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.. Skills Ascii Art Press - Public Release,, Issue Number Three3 ..
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Introduction by Megga Hertz TKP. .,,.
Time has passed, and Skills has come to release its third issue.
With each issue of Skills, you are recieving the highest quality
ASCII magazine available. A new section in certain future issues
of Skills will be Graf Skills This is where artists that havent
yet established themselves to display their art, for the world to
see. Thanks you for obtaining Skills Ascii Press Release Num. 3.
This issue contains only one review, since there has been but one
pack released since Skills Issue Two. Any packs released will be
reviewed in Skills Issue Four.
And and All contributions art, articles, etc. should be sent to
The Skills Dropbox, mhz@bigdog.clemson.edu.
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Save ascii while we still can. .,,.
Lately, the former 99 friendly ascii artist channel has been
bearing resemblance to a certain infamous non-art, ansi scene
channel. I cant seem to join these days without seeing ppl
being needlessly kicked, banned, or ragged on simply because
theyre outsiders to the current ascii scene. What if we
end up turning off the next Killa Hertz to the ascii scene?
It isnt a secret that I myself let my online temper flair,
have words with many a person. However, when was the last ti
me you saw me abuse my power, and ban somebody that didnt
deserve it? By deserve it,I mean doing something detremental
to the integrity of ascii, not because I disagree with them
In closing, I urge all ascii ops to watch themselves, try
their best to keep ascii a pimpstyle ascii art channel, and
not a ansi, kiddy porn, kickban, non art, frootyass channel.
-mHz, proud ascii operatorisimo.
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Dominating the Ascii scene now: .,,.
The Top 5 Big Ballers of the PC-ASCII Scene. In no particular order
n e c r o m a n c e r
R E M O R S E :
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1 Remorse!Ascii. Remorse is the home to new age ascii gods, such as
Mister Self Destruct msd and Killa Hertz, along
with the people who shaped the PC-ASCII scene into
what it is today, such as Necromancer, Whodini,
Hiro Protagonist, etc. Remorse has released 7 paks
since its resurection, formed out of the ashes of
aCiD!aSCII and tRANK!aSCII, and there has been no
drop off in quality OR quantity of ascii yet. A+.
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2 Kwest. Cain of Noname Ascii fames Kwest ASCII combines
some of the best newschool artists in the scene
Mass Murderer, Cain, Discyple, and has produced
two impressive packs so far. Though high volume
releases are not Kwests forte, quality definately
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oOps!aSCII has silently released five high quality
packs. Baltazar proves to be highly talented, in
both oldschool ascii and newschool ascii genres.
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4 Comic Ascii Founded by Spinn and Mess, two newer to the scene
oldschool artists, Comic Ascii has released three
packs of surprising quality.
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5 Basic!Ascii Instability earns Basic!asc a number five position.
Its own members seem to be unsure as to the future
of the group, but nevertheless, Basic releases high
quality. Epilogue : Apparently Basic has died.
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine -- --- ASCII Scene news, rumors, etc. .,,.
.,.Basic!ascii is dead.
.,.Tk and Grey07 have started a new ascii group called Penance. Grey
can be quoted saying its not your run of the mill ascii grewp.
.,.Phreak Klass of Ex-Remorse!Ascii has started his own colly releasing group,
which closely resembles an Amiga group, called Afluence Design.
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// bLADE!aSCII
.,.Exar-Kun Blade Ascii Coord has dropped Blade to become Exar-KunNOTHING!
Zempf has supposedly taken over the position, but will possibly be
departuring as well, leaving the job to new member Tim Drake.
.,.Biogenesis has joined Kwest.
.,.Volatile has started an Amiga group called Phunk. pnk.
.,.The Remorse ASCII affiliated Tyrone E-Mag has been released, it is coded.
Pick up tyrone1.zip.
.,.Greys 300-Line ASCII for WindRiders colly is possibly the single longest
font ever.
