Talk: Is Ascii Art finished?

Bob Allison (bob...@wwa.com) wrote:
: A fortune cookie said that zhu...@vax.sbu.ac.uk wrote:
: >
: >Do you find the ASCII-ART is going down:
: >just very limited items appear in the
: >NEWSGROUP these days, almost no pictures posted,
: >no pictures are better than or
: >match with (at least in my point of view) the famous LION, BUTTERFLY,
: >MOTOCYCLE, CASTLE......in this year. Where are the artistics?
: >disappeared? too
: >busy?? feeded up with this art?

:    Things, including ASCII art, go in cycles.  Readers and artists come 
: and go.  That's life.  ASCII art will be around for a while.  It won't 
: see a real decline until GIFs are easily used in newsgroups, email, etc, 
: as they are now used on the Web.

One of the reasons is that the 'old school' have either disappeared or 
slowed down. When I started reading alt.a-a in January, artists such as
Rowan Crawford, Normand Vielleux, Tua Xiong, Lennert Stock, etc. were at
their peak. Their numerous drawings persuaded others to start drawing.
We are currently in a quiet patch, Felix Lee and Gilo (who has far too
much free time on his hands!) still post up new work regularly, but a
lot of the letters these days are requests which makes it seem like 
there are fewer pictures than there are. There are probably just as
many readers as before, it's just that being a lurker is easier than
being an artist. Drawing in Ascii is HARD!

Also, a lot of the artwork on a.a-a was pre-Internet art, so we were
working our way through a backlog of pictures. We have now pretty much
exhausted the stock of pictures and are waiting on new artwork all the
time.

As Scarecrow says, these things come in cycles, it will probably pick up
again mid-January.


: >My idear is:
: >Whenever an ascii-art posted, give it a talk, say good or bad, say
: >your suggestion, and any comments. If you get any picture, just tell the
: >artistic what you are going to do with his art work (if possible) and say
: >thank you.....
: >What I mean is too silent when a art work posted. If you through
: >a stone into a lake and you could not find any sand, nor any wave, you
: >must escape back home.

:    Run that by me again. :-)

Just once, or several times? ;-)


                                                   DR J

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