Ascii, the hard way
From R. Crawford <rcr...@geocities.com>
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· 21 Feb 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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Looking thru an old magazine (1960 and we won't mention which one), I came across an amazing ascii artist. Here's the article that went with the pictures (48K .gif to follow under Subject=Hard way .gif): All day Guillermo Mendana Olivera works as a stenographer in Leon, Spain; every night he types pictures. Samples of his work shown here are, moving clockwise: typings of Ike, of Mendana himself, a detail from a picture of a church, and the Puerta de Alcala in Madrid. Each picture takes about 70 hours. Mendana uses small o and x and periods, dashes and commas. He starts with a paper covering all but a sliver of a photo; as the paper moves down he copies a line at a time. Imagine, on a typewriter! No software to comvert .bmp's. No easy corrections or fancy font tricks. They didn't even have white-out then. This man deserves recognition in the ascii art world! I'm trying to track him down thru family or friends on the net. If I can, maybe I will post more of his work. If you have a problem with your news reader and .gif's, you can see the gif at http://mypage.direct.ca/r/rcrawfor/ascii_bg.gif Long live .txt!
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