.,.mHz will be releasing shorter Extended Play collies independently, or
under his own label.
.,.Exar-Kun of Blade and Tzeentech are working on a joint oldschool colly.
.,.Holocaust has made Basic!ascii a local group, its place taken by Blindmans
new group, Deity!Ascii.
.,.In music news, Cypress Hill and Westside Connection have ended their beef.
.,.Serial is releasing SerialView, with features that are said to cater to
ascii artists, and those who release long collies.
.,.Fizzles Nodorio ASCII, which died in 1995 has returned.
.,.Seiken Densetsu formerly Odelay merged into Fuels ascii div, to form
Tincture ascci. The Prodigy and Discofunk 1974 then quit, killing the
newly formed group.
.,.The Prodigy of Ex-Seiken is now in Serial, saying He owns Sargon.
.,.CyberCrime International BBS Message Network has returned. See below.
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INFORMATION:
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine -- -- Holocaust speaks about Basic!a. .,,.
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hi, hows it going... well this is hOlocaust comin to ya :
telling you about a tragic downfall to the scene and well may it i
rest in peace.
Ive decided to finally let go of my group bASiC!aSCii which was s
kind of hard to do but when it all came down to it and all thats
happend within those months I must say it was great seeing a group come
together once again and well, Ive decided not to revive any more groups
again.
Well anyways what more to say, not much that is.. just to all the ppl
who were their from the beginning and their to the end. you were all my
inspiration and really great artists.. but now since this is in the past
I must wait and see what happens in the future and special thanx to
Kaleidas Acid Jack.. Epidemic.. Slick Willard .. and well blindman who
took over my position for those remaining two months while I was out of
comission.
May bASiC rest in peace and well you know the old saying
.. mess with the best, die like the rest ..
hOlocaust
mother@yesic.com
DARK aSCii pimp artist
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Tutorial on Throwing up the Dub. .,,.
Many of my collies, as well as some packs have been riddled
with a phrase unclear to many. Throw up the Dub is a form
al request for a person to put their hand into the shape of
the letter W, and raise it high in the air for all to see.
In its most common context, The Dub refers to West Side,
or Wessyde, and displays love and pride in ones home, if
located on the west side of wherever they live.
Enough explanation, its time for YOU to learn to throw up
the dub yourself.
Step One.
Place your right hand palms down, on a flat surface
out in front of you.
Step Two.
Fold your thumb, which should have been on the left
and coincedentally enough the west side of your hand UNDER
the rest of your hand, concealing it.
Step Three.
If you cant see your thumbnail, youre doing well.
At this point, there are two methods you can use. We will
outline both here. It is a little known fact that 2 single
hand dub methods exist, but youll be skilled soon enough.
Method One.
Keeping your index and pinky finger in place, move
your middle finger, placing the top part of it touching the
nail of your ring finger. This method is often a bit faster
and is preferred by W.C., and Mack 10 of the Westside Conne
ction, a West Coast rap group which brought The Dub to main
stream America.
Method Two.
Keeping your index and pinky finger in place, move
your pay attention now RING finger so the bottom of it is
overlapping your middle finger. This method often requires
more practice as well as dexterity of the hands, but I feel
it forms a much cleaner Dub, the extra practice pays off.
This advanced method of throwing up The Dub is often prefer
ed by Tupac Shakur, as shown on the cover of his multi-plat
inum album All Eyez On Me, Megga Hertz the Kingpin, and
any other people that wear large gold rings on their ring,
and pinky fingers.
Step Four.
At this point, a perfect Dub should be formed, and
youre ready to throw it high into the air. In one motion,
raise your handle off the flat surface, and twist your arm
so that your nails are facing AWAY from you. Be careful not
too undo your Dub at this point, especially if youre using
The 2Pac/mHz method. If youve been succesful, your dub
should be high in the air, and you can wave it all around
like you just dont care.
Step Five.
