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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 28 Apr 1998.
Re: The earliest asci-art...

Re: The earliest asci-art...

Sharleen wrote:
> 
> > Free form poetry is extremely old and there was a time they used that
> > poetry to make a picture out of the verses. for example: ...
> > Simple, yes, but I'm sure you know what I am refering to. So maybe we
> > should give those poets the true discovery of Ascii Art?  Just a thought
> > from the depths of my awakenings. What do you other artists and lurkers
> > think?
> 
> I remember seeing some of those type poems in one of my high school
> English texts.  Some were amazingly intricate.  But that's definitely a
> cool idea.  I don't think that I've seen any ASCI poems/pictures online as
> of this moment, and now that I think of it I find that quite surprising...
> Are any of you aaa folks poets?  I'm new to the ASCI art element of the
> combo, but I'll see if I can come up with something...
> 
> sharleen

I remember one called "Marilyn Monroe" which was just two 'm's in the
shape
of lips. I think it's somewhere inbetween poetry and graphic art.
Problem is that it's not possible to do without distorting the 'm's, so
I
cannot show any here.

If anyone got some of those...I like them.

Ojoshiro!
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