Impressions from the First Intercontinental Type-In, held in Basel, today.
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| The day started well with a video-link to Robert Messenger in Canberra - hence the Intercontinental condition of the meeting, obviously fulfilled. |
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| A first warm-up at the Sommeregger mansion. |
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| Project Rhine: the fab 4 have arrived at the Rhine river. Waiting for the ferry. |
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| We were surrounded by incredibly helpful people, obviously fascinated by our strange ways, and always ready to take our picture, and propaganda leaflets. |
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| Thank-you note for a fellow taking our picture |
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| Hermes Baby # 5827686 |
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| Gossen Tippa. Princess 100. |
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| It's happening! We are on board the ferry and in the middle of the Rhine, typing away! WORLD PREMIERE for typing in the middle of the Rhine! |
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| The kind photographer requested someone sit on the floor - so I did. |
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| Back home agents F., J. and Z. engage in thorough reading of the Ransmayer & Rodrian typeface catalogues. |
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| This is one of the highlights of today - Zoltan's Hermes Baby # 137801 with Serbian-Cyrillic typeface. Below: detail. Note "I" for Iris Typen as producer of the type. |
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| We then moved on to J.P. Hebel Antiquariat, an antique books store in Kleinbasel. Mr. Pfeiffer had graciously opened his business on a Sunday in order to host today's speed-typing contest. Thank you!! |
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| All ready, all set - who will win the precious trophy? Depicted below, the first prize, is a gift from Berlin. And the winner was..... JASPER! |
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| 5 minutes full speed typing - a heavily disputed match. Attentive readers of a well-known blog and fans of NANOWRIMA will recognize the copied text |
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| corrections, corrections... |
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| Spreading the Gospel: a good many people engaged in conversation at the sight of the typosphere brigade. |
A day in full - thanks everybody for coming!
What a wonderful day! Congratulations to Jasper, and to all of you for your brave acts of public typewriting. (Good work, Agent Z!)
ResponderBorrarit was such a pleasure with this fab4 typewriter - guys ... speed-typing fast & funny .. Rene www.jpha.ch
ResponderBorrarDid someone just folded a map and put Australia next to Switzerland? And who is Agent Z? What a great write-up. You all look so happy and how great that Robert got to join you long distance.
ResponderBorrarReminds me of my own trip there a couple years ago. Good times. Basel is a great place to type!
ResponderBorrarCongratulations on a very successfult type-in. Looks like everyone had a great time. Good to see the typwriter brigade in action.
ResponderBorrarI'm still awed by the pictures in that library... my dream typing space! Congratulations!!
ResponderBorrarI also took a ferry to the Brisbane type-in. It's the best way to travel without being tailed by counter-insurgency agents.
ResponderBorrarLooks like you had a very nice day; typing in the wild :)
ResponderBorrarWhat a fun day! Very nice of him to open his shop on a Sunday.
ResponderBorrarAnd Rhine typing, you just inspired me to follow your example soon!
Well yes, you also live close to the Rhine, so that would be perfect. Maybe you even find a few letters we dropped from the boat the other day?
Borraradded your excellent report to http://type-in.org (:
ResponderBorrarI bet you all type faster than me! Reminds me to practice
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