Re: [pic] Font
From Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca>
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· 30 Aug 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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>Pete, allow me to disagree here. Anytime :-) >What you say here is like playing the synthetiser and claiming >you play the flute. It sounds like a flute but it's not. If the sounds are indistinguishable, who cares whether it has been generated with an acoustic or electronic flute? This is a perfect example for illustrating the difference between medium/means and ends/artform. >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. You are talking about two different things here, the object itself and its pictorial representation. This is not a relevant argument to what we are discussing here. >What you have on your website looks like ascii art but it isn't. I maintain it is. My sig below contains an ascii pic. If I turned it into a gif, then all of a sudden it is no longer an ascii pic? I maintain it still is, since the artform does not change, even when the medium has changed. A pic made with a mechnical typewriter on paper (that cannot even be immediately transmitted over the Internet or shown here on aaa) is also an ascii pic, for that matter. >Just my point of view. Ditto :-) ================================================================ [] [] [] /( )\ Visit the Gallery of the 'steins! [] [] ( "> <" ) http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/ [] [] (> )><( <) Woodpeckersteins dancing the boogie-woogie [] [] ^^ ^^ [] ================================================================
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