°° ° °²²±±°²°°°±±±²ÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ²Û²²²±±°° ²ß ܱßß ßßß° ²Ü  ° ² ²° ² ° ²±²±°²±±²²Û²ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ²Û ²²±±±± ß°  °°ß°² ° °° ²²°±±°² ² °²±±±°°²Û²°°±±²²ÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ²²Ý° ±±°   °²±±±°²°±±ÜÜ ² ²°±±² °°±±²²²Û ÛßÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ²Û  °°  ° ²±±°²° °°  °Ü °±±±±° °°±±²ßßÜ ÜÜܲ²ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝ    ²°±²° ° ÝÞ °° ±Ý ±±°²Û°°°±ßÜ Üܲ  Þ °°ÜßÛÛÛÛÛ²    °°  °²± ²° ° °   °±±°° ±²°²° °°°±±ÝÞÞÛÛÝÝ  ß ß ÝÞßÛÛÛÛÛÜ°° ±±²    °±°°±°± ÝÞ±²²±±°ÝÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜ°  Û²²  ÜÜÜÛßÜÝ ÞÜÜÜ°°Û²²ÜÜÜÜÜ  ² ±±°±²   ²Û²²²     ± °²Ü ² ±±   ±° ÝÞ² Û²ÛÜÜ ÜßÛÛß °°ß ÜÞÞ²²±²ÝÝÞ ÞÛÛ°ÛÝÝÜ° ßÞÛ± ° ±°°    °  ±  ±²²±°ÝÞÝ  dark illustrated Þ ±±²²Û    ²Ûß±²²ܱ±°°Ý   ²°±°° ÛÛ  °   °ÝÛ°°²°ßܲ² Ü  ßÞÞ²²±±ÝÝÞÞ±°  ÜÜ°Û²²±  Û±² of ²Û  ° ±  ÜÛßßßÜ Ü±²±±ßß ß  ÜÜÜ ß  ±²Û²²±±ÜÛÛÛßßßßÛ²Û²   ²²± ²²±²  ±°²  ² ß  ÜÜßß°ßÝ ßßßßßßßßßßßßÞÞ±²ÛÝÝ   ±±² ±±°±   ²±Û²² ßß °°°Ü Ý  ßßßßßß ²Üß ßÝ°° °  ²²±²²   ÞÞ²²ÝÝ Ý    ²°²°  ±±²°°   Û±²° ÞÜßß°°  Ü  ßßß° °²°²² °  HAPPY CANADA DAY, FELLOW CANUCKS! DARK ILLUSTRATED 06/98 NEWSLETTER  It's SUMMERTIME people! And you know what that means, right?  MEAT AND MEETS! It's BBQ season for the Overlords of the Overweight! Over the next two and a half months, Toronto, Ontario will sink another meter below sea level as our Lardass Lordships get together in various locations around the city to chat and chow down. (Who knows, you might even see a few mega-joint art pieces emerge in between courses.)  Kicking things off is THE JAM! On July 11th, a combination house- warming/welcoming party is taking place at XypherM's converted cattle ranch, with special long-distance guest Quip!, who's flying all the way from Vancouver to put on a few hundred pounds with the Dark League of Obesity. This meet'll have everything *and* the kitchen sink. (Except for a bikini contest, which was banned after Burnout developped the masterful skill of pulling G-strings off with his zinderfine.)  [If you STILL don't know what a zinderfine is, dewmed.ml.org/zinder fine has a gallery and history that'll quickly familiarize you with this wicked device.]  If you're in the T.O. area that weekend, get all the latest information by e-mailing xmtrx@interlog.com! (This event is most certainly NOT sponsored by the Heart and Lung Foundation of Canada.)  Expect a complete (and hilarious) run-down of happenings in the August Collection, with details from THE JAM, The Warped Tour Spam Invasion, the Great Canadian Concert Crashing, and numerous Encounters of the Thirty-Third-Helping Kind.  [Check out www.interlog.com/~xmtrx, which has photos, summaries, and information on past and upcoming events. The recent Muskokan Monster Meet is it's current feature.]  As always, enjoy the pack! And expect some BLOCKBUSTING new material next month, as Dark Illustrated reveals it's new logo!  Cheers!  Xypher Matryx, Dark Senior Staff/Cattle Ranch er MEMBER MOVEMENT Yeh yeh, crude joke, anyway shaddap. Of all the low down dirty tricks to play on our group... SOMEBODY put the batteries back into Carnifex. The Man-Machine has found his way back to Dark Illustrated, requesting asylum and resuming his annoying habit of eating salt a grain at a time. Oh well, slave labor is hard to come by. The memberlist might look a bit shaken up. We're trying to sort out who's still alive among the ever changing scenesters. If you've been accidentally knocked off, for god's sakes get in touch with us. 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We are and always will be the "Originals of the Originators". 2 years after the coining of the phrase, and 4 years after birth, we find ourselves confronted with stupid comments, ignorant accusations, and pathetic attempts at tarnishing what is Dark Illustrated. The year is 1998, the only groups still releasing artwork from all forms of media are as follows: Dark, Cia, Rca, and Mistigris. Notice there is no Legion, no Avenge, no Ice, no Zenith, no . With only 4 groups releasing Ansi, Ascii, Music, and High resolution wouldn't it come to stand that these 4 groups be looked upon as the carriers of the torch long lit when all groups did the same? Last night I had the 'pleasure' of being approached by an editor of an emag. His first comments to me were "Dark releasing bimonthly is lame". I'll say one thing, Dark is never to be called lame. How can a group that has lasted so long, and that has endured so much be called 'lame'? For that matter, how can someone who hasn't even been in the scene as long say it? The scene has changed, we all know that. But let me make one thing clear to all of you, there is an ignorance that exists moreso now than ever before. When I first came into the scene, one was not even looked at seriously unless one had talent and knew what the scene was about. Most of you reading this right now do not have the knowledge that you should. Now before I get into this, I want to cut most of you off from declaring this a personal thing, or a petty thing. Remember Legion's uproar after FOS #8? Remember the scene's uproar after Aesthetic #3 and #4? I'm only trying to clear up some things that most of you have forgotten or ignorantly put to the side. The scene has some 'rules' and guidelines that we have come to follow, now they're nothing