First ASCII artist?

[newtubetubetube]

That is not American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Also, he overlaps characters. It only drawing... with a typewriter.

[gamer3100]

This is neither pixel art nor ASCII art. It doesn't qualify as ascii because the characters are allowed to overlap on the typewriter. true ascii each space gets one character.

[kittykatro]

not bad for a nazi!

[zant337]

@kittykatro 50s, dude. -3-

[IQbrew]

I'll translate.

0:07 - I AM GERMAN

0:28 - I AM STILL GERMAN

[ifrenchfry]

I don't understand german language, but that was impressive :)

[SAclammy]

I TYPE LIKE 50000 WPM (words per minute) INTO MY BLACKBERRY AND THE TONES COMING OUT OF THE SPEAKER SIGNAL ANTS TO MARCH OUT OF THE GROUND AND ARRANGE THEMSELVES INTO A PERFECTLY RENDERED 800ax x 550ax (ax = anxels, the ant equivalent of a pixel) IMAGE OF WHOEVER I AM CURRENTLY THINKING ABOUT SO YOU BOTH SUCK B@LLS

[JeremyB796]

I'm guessing his black typewriter ribbons did not last long

[instaimagehost]

germen O_o

[chrismofer]

mmmmmm......

[bddblade]

This is sweet.

[snufleufugus]

lol if he messes up

[SoundsOnFire]

Awesome!

Inspired this ASCII video clip : M0CXHGV5qlw (search in youtube)

The song is called 'Hop on 6' Thanks! ;+)

[jason24568]

Before the LOLSKATE and the ROFLcopter! xD

[6cody5]

m is that guy's favorite letter!!!

[talesofdork]

ascii art on a typewriter is kinda cheating imo... with a type writer, u can slant easily (by repositioning the paper) and characters can overlap...

furthermore, u CAN fix errors on a type writer with correction tape... its really not that difficult

[usamaki10]

(.Y.)

This is all we need.

(For those of you who are a bit slow it's a pair of breasts.)

[bastardtubeuser]

the germans are the best.

[Yommt83]

its analog ASCII

[RAYONDARK]

se la rifa el putito

[gmod44]



[gian0039]

omg wtf, this is ultrahyperamazing

[joeythegeek1942]

thats typewriter or "text" art, ASCII art refers to using the computer language "ASCII"'s language font to make images. ASCII is a computer language, not a font or a type style. and please don't take this comment as douche-baggery or hating.

[therealsuperhobo]

Superior to today's ascii art

[BigFreakingCacodemon]

@therealsuperhobo you mean FAR superior to todays ascii art.

[ascille14]

sorry not grand she's related to me

[ascille14]

(\_/) lol rabit ok well my name is ascille not ascii

(*_*) or ascll witch ever it is and im related to ascii or ascll witch ever it is so ha ha ha she is my grand

[SGTkiitty]

lol what if ur in the middle (after 5 hours of work) then your cat jumps on the thing it would look like this

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ohh shit lol

[nlicky]

Wow, on a typewriter, sounds like a really hard job if you'd mess up. Not exactly ASCII as people said, going over characters, but it's really amazing.

[robotwo]

Not very much like ASCII art , in this he can add a letter several times in order to add shade and is not limited to a grid ... but its darn amazing work :)

[Akbzel]

only one word

!WOW! O.o

[MusicMyLife2112]

I'd say this type of art is like "Advanced ANSCII" because of 1 fact - YOU CAN'T GO BACK AND FIX SOMETHING ON A DAMN TYPEWRITTER DOMPKOFFS! One screw up and - BACK TO SQUARE 1. The way the characters overlap is a good thing since the finnished picture looks better, less spaces can be used to add more detail. The "late 1950's" was right before, WHAT again? Oh thats right - BEFORE the 1960's!!! So yes, I'd say that THIS IS the first developer of modern ANSCII Art but, technically it's not ANSCII.

[Geylgamesh]

Thanks for sending me this video...

That's freaking awesome how he did that with the typewriter.

My Grandamother was half germany, so I guess that makes me an eight.

[samplesmasher]

don't confound ansi with ascii !! (and i never heard about anscii ?!)....

OK, this ist not ascii-art, because at ascii-art there's only one character per block, and only characters from #32 to #126 (that means: hold Alt+# on you num-block gives you a character)

ansi-art ist made with the characters used from #160 to #255!

sorry about my bad english, but i'm from germany

[SkyCharger001]

ANSI-Art is not limited to #160 to #255, it can use all 256 characters available (unless you're using an incomplete character-set, but a good ANSI-viewer uses the computer's ROM-set , which should be both practically universal AND complete)

[7amsox]

@MusicMyLife2112 you mean ansi

[cky12qxz]

@MusicMyLife2112 dummköpfe :3

[ShinyHunterBWord]

@MusicMyLife2112 lol. U mean dummkopf. not dompkoff.

[slovensko2222]

@MusicMyLife2112 He didn't use squares, He just typed the ascii all over the place...

[Semajal]

@MusicMyLife2112 I have a typewriter and have made friends images using it. It is insanely hard to get right. Most things ive done have taken 2-3 attempts. It is especially frustrating to have typed out 400 characters only to mess one up, and have to go back to the beginning.

[casmatt1]

@MusicMyLife2112 umadbro?

[TheWeirdMatt]

@MusicMyLife2112 Dumkopf**

[Pasakoye]

This is more like stamping, still amazing.

[hectorvrl]

O.O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[deletethefed]

not really the same similar idea but much harder to make an image in ascii then the typewriter at least manually

[pjotrmans]

It's better to call it 'text-art', because it's technically not ASCII-art.

