The Michelangelo of Microsoft Excel

Great Big Story
6 HN recommenders · recommended in 5 months, 2017–2023
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A Great Big Story short about a 77-year-old Japanese man who makes detailed landscape paintings in Microsoft Excel. He treats a spreadsheet program as a drawing tool.

HN keeps resubmitting it as a charming example of art made with a tool built for something else.

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