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Dan Farrimond

@illarterate.bsky.social

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📺 teletextfreak. Fanatique télématique. He/him

📧 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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@ncesium.bsky.socialJul 18, 2026, 9:59 AMReposted by @illarterate.bsky.social

Fire

#pixelart #ドット絵 #1bit

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@illarterate.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 4:37 PM

CALL FOR ENTRIES: HBN Text’s 1st Birthday (17 November 2026)

-- A new fun thing! I'm definitely going to draw another #teletext cake. 😁

#callforentries #artistonbluesky #artistsonbluesky #exhibition #textmode #1bit #ceefax #videotext #tekstitv #pixelart

teletextart.co.uk/call-for-ent...

@illarterate.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 4:29 PM

Only 50 credits booking fee! The average wage is 10 credits/week... :D

@soyuzteletext500.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 1:13 PMReposted by @illarterate.bsky.social

More advertising goodness on HBN Teksti-TV provided by @illarterate.bsky.social ! the HBN Text advertising service is open and ready to recive more adverts to fill up the newsreel to that SABC Teledata chaotic mess.

A teletext advertisement displayed on HBN Texts in-vision page P651, the advertisement is a mostly yellow with the text "win a free holiday" in the middle, a sun with a text saying "sunshine", the bottom has the phone number of the fictional company.
@illarterate.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:41 PM

Ah, lvl is criminally underused, by me mostly! I used flair to clean this up and add detail. I did loads of experiments with the digitiser, thought this particular one looked better than a fully hand-made piece.

@zxguesser.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 3:10 PMReposted by @illarterate.bsky.social

Regular viewers might notice the online teletext viewer finally has a new remote control graphic to replace the ugly placeholder that can trace its origins back over a decade! (If things seem broken, you may need to flush your browser cache)

@illarterate.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 4:17 PM

Atonal Osprey donated some delicious #textmode #teletext lettering to be shown at the #YleText45 exhibition, currently on display until the end of the month.

View on Yle Text: yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

#pixelart #ascii #asciiart #textart #demoscene #ceefax #videotext #teletext #teletekst #art #retro

@jamienemeth.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:56 PMReposted by @illarterate.bsky.social

Blocktoberfest plus a recent Digitiser recovery off a VHS from the 'tape mountain' of @superpage58.bsky.social have inspired some new Nemetext content at last!

The Quote Boat was a feature of Digi on New Year's Eve 1999, with comments from game devs/reps.

I'm doing quotes from UK #teletext events.

Page 110 from my teletext service, Nemetext.

'Zine 1: The blocky world as zine by Jamie

p111 The Quote Boat: UK Teletext Events Edition

I found a feature called The Quote Boat in a recent VHS teletext recovery of Digitiser from New Year's Eve 1999.

It featured quotes from game developers and representatives from publishers on various gaming releases and topics.

So, it feels appropriate to adopt the title for featured quotes from teletext events I've attended, especially as I'm sure many of the quotes could be coming from Mr. Biffo himself, or indeed from Mr. Super Page 58, Chris Bell, who runs the so-named Digitiser archive website.

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Fastext links to ChunkyBlog, Nemboozle!, Twitch, GigsPage 111 from my teletext service, Nemetext.

The Quote Boat: UK teletext events edition

"It never ceases to amaze me, really, how teletext has had this sort-of afterlife."
- Paul "Mr. Biffo" Rose, Teletext 50

"In the beginning of Ceefax, we were discovering what you could do with the graphics. We used to put experimental designs on the back page where nobody would see them anyway. But we could try things out that way."
- Ian Irving, Teletext 50

Fastext links to ChunkyBlog, Nemboozle!, Twitch, Gigs
@mistfunk.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 11:23 PMReposted by @illarterate.bsky.social

Mistigram: this monochrome #teletext portrait of #BelaLugosi in Universal's 1931 #Dracula movie was drawn by @horsenburger.bsky.social . It was included in the spooky MIST1025 artpack collection released one year ago this month. "There are far worse things awaiting man than death."

