Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words

• Bangulzai

  25 Apr 09, 18:20

  Typewriter art: sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words

  
  
  This portrait of Nicole Kidman proves that some pictures really are worth a thousand words. A close-up [inset right] reveals that it was "drawn" on a typewriter
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  Keira Rathbone spends up to 90 hours on each picture, hammering away on a variety of letters and punctuation marks thousands and thousands of times
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  Where most people's efforts would only produce a smiley face on the end of an email, Keira has typed detailed pictures of celebrities such as Tom Hanks...
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  ...and Kate Moss. Keira, from Poole, Dorset, discovered her talent after buying a 1960s typewriter for £5 in a charity shop
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  She uses her right index finger to bash out the letters while her left hand winds the paper up and down
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  She frantically types over the same area several times to create dark shading and uses just a few letters for the lighter patches...
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  ...and she sometimes uses the red typewriter ribbon to add a dash of colour
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  This detailed picture of Bournemouth Pier in Dorset took 90 hours of hard work
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  Keira says: "I build up the shading by going over the same section of paper a number of times. Surprisingly I only get through about one ink ribbon a year"
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  "I mainly use a lot of dashes, colons, forward slashes and brackets, and have done landscapes, plants and portraits," she adds
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  Keira has just launched an exhibition of her work at the Grove Studio in Southbourne, Bournemouth
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• HiAy3Captain

  25 Apr 09, 18:46

   wah so nice

• boyusflare

  22 May 09, 03:05

  wow thats really creative and original! love the artworks! thanks for sharing ^^

• Bangulzai

  30 May 09, 01:57

  Originally posted by boyusflare:

  wow thats really creative and original! love the artworks! thanks for sharing ^^

    the lost forum owner has returned !

• Chew Bakar

  30 May 09, 02:07

  Another forum revival. Yeh!

• boyusflare

  2 Jun 09, 01:41

  Originally posted by Bangulzai:

    the lost forum owner has returned !

  ha ya i think i better post some art related threads! thanks for making thread topics here :D

• Bangulzai

  2 Jun 09, 01:43

  Originally posted by boyusflare:

  ha ya i think i better post some art related threads! thanks for making thread topics here :D

    the lost forum owner has returned again !

• boyusflare

  2 Jun 09, 01:48

  Originally posted by Bangulzai:

    the lost forum owner has returned again !

  wah you reply fast! hey btw do you do art ? :)

• Bangulzai

  2 Jun 09, 01:50

  Originally posted by boyusflare:

  wah you reply fast! hey btw do you do art ? :)

  i don't do anything art at all

  i am a passerby in arts appreciation

• boyusflare

  2 Jun 09, 01:54

  Originally posted by Bangulzai:

  i don't do anything art at all

  i am a passerby in arts appreciation

  icic, thats cool, good to hear! ^^

• Bangulzai

  2 Jun 09, 01:56

  Originally posted by boyusflare:

  icic, thats cool, good to hear! ^^

  me also cool and good to hear you are coming back to the forums

• Chew Bakar

  2 Jun 09, 01:57

  Nice to have art forum revive. I like art but not good at it.

• boyusflare

  2 Jun 09, 01:58

  Originally posted by Bangulzai:

  me also cool and good to hear you are coming back to the forums

  ha, was kinda busy recently and now as well.  hmmm any idea how to make this forum more lively? :P

• Bangulzai

  2 Jun 09, 02:00

  Originally posted by boyusflare:

  ha, was kinda busy recently and now as well.  hmmm any idea how to make this forum more lively? :P

  make a crapbox

• Chew Bakar

  2 Jun 09, 02:01

  Originally posted by boyusflare:

  ha, was kinda busy recently and now as well.  hmmm any idea how to make this forum more lively? :P

  Something provocative or a talking point?

• boyusflare

  2 Jun 09, 02:04

  Originally posted by Bangulzai:

  make a crapbox

  ooo how do you make one in this forum?? i tried going to the edit page but cant find any crapbox option. >.<

• boyusflare

  2 Jun 09, 02:05

  Originally posted by Chew Bakar:

  Something provocative or a talking point?

  thanks for the suggestion!. i'll try to think of something hopefully! :)

• Bangulzai

  2 Jun 09, 02:05

  Originally posted by boyusflare:

  ooo how do you make one in this forum?? i tried going to the edit page but cant find any crapbox option. >.<

  crapbox means something like this:

  http://www.sgforums.com/forums/2755/topics/356075

• Chew Bakar

  2 Jun 09, 02:08

  Originally posted by Bangulzai:

  crapbox means something like this:

  http://www.sgforums.com/forums/2755/topics/356075

  Just a thread call crapbox?

• Bangulzai

  2 Jun 09, 02:10

  Originally posted by Chew Bakar:

  Just a thread call crapbox?

  FireIce started the trend one:

  http://www.sgforums.com/forums/8/topics/362137

• lianamaster

  5 Jun 09, 08:54

  The pictures are nice! Too bad I dun have the talent...