isn’t allowed to perform with what he prepared and had to think of something different. This is what he came up with in under 10 minutes. Simon simply set him a trap… also the BTG is the one that approached Kev and asked to take a part in the show. They wanted him to be the winner. The price was too high so he refused to be the winner
The brilliant John le Carre, same devotion to what is now considered old fashioned writing, longhand and tons of cut and staple editing. Now who really believes that AI will replace these brilliant minds and deeply spiritual (go ahead, trash it) and human intellectual refinements to produce the timeless works of these men Obviously there are more examples including women (before anyone jumps on my comment to trash it.)
I have a whole bunch of mechanical typewriters and a couple of electric ones that I just recently got into. I fell in love with using the typewriter as a creative tool just about three years ago. And now I have a little collection. I just got one of these that Woody has, for pretty cheap (cost me about $50). It needed some repairs, which cost me another $75. But I was willing because it’s the same model, an Olympia SM-3, but a rare italics typeface model. I like it for letters and poems. It’s not my favorite typewriter (so far, that’s my Hermes 2000) for touch or for big output (either the Smith Corona Electra 120, an electric manual hybrid, that still has the carriage return lever, and still uses standard ribbon for ink, and has a very fast touch, with no pressure needed, or a full-size standard desktop manual machine. My Underwood TouchMaster 5 was awesome, but it doesn’t work so well, and the typewriter repair guy who sold it to me for $50, doesn’t think he can fix it anymore. He’s willing to buy it back, because I have some older Underwood standards, which I might be able to clean and repair, and good full-size Remington arriving today) , but I still love it for its good German build, and for the italic font/typeface. I could flip it for somewhere from about $150 - $300 on Mercala, FB Marketplace or eBay. But I won’t. It’s too sweet for the specific uses I wanted it for.
You’ll see he moves the ink ribbon before typing. Without the metal cover, the exposed length dries up and won’t type, so he needs to reveal still inked parts that were just rolled up.
Yeah I dont think it dries out. The typewriter is already open to air, just the bigger opening does not have a significant more drying effect, I think. I think he was deslacking it? Or im not sure why. Which should not be unecessary, in fact. the typewriter moves the ribbon tight automatically, if functionign correctly. It would perhaps only be dry if it werent used for like many years perhaps? Which is not the case for a used often machine. Might just be a meaningless habit. But typewriters move and tighten the ribbon automatically. It begs the question to me though: One for mr. Spock: Why does not, if typewriter ink is not air fast drying, smudge like crazy when on the paper, because it doesn't really need significant drying time to not smudge, usually.
Great video with lots of great details, except his parents paid for the typewriter. $40 in 1952 is almost $450 today. It's doubtful that 16-year-old Woody had that kind of money laying around back then.
