you can adopt ascii chewy

Hi Jason,

At first congrats about your minimalist work. It is a very creative idea. I
will adopt your ascii chewy, I would like to know if I can give a friend to
your pet. This company will be a pet sheep and then chewy will be published
at the Big Sheep blog. Do you know this project? It is under a Free Art
Licence. ( http://.bigsheep.blogspot.com ). Publishing chewy in this blog,
other artists can interact with it, it is just because of this that I am
asking for your permission. If you have any question, please mail me.

Also I thought that maybe it can interest you. The guest artist of the third
collaborative review of the Museum of the Essential and Beyond That's
newsletter (
http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/reviews2005/english_yto_cl.htm) is
Isabel Aranda YTO CL. Aranda was born, lives and works in Santiago, Chile.
She is working with ASCII and Flash and Arkaos and … and …. Her work is
really very interesting. Now we are talking about "Mini Art Dance"
(http://arteonline.arq.br/museu/netartwebart/mini-art-dance/art-dance.html)
Below some comments:

"I am intrigued by the mixture of ASCII art (a very spare, minimalist style
based on old fashioned computers) and the painterly, lush style which Aranda
uses in her backgrounds to the animations of Mini Art Dance. I would not
have thought that these two styles are compatible, but Aranda uses them
together to great effect." (Millie Niss - http://www.sporkworld.org)

"I love mini-art-dance; and one thing which I think is particularly nice
about it is that if you click on several of the links one after the other,
you get several of the audio tracks playing at the same time, and they all
synchronise with each other. You can display several of the mini-windows on
screen simultaneously as well: each new one you open sends the old ones into
the toolbar at the bottom of your screen, but you can drag them out again
and arrange them around the place.

It's very feminine and glamorous, isn't it? But at the same time it's quite
modern and even a touch aggressive in places. I wonder if Isabel sees this
as a representation of modern woman in a digital environment, or the modern
female artist in a digital environment - or is it less of a conscious
statement than that?" (Edward Picot - http://www.edwardpicot.com )

If you want to know how Isabel Aranda gets to do so amazing work, read the
third collaborative review at:

http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/reviews2005/english_yto_cl.htm

All the best,

Regina

—– Original Message —–
From: "Jason Van Anden" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:13 PM
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: you can adopt ascii chewy


> Hi Again,
>
> I am not sure if its ascii fatigue or what but I did not get much of a
> response from my posting about my new piece: ascii chewy. Perhaps I did
> not describe it well enough - so I will take another shot:
>
> "ascii chewy" is an ascii based emotive life form and improvisational
> comic strip that dwells within your browser.
>
> Its written entirely in javascript. It is intended to be adopted and
> hosted via iframes on OPS (other people's sites). Chewy's behavior will
> become more articulate and interesting as I have the time to add to his
> re-pet-oire. I am offering him to non-commercial websites for free via a
> Creative Commons license.
>
> Everything you need to know about this can be found here:
>
> http://www.smileproject.com/chewy
>
> ascii chewy does not require powerpoint.
>
> Which one of you early adopters would like to be the earliest?
>
> Jason Van Anden
> http://www.smileproject.com
>
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adopted :)
http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/van_anden/ascii_chewy/

