A Guide for Reading Concrete Poetry
(Link via the Internet Archives, the original site is now something else. I wanted to save the post so I have made my own archive of the contents here.)
… Read the rest(Based on Edmund Feldman’s Critical Performance)
Concrete poetry is poetry in which the text itself forms a picture on the page.
Note – This was originally posted to a friend’s site in 2011. Her site is down now so I’ve reposted it, mostly for myself, here.
I’ve been working with ASCII Art again this year. It’s been awhile since I was active in the old ASCII art groups or wrote about it for WZ.com as a newsletter.… Read the rest
Before I read the post I thought it was going to be about trying different fonts for ASCII art. I still like my version. I can imagine making the same one line text art using endless varieties of fonts and then picking the best from them. It would make an interesting project, maybe just a bit too time consuming.… Read the rest
Source: ECKOVISION See the site for many more concrete/ visual poetry art (no updates since 2015) from Scott Scherr.
Source: ASCII Art (Thanks to the Wayback Machine).
The site was Go Make it Happy but it isn’t there any more. I was happy seeing a big, consumer oriented company like CocaCola using ASCII art. Even though it’s computer generated – there is a wonderfully large amount of it. Note – these were all watermarked by software I was trying. It was not intentional.… Read the rest
This post was originally posted to Squidoo while I was writing there. That site was closed in 2014.
Maybe you have seen ASCII art and didn’t know what it was.
I make pictures using my computer keyboard – the characters of the keyboard, the text letters, punctuation marks and the numbers too. I enjoy ASCII art.… Read the rest
Whether you know it as ASCII art or didn’t know a proper name for all that text art made with standard keyboard characters, you can do it yourself. It really is much simpler than you may expect.
I’ve been creating ASCII line art since 1997. After a few years I left it behind, there were so few places I could still use it once email became HTML instead of plan text.… Read the rest