Re: [pic] Font
From joris bellenger <svz...@xs4all.nl>
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· 30 Aug 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Pete Casso wrote: > > >> Ascii Artwork really is a luddite/dinosaur sort of activity in these > > >> modern days of Windoze, Web Browsers, HTML, Java and Clicky Mice. > > > > >Yes, I suppose it is... but it`s fun! > > > > Yeah, like the old song says " It's Foolish but it's fun." > > This exchange manifests a typical failure of differentiating between artform > and medium. Pottery has been around since prehistoric times, but you are still > drinking your coffee and tea from pottery made from new and better media. > > Similarly, the dino in ascii refers to medium ONLY, the artform itself can use > new and better media. Well, I have used new media for ascii, see my website > where I have used and left behind the html medium, and have progressed to gif, > Java and Shockwave. > > The point is, that ascii as an artform can live indefinitely with current > media at any point in time in the future. Or to say things the other way > around, there is no need for ascii as an artfrom to stick with a dying medium, > that's foolish. > > Pete, allow me to disagree here. What you say here is like playing the synthetiser and claiming you play the flute. It sounds like a flute but it's not. This reminds me of a painting of Rene Magritte. He painted a pipe and wrote bellow: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (This is not a pipe). He was damn right: It was a painted representation of a pipe. What you have on your website looks like ascii art but it isn't. Just my point of view. -- `, ,\, # |/ ? | ~ )\ /_ /\ \____ joris bellenger (b'ger) / \_/ \ e-mail: svz...@xs4all.nl http://www.xs4all.nl/~svzanten/joris/ascii/main.html / < ______ _> \ /___/ ,___/____) |\/
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