ASCII Potraits Are The Coolest

Posted on: July 27th, 2007 by Jeremy Schoemaker

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

Check it

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38 Comments. What Say You?

  1. Shannon
    July 27, 2007 at 10:33 am

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

    Later,
    ~Shannon

  2. imnotadoctor
    July 27, 2007 at 10:35 am

    Brings me back to the days of “BBS”

  3. Derrick Shields
    July 27, 2007 at 10:52 am

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

  4. samn
    July 27, 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!?

  5. Daniel Vukadinovic
    July 27, 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.

  6. Grayson De Ritis
    July 27, 2007 at 12:01 pm

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

  7. Paul Bradish
    July 27, 2007 at 12:18 pm

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

  8. Grivon
    July 27, 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?!

  9. Grivon
    July 27, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    … check it … time to hit the hay :S

  10. Deelip
    July 27, 2007 at 12:42 pm

    I know how to make this at least.

  11. kansieo
    July 27, 2007 at 12:42 pm

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

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

  12. Travel Notebook
    July 27, 2007 at 12:50 pm

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

  13. Travel Notebook
    July 27, 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

  14. Travel Notebook
    July 27, 2007 at 12:51 pm

    Looks like you have steam coming off your head lol

  15. Get Featured
    July 27, 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.

  16. chrisblogging.com
    July 27, 2007 at 1:26 pm

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

  17. SonicReducer
    July 27, 2007 at 1:27 pm

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

  18. jim
    July 27, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    Hahaha linkbait!

  19. JTPRATT's Blogging Mistakes
    July 27, 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?

  20. PrintnPost
    July 27, 2007 at 4:51 pm

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

  21. sh63145a
    July 27, 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.

  22. CPA Affiliates
    July 27, 2007 at 9:05 pm

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

  23. StrangeProgress
    July 27, 2007 at 10:11 pm

    Thats some badass keyword stuffing technique from 1995 too ;) LOL

  24. Paul.
    July 27, 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.

  25. cooliojones
    July 28, 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. :)

  26. Michael Fultz
    July 29, 2007 at 1:35 am

    That is a cool picture!!!

  27. fabrica
    July 29, 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

  28. Gronk
    July 29, 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.

  29. The Dino
    July 30, 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.

  30. Nathan Hannig
    July 30, 2007 at 9:29 am

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

  31. bolo
    July 30, 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…

  32. Joeychgo
    August 1, 2007 at 2:36 pm

    That is great!

  33. BloggingDosh
    August 1, 2007 at 8:39 pm

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

  34. SEO Reloaded
    August 2, 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 ;)

  35. stupid 3gp
    August 6, 2007 at 5:30 pm

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

  36. Carsten Cumbrowski
    August 9, 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).

  37. Gecko Tales
    August 27, 2007 at 8:07 am

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

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