Alvaro Franca’s Typewriter Art

I've posted before about a typewriter artist, but here's another one — Alvaro Franca of Rio de Janeiro.

But I noticed that Franca uses a computer image to guide him. Isn't that like the typewriter art version of paint-by-numbers?

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Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 29, 2014
Category: Art

Comments

40 years ago this stuff was kind'a impressive but really isn't much different than someone blowing paint over their hand on a cave wall today.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 09/29/14 at 08:52 AM

Someone delete that up there and let's just do this: (NSFW)

http://www.textfiles.com/art/ASCIIPR0N/pinup10.txt

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 09/29/14 at 09:46 AM

Nerd Naughty Pictures! I remember seeing a few examples early in my career stacked up in the line printer trays. The authors thought they were real hot shot programmers to do such a thing. Mainly they were just wasting time.

Posted by KDP on 09/29/14 at 10:12 AM

Ya aught to see how long one of these takes on a telex machine and 80dpi.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 09/29/14 at 10:16 AM

Thanks Expat for the deletion. I had post/delete options for a few days but I think it was a mistake so no longer have that under comments. Only us old farts remember things like the 300 Baud acoustic rubber coupled modems etc.

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 09/29/14 at 12:15 PM

Definitely cheating with the computer guide.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 09/29/14 at 07:41 PM

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