Go over steps one through four many times, and in
time, you will be able to throw up either kind of The Dub,
without using the flat surface. For a final test, try to
form The Dub on your hands WHILE youre raising your arm in
the air. That is the true way to throw up and instantaneous
Dub right after you hear Hey G, THROW UP THE DUB!.
I hope this clearly explains the art of The Dub for all
of those who have asked me. WESSYDE!
-mHz W
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Review of Paks since last Issue. .,,.
.. Skills, Kwest Review, GO-KWEST.ZIP.
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bio-kos asc 6 A bit better, kinda weird.
bio-kw asc 7 The dotted background helps this one alot.
bmkkbm01 asc 7 I dont know what this hes trying to do, but its ok.
bzr-blen asc 7 This logos non-standardness makes it good.
bzr-kws1 asc 7 Formatting problems, but nice and graf life.
bzr-kws2 asc 8 Just plain badass, and perfect.
bzr-kws3 asc 8 Badass ascii, badass meaning.
bzr-kws4 asc 8 Yet again. Baltazar is just all-around good.
cn-aftrm asc 8 A good representation of Cains new graf style.
cn-ill-b asc 7 Good Good. Nice shaping.
cn-m4sdt asc 7 Nice and curvaceous.
cn-sofar asc 7 Ok, Ive had enough.. ..
h4-ill asc 6 Weird musical chars..
ma-imge asc 7 I love massms shading, looks cut off though
par-flph asc 6 Same old Pariah, bad subject choice.
pr-dark0 asc 8 BAD ASS high ascii.
pr-obelx asc 7 Is this afs shit? Odd character set.
us-k!ho! asc 7 Cain shape + Massm shade good shit. Except the Bg.
us-life asc 8 Really good, pic coulda used more detail, still good.
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Recently Release/Coming Collies. .,,.
Recent/Coming Collies
Colly Name File Name Artist Availability Group
Bulletproof Lyrics ma-proof.txt MassMurd Coming. Kwest
Vitamin C o7-vc .txt Grey Coming. Penance
Kontinental td!-kv .txt Tim Drake Coming. Triloxy
Thug Immortal mas-thug.txt bugsymHz Coming. mAS.
Millenium r-mlnnm .zip Hiro P. Now. Remorse
a Activate My Hate!! r-mhzamh.txt mHz Now. Remorse
Exodus r-exodus.txt nMANCEr Coming. Remorse
The Story r-story .txt Nitrogen Coming. Remorse
xaA Year in the Life wr-year .txt Whirr Now. Quad-P
Satanic Verses 2 r-sv2 .txt Miasma/Bm Coming. Rmrs/Bsc
a - Denotes colly now available, previously listed as coming soon.
x - Denotes a change in colly information since last publishing.
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Interview with ArroganceRemorse .,,.
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mHz Im here with Arrogance, better known as aCk, one of the ascii scenes
most influential newschool artists.
mHz Tell us ack, tell the world, when did you start drawing?
aCk- Hmmmm.... lemme see if I can remember.
mHz Oh youll remember alright, you can fuckin try me.. .
aCk- Heh :
aCk- It was about 92-93 when I first saw an ansi pack and decided that it
would be cool if I could do that.
aCk- It was an acid pack I believe.
aCk- So I dled a copy of thedraw and got to work.
mHz ACiD, always setting the standard. So before your budding ascii
talent arose from beneath your fingers, youre telling us you tried
ansi, no?
aCk- I drew ansi for like 3 years. Ive been in more ansi groups than
ascii.
mHz Very interesting, no doubt. As far as the ascii scene, youve always
been in the larger, better groups, such as kTS, Trank!ascii, and now
Remorse. What was it like being in kTS!aSCII during its early days,
while it was molding the PC-ASCII scene into what it is today?
aCk- It was really fucking cool. Heh. :
mHz Great answer, asshole.
