Beadwork by the Huichol people in Mexico. Photographed at the
The National Museum of Anthropology
in Mexico City.
Appearance Of Crosses by Ding Li
Continual painting series by Shanghai artist creates abstract colourful grids using the cross as his motif mark unit. He has been making these paintings for 20 years and is considered one of the most important abstract artists working in China today.
More can be discovered at ShangART Gallery website here
EDIT 2024: It seems like Ding Yi is the preferred romanization of the name.
Finnish teletext advertising for you-know-what.
The top image is a PETSCII piece by Acid Terrorist and below is Filth‘s ANSI-portrait of Keira Rathbone. Both released in 1980 by Blocktronics, 2014.
A short Atari animation about murdering people who like Amiga. More here.
CTRL+C & CTRL+V : 2006-09-22 14:32
Teletext love club at Tele 5 (spanish TV channel)
Three mainstream computer heroes, each rendered in a corresponding font. Jack Tramiel (Commodore), Dennis Ritchie (UNIX) and some guy (Apple). Made by SanderFocus, who also makes great pixel art – more here.
The WOW marks the proof of aliens, and it’s spelled out 6EQUJ5!
SETI is the scientific method to find alien radio. It’s not an easy task, since you don’t know what you’re looking for. At all. So SETI includes some speculations. In this case, this hot text mode graph shows extremely loud occurences of the frequency 1420 MHz. That’s the frequency where hydrogen resonates, which is the most common element in the universe, so it should be the medium of choice for aliens. Fuck yeah science.
On a related note, The Arecibo message, which could also be textmode, was sent out only a few years before this discovery, in 1974. Just coincidence? The truth is out there, Scully, and it is in radio text mode.
2 hour video that shows all the 109,242 characters of Unicode 6.0. Made by the decodeunicode crew, apparently independent from the one that Jörg Piringer did.
This guy was sucked into teletext when he was looking for hockey results in 1993. Now he is trying to communicate with his children, who are grown up by now. By Joonas Rinta-Kanto, as part of his fok_it comic.
This appeared on Finnish teletext yesterday. If you’re TV is not cool enough for YLE, you can watch the pages online here. Press the alasivu buttons to change subpages.
(via Aleksi Eeben)
IBM building, Honolulu. By Vladimir Ossipoff, 1962
In 1876 these patterns were bought from Tehran to be used for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. These square kufic, and the ones at the bottom symbolize Ali, Muhammad and Ali. Each written four times.
More at kufic.info
‘Fingers of Doom’ by Raquel Meyers (2015).
Type in animation on C64. Music by Dan Brännvall & coding by Johan Kotlinski.
Showed at HeK@Liste Art Fair – PEBKAC IMHO.
P-159-A by Manfred Mohr, 1974.