old-tech-v-new-tech: Glasses.

I tried contact lenses but I prefer my Gregory Pecks.

OLD TECH vs. NEW TECH -- typewriters vs. computers

Collaged on an antique book cover is a ROYAL manual typewriter that came in some new-fangled colors when it was manufactured back in the day. The girls, lending their vintage presence, are from an antique stash of paper I purchased years ago at a Paris flea market. 

All that said,  for my career I worked as a keyline/pasteup artist & typesetter AND as a secretary (primarily dictaphone). I am a very fast typist (clocked in at 125 words per minute back in the day -- average typing speed is around 50 WPM) and the first time I encountered a computer with a screen situation (I remember it like it was yesterday) I froze. By the end of the day I knew I could never go back to my IBM Selectric or the ROYAL manual clunker I learned on in secondary school!

Old Tech v. New Tech.......................................Sketchbook Pages

Old tech/new tech

 No matter which era we are born into we think we are the bees knees and have the best tech going..the sharpest flint which sliced through a mammoth must have amazed at first…

I am very pleased I was born into the age of central heating, sat navs and automatic washing machines…my favourite technology.

But I am also very pleased I don’t have to ride a Penny farthing!

Theme Of The Week..................Old Tech. v. New Tech

What were the best inventions? Have they been invented yet? Have fun!

HAPPY CAMPER

 

I thank artist Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) for his depiction of a gent enjoying a read in the painting

The Screen Porch (1964)

Happy Campers.........................Dismantling The Red Tent

Apologies to R.B. Kitaj.