y,
doron

> Hi Doron,
>
> The idea for ascii chewy is that he is ongoing - that's the serial
> part - adding to his repertoire of behaviors over time becomes part
> of the piece - so I would need to update the code occasionally
> unless you linked through to it (I just wrote up instructions of
> how to do this for ascii chewy - for the interested).
> Unfortunately this also seems to go against the terms (or spirit?)
> of the computerfinearts cloned object policy.
>
> I have an idea brewing that I think will work for the format of
> computerfinearts - I will get you details soon once I have them
> sorted out. I am very psyched to be participating in your space.
>
> In the meantime - I added behavior to ascii chewy today - as well
> as some copy describing the work in more detail. I would really
> like to find someone to exhibit this on their site via iframe - if
> you know someone who might be into it - please send them my way.
>
> Jason Van Anden
>
>
> On Aug 29, 2005, at 9:48 AM, doron wrote:
>
>
>> sure.
>> I like the idea of the serial animation comic strip.
>> I can set you up with a "ascii chewy" folder
>> with a couple (2 or 3) ascii chewys in it.
>> would you like that?
>>
>>
>>
>>> Thank you … does this mean you would like to exhibit him?
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>> On Aug 29, 2005, at 9:31 AM, doron wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>> i like 'ascii chewy' very much :-)
>>>> y,
>>>> doron
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> That's too bad.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a few things coming down the pike - I will keep you posted.
>>>>>
>>>>> My most recent obsession is incredibly simple, an interactive
>>>>> ascii life form called "ascii chewy". I wrote the animation
>>>>> engine in javascript so the whole she-bang runs locally. ascii
>>>>> chewy will be added to on a regular basis - like a serial
>>>>> animated comic strip of sorts. There will probably be a
>>>>> derivative or two that could be exhibited on computerfinearts.com.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can check this out here: http://www.smileproject.com/chewy
>>>>>
>>>>> Jason
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 28, 2005, at 7:22 PM, doron wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> hey jason,
>>>>>> thanks for the positive response.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the first option in regard to farklempt sounds too complicated
>>>>>> and the second one
>>>>>> is not very appropriate since all projects resides on the
>>>>>> computerfinearts server.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> a third option that i can think of
>>>>>> is that you could do a piece for the collection sometime in
>>>>>> the future.
>>>>>> (at no rush. by the end of next year if you like)
>>>>>> think of a simple project, not technically complicated.
>>>>>> browser based and cross platform (mac,pc)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> let me know what you think,
>>>>>> y,
>>>>>> doron
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Doron,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Wow - I am thrilled and honored.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cloning is (relatively) a little involved because of the
>>>>>>> client/server stuff - the back end requires Python 2.3
>>>>>>> running Twisted and a few other modules which I will lookup
>>>>>>> if you want to proceed. Linking is clearly a lot easier -
>>>>>>> and could be done via an iframe, or I could host a custom
>>>>>>> page to your liking.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please let me know what you would like to do, and thank you!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jason Van Anden
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ———- Original Message ———————————-
>>>>>>> From: doron <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:32:50 -0400
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> hey jason,
>>>>>>>> i like your farklempt project very much :)
>>>>>>>> (and Neil and Iona of course..)
>>>>>>>> wanted to ask you if you'll be interested to clone farklempt
>>>>>>>> in the computerfinearts collection.
>>>>>>>> http://computerfinearts.com
>>>>>>>> agreement >
>>>>>>>> http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/terms/terms6.html
>>>>>>>> y,
>>>>>>>> doron golan
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Thank You Regina.

I encourage anyone and everyone to adopt ascii chewy - I just don't want someone to sell him or derivate works of him without my permission, thus the Creative Commons License. The blog sounds great! I plan to check out the ascii work you mention a little later this morning.

Thank You Doron. Looks super - and he was very happy last I checked.

Jason Van Anden
http://www.smileproject.com/chewy

this morning ascii chewy was added to a blog - not in english tho:

http://mirada.arkania.org/mandel.html

thank you!
jason van anden

Jason Van Anden wrote:

> this morning ascii chewy was added to a blog - not in english tho:
>
> http://mirada.arkania.org/mandel.html
>
> thank you!
> jason van anden
>
>

"In der Mandel" is not a Net.diary who uses English all the time. Sometimes does, actually reporting news from Rhizome.org. One of the main interests of "In der Mandel" is to defend the web as a place of an inmense power of creativity, and expand its ideas to the readers.

In Spain there's not a Net.Art Culture. There's not a Net Culture. Just few people trying to do their best to promote it. Although I'm a writer and do not know to much about programming, I do my best promoting it.

Thanks to Jason for making from ASCII language a thing so tender and sweet as Chewy.

new twist on old ascii dog art:

http://www.smileproject.com/chewy/v/5/

chow