Offpunk is like an offline browser that saves the internet on your harddrive so you can browse it in the terminal. Images are converted with Chafa. Made by Ploum.
Offpunk obviously works best with uncomplicated websites, but if you want to browse any website in textmode, no in the terminal, you can use Browsh.
ASCII Theater by the American art collective MSCHF, 2024. An easy way to look at ANSI-versions of movies in the terminal. Today streaming Barbie, tomorrow Hereditary! From their Instagram-post:
ASCII Theater plays movies as text, directly in Terminal. A single line of code begins playing a new movie every day, like a pirate radio broadcast. The movies are rendered not as video but as colored text characters – every frame can be copied and pasted as a giant string of letters.
There is a long internet tradition of hacks to stream content online, and the resulting workarounds become creatively expressive. That kid who streamed NBA games in the reflection of his sunglasses on Twitch is a hero.
ASCII Theater is now live, streaming a new movie every day until we get shut down.
via kottke.org. Browse our terminal tag.
The Sabler series by Studio Yorktown (Kwame Bruce Busia), 2022. Sabler is an anagram of Albers (Anni Albers).
Xbin works (ANSI with custom fonts and colours) made by participants in Heikki Lotvonen‘s (grmmxi) workshop at the Estonian Academy of Arts. via sixteencolors
Self-portraits rendered in the code used to generate the images, by Eric Furst, 2024 (aka Eric Fischer). More details here.
More code calligrams.
WEAVING PATTERNS FOR POETRY by Egidija Čiricaitė, 2023. Part of the TYPEWRITTEN series from psw gallery.
