Pinot W. Ichwandardi has a highly specific set of skills: a senior content creator at VaynerMedia who spent time as a Vine artist for a number of major companies, he is known for his brilliant work with stop-mo, animation and old-school tech.
As he told Esquire, “I collect some retro gadgets. In my opinion we cannot just collect and then put it as a decoration somewhere. I need to use them, just like the old days.”
And use them he does.
For his latest project, Ichwandardi broke out a Tandy1000 (released in 1984 for sale in Tandy’s RadioShack stores) and an AppleColor Composite Monitor (introduced in 1985), alongside a copy of IBM PC Storyboard 2.0, and brought the Netflix hit “The Queen’s Gambit” to life as an MS DOS chess game from the ’80s.
The results: Oddly fitting, and oddly satisfying (and so well-executed that we kind of seem to remember playing it …).
Check out Ichwandardi’s moves below—and for more of his process and output, follow him on Twitter and Instagram.
The CGA's 4 colors CGA's artifact colors pic.twitter.com/cTQFwLtfAM
— Pinot W. Ichwandardi (@pinot) November 20, 2020
The process: Drawing Shaibel, Townes, Benny & Borgov in CGA mode.
Software: IBM PC Storyboard 2.0 pic.twitter.com/gLVIcYOx3N— Pinot W. Ichwandardi (@pinot) November 22, 2020
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