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each drawing is made from hundreds if

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not thousands of lesss numbers

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punctuation marks all puzzle piece

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together my name is James Cook I am a

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typewriter

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artist 26-year-old James Cook is an

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artist from Essex England but he doesn't

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carry a Sketchbook and pencils instead

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he makes every one of his intricate

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drawings on a vintage typewriter I'll

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feed a paper through the machine

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probably 8 to nine times collaging and

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overlaying lots and lots of information

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to recreate skin tones I'll use the at

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symbol cuz it has quite a large surface

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area brick work is underscores and

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capital eyes to get the vertical lines

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from a distance it could quite easily be

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like a print or an illustration where

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it's only when the viewer gradually

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nears closer and closer to the image

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that all of these individual letters

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numbers and punctuation marks are

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revealed everyone is drawn to people's

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eyes so that's the hardest facial

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feature to get right they have to be

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perfect something else I will do to add

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another layer of complexity to the

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drawings is conceal hidden words or

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phrases uh for for the viewer to

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find how long does all this typing and

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tapping take something that's A4 size

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could take a week There's a picture of

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the London Skyline took two

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months how many key strokes is that

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obviously I don't count how many I did

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actually try and download a piece of

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software which counted the number of

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times the Hammers hit the page but it

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stopped working after 50,000 so I don't

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I have no idea James's favorite

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typewriters all have portable cases so

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he can pack them up and type outd doors

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people give a funny look to begin with

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they'll be like this guy doing with this

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typewriter on his lap why is he writing

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a letter in the middle of London but

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then as they Edge closer they they

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suddenly realize oh no this this is he's

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making a drawing and james' shelves are

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filling up I've got about 63 typewriters

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en counting and I've been very lucky

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because the general public have seen

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what I do with them they see it as a way

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of giving these machines a second life

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otherwise they would be sitting around

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collecting dust I've become a collector

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by accident I didn't plan to have all of

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these they will have own different

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personalities to them they'll kind of

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work in different ways they have

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different sounds different feeling

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behind the keys there's a lot of tap tap

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tap all these type riters make a lot of

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noise there's some technology that would

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never die that's quite amazing to think

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that even though most people generally

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don't write with a typewriter anymore

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they still have a purpose is it fair to

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say you really love

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typewriters

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uh oh I'm not going to I'm not I'm oh do

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I say yes to that I like drawing more

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than typewriters I have to say

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