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illarterate.bsky.social
Dan Farrimond
@illarterate.bsky.social
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📺 teletextfreak. Fanatique télématique.

📧 HELLO (at) TELETEXTART (dot) CO (dot) UK
(Not taking on paid projects for now.)

🌐 teletextart.co.uk
🌐 danfarrimond.co.uk

💁 Header photo: @megawayned.bsky.social
🖼️ Profile pic: @mrbiffo.bsky.social
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illarterate.bsky.social
Fat Pidge! Entry for Flashparty last weekend. A pleasure to take part again. :-) #teletext #pixelart
November 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
New #teletext art for the Yle Advent Calendar, still showing atm: yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

Surprised that the term 'teletext supporter' is used, often derogatorily, in languages as well as English. But I was also a teletext supporter before I became a season ticket holder at #wafc!
January 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
I made this for the #Teletext Collaborative Yle Text Advent Calendar. It'll remain up until Sat.

yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

Unpopular opinion, but I really like Pink Floyd's album Momentary Lapse of Reason. Got the 'On The Turning Away' single cover art for my big pinboard at the end of last year.
January 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
Happy New Year! Here's some new #teletext art as seen on the Yle Text Advent Calendar today.

yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

I'd like to thank my dad for suggesting the joke. I added the carrot cameo & punchline, though.

#pixelart #ceefax #snowman #carrot #HappyNewYear
January 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
Merry #Owlmas! This is one of Robert E Fuller's barn owls. I've also been enjoying the Spanish SEOBirdlife #lechuza nestcams this year.

As seen on the Yle Text #Teletext Advent Calendar: yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

#lechuzacomun #barnowl #ceefax #pixelart #owl #videotext #tekstitv
December 30, 2024 at 5:29 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
Mery Christhams #teletext #MSWord #Wordart #MSWordart #pixelart #ceefax #merrychristmas #christmas #christmascard

As seen on the Yle Text Advent Calendar, which is still going as we speak! yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...
December 30, 2024 at 5:27 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
The #Teletext Community Advent Calendar continues apace on Yle Text!

yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

I had another piece featured yesterday, a tub of Christmas #buttercookies... and look, it has flashy flashy bits. 😁

#pixelart #ceefax #videotext #1bit #biscuits
December 8, 2024 at 4:36 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
On the #Teletext Community Advent Calendar today...

Robin by CeeGee Toons. I mean I had to post it because it's a bird, and we need more feathered friends in this feed!

yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

#pixelart #ceefax #1bit #textmode #art #robin #Christmas #Advent #birds
December 4, 2024 at 4:52 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
Only slightly related, but I also found this, which looks like something out of an analogue horror video. #teletext #glitch #glitchart
December 4, 2024 at 4:49 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
I actually did just that... example snapshot attached. Check out that high quality bitmap! #teletext #bamboozle
December 4, 2024 at 4:48 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
Justadude is back with another #WeeklyTeletextArt piece! So is this what happens if you don't brush your teeth? 🤔

Prompt: #Chameleon + #Dentist

#ceefax #teletext #pixelart #videotext #1bit #textmode
December 4, 2024 at 4:35 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
On the Yle Text Advent calendar today...

A few oldies might remember Fredrik Olsson (AKA Bym, Big Yellow Man) from days past in #demoscene and #teletext art. He is sadly no longer with us, but lives on through his art. This piece is titled 'Visit Greece'.

yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

#blocktronics
December 3, 2024 at 5:16 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
Looks like I'm up early for the Yle #Teletext Advent Calendar!

Here's that artwork exported in hi-res with the zxnet editor... but can anyone find the Easter egg?🤔

yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

#pixelart #1bit #videotext #ceefax #penguin #AdventCalendar2024 #tekstitv #teletexto
December 2, 2024 at 5:11 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
Yesterday was #MaxHeadroom Day, the 37th anniversary of the Max Headroom TV hijacking incident in #Chicago.

Naturally I had to make some #teletext art to celebrate, yet again! And this time, I think I have solved the mystery... 😁

#pixelart #textmode #TheHead #ArtAttack @bytehigh.bsky.social
Teletext art of The Head, a puppet of a Roman bust from the British TV show Art Attack, depicting him as the perpetrator of the Max Headroom Incident. He appears wearing shades and a large grin as he hijacks the Children's ITV television broadcast. Dramatic neon lighting of yellow and cyan falls upon him, as a background of rectangles moves erratically in a diagonal direction.
November 23, 2024 at 5:32 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
Justadude offers some #WeeklyTeletextArt with his colourful #landscape piece. Nice work on the clouds!

