ABOUT

Hello Everyone, I suppose I’ll start by introducing myself.

My name is Lucas Dul, I’m that guy that fixes typewriters. I’ve often been told that typewriter servicing is an art, and I find that to be an interesting way of looking at things as I consider myself to be an artist. I started this website as www.lucasdul.com a few years back to showcase my photography, as well as the wide variety of other things I do ranging from drawing to stained glass. In the years following, the typewriter business kicked off, and I began working towards opening a physical location as that would be the typewriter dream. The website is now home to a more business focused experience, but I’ll be keeping some of the more fun projects on board like the short story contest.

I began with a blog in November of 2017, where I made horrible posts which gradually got better with time. In the years that I’ve run that blog, the introduction post was revised again and again. I never knew quite what to say to people to give them a preview of what I do, but that intro post is probably the best, so I’ll just copy and paste it here because I’m feeling too lazy to write something original (it isn’t plagiarizing if you rip off yourself).

I want you to close your eyes and imagine a massive library, vast and expansive in the knowledge it covers.  Please note that I don't actually want you to close your eyes, because then you wouldn't be able to read this.  Just close your mind's eye...your...pineal gland?  Anyway, imagine that big beautiful library has a catch.  Not a single dot of information in all those volumes has any practical use.  Now I also want you to imagine that most of the shelves are dry-rotted and the books appear in huge heaps all over the place without the slightest, faintest illusion of order.  As if it were ground zero of the "nuke of knowledge," the hazy aftermath of a several literary-megaton violent enlightenment that created this monumental catastrophe.  

That library is me.  Well, no, I am not a physical library, I am in fact human (or so I've been lead to believe).  I have a bad habit of introducing myself in a manner that leads to blank stares and wonton confusion.   TL;DR I'm an ADHD Jack of All Trades.

If I were to explain to you my role in this blog, I'd tell you that I am a Typewriter Service Technician.  I fix, service, or otherwise make new old typewriters and place them in the hands of various creatively minded people (for a price of course, and that price is the cost).  Disclaimer: if it was melted down in the fires of Mount Doom in Middle Earth, it might be in need of a little more than basic maintenance and parts replacement.

I am also an artist.  I am an avid photographer, I love analog mediums.  I also used to teach various art classes like stained glass.  It was through those years that I honed my skills in the crystalline arts (glass, not meth).  I also draw, so thank you in advance for liking my logo(s).

I have always been deeply rooted in the physical world, the very same world that has been torn asunder in recent years.  We now have acquainted ourselves with the term "virtual reality," as if the reality we left behind was too terrifyingly disrupted to consider.  There is a merit in physicality, in what you can touch, and what you can create.  We are creatures of intense creative promise, yearning to use that power to solidify our impermanent position in eternity.  We live, breathe, and create in the real world, and that is why the so called digital revolution is sooner or later destined to fail.

I've been told a lot of things about myself, that I sound like Paul Simon, or that I allegedly made a deal with the devil.  I am not here to discount any of those.  I'm here to give you a tour of a vast library section by section.  I can't at all promise it'll be interesting, but interest is relative. 

Photo Credit: Ellis Noel