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Üß ßßßßßßßßß   ßßßÜÜÜÜÜþ °ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ° þÜÜÜÜÜßßß ßßßßßßßßßß   ßÜ°ÛÛÛß Ü°²ßß²ÛÜ ßÛÛÛ²ß Ü°°ß  I just did the math. It's been 18 years, 6 months since I last  ß°°Ü ßÛ Ü°Ûß   wrote an NFO file or assembled an art pack. October, 1996 was the  ßÛ°Ü
ÛÛß    final Apathy pack.  As it turns out, not much about the process has   ßÛÛßchanged. I'm still writing this at the very last minute, and I'm still   ßscrambling to get work from various artists (not to mention finishing my
    own). I still feel that sort of fanboy buzz that comes with gathering work
    from amazing artists - some of whom I've known for 20 years at this point.

    That blows my mind.

    I founded Apathy when I was 15 years old. It was at a time when everyone
    in the art scene seemed to have their own thing. We were born out of the
    ashes of a couple of smaller groups. We had zero quality control, which
    was kind of the point. The elitism that existed in the art scene back
    then was difficult to get past sometimes, and we wanted Apathy to be a
    place where you didn't have to worry about that. We wanted it to be fun.
    Amazingly, it worked out pretty well.

    Eventually, we merged with another small group called THRuST (or
    "Thirty Hippos Running Up Stairs Together" if you prefer). That's when
    my buddy Marc (aka Trip) came aboard, and things really started to take
    off. Some big name artists signed on, and next thing we knew we were
    putting out some quality stuff. People were excited for our releases.

    Inevitably, a lot of us started to do silly things like graduate high
    school. It became harder and harder to coordinate things. I got busted
    for some telecommunications hijinks and wasn't allowed to use a modem.
    At one point, I was mailing my pack submissions to Trip on a floppy
    disk.

    We could read the writing on the wall, and after 14 packs we decided to
    call it quits. We negotiated a merger of most of the group into the ANSI
    juggernaut known as iCE. I faded out of the picture at that point, but
    Trip (and a lot of other ex-APA guys) went on to be the artistic heart of
    iCE for several years after.

    ---

    Cut to 2013. I stumble my way onto Facebook and discover a group called
    "Ansi/Ascii Artists Worldwide". As it turns out, I'm not the only one
    with fond memories of the art scene. I run into the guys from Blocktronics
    and I start releasing ANSI again for the first time in over 15 years. I'm
    thrilled to run into artists I knew back then - including a number of ex-
    Apathy guys. One thing leads to another, and the next thing I know we're
    planning a reunion pack.

    And this is where things get sad. One of the artists I'd reconnected with
    was Eric "Ewheat" Turevon. He was a founding member of Apathy, and one of
    the only artists to stick with us through our entire run. He helped run
    the group when I ran into my legal troubles and he brought a sly sense of
    humor into the mix that helped cement our legacy. I got to know him again
    in the summer of 2013 and found him to be that same funny, caring guy
    that I knew as a kid. He was enthusiastically on board for an Apathy
    reunion.

    Then I got the news in February, 2014 that Eric had died.

    We were all gutted. It seemed unreal, after just finding him again.
    We talked it over and decided to pay tribute to Eric, as well as former
    Apathy artist Mr. Self Destruct (who sadly passed away several years
    ago), in the best way we could - by dedicating this release to them and
    creating some great textmode art in their honor. I'm also proud to include
    the very last, unreleased work from MSD.

    ---

    In that spirit, I'm happy to present to you the "long-lost" 13th Apathy
    Studios art pack (we skipped pack #13 back in the 90's out of some sense
    of bad luck, but we're embracing that spectre now). I'm thrilled with
    how it's come together. We managed to reach out to a number of ex-APA
    alums to contribute. On top of that, the guys from Blocktronics offered
    to put their next release on hold and contribute to this project in full
    effect. We reached out to every old school scene artist we could get in
    touch with and invited them all to contribute as well (including the
    first ANSI in nearly 20 years from legendary ACiD artist Somms and a new
    EP from our old buddy Transient!).

    Huge thanks to all who contributed here - and to all of you who are
    viewing this. It's now officially past my deadline so I'll spare you all
    any more sappy sentiment in favor of some really, really kickass art.

    Cheers!

    James (aka Misfit)
SAUCE00                                                                           20150420IE

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