X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,3663fe56fd9a1197 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,3663fe56fd9a1197 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 110f55,3663fe56fd9a1197 X-Google-Attributes: gid110f55,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-14 12:57:17 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: is94drj@brunel.ac.uk (DR J) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii Subject: Talk: Is Ascii Art finished? Followup-To: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii Date: 14 Dec 1994 13:09:04 -0600 Organization: Brunel Loonieversity Lines: 70 Sender: boba@gagme.wwa.com Approved: boba@wwa.com Message-ID: <3cnfsg$750@gagme.wwa.com> References: <1994Dec9.182436.8648@vax.sbu.ac.uk> <3cdmcu$1mt@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com Xref: nntp.gmd.de rec.arts.ascii:3321 alt.ascii-art:18085 Bob Allison (boba@wwa.com) wrote: : A fortune cookie said that zhuhail@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 ______________________________________________________________________________ ! ! _______________ ______ Purveyor of : "Do or do not. There is no : (_______________) (______| fine Ascii-Art : try." : _ _ _ __ _ Stereograms to . Yoda . | | | | |__/ / | | the InterNet . . | | | | __ < __ | | since 1994 ------------------------------ | |__/ /| | \ \ \ \_| | . UserID, Address, Phone, etc. . |_____/ |_| \_\ \____| ______________________________________________________________________________ -- ______________________________________________________________________________ me90drj : "It's an old code sir, but it checks out. I was about to clear him." is94drj : "....5....4....3...Wait! What's that red light?...." ______________________________________________________________________________