Ascii, the hard way

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!

Do you know where I can get that software to convert .bmps to
ascii-art?

thanks,
barry


"R. Crawford" <rcr...@geocities.com> wrote:

>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!

rcr...@geocities.com (R. Crawford):
> http://mypage.direct.ca/r/rcrawfor/ascii_bg.gif 

This gotta be a troll - or guy without a computer.

Sven