The Human Printer

6 Responses to “The Human Printer”

1. Daryl Scroggins on June 30th, 2009 at 11:37 am

   This reminds me of something I saw a long time ago: a savant (boy) who could scarcely function otherwise, could draw pictures in raster lines. With his head bent close to the paper his hand would sweep in straight lines across the page, the ink heavier and lighter here and there from left to right and back from right to left and so on. The lines were very close–and as you watched an image would beging to appear much as a slow digital download would present it from a space lander. I don’t remember the source or anything else about it, but….odd and wonderful.

2. Sheila Ryan on June 30th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

   Tibetan Buddhist monks laboring for months over the application of color to one thousand images of a deity.

3. Michael Turro on June 30th, 2009 at 12:54 pm

   This is certainly beautiful… but is it SWOP certified? G7?

   http://bit.ly/6wkQz

4. Andrew Simone on June 30th, 2009 at 2:04 pm

   This is incredible.

5. Daryl Scroggins on June 30th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

   …also–this reminds me of the Benday Dot printing process.

6. from the comments : clusterflock on July 1st, 2009 at 9:57 am

   [...] Daryl Scroggins: This reminds me of something I saw a long time ago: a savant (boy) who could scarcely function otherwise, could draw pictures in raster lines. With his head bent close to the paper his hand would sweep in straight lines across the page, the ink heavier and lighter here and there from left to right and back from right to left and so on. The lines were very close–and as you watched an image would begin to appear much as a slow digital download would present it from a space lander. I don’t remember the source or anything else about it, but….odd and wonderful. [...]

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