ASCII art of Snoopy and friends.
Art that has to do with hackers.town.
‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessible to anybody in public space. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop is installed empty except a readme.txt file explaining the project. ‘Dead Drops’ is open to participation. If you want to install a dead drop in your city/neighborhood follow the ‘how to’ instructions and submit the location and pictures.
There's a database of dead drops around the world, with map coordinates, photographs of locations, and instructions for adding your own. Of course, you're sticking a random USB device into your computer, you never know what's going to be on it so be sure you understand the risks before going on an expedition.
Piet is a programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings. The language is named after Piet Mondrian, who pioneered the field of geometric abstract art. I would have liked to call the language Mondrian, but someone beat me to it with a rather mundane-looking scripting language.
I wrote the Piet specification a long time ago, and the language has taken on a bit of a life of its own, with a small community of coders writing Piet programs, interpreters, IDEs, and even compilers. I have not written any "authoritative" interpreter, and the different ones available sometimes interpret the specification slightly differently.
Piet uses a stack for storage of all data values. Data values exist only as integers, though they may be read in or printed as Unicode character values with appropriate commands. The stack is notionally infinitely deep, but implementations may elect to provide a finite maximum stack size. If a finite stack overflows, it should be treated as a runtime error, and handling this will be implementation dependent.
Artist and game developer specializing in old-school styles, most predominantly ANSI art. It all began with the release of Cyber Purge in 2021, remastered in 2024, and has continued unassailed ever since!
Seems to specialize in low-res sci-fi retrogames.
This repository contains tools releated to BBSing and Ansi in general. It contains:
- Icy Term, a terminal program for legacy BBS systems.
- Icy Draw, a drawing tool supporting almost all ANSI formats.
- Icy View, a viewer to browse/view Ansi screens.
- Icy Play, a tool that shows icy draw animations on cmd line/bbs.
A pixel-perfect web-based MS Paint remake and more. Ah yes, good old Paint. Not the one with the ribbons or the new skeuomorphic one with the interface that can take up nearly half the screen. (And not the even newer Paint 3D.) Recreates every tool and menu of MS Paint, and even little-known features, to a high degree of fidelity. It supports themes, additional file types, and accessibility features like a Dwell Clicker and Speech Recognition. Claims to be mobile friendly.
You can create links that will open an image from the Web in JS Paint. Rudimentary multi-user collaboration support. It isn't seamless; actions by other users interrupt what you're doing, and visa versa. Sessions are not private, and you may lose your work at any time.
jsPaint can be installed as a Progressive Web App (PWA), although it doesn't work offline yet. Look for the install prompt in the address bar.
Signal Stickers is a community-organized, unofficial directory of sticker packs for Signal, the secure messenger. All content on this website is copyrighted by their respective owners. This website is not affiliated with Signal or Open Whisper Systems.
If you're looking for blobcats or other stuff to throw into your group chats, start here. Installation is simple, visit the site from your mobile and it'll engage Signal's installation mechanism.
The MIT Press is committed to re-imagining what a university press can be. Known for iconic design, rigorous scholarship, and creative technology, the Press advances knowledge by publishing significant works by pioneering international authors. The MIT Press is the only university press in the United States whose list is based in science and technology. This does not mean that science and technology are all we publish, but it does mean that we are committed to the edges and frontiers of the world—to exploring new fields and new modes of inquiry. We publish over 220 new books a year and over 30 journals. We are a major publishing presence in fields as diverse as art, architecture, economics, cognitive science, game studies and computer science to name just a few."
This is an easier-to-get archive of all of that project's texts at the Internet Archive.
Each letter is a glass cane, a cylinder of glass made by pulling and twisting an arrangement of straight lines of colored glass embedded within clear glass. The top view shows the initial extruded arrangement, which is an easily recognized letter. The side view shows the pulled and twisted result, as simulated by our Virtual Glass software, and forms a challenging puzzle to decipher.
Coloring book pages.
During hacker gatherings, crayons and several printed coloring sheets using that year’s event logo are available for attendees to relax, socialize, and color. It’s great for reducing stress and social anxiety from overstimulation, and it helps to get the creative juices flowing. Print any of them out yourself, and enjoy!
