{"id":176379,"date":"2025-09-28T23:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176379\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:12:17","slug":"hybrid-ascii-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176379\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid ASCII Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hybrid ASCII Art<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/enigmatriz-ascii-01.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1300\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ASCII art overlaid on two people boxing\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/enigmatriz-ascii-02.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1300\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ASCII art of a horse overlaid on a man riding a bucking bronco\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/enigmatriz-ascii-03.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1300\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ASCII art overlaid on a pair of black shoes\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/enigmatriz-ascii-04.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1300\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ASCII art incorporated into an illustration of horses\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/enigmatriz-ascii-05.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1464\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ASCII art overlaid on Vermeer's painting of a milkmaid\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/enigmatriz-ascii-06.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1300\" height=\"923\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ASCII art overlaid on a painting of two religious men\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/enigmatriz.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enigmatriz<\/a> uses ASCII art to punch up and blow out public domain photos and illustrations \u2014 I love their style. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itsnicethat.com\/articles\/enigmatriz-digital-art-discover-100925\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s Nice That<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Using the Image to ASCII tool available online, Enigmatriz found a new way to play with digital assets. \u201cEveryday, I sit on my computer and browse through hundreds of images in the public domain to find things that catch my attention and feel are worth shining a new light on them,\u201d says Enigmatriz. \u201cWhen working with ASCII, what I like and find particularly interesting is the blend between hundred old paintings, photographs etc. and modern technologies.\u201d Enigmatriz creates unique contrasts between images \u2014 historical paintings are overlaid with spatterings of text, ASCII renders are layered on top of playing cards or archival imagery.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more of their work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/enigmatriz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hybrid ASCII Art Enigmatriz uses ASCII art to punch up and blow out public domain photos and illustrations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-176379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}