No need to be alarmed by the man in the Krichman Gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
It’s artist Tim Youd, and that odd-looking contraption he’s pounding is a typewriter, or to be more exact, an Olivetti Studio 44.
That’s the model Raymond Chandler used in writing his sixth novel, “The Long Goodbye,” while living in La Jolla, about two miles from the museum.
Youd was in the museum last weekend, and he’ll be back July 3-19, retyping “The Long Goodbye.”