aCk- Well... We had some of the gods: K-spiff, Cyberkid, Sparr, TINYZ,
Shock G, and others. Even Eerie.
mHz I seem to remember a Trank colly of yours called Tribute 1.o, which
paid tribute to artists that you feel influenced the WHOLE ascii
scene. Who do you feel got you where you are today personally?
aCk- Well... to start off w/Phaser X who got me into the scene w/his shitty
little group KWiD back in 93. And then Piromaniak and Night Blade for
making me want to draw ASCiis, Tinyz for letting me in KTS, and
Necromancer for being a phat enough bastard to keep Remorse on its
feet.
mHz No doubt. Youre an op in ascii What do you think about the
ansi-ish direction the channel seems to be taking lately?
aCk- Well... There seems to be a lot of psyburt0st3ster0ne flying through
the air. People sometimes get so obsessed w/who is better than who at
what, and why this person sucks more than this person. Its retarded.
Than theres also some of the incredibly immature things that go on.
We dont have that as much as ansi thank god.
mHz Yeah, I dont think ascii will EVER be that fucked up.
aCk- But we do have some constant nagging, and arlequin still comes on
sometimes, and thats annoying. :
mHz What type of releases do you have slated for the future? More
newschool logos, collies, or some of that aCkoldschool?
aCk- Well... Ill still be producing shitloads of my phat phunky newschool
under the darky1/remorse lable, but I do have plans for an oldschool
colly called Last Cigarette due t ocome out July Some time.
mHz I know Ill get a copy.
aCk- w3rdemup. Ill let yah preview it before anyone else, bro.
mHz What direction do you feel the ascii scene is taking, and if you could
change one thing about it, what would that be?
aCk- Well... I fear weve already hit its heyday. There isnt really any
other direction to go. I think the ASCII scene will still be around for
a while, but I think that right now is as large and widespread as its
going to get.
mHz Yeah, increased net usage has driven it up. Just a few more questions,
and youll be free to go.
mHz What do you think of that mobsta Megga Hertz the Kingpin?
aCk- I think that hes one mean bastard, be he knows whats up. Hes not
one to be fucked with. Hell bust yer shit up like tha atom bomb.
mHz Im gonna have to agree with you on that one. Thanks for the
interview, if you have any last words, type them below, then sign your
name to show that I will not be held responsible for any manipulation
of your answers that may occur.
aCk- Ok... props to my niggas. Fuck yous to blatant rippers, Bill Gates,
Piker, Arlequin, racists, and lying bitches. Keep cool in 97. --
aCk/darky1 rMRS/aCid/dRONE 97
mHz Alright, peace. grab your threes, throw up the dub, and leave the
channel with dignity. Later.
aCk- cyaz
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Results of Skills 2s Tutorial. .,,.
A few people decided to show me what they made with the help of my
tutorial, which was contained in Skills Ascii Press Issue Number 2
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mHzs words : This guy is an IDIOT. Obviously he wasnt paying attention.
Speed Freak
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look mHz, i tried your tutorial... whatcha think, dont you just LOVE my
style?
mHzs words : Another IDIOT. I said put your own spin on it!!
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- ASCII Skills, With Megga Hertz. .,,.
I got tired of the same old slashes and dashes, so I incorporated
some never used low-ascii characters into an ascii, and came I up
with this:
// / mHzkills,
Try it. As far as curves, instead of the same old / or the spicy
/ , try using /, or swap out the / for or .
use to stretch the letters, and to break open the tops
of letters. I find that when the actual font has so much going on,
as shown above, its best to use a simpler background. Megga Hertz
characters? -- Very useful and elite.
F i s t f u l o f S t e e l
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As shown here, double slashes and // are a good way to shade
ascii, and give your font depth. Never, repeat never, use triple
slashes, unless you want your font to look horrible for some
reason. Use or to connect curves. Also, follow my new trend,
as shown above and extend the background, in this case comprised
of signs INSIDE the letters it makes the font flow better.