ASCII/ANSI art became popular when software piracy emerged in the 80's (you can still see it in almost all the .nfo's by releasegroups). TEXT-art like this has existed since some time after the invention and popularization of the typewriter.

[moonflower0924]

cool!

[ArmAholic]

This person or Rosaire J. Belangner can't be first ASCII artist because ASCII was created in 60's.

[dasuxullebt]

Its the same Idea.

[asiekierka]

Nope. ASCII doesn't overlap chars!

[dasuxullebt]

Still the same Idea.

[C3Z4rtv]

HOLY MOTHAFFFFFFFFFF

[block1538]

WOW, that is impressive, look at all the details o_O

[xam714]

much better than internet Ascii Art

[froggysocks]

wow i feel so lazy i wonder how long that took

lotsa work..

[Kasiulowo]

Wow, I'll try it. ;)

[lewandowka]

Rosaire J. Belangner - first ASCII artist in 1939!

[FpsMuch]

shit thats pretty epic!! and on a typewriter damn!

[razbizzle]

um what if he messed up?

[Alarindris]

'what if he messed up?' Are you fucking serious? What if a painter messed up? Or someone who draws with ink? Or watercolors?

[razbizzle]

"are YOU fucking serious?" is your mother? your grand mother?

[TheMouthTrumpeter]

If you mess up, you either work around it, fix it or throw away the piece. And I dont think fixing it would work well.

[razbizzle]

thats what im saying...

[RuneDungeon]

It's fake.. This type of ASCII art is done with applications. To find one of these applications simply google search something like "ASCII generator".

[ueberRegenbogen]

Yeah, it can be done that way. But people with great patience have been doing mindblowing things in the name of art, for millennia.

[SkyCharger001]

As far as I could see it was about this style of art in general, so the clip was a reconstruction if you will.

Would you call a video about the holocaust fake if, for example, the 320th leaf of the 5th tree from the right falls in the wrong direction?

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[ReversePowerChord]

i imagine it would be easier with a typewriter anyway cuz you can overlap characters.

[LilUsagiChan]

This is cool!

[nintendowiirulz]

because you can go over letters you already have done

[okslauqk]

i can draw... didnt see any letters

[A550RGY]

Not really that strange. He appears to have used overlapping characters to get his effect, while computer ASCII art is limited to one character per spot. He wins.

[MulleDK13]

Actually, he lose. Computer makes the images way more detailed, and each pixel can be made a character. I made an ASCII-to-Image converter, that converted each pixel. And it looked pretty nice.

[SkyCharger001]

And you miss the target by 90°.\

A. The challenge was between type-writer-art and MANUALLY created ASCII-art.

B. Both used the same character-set (the computer trough the use of a daisy-chain version of the set, 'writer' the Type-writer version)

C. Both were limited to the same canvas size.

P.S. There are some guys that want to talk about the hospital-bills you caused them at the firing-range.

[pokerslut530]

Good observation :)

[A550RGY]

Thank you! Feels good to finally be appreciated.

[waider]

This is the official first geek ever lol

[aidannn17]

Amen.

[waider]

haha

[Swordstalker83]

lol

[D45HK3]

707!

[thecybercat]

That must take forever...

[steamedpie]

LIES!!!!!!!! They were all done in a program and printed off, It was just videoed in black and white and spoken in german. There is many programs, just google search 'program which converts pictures to ascii' it's that simple...

Please do not post fake videos like this ever again.

[aidannn17]

Quite true.

[Saskachewan]

lol 'ye 0ld3 h4xx0r ;)

[hihellokrishna]

wow thats called art

[edyersh]

to me, it is more craft than art.

[elijahlucian]

to me your an idiot.

[g4d4j5]

That is really awesome!!!

That would be really hard to do, I would think. You'd have to get it right the first time. No undo key on the typewriter. :p

[imapunk15]

But there is Whiteout :P

[elijahlucian]

haha. not back then...

[oed]

It's very cool, but not ASCII art.

[elijahlucian]

ascii defined.

ASCII was originally developed for communications and uses only seven bits per character, providing 128 combinations that include upper and lower case alphabetic letters, the numeric digits and special symbols such as the $ and %.

which includes... say it with me... "upper and lower case alphabetic letters"

[oed]

It would better be described as "typewriter art". ASCII doesn't allow for varied shades of characters, nor overlap. ASCII, strictly speaking, is an encoding scheme.  These images don't use ASCII at all.

[TNXcrew]

ascii stands for an character set used in computers. ascii art started with html restrictions so they used characters to represent images and they were often used by hackers and gamers. typewriter art started in 1898 when flora stacy drawed a flower with a typewriter, so this vid is FAKE and NOT art it's GENERATED

[TNXcrew]

ascii stands for an character set used in computers. ascii art started with html restrictions so they used characters to represent images and they were often used by hackers and gamers. typewriter art started in 1898 when flora stacy drawed a flower with a typewriter, so this vid is FAKE and NOT art it's GENERATED

[oed]

I don't know if this video is fake or not, but ASCII art was around long before HTML.

[pokerslut530]

You're both pretty much goobers to be honest. ASCII is simply the NAME which has since been applied to it and you're arguing over semantics. Either way it's impressive as fuck, even moreso done on a typewriter!!

(I am a former ASCII artist myself from way back). BBS's were the SHIT! ...and literally the first form of "internet" except on a much smaller & limited basis. I feel fortunate to be born when I was and had a interest in computers very early. It has been quite an evolutionary sight!

[ueberRegenbogen]

The `first form of internet' predates microcomputers. :)

[horstimaus]

well.. it's not really ascii art but nice anyway

[paisleylou]

thats great!