Enjoy the ASCII Theater – Stream Text-Based Movies in Your Terminal

Want to watch movies online for free? Give this fun experiment a shot! Though it may not be the usual HD experience you’re used to. MSCHF recently launched a digital ASCII Theater online. ASCII is text-based visuals and images – using symbols and letters to create designs and objects, or in this case, entire frames of a movie. This radical NYC art collective has just launched a whole new website located at ascii.theater with instructions on how to stream and watch movies on your computer. Entirely free! All you need to do is open up your terminal on Mac (or cmd.exe on PC) and drop in the short line of code they provide, and it’ll play right there in front of your eyes. Voila! There’s no sound, of course, but there are subtitles. And the quality isn’t great. And you can’t control much. But hey you can watch the whole movie anyway! This is a clever web experiment and I dig the concept, even if it isn’t really practical. Right now you can watch Barbie, though they’ll switch to Hereditary soon. As a movie geek and as a computer geek – I just think this is pretty neat. // Continue Reading ›