- Megga Hertz TKP
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - Interview with Pk of Afluence Design .,,.
People see Serial as a respected group in both the PC and Amiga scene,
something that Remorse dosent have in the amiga scene
p h r e a k / / / / k l a s s
mHz Im here with Phreak Klass, ex-Remorse oldschool ascii artist Pk, Ive
heard youve recently started an amiga type colly releasing group clled
AfluenceDesign, tell us about the group, its plans, etc.
pk well the group is an amiga group limited to 7 people, oldschool only.
pk i have also joined a PC group, serial
mHz You left remorse fairly abruptly after joining, and if I remember
correctly, you had some fairly outspoken reasons for doing so
what were some of those?
pk well i dont want to state them as i feel it is irelivent and may
influence other oppinions of remorse all i can say is that i left on my
own accord.
mHz What ascii group do you feel is on top now, both pc and amiga..
pk well i think that serial is the best pc group ..
pk and amiga well that a tuff one, i think Tropic Ascii has great potential
at being a raising star in the ascii scene
pk however i think Jedi takes the cake
pk Jedi have a great team, who are dedicated at what they do. However, I
think ED, -T and Style are not far behind at all
mHz Serial has had some controversy surrounding it, including beefs with
more then a few rMRS artists -- what do you say to people who have a
problem with Serial?
pk I think that they should give serial a go, i mean it has a great line of
artists, including sQuish who is in my group Afluence, i must admit i am
adicted to his style. I think Serial is the choice for ami dudes
migrating to the PC scene
pk people see Serial as a respected group in both the PC and Amiga scene,
something that Remorse dosent have in the amiga scene
mHz Who else is in AD besides you and sQuish? Is it invite only?
pk its basically invite only we choose who we want and offer, altho if you
think your up to the standard feel free to apply, in the group there is
myself, sQuish, war-child and mSO
mHz That seems like a fairly good team for now Let me go back to the
remorse subject Do you have feelings of apathy towards any remorse
staff/artists, or did you leave on somewhat friendly terms?
pk well i dont think i left on the best of terms with anyone in the group,
i dont really think that i should comment on the remorse subject as i
say, all i would like to say is peace, and if anyone there thinks they
won there wrong, because i am simply stating i dont care what they
think, i am open to peace. if that makes sence 8-
mHz Nope.
mHz Alright, just a few more questions. What do you think of that crazy
mutherfucker Megga Hertz the Kingpin?
pk hahha
mHz Ill take that as somewhat positive.
pk well i think he is a prick,,! nah just kidding .. he is a cool ducky
pk i respect mega hurtz
mHz Which artists if any influenced your style/ascii career?
pk well, none really, except for my friends who have given ideas, i
remember back in the old scene before i even had an inet account Acid
Kid, and Psyche both amiga dudes from my city teaching me how to
sprooce up my packs and crap.. also Dartagnan lately helped me spred out
my packs, peace to all of you
pk hah im still heere 8-
mHz Alright, thanks for the interview, and good luck with Afluence Design.
If youd like to add anything else, say it below, and then sign your
name to show that you hold neither Megga Hertz or any of the Skills
staff responsible for unauthorized answer manipulation.
pk haha
pk -- Kearhp Ssalk
pk 8-
pk phreak klass
pk peace to the ascii nation
mHz later.
mHz youre free to go.
pk ok
.,,. EPILOGUE .,,.
Less then two minutes later, Phreak Klass was banned from ascii.
mHz whyd messiah ban pk?
HAISSEm mHz because he paraded around for 2hours one day saying shit like
fuck you remorse, suck my fucking cock and shit like that
skatter who is pk
And thats that.
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Hiro Protagonist Speaks on Styles .,,.
hiro protagonist of remorse 1981
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.. speaking his mind in an editoral on the issues of style and orginality ..
