two-twenty

asciiraq

This morning the New York Times swapped out a real live photo from Iraq for this super-fancy digitalized masterpiece to serve as its primary image on their Struggle for Iraq page:

Yeah, big props for Mister Tom Zeller and his artful shoving of that old bearded-Saddam pic through a Photoshop plugin.

Just for fun, two-twenty made our own html-ified version of one of Ash's photos in today's Times using Text-Image.com's conversion tool. And you thought ASCII art had gone the way of, say, illustratated war coverage.