Get ready to be ASCII-ized: a web app by Eric Fredricksen takes input from your webcam and turns whatever it sees into a stream of text characters in real-time. Before your eyes, you’re transformed into a work ASCII video art, made of asterisks, tildes, colons, and the like.
Most impressively, ASCII cam doesn’t just render out a streaming video that looks like text — all those dots and letters are displayed characters, and as such, can be copied and pasted if you want to freeze a particular moment.
"We exist within a built environment that is constantly mediated by the grid." This Saturday night, Brooklyn's net art gallery Transfer is holding the anticipated opening for artist A. Bill Miller's "Gridworks," combining "coldness and rationality of the grid confronts the warmth and playfulness of the human touch" with a series of…
More often than not, Twitterbots are useless. They don't have a lot of practical applications unless you're interested in spam or looking to spread malware. But sometimes, Twitterbots can be useless in a good way. Oscar Wilde was paying a compliment when he said, "All art is quite useless." Basically, the…
Fun news for Twitter users: Line breaks are now recognized in your tweets. This is cool but will also be a total catastrophe for the first week or so while everyone's getting adjusted. For now, though, try doing these fun things: - Flex your humor muscles with some programming jokes…
