Jul 27 2007

ASCII Potraits Are The Coolest

By Jeremy Schoemaker 38 comments

Amit from labnol did a bunch of ASCII portraits of bloggers and included yours truly!

Check it

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Shannon said on July 27th, 2007 at 10:33 am

Yeah, I have a bunch on my Facebook site. UShibby dot com.

Later,
~Shannon

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imnotadoctor said on July 27th, 2007 at 10:35 am

Brings me back to the days of “BBS”

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Derrick Shields said on July 27th, 2007 at 10:52 am

Wow… that’s incredible. Is that all done by hand Jeremy?

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samn said on July 27th, 2007 at 11:27 am

wow, how cool! I’ve only seen simple ASCII art in .nfo files.

How do you even do somthing like that!?

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Daniel Vukadinovic said on July 27th, 2007 at 11:40 am

Actually, that’s not incredible at all. This can be done in five second by any image2ascii converter you can find online for free.

It’s a cool thing to do portraits of bloggers but that’s it.

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Grayson De Ritis said on July 27th, 2007 at 12:01 pm

lol, this has inspired me to a bit of art of my own this weekend…

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Paul Bradish said on July 27th, 2007 at 12:18 pm

That was my first impression. I was wondering which tool he used.

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Grivon said on July 27th, 2007 at 12:27 pm

I’m looking at labnol.org … and seeing posts from the 25th but no ascii art?! Am I skimming trhough too quickly or where’s it at?!

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Grivon said on July 27th, 2007 at 12:29 pm

… check it … time to hit the hay :S

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Deelip said on July 27th, 2007 at 12:42 pm

I know how to make this at least.

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kansieo said on July 27th, 2007 at 12:42 pm

This one looks like a decent match after a couple options are changed.

http://www.degraeve.com/img2txt.php

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Travel Notebook said on July 27th, 2007 at 12:50 pm

I doubt it. Can you imagine doing that by hand?

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Travel Notebook said on July 27th, 2007 at 12:51 pm

I also made the mistake of clicking the first link in the post. You have to click “Check it” to see the art

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Travel Notebook said on July 27th, 2007 at 12:51 pm

Looks like you have steam coming off your head lol

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Get Featured said on July 27th, 2007 at 1:13 pm

Seems like other people weren’t that impressed, but I was! I don’t care if he used a tool, I’ve never seen anything like this before.

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chrisblogging.com said on July 27th, 2007 at 1:26 pm

This is quite impressive. I love this type of “art.”

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SonicReducer said on July 27th, 2007 at 1:27 pm

Those are sweet. You know what else are cool, those dot portraits they do in the wall street journal.

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jim said on July 27th, 2007 at 1:28 pm

Hahaha linkbait!

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JTPRATT's Blogging Mistakes said on July 27th, 2007 at 1:31 pm

That is awesome! You should be so flattered…..so are you gonna have it blown up full oil on canvas and have it mounted above your fireplace?

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PrintnPost said on July 27th, 2007 at 4:51 pm

thats cool!…How Do i get me one of those : )

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sh63145a said on July 27th, 2007 at 5:56 pm

This is not ascii art. ascii art is monochrome and uses the ascii letters to represent the tone. ansi art gives you 16 colors.

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CPA Affiliates said on July 27th, 2007 at 9:05 pm

just need to convert it over into one of those 3-d illusion photos then it would really rock!

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StrangeProgress said on July 27th, 2007 at 10:11 pm

Thats some badass keyword stuffing technique from 1995 too LOL

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Paul. said on July 27th, 2007 at 11:29 pm

Kind of hurts my eyes…. It’s like one of those photos where you have to lose focus to see the hidden sail boat.

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cooliojones said on July 28th, 2007 at 9:44 pm

I’ve seen something like that before. It’s cool kinda. Wonder what we’ll think about it 50 years from now.

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Michael Fultz said on July 29th, 2007 at 1:35 am

That is a cool picture!!!

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fabrica said on July 29th, 2007 at 5:51 am

lunatic.no/img2aschtml.php

it’s very easy stuff…
all you need is upload a picture and set the options
and its free

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Gronk said on July 29th, 2007 at 7:23 pm

lol. LB101, massage thy targets ego. would have taken the guy 2 seconds to run the photo through a script and look at what he achieved pretty impressive.

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The Dino said on July 30th, 2007 at 7:40 am

I am surprised how the ASCI art works but in this cae they must have some SW to do it.

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Nathan Hannig said on July 30th, 2007 at 9:29 am

That is amazing, i need to find a program to do that

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bolo said on July 30th, 2007 at 5:29 pm

cool….
i’ve just realized if it is a html code… first saw i thought it was a photoshop manipulation…

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Joeychgo said on August 1st, 2007 at 2:36 pm

That is great!

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BloggingDosh said on August 1st, 2007 at 8:39 pm

Very cool portrait. I wonder what script or program they are using

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SEO Reloaded said on August 2nd, 2007 at 4:58 am

I’ve seen this one before. It works great when you reduce the font size of your browser. Try using your mouse scroll with the CTRL key

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stupid 3gp said on August 6th, 2007 at 5:30 pm

First of all i have seen that in my email of bollywood acresses it looks cool.

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Carsten Cumbrowski said on August 9th, 2007 at 12:00 pm

Looks like somebody who visited my personal blog in June was snatching up a couple ideas. See:

Image to Text Converter and Fun with Matt Cutts

Anyhow, if you want to see real ASCII art, hand made, check this out.

ASCII Nudes Collection - 30 Years of “Naked” ASCII Art

Warning, Nudity (but not p*rn, although that is also available in ASCII, believe it or not).

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Gecko Tales said on August 27th, 2007 at 8:07 am

cool trick. Seems like someone has too much free time though.

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