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Appreciation For All Things ASCII

Posted by timothy on from the what's-wrong-with-chunky dept.

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?"

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  1. One of the great ASCII artists: by Peeing+Calvin · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Veronica Karlsson

    She may not be the best, but she's darn good. And she has some cool nude self-portraits ;-).

  2. Don't forget ASCIIMATION STAR WARS by CyberSlugGump · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ requires a java-enabled browser, though I'm pretty sure a telent version somewhere....

  3. If you like ascii prepare to be blown away... by MrLint · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Apple has a little known utility that will play qucktime movies thru an ascii renderer (or something) and into the terminal app. Its only on monochrome, but watching movie trailers thru it is just wild.

  4. Re:ASCII Movies by EatHam · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Telnet to it at telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl/

  5. I got the prefect anti-slashdot idea... by skermit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    PHP protect all your pages so if a counter increments by a certain count within a certain amount of time (say 30 mins or an hour) for the next 2 hours, it will remove all of the inline images, run them through an ascii-art converter, and replace it, so you're transferring at most a couple kilobytes of text which is gzip compressable through most browsers now and checks every 2 hours until the slashdot (or fark, or k5, or memebutt) effect subsides... Any techheads wanna get crackin'?

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  6. Great waste of 10 minutes by L3WKW4RM · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you really want to be astounded with some ascii craziness...

    $> apt-get install bb
  7. The power apps... by EverStoned · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you're wondering how loads of those ascii-pictures are made, check out BG_ASCII. It's a wonderful program (Yes, it can convert JPG to ASCII), and by the looks of things, this is what they used. If you're loooking to do original ASCII art, check out Email Effects, and check out #SAC on EFNET for the Superior Art Creations!

  8. anyone know where to get this famous 'spock' ? by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    this is an actual line (chain?) printer printout from the early 80's. you can see its yellowing and I'd like to reprint it on a modern printer.

    but I don't have the source. it was on an old DECsystem-10 or -20 many years ago:

    spock ascii poster

    any pointers to this multi over-print goodie?

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  9. Simpsons EBCDIC Art by jms · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ASCII art was my brief claim to fame back in 1990, as it seemed that half of the sig files on usenet incorporated part of my ASCII depiction of The Simpsons

    The ironic part was that I "drew" it on a 3270, so it was actually EBCDIC art until it hit the BITNET/USENET gateway!