<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Paul Smith - The Father of ASCII art : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2008, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>Paul Smith - The Father of ASCII art : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Paul Smith - The Father of ASCII art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul Smith, born in 1921, probably is one of the first to use ASCII characters to draw and paint artworks. Despite of his spastic cerebral palsy, he developed a very unique skill, using such &#8220;@ # $ % ^ &amp; * ( ) _ .&#8221; characters to create masterpieces, shown below. Through the years, he even developed techniques to create shadings, colors, and textures that made his work resemble pencil or charcoal drawings.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33584/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33584/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%' style='padding-top:5px;margin-bottom:0px;' class='trh'><tr valign='bottom'><td><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'><tr valign='bottom'><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabs lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-comments'><a href='/plime-com/l/33584/1/' class='plime2 td mn'>comments (2)</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-related'><a href='/plime-com/l/33584-related/1/' class='plime td mn'>related</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-share'><a href='/plime-com/l/33584-share/1/' class='plime td mn'>share</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-history'><a href='/plime-com/l/33584-history/1/' class='plime td mn'>edit history (0)</a></td></tr></table></td><td class='minitabspc' style='width:100%' valign='middle'><table width='100%'><tr class='regular'><td align='right'> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&lt;</a><span> <b><a class='page-selected td' href='/plime-com/l/33584/1/'>1</a></b> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&gt;</a></span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><item><title><![CDATA[beckinacea @ 8/29/2007 11:24:03 AM]]></title><description><![CDATA[Holy crap, how long did this guy live?!]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33584/1/rss2_0.rss#q3</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33584/1/rss2_0.rss#q3</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[pocksucket @ 8/29/2007 8:44:21 AM]]></title><description><![CDATA[They are truly incredible.  It's a shame in some ways that the details don't allow for looking at these in close up, but becoming to absorbed with detail may detract from the impressiveness of the whole picture.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33584/1/rss2_0.rss#q2</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33584/1/rss2_0.rss#q2</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>