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

Re: oooooh controversy!

From LGB · alt.ascii-art · 1 Jun 2002 13:22 · View full thread · report
On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 05:50:01 GMT, Richard James <thi...@all.will.it> wrote:

>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.

I agree with you

Obascii -- a spinning top

   __/\__
  '-.  .-'
     \/

lgbeard

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