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1. Check it out!  ANSI in two consecutive packs!  That's a feat not done in two

years.

2. Our  featured  artist  this  month is Stereophoenix,  aka SPX.   He's  got a

great interview for you to read,  and two images in the pack.  Come find out

about this interesting Aussie :)

3. DJ Monkeyboy  did  a great  intoduction to using Maya for  our tutorial this

month.   So put those pens down and  get your pucks out  and get prepped for

doing some  3D work on a  $7500 (base price)  professional package.  You can

download a free Personal Learning Edition from

http://www.aliaswavefront.com/

4. Quick note to  excessively thank  Mynx and  Quantum-X  specifically, as well

as everyone else in iCE for  helping out with so much around  the home base.

The interview and tutorial html  were done by Mynx this month, and Quantum-X

has done  previous months.   You  guys all kick ass,  and it's  great to see

people kicking in to help the group!

5. We have a couple new members this month!  First up is Yonadaan,  a great new

hi-res artist who  survived our  terrible application process.   He's really

excited  to  finally  be  a part of iCE,  even though we made  him shave his

hands  and  hazed   him  a  bit  excessively.     Although  the  police  are

investigating,  we feel confident that they'll  never find the photos or the

name of the youth organization that was involved.

Next up we have  Allan!  No handle,  just Allan.  Allan ran on  the election

platform of  "Vote for me and  I'll make babies cry!",  which was a real hit

among the younger crowd.   He cleaned up at the  election booths and made it

into iCE.   And we're very glad  to have him with us!   Congrats  to both of

our new members this month!

6. We have to wave farewells to a  few people this month.   First, we are sadly

losing defected,  who is leaving to be with Raster  (using the name Psilic).

We certainly  wish him well  with Raster!   Andrew is a  great guy and we'll

miss him.  Good luck Andrew!

Also departing is  Precurser,   whose website  (endeffect.com)  and life are

taking  too much of his time.   He's departing on the best of terms,  and we

will certainly miss him.

Finally,  Cadaverous Fate is leaving to join Noir.    It's sad to see people

go, but we only hope they're happy in their new homes.   Good luck everyone!

7. Although  we  don't  normally  discuss  group  policy in our  newsletters, I

figured I'ld explain here.   iCE has always had a rule against dual-grouping

in cases where the groups  overlap. In other words, if someone wants to join

iCE to release  artwork  and join  another group to  release poetry,  that's

fine.  But we ask that our members are  dedicate themselves to the group and

don't take membership lightly by "shopping around".   Every group can always

use help from their members -  get in the  one you want  and work to improve

it as much as you can.

8. We have a special  guest  release this month from  Greg and Jito.   We don't

normally release  non-iCE art in the pack,  but this one was special.   Greg

and Jito  are  such  fantastic artists  and  it  turned  out so well that we

thought  we  should  give it  some extra  publicity.   So check out Greg and

Jito's quilt from tiles in the pack this month!

9. We also have our  Tribute to  H.R. Giger in the pack this month.  I think it

turned out great,  so go take  a peek!    You can  grab the completed  quilt

image at http://tiles.ice.org/59.jpg.   Just don't  stop and wonder what all

those tubes actually do - it's disturbing.

10. Huge thanks to Farmy and his brother for this past month. We've been having

all sorts of server problems, mostly due to heat issues.   But Farmy and his

brother have  constantly  dropped  everything  to  work late into  the night

trying to diagnose and fix our server issues.  Farmy and Mike, we appreciate

it!  We really do!

11. Finally,  I have to personally thank  Root88.  He  has  spent hours working

every day to generate  thumbnails and screenshots from loaders and RIP files

from old packs.   We all owe  Root88  a huge  thanks  to preserving our rich

history of art,  music,  and loaders back from the dark ages <grin>.  All of

fantastic  art  work  that  the  lazy missed by merely web viewing  iCE  art

instead of downloading the actual packs can now be easily viewed online.  We

have  even  created  http://archiology.ice.org  for  a quick link to see all

great work that may have been missed.  Tune in again  to  archiology.ice.org

next month when we re-release dozens of  iCE ansi's  never before seen  in a

pack. All the great artwork that was posted to BBS's  before the idea of ice

packs came about (8/92)  has been  restored  from decade old tape backup for

you viewing pleasure.

Positive that all your resolutions have failed,

Slothy and Root88

Lord Soth                    Root88