TALK: Doing a newspaper article on ASCII art

Hi. I'm Sascha Segan, and I'm a reporter with The Baltimore Sun -- we're a
paper in Baltimore, MD USA. I'm doing an article on ASCII art, and I'm
wondering a bunch of things about the medium. (Yeah, I know about the LA
Times article. We don't compete with them.) If you feel like answering
these questions, please send mail to bal...@clark.net or call me at
800-829-8000, x6423. (don't clutter up the group) -- if you don't, please
don't bother to flame, because I have a 'D' key and I know how to use it.

* What has attracted you to the medium of ASCII art? Why do you do it? Why
not just make GIFs?
* Do you have an art background? If not, how did you get into this?
* How much time do you spend on this stuff?
* Do you think things like GIFSCII demean the medium by automating it?
What's the future of ASCII art?

Those are just a few starter questions. Write to me and I'll probably ask
you more, but I didn't want to waste bandwidth ... :)

----Sascha

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