From: "Peter \"lastfuture\" Marquardt" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: review: how lastfuture started ascii-art (warning: big) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:27:12 +0100 Organization: T-Online Lines: 407 Message-ID: <92L+Oxat7T=Fl1vtgEIxsoViq83w@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1006529284 00 6511 3Wp1TKPSS+YFL9 011123 15:28:04 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520084321266-0001@t-dialin.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:24616 this is a small 'historic' review on the asciification of myself, peter marquardt aka lastfuture this was the first posting of ascii art in this group back in 2000 on the 17th of july containing my two very first ascii art pieces made with notepad... back then my sig was still "cos" standing for "cosmo" :) 1 - my email sig wich was too big but cool :) ------------------------cos-- www.lastfuture.de __ ------------------/ /\------- __ / / / /_/\ /_/ /_ \ \ \ __ \ \ \/\ \ \ \/ /\ \ \ / \ \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ / \ \ \ ----------\_\/------\_\/----- lastfuture@lastfuture.de ----------------------------- 2 - a boat with a guy on there shouting because of the thunderstorm :) __.--.-'^-..-'--,. ." '. () . ,' ."||". -,.-"-,",'-'.-,_..' ." || ". / . ." || ". / ^ ."_..-""||--..__: /\/ " :-" || ' /."." ' || | /; \ || ' /' : || \ ,' | || ' . || : : || , SOS | || | SOS / _.-"||"-._ / / |_.-"" || "-.| " || \ \o/ / || \ # _____/___________||_________\_/_\_ ^-.\ /-^°^-.,_ .,_,.^"°^-. .,_,.-^°^-. .-"°^-.,_,.-"°^ ^-.,_,.-^°^-.,_,cos°^-.,_,.-^°^-.,_,.-^°^-.,_,.-^°^-.,_ _,.-^-.,_,.-^°^-.,_,.-^°^-.,_,.-^°^-.,_,.-^°^-.,_,.-^°^-., there were some diddles in between but what follows is my second posting of original ascii-art by me back in 2000 on the 15th of august containing my first ascii cartoon.. i think i made fast progress.. it was the birth of mr evil virus as well :)) ,-''''''-, ,-''''-, ,-''''-,-, ,- ,-''''-, ' ...... / ' .... ' ' .... /| '-, ,-' | ' .... ' | ' ' | ' ' || ', ' | ' || ' ' | | | | | | | ', '-, | |','| || | | | | | | | | | '-, ' | | | || | | | | | . | | | | | || | | || | | | ' '-----'\' '--' ''----' ,'| | | |' '--' ' '-,,,,,,,-' '-,,,,,,-' \,,,,-' |__| |__| '-,,,,,,-' EPISODE I - NICE SUMMER DAY =============================================================== ,------------------, | __________________ | ,------------------------, | :::::::::::::::::: | | aaah, a nice summer | | :ITS:NOW::SAFE:TO: | | day. let's go outside! |------ | ::TURN:OFF::YOUR:: | '------------------------' | :::::COMPUTER::::: | | ------------------ | | Somy [ ] | '-u-u-u------------' ___________ |____| _\_________________ / __|____|__ ', \ / '----------' '----- - -- ----\, __________________________________________\' ------------------------------------------' | || / \ || ,' =============================================================== --------------------------., -, ', , ,-----------, | | all right | ___________________________ | | he's gone | --------------------------- | '-----------' ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: | | ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: | | ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: | | =============================================================== \ --------------------------------------------------, --------------------------------------------------' __________________ | | \ | | \ | | ____________________\ | | | | | -----------------, | | | 24x | | | | _________________| | | | | ,-------------------, | ,---, | | we'll infect this | | |''.| ____| machine. it's | | '---' | | perfect | | | '-------------------' | =============================================================== \/ ,--------------------------------, (oo) | we will conquer this computer! | vv \/ '--------------------------------' JL (oo) / vv _/ JL ,-----------------------------------, \/ | but boss, we are evil virusses... | ( ) '-----------------------------------' vv __/ JL =============================================================== \/ (oo) vv \/ JL (oo) vv JL ,---------------------------------------, | shouldn't we infect a more important | \/ | computer than this one? what's on it? | ( ) '---------------------------------------' vv __/ JL =============================================================== ,----------------------------------------, \/ | errr... maybe we find... evil plans on | (oo) | taking over the world. yeah that's it! | vv \/ '----------------------------------------' JL (oo) / ,----------, vv ___/ __| nonsense | JL / '----------' / =============================================================== ,------------------, | __________________ | ,------------------------, | :::::::::::::::::: | | oops, forgot to turn | | :ITS:NOW::SAFE:TO: | | off my computer |------ | ::TURN:OFF::YOUR:: | '------------------------' | :::::COMPUTER::::: | | ------------------ | | Somy [ ] | '-u-u-u------------' ___________ |____| _\_________________ / __|____|__ ', \ / '----------' '----- - -- ----\, __________________________________________\' ------------------------------------------' | || F J || ,' || J________L , _||' || | ____ | ' - ' || || | |____| | ,------------------, || | [] | ___| i say let's take | || | | | over this... | || | | '------------------' || | | || =============================================================== \ --------------------------------------------------, --------------------------------------------------' __________________ | | \ ,--------------------, \ ____| ...computer and... | ____________________\ / '--------------------' | / | | -----------------, : ,- . | | 24x | ,'-' '" ' . | | _________________| | | : |' ' | | ' ' : | | | ,-,-''-:. ' | | *SQUIRT* |',_,._ ; | | '---' ' / | | *KLICK* |\ , | | ===========================================================cos= _________ ___ _ ___ / ________\ | \ | | | '. \ \_ | |\ \ | | | |', ' / /________ | | \ \| | | |,' ; \_________/ |_| \___| |___,' i was quite sad when nobody replied to this cause i really worked hard for it. then i left the group alone because nobody really cared for the cosmo cartoon and i had less and less time to read and post on the 22nd april in 2001 i returned with this masterpiece of pure-notepad-ascii-art. unfortunately i never made other characters than a, c, i, m, n, r, s, and t in this (in my opinion) cool font.. so nobody ever made a figlet font out of it. note that i had changed my sig to "lf" by that time ,. ., *" "+ .~:#:L,.- .~:#:;.T .~:#: -,.- -.,- +U' '*T# .97 +U' ' HJ T# .97 '*L "T;E+;, .97 6R L* T7 I# "*:. T7 T# HJ *#+ . :8 T, 79 *#+ *L 6R "T;E*' .IE, J"*+;#:T*" "T;#E*E, .IE, .IE, /I #H .~:H:L,.- -,.- ,._ _EI_ +H' '*FH RE.T:~": '"#*"' .67 'GI GF7 ' R6 E7 IE HI *J *H+ . :6 #* T# "T;E+' .IE, .IE, ';E" [lf] after that posting i heard of jave and downloaded it immediately. with the followup to a request my life suddenly became ascii... i tried to improve my skills and developed my own style * * .-. * ) ) * '-' * * * ,----------------, * / / / / / / / / /\\ * * */ / / / / / / / / \\ ,---------------------. / / / / / / / / / \\ | Dogstar's Doghouse | /________________/ .-. _,._ | Issue #43 | | | | | | | , (,oO,) '---------------------' | | | | | |~~~~-'\ | a free weekly service | | | | | |___.+.\* |______________|_|___|_||| and that made me what i am today... a crazy asciimatic nutcase :)) hope you had fun.. and to finish this thing off... here is the second and last episode of cosmo.. symbolic for getting rid of the 'cos' sig and sticking to the 'lf' sig ,-''''''-, ,-''''-, ,-''''-,-, ,- ,-''''-, ' ...... / ' .... 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' ' | |C:\>_ ___|_|__| man this is boring... gonna | . . | | , / | | | start some real action here | | | .\"|/', / | | '-----------------------------' | | ~'"=;'=- | | | '----|\";/|------' | '-......-' | Somy' ' [ ] | ) yawn ( '-u-u-u',.'--------' .-''''''-. _________,--'__'--.___________________ / , . ;'L \ / | ',-----., '' ' \ __________|,' `:__/_________________\ ----------/ \-------------------' || ( ) \ || =============================================================== ,` . | | _______________________________________________ '-.......-' ,------------------------------------------------ ) click ( | 8 .-'''''''-. | 8 eeeee eeeee eeeee e eeeee eeeee | | 8b 8 88 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 | | 88 8 8 8bee8 8b 8 8b 8b 8 8b | | 88 8 8 88 8 88 8 88 88 8 88 "8 | | 88eee 8eee8 88 8 88ee8 88 88 8 88ee8 88 88 88 =============================================================== ____________________________________________________ ,' ', , __________________________________________________ , | ,--------------------------------------------------. | | | ___ |####| | ,---------------------. | | /oo\ |####| | | yeah i'm gonna win! | | | \`~/ `-.|####| | '---------------------' | | _||_ `*##| | ,' | | | | ' ' `-._ | .' | | | | . , , `-._ | .' | | | | ',_==00 '-......-' `-. | .' | | | | , \ ) BLAM ( `-._.' | | | | | '. \ .-'''''-.;....-' ____ | | | | | |:_|_ ) BLAM ( ' ' | | | | _|_|/___) .-''''''-. .______. | | | | (___\ '------' | | =============================================================== _________________________________________ ', ________________________________________ , ----------------------------------------. | '-.......-' ########################################| | ) zioop ( ########################################| | .-'''''''-. ########################################| | ########################################| | ########################################| | ########################################| | ########################################| | ########################################| | ########################################| | ########################################| | ########################################| | ########################################| | =============================================================== /_____\ \_/ ,------------------, .' 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