enforced, they're just things that have become norms over the past few years. Let me be the first to tell you that groups such as Dark do not need/nor do they have the desire to follow these things. Just because you can't understand why we're releasing bimonthly, or why you can't understand that we're still hanging in #dark most of the time, doesn't mean we're the ones at fault. Try educating yourself about the group before you open that mouth of yours. We are what no other group could ever be. And I mean EVER. 80% of the group have become close friends that hang out, talk about problems, and socialize all the time. We are about friendship, not about what review we get in modern day excuses for emags, not about how we 'rank' with those in #ansi. Now, I know you've heard the term 'friendship' being tossed around in every group. But I'll challenge you with this, if you had a serious problem, or if you had nowhere else to go, could you be confident in knowing your fellow group members would be there no matter what? I didn't think so. We are what few other groups could achieve. Will your group last at least 4 years? Will your group still be here in 1? Will your group continue to release all types of art? Oh wait... most of you can't even handle that right now. I commend groups like Cia, Mistigris, Ice, Acid, and Rca. You'll notice that within these groups it's not so much about the ansi portion of the scene as it is about the friendship and enjoyment of it. Before you come down from that high horse most of you have put yourselves on, you should realize one thing. That being, there exists a hierarchy in the scene. This hierarchy isn't based on what group gets ranked number one in some modern day 'emag' nor is it about what group can draw the most comic rips. This hierarchy is about history. The history that surrounds groups like Dark, Ice, Acid, Cia, Rca, and Mistigris. Without history your group will fade away into nothingness no matter what potential you had. Remember groups like Legend? Twilight? Spastic? Decades? Saga? Names that nobody can really speak of without feeling some form of regret. Why didn't these groups last? Because they didn't know what it took to last. I don't care who you've got in your senior staff, I don't care who you've got in your group, I don't even care how good you are. If you can't cut it in the scene, then you might as well just shut up, sit down, and think about what you can do to make that group of yours last. If Dark decides to go bimonthly then fine, you should realize that the group isn't made up of popularity-hungry ansi drawing zombies. Instead it's made up of forward thinking individuals that have decided that it's time to concentrate a little more on life than on a conceptual scene. We will never cater to the scene, we have no need to. We will do what we've always done. I find it hilarious that most of you don't realize what this one ansi group is all about. There are a few out there that know what we are, that understand us, that respect us. And to these few, I thank you and I commend you, for you have the knowledge of the scene that will make you a rarity in the next few years. To the rest, learn. There is a scene history, and if you knew anything about it, then the name Dark would enlighten all your hearts. Dark is lame? How dare you people come out and try to say such a thing. Dark has always been the battle ground for the greats, greats like: Ravage Bias, Spaceman Spiff, The Green Hornet, Carnifex, Yggdrasil, Metal Skin, Tesla, etc. Pity that most of you don't even know 30% of them. Dark is not lame, because if we were, we wouldn't be here now. Before I end this I'd like to send props out to Acid, Ice, Cia, Rca, and the mighty Mistigris. And to groups like Legion, Avenge, Zenith, etc, I wish you the prosperity and growth that Dark has achieved. This was somethingI just ha d to get off my chest. I've never met a group of people so kind, so reliable, so unselfish. Dark Illustrated 1994 and beyond. Note: This article is not from the group Dark Illustrated, it's from one of it's members, The 4Th Disciple. These are my personal thoughts, so before you go flaming the group like some idiotic newbie, read this and try flaming the source, me. The 4Th Disciple (Dark Illustrated) DARK'S FILENAMING CONVENTION Filename Conventions... Filenames work like this: XXXXX-##.* XXXXX is a five-letter abbreviation of the artist's alias. (Should the alias fall within five characters or less, the entire alias will be used.) ## represents the current number of pieces the artist has produced the year of release. * can be any valid extension for images, executables, data files, or musical compositions. The most common are DRK for ansi images including JPG/GIF/BMP/etc for high resolution graphic images, and MOD/S3M/XM/IT/etc for music data files. ACHERON.ORG IS TOTALLY FAT  We'd like to take a quick moment to turn your attention to possibly the best scene resource available right now: www.acheron.org Blathering on about it would be pointless, so we'd like you, oh gentle viewer, to please take a minute and check out the great news, artwork, and particularly the photo gallery (which anyone'll agree Dark helped spawn) to be seen there. Cheers! THE END (now get the hell outdoors and socialize, you toadstoolish mofos!) SAUCE00Dark Newsletter 06/98 Multiple Authors Dark Illustrated 19980701ëA