Looking at the source, looks like he piped it through http://secret-wildwood-1014.herokuapp.com/, which looks like it does basic image to ascii conversions when you give it a url. Not sure if he spun that up, but it's cool in that now the app can be made all in js

what would really be cool is if someone creates a service that can turn videos into 'ascii art' videos....that would look beautiful...

Try `mplayer -vo aa <video_file>`

  -vo caca <video_file>

to have it in color. :)

Add telnet streaming for extra points, like they did to World Cup 2006: http://ascii-wm.net/doc.php

I wrote a program for playing video in ASCII on an OpenVMS console (VT220 orange text serial console) for a university project. I played the Matrix dojo fight scene for the final presentation, it was a big success! :)

YouTube had this for April Fool's, where you could watch any video in ASCII art.

libcaca to the rescue! http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

starwars done in ascii ;)

This is amazing. I was expecting an algorithmic conversion of the video, but...just, wow.

Do it! That would be awesome!