°°²°²  °±² Ý te±²°±Ü°°°°°°Ü  ±²Ü ßþܲÜÜÜ ßß ßþÜÛÛÛ± ÜÜßßß ÜÜþßÛ²²²ÛÜ þ Þ°ÞÝhal  ²ÛÞ ßßßß ß²°°²²ÞÛÛ±ÛÛß°° Üß°°°Þ°ÜÜ Ü°²°ßßß  ²ÛÞ °Û±±Û²°°ÞÜÜÜÜÜÜ°²ß²ÛÛßßß°²  ²ÛÞÛ²²Ý±±±ÝÞ±±²²ÛßßßßßÜÜÜÜÜ °²Þ²Ý  ßßßßÛÛ²²²ÛÜÞ°°±±²ÜÜÜÜÜÜßßÛÜ²Ü ÜÜ°ß ßþþ°²ÞÛÛ²°ßß²²  °±²²²ÜþßßÝÛÛÝÛÛ ßßßßßßßßßßßßßÛ²²Ý Üßß°°²Ü ß°°  ±²Þ þÜÜÛÛ ±°Ý ±Ü Û²Ý ÜþÞÛ °²²²ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ Üþß þÜ ß°  ²ÛÞ Ý Üܲ±²ÜÜþßßßß ±²Ý ÜÝ Û²ÝÜþßÞÛ² °ÜÜÜ  ²ÛÞ Ý Ý²±±Üþß²²ß²±²ÜÝßßÛÛ ß  ßßßÜ ßÛ²²²ÛÛ²° ßßß°Ý °° Þ°ßß ²±±±±±ÛÜÜÜ°² °°²ß þß °°°°°°°² °² - i babble babble bo babble bonnanna fanna fo fabble etc etc .. - ho ho! i'm back at school, chillin' in my dorm room, listening to the wedding present and writing the september 1996 fire newsletter. last year at this time i was working with a bare handful of artists and wondering exactly how long it would be before fire died. p1 had left, calling me a big-ego boy :) and things were looking pretty grim. it's awesome to see how well things have gone since then, and i'd like to give my personal thanks to all the great artists in and out of fire who have made this pack possible. thanks too to the fans, because we don't release packs if there's no audience. :) this pack also marks a return to 'normalcy' for fire, because now that i'm back in school, with much more free time (doesn't that sound weird?) than i have in the summer, i can run the group the way it's supposed to be run. i'd like to thank all the guys who stuck with us through the aimlessness of summer and i'd like to say "pthht. :P" to all the fools who doubted. :) of course, the door's always open in most situations. fire ansi puts on a good show this month, per usual, and fire hirez has some impressive stuff, as well. hats off to blatz and fire ascii, however, for the great improvement since 2 months or so ago. look for fire ascii to become a major competitor in the next few months! in any case, welcome to the september fire combustion. enjoy the show. - halaster(fire)  - blatz does his funky dance for us all! go blatz! - This month we got Pyschoholic, who is in fire ansi but now he gives us his asciis too, thankfully. We got rid of Abnormal because I havent seen or heard from him since he joined. Unsane left fire to go back to acid. Starting next month fire ascii's new rule is to kick out members after they have been in- active for two months. Thats all thank you. (Editor's note: Blatz gets an A for accuracy, but a D- for length. :) ) - fire hirez is cool, but why do they think they deserve big headers? :) - Üß Ü²²Ü±Ü  ßß²²±ÝÜÜ²Ü ²Ü ß ÜÜÜ²Ü Ü ²°±²ß±²± Þ²²ß Üß²²Ü ܲ²² ß²ÛÜܲ²°²ÜÜÜÜÜÜ Þ²±Ý°Þ±°²Ü°±ÝÜܲݰޱ²²ßÞ²±ßßß ß °Ü²ßß Ü²±Ü Üܲ° ܱÜÜ °°°²Ü ß ßß°ß²±² ß °°±°Ý°Ü°±ß Ü°Ü Ü²°²ß °ßß ßß°Þ°±°Üßß²Üß ßßß±°²±Ý ßßßß² heya people, welcome to another great month for the Fire HiRez Division! well, now that school's started back up, this month ended up being pretty slow, scene-wise, for me and my crew.. we've managed to compile quite a ditty of a HiRez Extravaganza for you, but in terms of scene activity, we've been pretty much dead (or at least I have :) .. not to bore you or anything, but I just started up at UBC (in Vancouver, BC, Canada), and I've been busy as hell with school stuff for nearly a month already. it's been hell commuting 40 minutes back/forth to school every day, but it's actually turned out to be really cool. so I'm happy. but my scene activity has suffered (heh :) ever since.. so don't expect to find me on IRC too often in the future. here's an important note for all of my division crew, and anyone else who needs to contact me for one reason or another.. I have a NEW e-mail address! from now on, please do NOT send mail to dbouton@direct.ca .. my new address is nbouton@unixg.ubc.ca. all mail/questions/requests/anything should be