Appreciation For All Things ASCII

AsciiRock writes "Sick of seeing those chunky pixel art logos everywhere? Check out AsciiBlog, Contemporary ASCII, and Ascii Disko (no relation to me) for examples of artists inspired by plain text. ...and also click me! and click me! which made their way around the net some time back. Wonder how many other examples of BBS design sensibility there'll be this year. There's already Wired illustrators. 2002, year of ASCII design?"

Comments

that's not art

[jedie]

that's just rendering a picture with ASCII chars, where's the human effort? it's like a robot-made-painting.
and the flash movie? well, you can't just jiggle around with the chars. it defeats the whole purpose.

Re:that's not art

[Erik Fish]

Exactly! How can anyone mistake these automated conversions for "art" or even for "something that took more than ten minutes"? There was a time when people who tried to pass this shit off as the real thing were ridiculed and ostracised. Now it seems to be a big trend.

Why not a /. story with links to JED's ansimations or an interview with Lord Jazz or something?

There was a time when I wanted to see this genre make an impact on the art world, but after seeing that WIRED "illustration" (pasting photos inside text was one of the first things I learned in Photoshop) I think I'd rather it stayed obscure.

UNICODE FOREVER

[autopr0n]

Down with ascii and romantic elitism! Unicode for the web, Unicode for email, unicode FOREVER!

Well, it would make things more convenient.

Re:One of the great ASCII artists: - mod parent up

[wal9000]

I agree. This is actual hand-crafted ASCII art, not merely running some JPG through a converter.

The high-color conversions have a neat look, but as "art" it's underwhelming.

Re:funny ascii - ascii art farts

[perky]

Presumably you might want to try alt.ascii-art for daily posts by Tran (of ascii art fart fame), and other great new pictures. Note: these are hand crafted pictures, not those images made by running a jpeg through some program or other.