Last year, we shared a number of posts commemorating minor holiday celebrations we had made in our computer art idiom during our original, 4-year run from 1994-1998, culminating in the re-release of the long-lost “Bells of Yule” music disk, remastered, enhanced and considerably fortified for a total 1h45 runtime.
One thing that I thought would have been “nice” would be to provide relevant visuals, but what with all the time I spent drafting infofiles that fall, the time bank was empty when the right moment came along to promote this music disk… so we went without for one year. But we did not forget!
Now, a year older and seemingly no wiser, we have raided the collected vaults of the history of textmode art, public domain and underground, ASCII, ANSI, ANSImation and more, ferreting out literally hundreds of brief holiday-themed works of visual art with which to present you a vintage slideshow, the best and most fitting possible accompaniment to the 5-part “Bells of Yule” suite composed in Winter 1994 on an Atari ST.
We’ll be sharing one instalment daily for the next five days; today’s features a focus on FidoNet/UseNet style ASCII art, notably focusing on the works of the disappeared ASCII master jgs (Joan G. Stark), with a cameo appearance by ldb (Laura D. Brown). Merry Mist'mas! Share and enjoy!
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