sent there, and I'll be checking it daily. and it's pretty fast, too. so if you need to contact me quickly, that's the best way. otherwise, you could always leave me a message on halaster's the regency (telnet to tregency.res.cmu.edu) .. I'll get back to you there within a few days. new members this month! .. well, okay, new membeR :) we'd like to welcome penguino of penguin palace comics to the Fire HiRez Crew. she'll be releasing some scanned freehand work and some straight vga work with Fire, and hopefully she'll be contributing to our division regularly for a long time ;) ppc's website is http://www.napanet.net/~vyrus/penguin ... division-wise, we've had a great showing from a couple of our top-notch artists, fathom and gig. I'd like to congratulate both these guys on their work this month (great stuff, guys), as they're both relatively new artists (in my time frame, at least :) who've put a lot of effort into the quality of their work this month, in addition to actually making the effort to contact me on their own ;) .. thanks, guys. not to neglect the rest of the division, of course. thanks to my sub- coord god among lice for all his efforts last month and this month to help out our division. we should be seeing more great stuff from him soon. a hearty slap on the back to the whole Fire HiRez Crew for a great month, and look for some of our world-renowned Fire ProJeKtZ sometime in the near future :) - surreal logic (fire hirez coordinator) %%% nbouton@unixg.ubc.ca - fireweb sucks, because they haven't done ANYTHING yet. :) - ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ Ü°²²ßßß²°²² ßßß ²°²²ßßß²°²Ü °²²²ßßß²°²²ß²°²² °°² °²°²² °²²²ßßß²°²² ²°²²ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ±²²± °±²²±Ü²°²² ±²²± °±²²±Ü²°²²ßßßßßßß ±²²± °²² °±²²±ß²°²²ßßßßßßß ±²²± °²°²² °°°°ÜÜ°±²²± °±±°±²²± °±²²± ß±±°Üܱ±ÜÜ°±±° ±²²± °±²²±ß°±±° °±²²± ßßßß°°±±°ßßßßßßßßßßß°±±°ßßßßßß°±±°  °° ÜÜÜ°±±ß ahh, yes, fireweb :) welcome back to another month of promises from your favorite division of procrastinators .. well, all I can say this month is that we'll try to have something online by the end of september, but no guarantees. hey, keep in mind, iCE.org took over a year.. ;) in all honesty I'm not sure if we'll have time to complete fireweb in the next couple of months, but we'll see what happens. keep your fingers crossed. no new members this month to speak of. someone tried to join, but he wasn't even in fire. let's leave it at that ;) oh, and to anyone wondering, we didn't bother including the HTML member listing this month for the simple fact that there were no changes to it.. and it's quite big, so you'll have to settle for a recycled RIP memlist. so sue me, I'm busy .. TO JOIN FIREWEB (HINT, HINT): contacts: coord:surreal logicnbouton@unixg.ubc.ca sub-coord:sparkbhassard@intergate.bc.ca temporary fire webHQ: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kates/nwOrld/index.html - fire ansi is the best, if they can't do it, fuck the rest! *YAY!* - The big event of this month in terms of fire ansi is, unfortunately, a sad one. Iodine, a long-time member and contributor to the group, has announced his retirement from mainstream, regular ansi production. ID's been around for a long time, and I'm sure that many people in and outside of the group will miss his work, stunning personality and girlish good looks. hahahahah. Milk kicked Cheese's ass! In other news (this time good), fire welcomes Nail, Mr. Sandman and Clorox Cowboy to the fold. Since it's getting late, and I want to pack this sucker up, I'll let their work speak for itself. Word to you new studs, boys, let's kick butt together! And with that, I bid you goodnight!    ° ÞhÝalaster (fire) SAUCE00#INFO# Fire News! Senior Staff fire 199609125/P