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(Half price after 11:00!) erm .. back to the group. no major major changes this month. i'm redoing the fire email list, so anyone who wants on it (members, i mean) should get in touch with me. get your up-to-date phone numbers to our recently-lazy public relations stud: fractal, as well. oh, by the way, look for at least one major change in this group's identity next month. :) on that note of expectation, i move on to this month's pack. fire hirez really kicked the pants off of the other divisons this month. hats off! fire ascii was pretty pathetic :) and fire ansi had a fairly strong showing, albeit in our id-less state. in any case, you make the call. - superHAL - blatz is cheap beer! - This month Exulted, Xane, and Pixelpusher were kicked out because they havent turned in any work and i havent even heard of them for months. Ack quit Fire and went to Acid, we wish him well. We gained the talents of Spitfire from Cia this month, he does really good pics. Thats all that happened this month, not a big month for fire ascii but next month will be indeed. Later.  - fire hirez was too much for surreal, but god will see us through. -  Hello, and welcome to the latest fire hirez news update. We've had some significant changes since the last pack, so actually read this if you don't normally. :) First and foremost, I (God among Lice) am the new hirez coordinator. Surreal Logic has been extremely busy lately with school and other things, so he and I decided we'd just swap positions to relieve him of the heavy load of responsibility that comes with being the hirez coord. As of now, Surreal will be the sub-coord. Applications can be sent to either one of us, but you'll probably get a quicker response from me. :) We all look forward to seeing some more great art from him in the future, and hopefully this new arrangement will give him a little more time to create a screenful of magic.  A close second in terms of importance to the fire hirez crew this month is the addition of a couple of new members, Panacea and Solarpunk. I'm sure you've all heard of panacea, the fire renaissance man. Pan does pretty much everything scene related except for music (and that's just because he doesn't have a sound card :) and now after much urging and prodding he has finally released a vga (that isn't his foot) with us, marking his formal induction into the fire hirez crew. I won't even try to begin describing his unique style. Also this month, Solarpunk becomes the newest hirez log to be thrown on the fire. (sorry for stealing your recruit, fathom :). Solar joins a growing number of photomanipulators that fire is proud to call its own. I know some of you out there might not have a very favorable opinion of photomanip stuff, but I think Solar's work just may sway you enough to join the dark side. :)  I'd like to take this opportunity to urge everyone to start thinking less about how "hard" something is to create and focus more on what the finished product really looks like. A work of art can be simple and yet still powerful. I'd also like to stress that the worth of a particular piece of art is relative. You cannot "grade" art; you can only give your own opinion of it.  But anyway... getting back to member info. Leaving us this month are Satansly and Outkast. I'll miss Sly the most for the simple reason that fire is no longer balanced by the equal and opposite forces of good and bad that we had going between us. :) Seriously, though, both were great artists and they leave a noticable hole in our ranks. And outkast: No bad feelings, ok bruh? Two members have been taken off of the memlist due to inactivity: Firestone and Genosha. If you're still around, guys, then just reapply.  One last note: I have a new email (as if anyone ever emailed me much before). The new address is: bps6p@virginia.edu. You can use this to talk to me about applying to fire hirez or, for you members, if you have any questions. Also, I'm putting together a list of email addresses for our current hirez members, so if you haven't already done so, email me or get it to me on irc sometime.  Thanks to all the fire hirez contributors this month, and I'll see you all next pack. -God among Lice, fire hirez coordinator - nation had snansi, we have fansi! - just when you thought that fire ansi was down for the count, we come right back at you with some new acquisitions! mage, formerly of integrity and sometimes pal of mistigris, finally decided to hook up with the fire crue this month. Hail mage! Sinister X returns to the fire team, despite some communications problems the last time around. I'll try harder this time, dude, but you keep in touch, too! Vade79, Eerie and Numb all return to fire after the completely successful and amazing Samsara fiasco and should have work in the next pack. Icepick, who was never in fire before, but is now, also comes from Samsara. I feel like fire is whole again. :) Welcome, old and new! BTW: Thanks to SinisterX, Mage, GrindKing and Nosegos for covering my lazy ass this month. I needed a break of sorts. :) - fathom is a hippie :) jk - / \ *NOTE*fathom is NOT an ascii artist :P _\\___ and now!/ / __ (______) \ \ /\ /)o '\. | : ___ \ / athom's kinda tripped-out story(..__0_) | : > < \ \ | | | :/ / \/ '~` | :/ | : / \ ( bong ) \ ______/ Okay check this out: Early last month my computer crashed with a totally not-cool partition failure. So i lose everything, EVEN my drawing program, and sadly I was forced to go from the old (photostyler 2.0 and ya ya go ahead and make fun :P) to the new (fractal design painter). Well this change in progr was not a comfortable one for me, and i like couldn't make anything cool. So this one day i went down to the local coffee shop/smokeout spot and somehow these little white things people call shrooms accidentally popped into my mouth right? So i go home and make this.. uhm.. i guess you could say "less-than-fath quality-vga" It is in NO WAY the standard for my art, nor is it the glorificati of shroomin or drugs or anything. I just thaught it might be worth a laugh. I was in total panic as to whether or not i'd ever find photostyler again. I found it, and managed to krank out a lil ditty there for ya.. i hope you enjo and i REALLY hope you understand that the shroomin pic is just a JOKE and ain't my normal art... -Fathom - i've written like 15 of these damn things and i'm sick of it. :) - see above. i'll behave next month, i promise. :) Expect the best, I don't think you'll be disappointed.    ° ÞhÝalaster (fire) SAUCE00#INFO# Fire Newsletter Senior Staff fire 19961016Ù(P