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does this say anything in binary or is it gibberish?

Totally reminds me of when Bender had the code to go back in time. Great piece, I wonder if there is secretly a 2 hidden within the binary?

gsturdevant wrote:does this say anything in binary or is it gibberish?

In Binary is reads, artguyaaron is your ruler, bow before his mighty 1's and 0's.

I want this on a tote

Not an ASCII night, a binary night. And they cheated by using partial characters. Should have used real ASCII. I would have bought one then.

The more I look at it, the more it reminds me of those paint by number kits I used to get as a kid.

Good idea, bad execution. I'll make my own with this:

Curious as to how well the colors will show up against the black shirt.

seagoon wrote:Not an ASCII night, a binary night. And they cheated by using partial characters. Should have used real ASCII. I would have bought one then.

Ditto.

Awww, I was really hoping for Nyan Cat Starry Night! Now the derby is over

Or the one here HERE

SteveStrifeX wrote:Awww, I was really hoping for Nyan Cat Starry Night! Now the derby is over

Read about the new rules for the derby. Some major changes. Only first place is picked by popular vote, the rest is delegated to us.

Edit: Ah, new rules aren't in effect yet. I'm glad of the new rules! I can't believe this shirt won. What are voters looking at... It's just a matrix of 1's and 0's with black drawn in over it, not ASCII art at all. And neat ASCII versions of Starry Starry Night have been around a long, long time, so I can't really praise the artist on being creative... only poorly executing an old idea...

No offense to the artist, of course, a win's and win, and playing to the mass of tasteless voters is part of the game. (But no longer!) Congrats on the print.

Incidentally I thought this week's Ramyb design was one of his best ever, and well worthy of a win. Hope to see an editor's choice for it.

Now that artists in the community will be picking a winner, I'm confident that many more worthy shirts will win, and hopefully more quality designs will be entered.

Of course this is all wholly irrelevant to me until Shirt.Woot switches back to AA or another blank that isn't completely awful, so I can buy shirts again...

mattryan wrote:Read about the new rules for the derby. Some major changes. Only first place is picked by popular vote, the rest is delegated to us.

Ah yea I saw that earlier. Quick question though: Did the rules go into place starting now? Because the 3 winners of this derby were also the 3 with the most votes. Was that just coincidence though?

SteveStrifeX wrote:Ah yea I saw that earlier. Quick question though: Did the rules go into place starting now? Because the 3 winners of this derby were also the 3 with the most votes. Was that just coincidence though?

New Derby rules go into effect next Derby (262, "Gold"). This was the third place shirt, by vote, in the last Derby (261, "Internet Through Art History."

So no, not a coincidence.

neuropsychosocial wrote:New Derby rules go into effect next Derby. This was the third place shirt, by vote, in the last Derby.

Ahhh kk, thanks for the info!

Looks too busy for me
Plus it's just a big square
It looks like someone made/copied a color pattern and just overlaid it on a bunch of numbers
All the cut off numbers really lowers the quality too
How did this get printed?

I would have bought this is if it was actual ascii art. This is just a van gogh painting with less coloring and a black/clear text overlay. You could have just plugged this into any of the hundreds of ascii art generators out there and gotten much more interesting and fantastic results. Even if you had cut down on the color count a bunch like you did in this one, it would have been so much better, and could have been called real ascii art.

This is a tribute to Van Gogh's Starry Night, of course, but also a tribute to the curator Christopher Johnson: a true mash-up of classical and modern.


I believe this is artguyaaron's first print. Congratulations on your entrée into the Printed Shirt.Woot Artists' Club, Aaron!

seagoon wrote:Or the one here HERE

So what you're saying is, this has been done before.

seagoon wrote:Good idea, bad execution. I'll make my own with this:

THANK YOU! This [execution of this] shirt is straight up sunburn. I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that.

The sad thing is with AA lib, it's effortless to make real ascii art from any image.

Really siesta shirt today, but yours is much better (:

Invisiblemoose wrote:Edit: Ah, new rules aren't in effect yet. I'm glad of the new rules! I can't believe this shirt won. What are voters looking at... It's just a matrix of 1's and 0's with black drawn in over it, not ASCII art at all. And neat ASCII versions of Starry Starry Night have been around a long, long time, so I can't really praise the artist on being creative... only poorly executing an old idea...

No offense to the artist, of course, a win's and win, and playing to the mass of tasteless voters is part of the game. (But no longer!) Congrats on the print.

Incidentally I thought this week's Ramyb design was one of his best ever, and well worthy of a win. Hope to see an editor's choice for it.

Now that artists in the community will be picking a winner, I'm confident that many more worthy shirts will win, and hopefully more quality designs will be entered.

Of course this is all wholly irrelevant to me until Shirt.Woot switches back to AA or another blank that isn't completely awful, so I can buy shirts again...

greatest retort ever...

My thoughts are mixed on this one. It's both pretty to look at and incredibly headache inducing at the same time.

I wouldn't dismiss this as non-ASCII art, as each ASCII character is stored as a code word of 7 bits (8 if you include Extended characters.)

Having said that, I will leave the table lookup and translation to those who don't have a real life. Artist could have left spaces between bytes to facilitate translation. Of course, it is quite possible this is a random sequence of bits, rendering it pure gibberish, even if it is ASCII.

Cheers from a w00t! newbie!

Not ASCII, Not buying... could have been SOooo much better. I guess I will have to play artist and start submitting better stuff.

I noticed that you edited your response after my post clarifying the new Derby rules, but I wanted to clarify one thing from your edited post:

Invisiblemoose wrote:Now that artists in the community will be picking a winner...