I wont bother to introduce myself. If youre reading this you should
already know who I am. If you dont, then you dont know the oldschool
Ibm-pc ascii scene and none of this will really matter much to you. So
quit reading this and go back to idling in ansi Nam or something.
As many of you should recall, several months ago I released a little
text outlining what I felt was a style-rip perpetrated by Feral. Feral
probably caught a good amount of flack after I released that text, as
I didnt see him around ascii as much anymore, but I didnt encourage
anyone to make life rough for the kid. I did and still do agree with what
Whodini expressed in his little response to Ferals little response. If
you missed that text by Whod, it basicly said you got caught, dont do
it again. I believe that by taking some kind of high road in these
matters I do what is best for for myself and the scene as a whole.
We dont need a million text files flooding our scene the way they did
the Amiga ascii scene a year ago. I read a good chunk of them when all
that was going on and I dont think any of it helped their scene. I agree
it is important to differentiate from the artistic innovators and the
style copiers, but at what cost to the scene and who is to decide what
constitutes one or the other?
By now a certain portion of our readers have decided I take the scene
far too seriously theyre wrong and I encourage them to stop reading
this and go back to idling in oldwarez or something. I do take ascii
very seriously however. Were I not to, I would be devaluating the time
and effort I put into it. Ascii is an artform, as valid as any other Ive
ever worked with. I see ascii as a greater challenge than many other
forms of computer art however, as the scene is growing rapidly and it is
becoming harder and harder to find a new technique or style that has not
been done before in order to seperate yourself from the pack. I have an
advantage over many in this area since Ive been working with ascii for
a long time since 1989 and in my time have viewed more styles than most
people even realize are out there -40c temperatures in february leave me
with alot of free time to sit at the machine.
So when I see an artist try on a new style that contains elements of
other artists I must always ask myself on which side of the line does
this fall? Is it biting someone elses style or is it simply the result
of one artist influencing another? Every ascii we ever see effects how
we look at the artform and produce our own styles. And its not just the
actual construction of the art either.
In fact, the people whove been the greatest influence on my own ascii
have been artists with an attitude all of their own. Many of my favorites
are considered by many to be in the true foreground of todays scene, and
I believe this has as much to do with their attitude towards their art as
the artwork itself. For my influences are the ones who have always been
original to themselves.
So, by my way of seeing things, what does it take to be more than just
another ascii artist and seperate yourself from the pack? Style and
originality - perhaps the two most often discussed but least well defined
aspects of the scene.
Its not up for me to define these elements, and I believe the only one
who can ever properly define them for you is yourself. You have to decide
where that line is, and how to best ride it. About all I can do is speak
with the knowledge grained from my own 8 years of working with ascii. And
again, you have to decide which of my words are of value to you.
So by now a few of you are wondering what the hell inspired me to go
off at 3am and write this editorial, and guess what kids, Im going to
tell you big surprise, huh?. The other day someone sent me the
following logo by Squish from the most recent Vintage:
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T H E P R O D i G Y . . .
-o+b volatile.
Certainly a well constructed peice of ascii, and it got a nice placing
in Vintage. The ascii was sent to me from one of my callers you know
who you are as some people had been expressing they felt it looked a
hell of a lot like hiro entered the compo. I did not enter it, btw.
So I load the piece up into one page in TheDraw and bring up my style
records yes kids, I have records of every style Ive ever done, going
all the way back to 1989 - this again relates to taking the artform in a
serious way and placing value on it one by one in the other page. I
collect little elements from one style after another until I have a nice
big old mess of things strewn across a couple pages of workspace and
begin to see the combination of elements into the whole.
So now a good number of you are all saying Hiro thinks he was ripped
again.. yadda yadda and again youre wrong, kind of. I think the font
carries with it some style twists I developed and made popular, and the
E almost has my name written on it, but at the same time I keep drawing
myself back to what I think is good for the scene. And I think its good
that someone like myself who works hard at ascii can influence other
artists and in turn inspire them to create something new, even if there
isnt anything particularly new in that font up there.
