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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 1 Jun 2002.
Re: oooooh controversy!

Re: oooooh controversy!

LGB wrote:

> On Fri, 31 May 2002 20:32:30 -0000, sli...@webjaz.net (slim) wrote:
> 
>>I do understand, like I said before I'm still learning ANSI and ASCII....
>>:) either way you missed my point appearantly. It doesn't matter to me if
>>its ANSI or ASCII I guess I'm just saying art is art and just when you
>>think you
>>can't break the mold someone will.  I'm also saying be imaginative.  There
>>are ways.
> 
> Art is art to the beholder and to the creator, but may not be art to
> someone else. But to define a medium to display a form of art for
> all to enjoy or view has happen in this group. A universal limited
> character set displayed in a fix width font in a plain text document
> from whatever background and font color one chooses to display the
> ascii-art on his/hers screen.

If I paint a white cat with watercolours is that watercolour art?
I didn't use canvas but I did use watercolours. Maybe If I write ascii 
characters on a page by hand that is ascii art. But I don't think using non 
ascii on say a screen is ascii art.

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Here kitty kitty.

Richard :)  

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