The "guest editor" who will select the third print from the Derby (i.e., Sunday's print) will not necessarily be an artist.

wootbot wrote:Guest Editors will be chosen from our community, along with any nerdy sorts of artists or celebs willing to slum it and hang out with us. Community members who contribute to the discussion and overall positive vibe will have a chance to judge a Derby of their very own!

Thanks so much to everyone who voted and commented. I loved the theme of this derby and had a lot of fun making the design. I'm fairly new to the shirt.woot scene and it has been a great experience. There were some really incredible artist/designs in the top and in the derby. I was not expecting to place but was super stoked. I appreciate the comments people have posted, good and bad. I understand the ASCII purists out there and everyone else. As I stated during the derby it was never my intent to make a purely ASCII design. I liked the idea of ASCII as a medium in earlier computer generated images and its connection to the Internet. It seemed obvious to pair it with Impressionism. It seemed even more obvious to pair it with what is probably the most widely recognized representation of that genre. Simple and direct. To me that sounded like a good combination for a T-shirt design. I did spend some time and thought drawing my "blocks" of color and chose to cut through the binary because it took away from pure ASCII and I liked the freedom and look it allowed. I do not claim this piece to be anything other than a fun, simple design that I am pleased with how it turned out. Thank again so much to everyone. Peace

seagoon wrote: Should have used real ASCII. I would have bought one then.

I would've bought one too. First thing I thought was "this person wasn't around when ASCII was the road trip"

neuropsychosocial wrote:This is a tribute to Van Gogh's Starry Night, of course, but also a tribute to the curator Christopher Johnson: a true mash-up of classical and modern.


I believe this is artguyaaron's first print. Congratulations on your entrée into the Printed Shirt.Woot Artists' Club, Aaron!

thanks

andypop wrote:I would've bought one too. First thing I thought was "this person wasn't around when ASCII was the road trip"

Actually I was

seagoon wrote:Not an ASCII night, a binary night. And they cheated by using partial characters. Should have used real ASCII. I would have bought one then.

Whew I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who thought that. I was going to comment on it too but I was worried I would come across as someone who just road trip in everyone else's cereal.

This is the exact opposite of what ASCII art is with the way that it doesn't use whole characters to define the contours.

It feels very cheap. Anyone can string a block of 0's and 1's together in a terminal-like font layer a subtractive mask over it.

This piece screams "I'm a designer, and I have no idea what the demoscene is or what BBSes were, but I'd sure like to pretend that I'm hip with this whole digital thing!"

kabojnk wrote:Whew I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who thought that. I was going to comment on it too but I was worried I would come across as someone who just road trip in everyone else's cereal.

This is the exact opposite of what ASCII art is with the way that it doesn't use whole characters to define the contours.

It feels very cheap. Anyone can string a block of 0's and 1's together in a terminal-like font layer a subtractive mask over it.

This piece screams "I'm a designer, and I have no idea what the demoscene is or what BBSes were, but I'd sure like to pretend that I'm hip with this whole digital thing!"

Okay, I take everything back that was meant to be scathing, mainly because you did this. I would have bought like ten thousand of these:

http://shirt.woot.com/derby/entry/64005/welcome-to-zagama-beach

I do not post much in here, and (hopefully) normally positive... But this bothers me... the shirt is cool, but the title makes everything way off...
the digits on the shirt are solely zeros and ones, that is binary!!!
and the colors do not reference the pattern of the digits at all... if they did... and all the characters where ASCII instead of binary...
and the shapes and colors followed the changing ASCII in color patterns I would say the title is correct!
but it is wrong!!!

But the shirt is still cool!!!

I did not read through all the comments before posting, my point has basically been said...
I still do like the shirt!!!!

I may have exceeded my Woot-Shirt buying limit for this month... But this would definitely be on my list, if I hadn't!

Though I at first blinked at the fact it was binary numbers and labelled ASCII, I still enjoy the premise. I love Van Gogh, and Starry Night is just such an infamous painting. Seeing the artist's comment about pairing ASCII style with impressionism is dead-on, and really the whole IDEA behind this derby is that very connection, isn't it?

ASCII is the internet's version of impressionism.

Well done, artguyaaron, well done.

The muted colors also sit much better on the black than something brighter might have, and match the more muted colors of the painting (at least, how it looks now, and excepting the largest celestial lights).

gsturdevant wrote:does this say anything in binary or is it gibberish?

Well as I can't copy and paste it into a binary translator with ease I just read the first few characters. Assuming it is ASCII encoded, which it seems like it should be. The first few characters were "uu\n' then some symbols. So it is either really complicated or jibberish.

namesroverated wrote:Well as I can't copy and paste it into a binary translator with ease I just read the first few characters. Assuming it is ASCII encoded, which it seems like it should be. The first few characters were "uu\n' then some symbols. So it is either really complicated or jibberish.

I got the same thing -- except you got your caps wrong. In decimal, I get
85 85 10 145 98 162
which is

UU
‘b¢

(The third character, 10 in decimal, is the newline. I don't know what 145, right after the newline, translates to in extended ascii. I copy-and-pasted the above directly from my ascii conversion tool.)

After that is a black spot that isn't viewable in the image on the web site. I even took it into Photoshop and made it a lot brighter; nope, it's true #000000 black in the displayed image.

More importantly, this has been done before as a shirt. If you look at the link seagoon posted, there was a shirt done with exactly that ascii pattern. It was made by Computer Gear. I also found the original shirt. It's been discontinued, but I took pics of mine and will be sending them to the woot admins. My shirt says ©1998.

I'm not saying the artist here plagiarized; I'm just saying it's not an original idea, and something very similar has been done already. Personally, I don't care, but if woot is worried about lawsuits, they might risk one here.

I guess I'm an ascii purist, too. I've never had a computer that would would display a character in two different colors at the same time.