Jacksonpollock.org (2003)

Re:Jacksonpollock.org (2003) by umvi on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @03:17PM (#24286166)

Look at me, I invented a new form of ascii art:

  sdaf;lkajdfahvpo8xcuvx0cvu43nkQ#$%0digf09dsvsdfgsdfgdfg
  00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003.1415hhh

  sdaf;lkajdfahvpo8xcuvx0cvu43nkQ#$%0digf09dsvsdfgsdfgdfg
  00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003.1415hhhs

  daf;lkajdfahvpo8xcuvx0cvu43nkQ#$%0digf09dsvsdfgsdfgdfg
  00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003.1415hhh

  sdaf;lkajdfahvpo8xcuvx0cvu43nkQ#$%0digf09dsvsdfgsdfgdfg
  00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003.1415hhl

I did it first, so admire me for pushing the boundaries of ascii art. Also, you'll never be able to truly reproduce this type of ascii art unless you spend 4 years at art school studying stylometry to be able to identify my unique technique. You can imitate it, but there are subtleties only connoisseurs will recognize.

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Re:Jacksonpollock.org (2003) by pmoriarty on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @03:36PM (#24286344)

You're at least 100 years too late for your random art to be considered novel.

Mozart was creating random compositions with dice as far back as 1792.[1] Pollock was playing with randomness in painting in the 1940's, around the same time that John Cage was innovating with randomness in musical compositions.

The use of randomness in the arts and music has been going on for a long time, so something like your ascii art is probably not going to raise an eyebrow today, though maybe if you did it 100 years ago and managed to get it in to a museum or gallery it might have looked novel then.

That said, I wouldn't put it past some galleries to display it anyway, especially if you do it in a large quantity -- say having random text cover all the gallery walls, or make the font really gigantic. I'm sure some people will love it and consider it some kind of profound statement on the mechanization of modern life or something.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_Würfelspiel

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Re:Jacksonpollock.org (2003) by dang on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @08:31PM (#24288920)

I had to add some whitespace to your art because it was breaking the page layout. Sorry; it's our bug; we'll fix it.

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Re:Jacksonpollock.org (2003) by arthurcolle on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @11:00PM (#24289744)

This is highly derivative.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjS6bQ5OQ-o)

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Re:Jacksonpollock.org (2003) by a9entroy on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @03:38PM (#24286367)

I'd like to buy this. Where can I send the $50 million?

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