This piece is about pictures drawn using a text character set and then embedded in source code. I love these! The other day I asked around on Twitter for more examples and the responses far exceeded expectations (thanks everyone!). There are a ton of great examples in the thread; here I’ve categorized a few of them. Click on images go to the repositories.

Chase McCoy explores, builds, & writes about the web.

The Creation of a Self is a series of visual art and quotes inspired by the notion of booting a computer, creating a self, programming its memories and destroying memory monsters created from those memories, where the action of psychological death equals the discovery of love, truth, or what J. Krishnamurti calls "the awakening of intelligence."