What do you guys remember of yester-year? Tell us all about the good times you had way back then, your first group, your first piece of art, you first kiss, anything. Let's get some of the oldies in here and see what they hold dear from the past..
I remember.. back 1994 or so.. I had just been introduced to couple of art scene BBSs by a high school friend of mine--known in the scene as Tzeentch. Tz gave me a couple of packs, including those of Imperial which was a group he was involved with. I remember looking at ansi for the first time and thinking how mind-blowingly impossible it must be to create. Tz gave me a copy of TheDraw and I puttered around with it for a while but with no serious intentions.
aaahhhhhh..... the scene. I guess most of us started on local BBSs. It was around mid-1993 for me. I was calling lame ass pd boards and I saw these 25-line shitty ansis (with blinking colors), and to say the least I wasn't impressed. Then one day I dailed up a new board in my AC, 3i4 (it was called TheCult) with my 2400 baud modem. Then slowly, but surely I saw the most amazing thing. It was a 200+ line ansi by Neurotic or someone, it must have taken 10 minutes to scroll by. I couldn't beleive someone could do something like this.
hmm.. my memory is pretty foggy of those days.. but here are my ramblings of the olden days :)
I started out in about late 1995, I think. I really don't remember.
Let's hope you don't make iCE die :)
Hahaha.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA :) (Look out iCE!!@%$#!%@^#$)
By Etana on Friday, January 1, 1999 - 02:33 pm:
I had only been on the art BBSs for a couple months--just reading messages--when Cthulu approached me saying Imperial had died and he was looking to create a new art group.. would I like to get involved? I signed up for ansi and lit.. and surprisingly I was accepted into both. That's how I became a part of Mistigris.. and, until last April when I left to form Hallucigenia, I was one of Mist's longest-running members.
By Leo on Saturday, January 2, 1999 - 03:44 pm:
Later, I found out about artpacks, and ice, and acid, and gothic, and etc... I saw that there were hundreds of people drawing this artform. Being an artist I wanted to give it a try. I sucked at first (ex-insan.ans) It didn't realize at first just how hard it is to draw ansis! I began to develop even more respect for groups like acid and ice where everone in the group were great ansi artists. I was a pretty good artist in real life (in my opinion :)), but I just couldn't seem to match the quality of other artists (ex-fort.ans).
by this time I was in a few local groups, like FeAR and GaG -- it was the first time my ansis got released in an artpack. I wanted more people to see my ansis and give me feedback, so I started called those numbers at the bottom of those 200+ line ansis. The first one I called I think was Terra Firma (sysop: somms) I couldn't beleive my eyes this board was fucking awesome, with more artpacks than I ever saw. I decided to email somms and show him my artwork (l0-tfad1.ans) He responded with some really helpful tips that stuck with me. My artwork started to drastically improve. Later after posting my ansis in boards like terra firma and the dark society I got an email from maestro asking me if I would consider join Nation. I did.
(l0-waad1.nat) Nation died about a month after I joined, and like most everyone else I was recruited to union (l0-tdsad.ans). I was with union for about 6 months, but there was prolems I had with the way they ran things. So I called up the sanctuary, (or was it the Pantheon?) anyways.. I talked to LordSoth about join iCE! I applyed with a few ansis (lo-dsun1.ice) and a vga (lo-ice01.jpg), they excepted me, and I formally quit union. I couldn't beleive how well ice was ran and how (lo-pbf.ice)k-rad the members are!! :) I was in iCE to stay!(lo-mayo1.ice)
Well I guess thats my scene history! (like you all care :))
check out my entire art gallery online:
http://www.members.tripod.com/~msartgallery
Leonardo.iCE
By Argon on Sunday, January 3, 1999 - 06:03 am:
i remember when i started out at ansi, i kept trying to get into this local ansi group called AUG (ansi underground), run by flametorch and the carnage, and a couple other ex-Mirage/Tribe guys. i kept sending in my newbie artwork, but they never let me in. By the time i got good at ansi AUG had already died :)
My local scene (805, southern cal) has always had a very strange relationship with a totally different geographical area code, 801 (utah). I have no idea why this occurred, but over time the 801/805 have been mysteriously connected somehow. Anyways its only logical then that the first ansi group i was in, called Lapse, happened to be centered in 801. By the way Lapse is the group Creator (known then as Hellspawn) came out of as well. I liked Lapse very much; the only problem was the senior staff, who pretty much ran the group to the ground. so i decided then (with a local lapse artist/friend, Ash) to ditch Lapse and join up with what would become one of my favorite groups ever, Pursuit. My main attraction to this group was its locality (almost all 805 artists), its community, and of course the great artists. It was run by The Carnage, who by then was a local legend in the 805 a/c. Pursuit was one of those groups you always rooted for, because of its optimism, originality, and spirit. After The Carnage left the scene and deferred control to Ash and I, we released PURSUIT #1, which is one of my favorite packs (although i cant find it anywhere).
After that the whole 805 scene went downhill , and Pursuit went with it. I joined up with ICE, ash quit the scene, and pursuit seemed dead. or seemingly. 801 finally came to the rescue, with Creator reforming the group and returning Pursuit to its former glory for a while. After ICE i joined Dark, but never released anything as i quit the scene soon after.
Zoom forward about 2 years, and i come back into the scene, meet up with creator and join avenge.. :)
Argon
By Quip on Tuesday, January 5, 1999 - 12:39 pm:
I started drawing for a local group called Graphiti Worx, which died after one release (I never found out about this release until like a year later). A few months after that (March '96, I think), I joined a locally-based group called Ethic. After one release, I was booted because apparently I sucked (their loss), and Ethic merged into Cain's group Oasis. After one more release, Oasis merged into CIA. Get this: only 3 of the members of Ethic actually made it all the way to CIA. Two of them were seniors. The other artist was Jughead (who later became known as Tincat - an amazing artist, but he doesn't really draw ANSI anymore).
Around June '96, I made my way to Mistigris. I stuck with Mist for a while, ran their ansi division for a bit, etc. I also dualed with Plain (wator's group, before echo) for a bit. Plain died, so I joined Lazarus (still in Mist). Lazarus died in the summer of '97, so I stayed with Mist. In early '98, I started Function with Warpus. Function died in November '98, so I joined Ice.
Oh, and Mist isn't dead (well, it's getting there), but I'm not in it anymore.
As you can see, I've had quite a track record with failing groups. =)
By Dangermouse on Tuesday, January 5, 1999 - 01:43 pm:
By Quip on Thursday, January 7, 1999 - 12:40 am:
The only group that actually died because of me was Function, and that's only because I pulled the plug on it because the _members_ weren't contributing.
I don't think Ice has much to worry about.
<evil grin>
By Dangermouse on Thursday, January 7, 1999 - 07:19 pm: