TIL Ray Bradbury Used Buckling Springs To Write His Books

[ripster]

Saw it in a news clip last night.


And another source here by the amazing Stan Freberg:
http://leemichaelwithers.tripod.com/sfh8_14_97.htm

Both of us have spoken to audiences at IBM many times, and once they gave Ray, who writes on an IBM Wheelwriter electric typewriter, an IBM computer.

After trying to write on it for a week, he finally gave it to one of his daughters, and went back to his old faithful electric typewriter.

I happen to write on a Macintosh, and have tried to talk him into a computer. Nothing doing. In spite of writing on the future, Ray doesn't compute.

Not knowing this, Microsoft's Bill Gates recently asked Ray if he could help him with his computer needs.

"Bill," said Ray, "I don't do 'Windows'."

Stan Freberg here.

Snap, snap, snap, snap......



Sounds like he may have used Selectrics as well.


Artwork here (scroll to Selectric Man).
http://www.villafrancasculpture.com/bronzes.htm

Ray Bradbury Award

2009
Presented annually

Presented to Christopher Nolan in 2011 for Inception; Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell for District 9 in 2010.
Presented to Joss Whedon in 2009. 
Named in honor of Ray Bradbury, the cast bronze statuette references Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, while the IBM Selectric type ball used for the figure's head is indicative of Bradbury's stated preference for using an IBM Selectric typewriter.

Certainly not the ONLY one to prefer that IBM tactile SNAP!

http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/typers.html

Looks like he also used a Royal.

Ray Bradbury: 1947 Royal KMM #3756210 (in Steve Soboroff's collection

And Olivetti and portable.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo22ChJfYw0&feature



R.I.P. Ray, thanks for the great times!


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[mintberryminuscrunch]

Edit... some rude comment.. having a low threshold these days

[ripster]

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[ripster]

I Sing The Body Electric

(in two minutes)

[woody]

I Sing The Body Electric

Hehe, you naughty, you. Wonder how you resisted the "Selectric" pun.
Actually, who originally devised this (quoted) phrase?

[ripster]

I Sing The Body Selectric?

Why Walt WhitIBM of course!

I SING the Body Selectric;  
The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;  
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,  
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.  
  
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves;          
And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?  
And if the body does not do as much as the Soul?  
And if the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?  
  

[TexasFlood]

Thought this was great:

In the basement or UCLA's Powell Library, in a study room with typewriters for rent, that Bradbury wrote his classic story of a book-burning future, The Fireman, which was about 25,000 words long. It was later published at about 50,000 words under the name, Fahrenheit 451, for a total cost of $9.80, due to the library's typewriter-rental fees of ten cents per half-hour

[ripster]

He hated whiny NYC Greenich Village writers and critics:

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/autho ... wW5jL4B.99

[captain]

Oh wow. I was just looking him up about a month ago, and was pleased to see he was still alive; now he's not. He leaves behind a fantastic catalog of writing though! :-)