ASCII art storytelling about ASCII art.

October 26, 2001 2:21 PM

ASCII art storytelling about ASCII art. Very soothing in the middle of a hectic work day. Make sure to follow the calibration instructions. (Found it via the 5k ref logs; we should make those public.)
posted by sylloge (14 comments total)

Delightful! ASCatsII, especially. Thanks, sylloge.
posted by Carol Anne at 2:58 PM on October 26, 2001

Oh yeah, I should have said in the initial post: INCLUDES KITTENS!!!!!
posted by sylloge at 3:12 PM on October 26, 2001

I have fond memories of downloading ASCII art (especially ASCII vt-100 animations) from Usenet or FTP sites and write'ing them to other people logged into the UNIX server at university.

Of course, if we were feeling cruel, we'd just grab a handy core dump (CS students always had plenty of those) and cat core > write victimname, thinking we were terribly clever.

Sigh... The halcyon days of youth.
posted by kaefer at 3:38 PM on October 26, 2001

One interesting thing not touched on in this ASCII art article is non fixed-width font ASCII art, which I beleive came from the 'AOL' world (rather than the fixed-width UNIX/Internet world of standard ASCII art). I've seen some very interesting pictures done woth non fixed-width fonts, some of them have a very differnet look to them. (well, can't find any quick examples, but I have seen some striking pictures).
posted by QrysDonnell at 3:43 PM on October 26, 2001

That was incredibly cool.
posted by mathowie at 3:47 PM on October 26, 2001

Kaefer: I would kill for a copy of Bambi Meets Godzilla as animated ascii that someone made way back in the BBS age.
posted by Su at 3:51 PM on October 26, 2001

If you have something to play it...

Bambi Meets Godzilla
posted by perplexed at 4:00 PM on October 26, 2001

But what of ANSI?

and AVATAR?
posted by frenetic at 4:39 PM on October 26, 2001

i love ascii...

this is possibly the biggest peice I've ever seen. I also like this guys work. Both of these are from here
posted by atom128 at 5:11 PM on October 26, 2001

anybody see the ASCII version of Deep-Throat? I've never been able to find it.
posted by signal at 6:16 PM on October 26, 2001

As requested, ASCII Deep Throat. WARNING: We're not talkin' Watergate here. This is an ASCII-fied version of the (cue bow chicka bow bow music) porn flick. View at your own risk.
posted by MarkBakalor at 8:04 PM on October 26, 2001

I've seen that ASCII Deep Throat, the problem is it's like the whole movie and I um... kinda boring. Also I don't really know the original movie very well and in the beginning there's like cars or something - It'd be interesting to see something that I'm a little more familiar with the original source material - such as 'Star Wars' or '2001' or 'Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo'... yknow.

I mean.. pr0n is kewl, don't get me wrong.
posted by QrysDonnell at 9:47 PM on October 26, 2001

thanks MarkB.

besides the pr0n aspect, which is kind of lost, I like the way they mix such different mediums. there's some conceptual artist who projected ASCII renderings of buildings on the buildings on the buildings themselves, and I've played around a lot with those Gif2Ascii programs, way cool.

Thanks!
posted by signal at 11:30 PM on October 26, 2001

What a superb link. Here's the ASCII star wars animation, Qrys. It's still not finished, but it's further along than last time I looked.

I also found some instructions for how to make your own ASCII animations.
posted by walrus at 9:09 AM on October 27, 2001