X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,65f6e9a9181678d0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-15 02:47:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!uni-erlangen.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!localhost!adf From: Andreas Freise Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Conversions : Art or not ? Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:30:40 +0100 Organization: Universitaet Hannover Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <9sjb2j.b0.1@Lucida.Console.Fans.International.Organization> <3BF04C4C.D72372E0@xs4all.nl> <3bf242a9$0$767$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.75.235.183 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de 1005821245 12681 130.75.235.183 (15 Nov 2001 10:47:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Nov 2001 10:47:25 GMT In-Reply-To: Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:10422 I really should not add to this fruitless discussion but here we go: On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Peter "lastfuture" Marquardt wrote: > >On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, CeeJay wrote: [...] > > Then you are not going to like my opinion of ascii-art: I *do* > >think that anyone can do it. One just has to learn which pieces look > >better instead of others. There isn't a lot of skill in that. > > disagree: > a painter does very much the same.. he looks where what brush or tool > makes the lines that fit better in a certain color and technique.. I don't know how to create art and don't know anyone who knows. I know that not _everybody_ can do Ascii `Art' - but almost. Then again, I know that many `painters' or some other dead people who are regarded as `great artists' have used all the tools they could lay there hands on. Many thought that to be an essential part of their mission - to discover, test and use every possibel helper. And some of my even more personal opinions: I never understood the extreme dislike for conversions that is shown from time to time by some people (even by prominent regulars sometimes). I do enjoy tiny outline drawings more, but I like converted art more than mindless blabla because the pictures I can look at and the balbla I have to read, which is much more exhausting. Know what I mean? ;) Andreas ________________________________________________ http://www.ascii-art.de