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Wax started out with me thinking about the state the ascii art scene is in. I know that you out there think the scene is rather nice right now and very stable but that's not what I think. A lot of groups have died this year and a lot of artists have left the scene, without some new people to take their places and I makes me think how long the scene will last. There are only 3 stable groups (remorse/odelay/kwest) and all the other groups are still new and we're probably saying to ourselves how long will that last? Well, I'm going to keep this group going as long as I can. After I thought all this out, I started talking to drax on IRC because the drax-man is my best bud on IRC. Anyway, we both thought starting a group now would be a good idea, since it was right after the death of serial. And we are going for the basic idea serial did, this group is going to be a haven for new artists. You probably looked at the member list and said, all the people in here are fucking old artists, well, you try and find new talent. Anyway, enough bickering from me, look at the and enjoy. Have fun. Whatever. Comments go to gdr@flash.net for me and regiz0rd@hotmail.com for drax0r. BBBBBYYYYYYYEEEEEEE!! * special thanks to sargon for the leet-o header drax > >> Yoe! Whatsup people? This is drax speaking. First off i'd like to welcome you to our first release. Im very grateful so many good artists joined us at first. But the reason me and gravedancer started it was to bring more hope to the scene, giving/finding new talents everywhere. So we get more artists drawing. I realized that creating a group saying we created it for the scene when we're inviting already existing good artists to it which only means less ascii's in each and every group this artist already is in. We are not attempting to be one of the best groups right now, we just wanted a good basic group memberlist which we got. Not many unknown artist yet, but we are working on that part. wax!ascii got born one weekend when I and my good friend gravedancer talked on iRC. We had both been talking about starting a group sometime before, but since we couldnt handle a compo every week, how would a group go? Well i hope this will work out fine. We will do our best finding new talents but remember, we are not competing so dont come grading unknown people like people who've existed for awhile. I would also like to thank nahal, martz and blackdawn for the nice guests. And not to forget, phunk!ascii merged as our oldschool division, thanks guys! And hey, WORD GRAVEDANCER YOU DA MAN!@="% I can't think of anymore to write, except enjoy our first pack! Thanks to: gravedancer - crash - axb volatile - arlequin. (STAFF) ...Crash takes over... Umm .. heh .. hey =] .. hows it going? .. shit, I'm never good at writing these ... so like ... bare with me here :) ... All this phat shyt started when DraX msged me one day like "y0e k1d..we are g0nn4 startz0r a c00l gr0up...wannuh j0inz0r?!?!?" .. and I was like "uhh, who's in it?" blah blah blah .. and it turns out that we have quite a phearsome memberlist now. So, even though Drax says we aren't here to be the "best" in the scene just yet, our main goal is to be the best but until then, we want to be atleast respected by the tough critics in #ascii =] ... and to those of you who love to bitch about other groups that you don't like cuz they are new .. I have something for you ...... .....FUCK YOU. peace. AXB > >> Well, welcome to Wax!ascii. Watching the scene deteriorate into nothingness, you can't help but wonder how much longer the art of ascii will hold strong. we can only speculate when it will fade away, and then we have the ascii revivals to worry about. >8) i don't think new school will ever truely die. i don't think anyone should sweat it if it does though. i think a lot of people are getting tired because they get stuck on their certain styles and forget that they CAN do ascii a million other unexplored ways. anyway, whatever happens, just remember that when it comes down to it, it isn't about the scene, it's about you and your expression through what your doing. as long as that exists, you haven't lost anything. oldschool department > >> _______ _______ ____ .\ \ __/\__ / \\ /_________. | \ \ / /PHUNK \\// |pnk _| \/_ _\/ AScii\/ |_ \|_ \ \/ / _|/ \/ \__/ \/ ________.___. ___ .___ ____ .___. ___ .\ _. /| _|/ /.___\| \____\_ \| |/ / | \| \_ \_ \| |\ \ |/ \ _/ \ | \___/ / \ |/ / / / \_ \ vol|____| |__/|____/___/____/___/____/|___|\___/ _. ._ \|_ volatile · arlequin · tim drake · _|/ \/ krestyle · dezibel · aneurysm · \/ | /\ | | //\\_________________________| |__________//__\ well you were probely wondered what this do in a wax ascii pack... welp we merged in wax ascii as a division, thats mean we don't change our name, we are still phunk ascii an amiga oldschool group. but i'm a senior in wax so i will try to be more involved from now on, about all the talk about the scene, i agree with allmost everything mjay wrote in fuckyou! #2 except the metter of competition, well i think this scene is fooling herself about that metter, becouse art is a metter of taste, for example lets say : Mr. A like remorse art's and Mr. B don't like it infect he think the pack was preety lame, Mr. A don't like the odelay pack, but he thinks prodigy is a nice guy so he say it was cool, Mr. B said The Remorse Pack was great. the point i'm trying to get thru is that pepole judge art by the name of the group in the scene, 55% will say it was good (even if it wasn't), 20% (famouse artists usely) will say the truth, 15% will say nuthin and try to avoid that kind of chat. well i might be an idiot but thats the way i see it so figure it out... anyway here some group news : * aneurysm probely quit drawing, i don't know if he will have a change of heart but if he wont he will be deleted of the member list. * krestyle has been invited in, he got a realy cool style welcome to the group mate. for apps : volatile@main.aquanet.co.il if you want to join leave me full detiles and don't forget we have a dualing rule : 1 group except phunk only allowed. - volatile { phunk leader / wax senior } ; .` .,g%` ,g?$$' d$$$? :$$$$: Y$$$$, '?$$$$g, ,,,,,, `'üü???gg,,,,,... $$$$ `````'üüüü??$$$$ $$$$ '''''' ,,,,,, $$$$ $$$$??gggg,,,.... $$$$ `````''ü??ggg,,, '''''' >>THE END>> ` ü$$$$p, `$$$$b :$$$$: j$$$? _g$?ü` ,#ü'` .` l `'