It is pretty cool the amount of detail and complexity people are able to create with ASCII art using just a set number of characters. From a distance the more complicated ASCII art even looks like pointillism art. There are others as well where the image itself only becomes clearer the further away or smaller the image is from your view. Browsing through some of the images the first thing that really comes to mind is the amount of thought that had to go behind each image - having to plan out which characters to combine together to create not just the general outlines of the images but the depth and lighting as well. It's difficult enough drawing something like this but to create it through the use of pre-determined characters is pretty wild.
For my performance art piece I dressed up in my Spryo the dragon onesie and walked around the park, picking up "treasure" while I played music from the original game through a small speaker attached to my bag. I wanted to do something a bit more fun and humorous and given that Spyro is a pretty iconic/ recognizable character I thought I would be able to get better reactions from other people. Both the music and my actions of picking up gems/treasures were from the original game Spyro the Dragon . Not that many people gave noticeable reactions to my performance, most would smile but then look away very quickly or they would simply ignore me. The best reactions I got came from children and people who seemed to recognize who I was dressed up as. The entire experience was not that much fun for me, I got hot very quickly inside the onesie walking around the park, my view was blocked because of the way the hoodie was designed, and needless to say it was pretty embarrassing. I
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