‘Nida goes on vacation’ by Nida!COREAd/zHk : 2009-02-03
Tag Archives: 2000s
By Cleaner between 1999 and 2006. The top one is a detail from this, made together with Shine and Arlequin. Nowadays, Cleaner maintains ascii-codes.com and Ansilove.
Typewriter works by Dirk Krecker.
Densha Otoko (電車男), aka Train Man, by Hitori Nakano, 2004.
Based on the purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku who intervened when a drunk man started to harass several women on a train. The event was chronicled on 2chan. This led to the compilation of the relevant threads in Densha Otoko.
(Link added in 2024)
Owata 人生 オワタ- a game in Shift-JIS ASCII by IlIlIlIlIlIlIlIl, 2008. Play it online here.
Senecio/baldgreiss by = 。=, 2009. Originally by Paul Klee, 1922. Info and original painting here
Typographic Abstracts by Andrew Hurle, 2000.
The series below have been typeset, then reduced to create a low magnification, screen impression. They represent an extreme approximation of the ASCII figures as they have been abbreviated within a short serial edition: photo > text > screen > print. At this end of this series, the figures become completely abstract, depicting line and paragraph blocks rather than individual letter shapes.