Influences are key to finding you own style of ascii. Now notice, Im
not saying rip to become good because that type of attitude it utterly
moronic and belongs on AOL. What I am saying is when I look at that logo
I can see something I have done has spoken to Squish on a non-verbal
level of communication, and influenced him to try to take the art to a
new place its never been before.
Im certainly not the only person who has influenced that logo either,
which is why I just shrug it off as the way things work. There are very
few artists today who are lucky enough to have so many people get in
tune with that other level of communication they broadcast in their
ascii. When I see my art making that kind of impact I know Im doing
something right - and I hope the scene is all that much better for it.
Does this mean I want to see every style element I ever use wind up
in everyone elses book? Of course not, if everyone did exactly what I
do there would be no point at all for any of this. And if all you can
ever do is take other peoples style elements without creating any of
your own theres not much point for you being around either.
So create my children.. with each new twist of characters we come one
step closer to the type of scene we need. If Ive been an influence on
your work you really dont have to tell me, I can usually see it one
way or another of course doing me a few logos is always a good way to
say thanks. Experience just gives me an edge in that department.
Of course Im still not to happy with Squish, and I do wish held get
off that style and move back to something more of his own - but this is
really neither here nor there as far as this editorial goes.. this was my
attempt at speaking about the things we always speak of, but never really
explain. And if its not too late I might have actually made enough sense
for you to understand..
- Hiro Protagonist /
4:05am, Tuesday June 17, 1887
Hiro logo by Vouck of Looker House
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Contributors Skills Site List. .,,.
Contributors / Issue Three3.
Megga Hertz the Kingpin aka Bugsy. Squish.
Tek. Tinyz. Exar-Kun. Hiro Protagonist.
Biogenesis. Holocaust. Sagramore. Cain.
Skills Sites
Site Name Site Admin Site Num/IP
BBS !abraxas/diabolic. Megga Hertz 818,,,/,,,,
.vos. Felix 213,,,/,,,,
The Lethal Aspect Xypher Matryx 416421/1015
AlderAAn Mindcrime 908224/8780
Free Coke The Night Angel 514,,,/,,,,
Infinite Darkness Midnight Sorrow 954316/4663
Spoof Black Jack 416499/2319
Piranha Captain Hood telnet://piranha.nws.net
Power of the Darkside Boba Fett 864639/1007
IRC G0AT Necromancer ascii / asciirox
FTP ACiD Artpacks Archive RaD Man ftp://artpacks.acid.org
Lit.Org Crowe ftp://lit.org/skills
E-M The Skills Dropbox Megga Hertz mhz@bigdog.clemson.edu
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Introduction by Megga Hertz TKP. .,,.
Time has passed, and Skills has come to release its third issue.
With each issue of Skills, you are recieving the highest quality
ASCII magazine available. A new section in certain future issues
of Skills will be Graf Skills This is where artists that havent
yet established themselves to display their art, for the world to
see. Thanks you for obtaining Skills Ascii Press Release Num. 3.
This issue contains only one review, since there has been but one
pack released since Skills Issue Two. Any packs released will be
reviewed in Skills Issue Four.
And and All contributions art, articles, etc. should be sent to
The Skills Dropbox, mhz@bigdog.clemson.edu.
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Save ascii while we still can. .,,.
Lately, the former 99 friendly ascii artist channel has been
bearing resemblance to a certain infamous non-art, ansi scene
channel. I cant seem to join these days without seeing ppl
being needlessly kicked, banned, or ragged on simply because
theyre outsiders to the current ascii scene. What if we
end up turning off the next Killa Hertz to the ascii scene?
It isnt a secret that I myself let my online temper flair,
have words with many a person. However, when was the last ti
me you saw me abuse my power, and ban somebody that didnt
deserve it? By deserve it,I mean doing something detremental
to the integrity of ascii, not because I disagree with them
In closing, I urge all ascii ops to watch themselves, try
their best to keep ascii a pimpstyle ascii art channel, and
not a ansi, kiddy porn, kickban, non art, frootyass channel.