Welcome to Save My Ink Forever where we have developed a unique proprietary process for PRESERVING TATTOOS. Our mission is to help carry on a loved one's story. At Save My Ink Forever we create more than just a picture. You receive the actual tattooed art.
We hope to ensure that the spirit and legacy of your loved ones can live on for generations to come. Save My Ink Forever focuses on creating an human artifact. At Save My Ink Forever we create more than just a picture. You receive the actual tattoo. This becomes a framed piece of art that is presented to the family in a dignified manner.
Sixteen Colors is an online archive for ANSI and ASCII artpacks. The artform was originally intended for display on computer textmode consoles. It gained popularity in the early nineties with the rise of dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (BBS).
At one point artists started to group together and release their work in collections released monthly, these collection are called artpacks. Rivalry resulted in fierce competition between these artgroups which only boosted activity. ACiD and iCE are examples of early prominent groups.
The rise of the Internet in the late nineties started the decline of BBS's and thus also the need and interest for ANSI/ASCII art. And although the need has almost vanished, still today artists are producing artpacks in collectives. Sixteen Colors aims to collect these artpacks as an archive in the public interest.
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone. Has an intuitive user interface that stays out of your way. The docks and panels can be moved and customized for your specific workflow. Once you have your setup, you can save it as your own workspace. You can also create your own shortcuts for commonly used tools. Over 100 professionally made brushes, stabilizers for them in case your hand isn't the steadiest, built-in vector drawing tools, customizable and constructable brushes, wrap-around mode for seamless textures, and a resource manager to import and export tools and packs from other users.
Supports 2d animation. Multiple layers and audio support, thousands of frames on the video timeline, onion skinning for tweening, drag-and-drop of frames, shortcuts, and performance tweaking.
Source code: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita
Web based image editor, modeled after the legendary Deluxe Paint with a focus on retro Amiga file formats. Next to modern image formats, DPaint.js can read and write Amiga icon files and IFF ILBM images.
Fully Featured image editor with layers, selections, masking, transformation tools, effects, filters, multiple levels of undo/redo, copy or paste from any other image program or image source, customizable dithering tools, and heavy focus on colour reduction with fine-grained dithering options.
Works on any system and works fine on touch-screen devices like iPads.
It is written in 100% plain JavaScript and has no dependencies. All processing is done in your browser, no data is sent to any server.
DPaint.js doesn't need building. It also has zero dependencies so there's no need to install anything. DPaint.js is written using ES6 modules and runs out of the box in modern browsers. Just serve index.html from a web server and you're good to go.
PyDPainter, pronounced "Pied Painter" (like Pied Piper), is an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame. The original inspiration came from the Commodore Amiga version of Deluxe Paint released by Electronic Arts in 1985. Back then, Deluxe Paint helped define the user interface of a paint program with tool bars, menus, and the novel use of left and right mouse buttons for painting and erasing. After pixel art gave way to photo-realism and high-resolution 24 bit color, Deluxe Paint was largely forgotten for artistic work -- left behind in the ever-progressing march of technology.
Recently, with a resurgence of all things "retro," low-resolution pixel art and limited color palettes have become popular once again. Many tools to deal with this medium are either too complicated or too crude. This project is an attempt to bring back an old but reliable tool and enhance it with some features to help it better coexist in the modern world.
Toynbee Tiles refer to a message and a medium invented by a Philadelphia artist in the 1980’s. This site explores the story and the meaning behind the work.
In 1993, I was heading to the arcade with a pocketful of quarters when I noticed a Toynbee Tile embedded in the asphalt near 16th and Chestnut Streets in center city Philadelphia. That moment put me on a path that culminated in my participation in the Sundance Award winning documentary, Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. The film led to a ton of interest in the tiles. This site was created as a response to many of the most common questions and misconceptions about them.
A Canadian ANSI art group that's been releasing art for thirty years and counting.
If you're not MS-DOS ANSI enabled, they even have an online gallery of the work in each art pack, lovingly rendered as conventional (animated) image files.