Two Shades of Tambourines

Long gone are the days of 120 Minutes, Yo! MTV Raps and Headbanger's Ball so I don't see many videos these days but I did want to share this one with you. At work today, we were talking about ASCII art, that amazing old skool computer art created by a bunch of letters and symbols all perfectly placed to make a larger picture. Initially, these works were done by hand but now there are programs that allow text or image to ASCII conversions without stress or strain or hours wasted finding the perfect letters to represent your ASCII Mona Lisa's mouth.
Here's an example of an ASCII bird, in color!

If you search through the internet you can find pages and pages devoted to this amazing art form. There are picture galleries and animation galleries but also Star Wars, The Incredibles and even an ASCII version of Deep Throat.

Apparently, Beck is also a fan because he made a video done almost completely in ASCII art. The song is ok but the artwork is mindblowing, especially half way through when font sizes increase and decrease at will.

"Black Tambourine"


Here's another tambourine while we're on the subject. I love how the guys in the Lemon Pipers aren't even trying to hide the fact that they're lip synching. Stick around after the song for the extremely awkward interview.

"Green Tambourine"