X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,1d291b2124ebb9d X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-12 05:46:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.162.153.118!news.tele.dk!not-for-mail From: "CeeJay" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art References: <3C16E7F2.1800@onramp.net> Subject: Re: professional Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:21:09 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3c175972$0$52951$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> Organization: TDC Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.243.165.226 X-Trace: 1008163186 dread01.news.tele.dk 52951 62.243.165.226 X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:12397 wrote in message news:3C16E7F2.1800@onramp.net... > Does anyone actually do ascii art for living > as a professional artist? A true artist does not make money of his art but keeps producing art because his soul demands him to. .. as for myself I haven't found anyone who will pay me yet ;) The answer to your question is no. Though I thought about it the other day and came to the conclusion that a ascii-artist would be very handy for making the tele-text (Text-TV) pages seen on european TV ( NTSC does not leave some of the bandwidth unused so unlike PAL it can't transmit tele-text .. so most americans dont know what this is) You can browse DR1 & DR2 (Two of the primary danish TVchannels) TextTV by browsing to : http://www.dr.dk/nav/tekstttv/ttv.asp?side=100&kanal=dr1 The biggest frame contain the TextTV pages , you browse it by clicking a page number or entering one in the field called "G� til side [____]" It contains news , sport , weatherinfo , a TV guide , a radio guide .. etc Some of the pages contain little images made with the limited charset available for TextTV (although it's not as limited as ASCII) Can you think of other jobs a ascii-artist would be perfect for ? Kind Regards CeeJay