Prompt: 🔵#Blue + 🏙️#Sky

(I haven't made one for this prompt... yet...)

#teletext #pixelart #1bit #textmode #sixels #pixels #videotext #teletexto
Justadude's teletext artwork of a landscape depicting a red and purple building beneath a sky of two gradiented shades of blue.
November 23, 2024 at 5:14 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
A quick entry for #WeeklyTeletextArt because I'm working on Advent calendar stuff.

Prompt: #Pirates 🏴‍☠️

"Always pay for music, never illegally download," otherwise a dude with a staple gun will break through your door.

youtube.com/watch?v=LZge...

#pixelart #teletext #ceefax #1bit
Teletext art of a dude with long hair and a red hoodie pointing a staple gun at you, firing off bits of metal as you instantly regret visiting those pirate music websites. And then, the final words you hear before you are taken to the station: 'never illegally download'.
November 16, 2024 at 5:08 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
Oh, I've made a new #teletext artwork for the anniversary! I almost forgot, because it was done in, like, February. 😂
November 9, 2024 at 5:47 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
#WeeklyTeletextArt in the house!

Prompt:🕰️On Time (I bent the rulez, though I am actually on time!)

Also: foreground black 4ever

#teletext #pixelart #loading #retro #retrogaming #artistsonbluesky #windows98 #windowsXP #Windows95 #iMac #retrotech #textmode #1bit #videotext #computing #ceefax
November 9, 2024 at 5:24 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
A timely #WeeklyTeletextArt entry from Justadude for the prompt 'on time'!

My entry will come sometime later in the week, but hopefully still on time. (I'll stop saying the word 'time' now.)

#teletext #pixelart #train #trainstation #1bit #textmode #videotext #ceefax
Teletext graphic of an isometric train pulling into a station with colourful buildings and an analogue clock. A pixel art man waits on the other side of the platform with his yellow dog.
November 7, 2024 at 5:17 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
#Teletext is the future! 😎
November 6, 2024 at 5:23 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
Remember, remember the 5th of November... 🎆

I made this #teletext art for @mistfunk.bsky.social in 2016 and 'remastered' it in ZXNet just now, so it's nice and crisp like a toffee apple.

#BonfireNight2024 #GuyFawkesNight #VforVendetta #GuyFawkes #ceefax #pixelart #textmode #DCComics
November 5, 2024 at 5:10 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
Well, I've now featured all the #teletext50 exhibition artists, except me. So I dunno, think I'd better dump some of my stuff here... 🤷😁

The event will be on 🇫🇮 Yle Text for one more week until 11th November 2024!

yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

#teletext #ceefax #pixelart #textmode #tekstitv
November 3, 2024 at 5:08 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
#Teletext50 art exhibition on 🇫🇮 Yle Text
Featured #teletext artist of the day: @losso3000.bsky.social

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The closest you'll get to 3D teletext with a touch of #Kraftwerk from Alex Grupe. Plus: the #Volkswagen Golf, but there's more than meets the eye...

#pixelart #videotext
November 2, 2024 at 5:08 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
#Teletext50 art exhibition on 🇫🇮 Yle Text
Featured #teletext artist of the day: @zymnyaya.bsky.social

yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

The newest #teletextart convert, Zymnyaya furnishes us with furry friends (and the fantastic flash function). The first artwork could be a reaction gif!

#pixelart #ceefax
November 1, 2024 at 5:24 PM
illarterate.bsky.social
#Teletext50 art exhibition on 🇫🇮 Yle Text
Featured #teletext artist of the day: Ian Irving

yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

We're proud to announce that 4T the dog is back for one night only, courtesy his original creator, the one and only Swirv! 🫡

#ceefax #pixelart #4Tel #Intelfax
4T the dog, who originally featured on Channel 4 Teletext in the 1980s, appears in a new 'advert' for HMV, replacing Nipper from the original Francis Barraud painting. Except here, he's in teletext form!
October 31, 2024 at 5:14 PM