Mort Smith Playing Pong
A still from the BBC’s 1975 ‘This is Ceefax’ documentary depicting Mort Smith editing a Ceefax page – except here, he’s slacking off by playing Pong on his visual display unit.
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Bcbkye the Clown
Bcbkye the Clown is not a friendly clown. He knows all your secrets… mainly that you are alive! And you have used at least three toilets in your lifetime!
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I’ll Be Yak
Mr Yak professes that he, like the Terminator, will indeed be yak. A collaboration with Huge Bob.
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Digital Switchover Trollface
The digital switchover trolls teletext regarding its continued obsolescence. But we shall prove him wrong, for teletext lives on and on! Keep teletext alive!
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Rob Hubbard Ain’t No Stinkin’ Sound Monkey
Video games music legend Rob Hubbard proclaims that he ain’t no stinkin’ sound monkey!
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Teletext Isn’t Dead, it is Just Sleeping
Slogan to remind you that teletext will rise again… in fact, it is rising.
A print of this artwork was displayed at the ARD Text offices in Potsdam alongside pieces from other International Teletext Art Festivals.
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ITAF12 Remote Control
A retro Zenith remote gets kitted out for the International Teletext Art Festival 2012.
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Grave Stone (At Least I Don’t Have to go to Work)
Mr Slacker finds humour in any situation, even after he’s gone, turning this part of the graveyard into his own stand-up (lie-down?) comedy show.
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Have a Banana
Teletext encourages you to partake of the humorous fruit before it turns to mush.
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Roberto is not aware of this fancy new teletext stuff
The mysterious ‘Roberto’ is bamboozled by the thought of teletext and its hi-tech “stuff”.