Howdy boys, and welcome to Force pack #3 and this informa
tion file. We
hope to bring you some -useful- information in this textfile
rather than
just having some total political garbage saying "FoRCe iN dA
hOUZ!", so
we'd love to see some feedback on it. If you'd like
to write some
appropriate food for thought in here, our contact addresses a
re at the
end of this file! We'll try to keep you up to date on the Aus
tralian art
scene in general (not just in Force) and any information rela
ting to that
would be great.

| Australia's ANSI Revival?

There's been a fair bit of activity in the +61 area which
is great to
see, and perhaps it marks the start of a new beginning of the
Oz art
scene. Another new group has popped up (SiCK) in Victoria who
are
producing some cool work - we wish you the best guys! And we'
ll of course
keep you up to date in the next pack about the Force/GRiM mer
ger which
might be occuring.

GRiM seem to have some great talent, and if there is a merger
on we will
try to concentrate on improving the artists' ability and deve
lop it to
their peak. We don't simply want an Australian domination of
the scene by
merging with various groups, but in our eyes GRiM artists hav
e alot of
potential and it's a shame to see it to go to such waste.
<Arrogant.mode.off> ;). So watch this space.

| A Unified Oz Scene

All of us here have been working hard in an attempt to ge
t the Oz art
scene together, since Australia does have some great individu
al talent
out there - but therein lies the problem. Instead of cooperat
ing together
and having communication between all the artists, we're all e
ach in small
'island' like groups which have no contact out of themselves.
While the
Internet has helped a little bit (alot of Oz artists are on t
he net), the
real ANSI scene lies on the bulletin boards, and so what's tr
uly needed
is a messagenetwork.

Again, watch this space for further developments. A network f
or the ANSI
artists is being established in Oz, as you read this article.
Most of you
in the Australian Scene will know of BloodNet. So fa
r Bloodnethas mainly
been in New South Wales and Queensland but through great pain
we have
established other sites in Australia.

South Australia [ROOM101 61.8.294.2774]
Western Australia [Vampiric Tendancies61.9.383.9534]

These site put nearly all states in comunication about art r
eleated topics,
with only Victoria, Nothern Territory and Tasmania not invol
ved. (If any
boards in these areas that run a Art/Demo board want to poll
Bloodnet
please feelfree to contack either Ozone [Mindflu
x bbs] or Anubis
[The Temple] with you interests.

On a semi-related subject, we also have the idea of having a
unified ANSI
scene under one Australian group. Before you say "hey! that t
otally
contradicts what we've mentioned before!", we're talking abou
t a
different aspect here. We do :not: want total k-rad dominatio
n of the art
scene; but in order for the scene to survive and perhaps just
as
importantly compete on an international level, it might be on
ly possible
to have one group. In the words of Anubis:

"To obtain this tho i can only see it cuming about buy hav
ing only one
ansi group in australia that everyone can stand behind. I
t's no use
having more that one as Australia just doenst have the am
ount of good
artist to support 2 high quality groups."

Do you agree with this or not? It's up to you to make the dec
ision. In my
eyes, I do agree with this because it's a fact that Australia
does NOT
have enough high-quality artists to sustain 2 groups. Again,
feedback or
a debate on IRC would be an issue to raise if you're bored :)

| Flick/Force!

In other local news, Flick has now joined Force in an att
empt to help the
Australian art scene, for the reasons outlined above. It's go
od to see
that we (artists) will stand behind something when someone is
willing to
do what it takes to get things happening. Welcome aboard!

| Force Homepage

We are also in the process of creating a Force homepage!
Any help with
the page would be welcome, as all the members are extremely b
usy and it's
a low priority at the moment. We'll announce the address as s
oon as
possible.

The homepage will not only be a place to grab & trade packs,
but it will
have the same objective as this infofile; to bring you the la
test
information on the Australian art scene.

| Anubis

First I would like to thank all the fORCE memba's on the
re way cool effort
this pak. - SPaM!

On a lighter note though, I saw the lastest SiCK pak. WOoooo
oo.... Yer tis
good to have a competitor... otherwise it gets boring =].

Sum other news..Spoonman has negotiated a US Out-Post in Tex
as. umm but
thats still in da process. You know what the internet is lik

fORCE ...... cruz'in 95   WOj is a girl =]
an.

Force Contact Addresses|

If you would like to be a member of Force, you can contac
t any of us on
one of the boards b-low or leave mail to one of the specified
addresses.
Please upload some work of yours and the application generato
r's textfile
as well if possible, since to join Force, we do need a good i
dea of the
work you're doing. (Goes without saying).

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