YATTA!
Crazy online image app converts pictures into arranged tiles, creating them with sprites from various sources. Different styles include Super Mario, Rainbow Islands, various emoticons (including animated Japanese gifs), and icons from apps such as Skype and Gmail.
Just select an image from your desktop and drag it onto the page it will be converted. Use the drop down menu on the top right to change the style.
(via Kim Asendorf)
Taliesin. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Schumacher, USA 1954, via.
Bob Neill’s Book of Typewriter Art (1982), via Lori Emerson.
With a computer programme to enable some of the pictures to be produced on a home computer (such as the Commodore PET) using the BASIC computer language.
Amen Break chardonnay wine, with the famous beat sequenced in ASCII. Also available as Pinot Noir.
Harry Yack aka Dan Farrimond **** Via
Teletext Isn’t Dead, It Is Just Sleeping
By Galza – an ASCII group originally from Russia. They have done gallery exhibitions since 1999. Pictures taken from their Facebook page.
A little-known story about a movement, a magazine, and the computer’s arrival in art (MIT Press, 2014). Nice punch cardey textmodey design. And an important book.
Embroidery by Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė, via thisiscolossal.
2024-update: website link broken, check her Instagram.
Angela Merkel teletext portrait.
Zum Geburtstag holen wir unser #AngelaMerkel #Videotext #Porträt aus dem Archiv #GesichterdesJahres2013 http://ift.tt/1pDMEEz
— ARD Text (@ARDText)
Printed log-in screens from Phantasmal Alchemy, an Atari BBS in the mid 1980s. Made in Atari’s own ascii-standard ATASCII.
The BBS started rather humbly, but eventually grew to encompass a large assortment of 8-bit hardware, including two 20MB hard drives. Which, for Atari 8-bit stuff was pretty much infinite storage back then. :) The BBS was quite popular in Southeastern Connecticut, and I met many people through the BBS that I am still friends with to this day.
More here. Spotted by @vectorbunny.
Here’s a challenge for you: make an ASCII-version of all your site’s images in their ALT-tags. (or, who makes the script?)
via Laura Brown
Cloth tunic from the Inca Empire, about 600 years ago.
