Number 2 in my series of 1 bit version’s of Hokusai’s 36 views of Mount Fuji. This is also known as “Red Fuji” as it was generally printed as a red mountain, perhaps at sunset. No worries about colour in my version! I enjoyed especially deleting pixels in the sky to form the clouds and…
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After my first son arrived in 2018, I didn’t have much time to work on the time-intensive Mount Fuji pixel art series any more (again, I hope to get back to this somehow soon). However, I enjoyed clicking all the pixels on and off and wanted to keep doing it. So what could I complete…
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5 years ago I started a now completely stalled project (fingers crossed I can figure out how to restart soon) to draw all of Hokusai’s 36 views of Mount Fuji as 1-bit pixel art. Why? I started this project for no other reason than I love to get into the ‘flow state’ from this kind…
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Woah it’s been a long time since the last post. Well, at least I have some news to report – I have a channel on YouTube now 🙂 I kicked it off with a livestream of me drawing a pixel art avatar in classic Macintosh icon style – 32 x 32 black and white pixels…
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Here’s a little bit of pixel art to keep my blog going. I sat down to draw the next (number 5) in my series of pixel versions of Hokusai’s 36 views of Mt. Fuji, but I felt uninspired. So I decided to do a quick sketch of something fun and familiar instead. If you download…
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One of the first things I ever saw running on a Macintosh was StuntCopter by Duane Blehm. A very silly game where you have to drop a stunt person out of a helicopter to land perfectly in a horse-drawn wagon below. The higher you’re up and the faster you’re going, the more points you score…
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Hello and welcome to the Hypertalking blog! My name’s James and I have a bit of a collecting bug, problem, disease, curse, blessing… whatever you want to call it! I primarily collect and restore Apple-related hardware, software, literature, and selected merchandise dating from 1983—94. Yes, weird dates I know. It’s because of three things: I…
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