A compelling pale vampire observes from the background
@theraces.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 6:56 PMReposted by @illarterate.bsky.social

We're excited to announce that we've been granted access by the Earth store Steam to announce our presence as "coming soon". In reality, we're already here.

Wishlist NOW! We mean it! Now. No, seriously, now.

store.steampowered.com/app/4715080/...

#indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #horse

@illarterate.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 6:25 PM

Among the entries is my #tribute to Dylan Barry (Rail Slave Games), a legend of the #pixelart community we lost earlier this year.

Made with help of a #digitiser by @kieranhj.bsky.social, which has a particular aesthetic that I think goes well with this piece.

Rest in sixels.

#teletext #demoscene

A portrait of video game dev and demoscene artist Rail Slave Games is pictured on the yle text web teletext viewer. The artwork itself is an overworked digitised photograph of RSG from one of his album covers. It has a high contrast, other worldly feel with red and yellow pixels set against black and (dark) blue ones.
@illarterate.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:50 AM

Peak jamster era #teletext

@illarterate.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 9:43 PM

B-b-bad to the bonnnne

@mistfunk.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:55 PMReposted by @illarterate.bsky.social

Mistigram: this detailed monochrome #teletext skull was drawn by @atonalosprey (surely in some kind of conversation with bonemeister littlebitspace!) and included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection released three years ago this month.

An ultimate memento mori, a shadowy human skull glimmers whitely against a dark background.
@illarterate.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 9:42 PM

Cere-ously good

@gkmac.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:30 PMReposted by @illarterate.bsky.social

Cereal-ist art with another legally distinct food brand in Level 2.5 #teletext

Not breakfast time where you are? It's never too late for goodbyes.

A Level 2.5 teletext mockup of an advert for "Nettles Goodbyes".

At the top is a green banner with a "Nettles" logo, the text "Whole Grain No.1 ingredient" and a filled yellow circle with a tick inside.

In the middle is the word "goodbyes" in large purple letters, at the upper left of those letters is a small beige banner with the text "multigrain" on it.

At the bottom is a cereal bowl with four horizontal stripes, from top to bottom the stripes are coloured purple, red, yellow and green. On all but the bottom stripe there is text overlaid. The top stripe has the text "9 vitamins & minerals", the second stripe has the text "Nothing artificial" and the third stripe has the text "Source of calcium".

Above the bowl are beige hoop shaped whole grains that are falling into the bowl.A Level 1 teletext mockup of an advert for "Nettles Goodbyes".

At the top is a green banner with a "Nettles" logo, the text "Whole Grain No.1 ingredient" and a filled yellow circle with a tick inside.

In the middle is the word "goodbyes" in large blue letters, at the upper left of those letters is a small yellow banner with the text "multigrain" on it.

At the bottom is a cereal bowl with four horizontal stripes, from top to bottom the stripes are coloured blue, red, yellow and green. On all but the bottom stripe there is text overlaid. The top stripe has the text "9 vitamins & minerals", the second stripe has the text "Nothing artificial" and the third stripe has the text "Source of calcium".

Above the bowl are yellow hoop shaped whole grains that are falling into the bowl.
@superpage58.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 6:37 PMReposted by @illarterate.bsky.social

Ready to find out if Richard E Grant’s bold gambit of telling everyone he’s a traitor manages to fool the faithful into not thinking he’s a traitor? At least he can use the cloak to appear in more of those 90s rave videos he’s famous for. Has anyone got any Vera’s?
superpage58.com/digitiser-vi...

A teletext image of Richard E Grant dressed as Jerry Sadowitz in the video for ‘Ebeneezer Goode’ by The Shamen
@illarterate.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:18 PM

Marcelo Cataldo / @beachboogeyman.itch.io / Atonal Osprey / Jarfishing

See all Yle Text 45 art: yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...

#teletext #tekstitv #ceefax #pixelart #videotext #teletexto #teledata #teletekst

@jounimikola.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 5:47 AMReposted by @illarterate.bsky.social

Päivän tärkein juhlapäivä 🌹🌹🌹
#tekstitv45v #tekstitv

@akisalmi.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 5:53 AMReposted by @illarterate.bsky.social

yle.fi/a/20-99917?u...

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