-mHz, proud ascii operatorisimo.
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Dominating the Ascii scene now: .,,.
The Top 5 Big Ballers of the PC-ASCII Scene. In no particular order
n e c r o m a n c e r
R E M O R S E :
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1 Remorse!Ascii. Remorse is the home to new age ascii gods, such as
Mister Self Destruct msd and Killa Hertz, along
with the people who shaped the PC-ASCII scene into
what it is today, such as Necromancer, Whodini,
Hiro Protagonist, etc. Remorse has released 7 paks
since its resurection, formed out of the ashes of
aCiD!aSCII and tRANK!aSCII, and there has been no
drop off in quality OR quantity of ascii yet. A+.
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some of the best newschool artists in the scene
Mass Murderer, Cain, Discyple, and has produced
two impressive packs so far. Though high volume
releases are not Kwests forte, quality definately
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oOps!aSCII has silently released five high quality
packs. Baltazar proves to be highly talented, in
both oldschool ascii and newschool ascii genres.
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4 Comic Ascii Founded by Spinn and Mess, two newer to the scene
oldschool artists, Comic Ascii has released three
packs of surprising quality.
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5 Basic!Ascii Instability earns Basic!asc a number five position.
Its own members seem to be unsure as to the future
of the group, but nevertheless, Basic releases high
quality. Epilogue : Apparently Basic has died.
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine -- --- ASCII Scene news, rumors, etc. .,,.
.,.Basic!ascii is dead.
.,.Tk and Grey07 have started a new ascii group called Penance. Grey
can be quoted saying its not your run of the mill ascii grewp.
.,.Phreak Klass of Ex-Remorse!Ascii has started his own colly releasing group,
which closely resembles an Amiga group, called Afluence Design.
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.,.Exar-Kun Blade Ascii Coord has dropped Blade to become Exar-KunNOTHING!
Zempf has supposedly taken over the position, but will possibly be
departuring as well, leaving the job to new member Tim Drake.
.,.Biogenesis has joined Kwest.
.,.Volatile has started an Amiga group called Phunk. pnk.
.,.The Remorse ASCII affiliated Tyrone E-Mag has been released, it is coded.
Pick up tyrone1.zip.
.,.Greys 300-Line ASCII for WindRiders colly is possibly the single longest
font ever.
.,.mHz will be releasing shorter Extended Play collies independently, or
under his own label.
.,.Exar-Kun of Blade and Tzeentech are working on a joint oldschool colly.
.,.Holocaust has made Basic!ascii a local group, its place taken by Blindmans
new group, Deity!Ascii.
.,.In music news, Cypress Hill and Westside Connection have ended their beef.
.,.Serial is releasing SerialView, with features that are said to cater to
ascii artists, and those who release long collies.
.,.Fizzles Nodorio ASCII, which died in 1995 has returned.
.,.Seiken Densetsu formerly Odelay merged into Fuels ascii div, to form
Tincture ascci. The Prodigy and Discofunk 1974 then quit, killing the
newly formed group.
.,.The Prodigy of Ex-Seiken is now in Serial, saying He owns Sargon.
.,.CyberCrime International BBS Message Network has returned. See below.
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine -- -- Holocaust speaks about Basic!a. .,,.
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hi, hows it going... well this is hOlocaust comin to ya :
telling you about a tragic downfall to the scene and well may it i
rest in peace.
Ive decided to finally let go of my group bASiC!aSCii which was s
kind of hard to do but when it all came down to it and all thats
happend within those months I must say it was great seeing a group come
together once again and well, Ive decided not to revive any more groups
again.
Well anyways what more to say, not much that is.. just to all the ppl
who were their from the beginning and their to the end. you were all my
inspiration and really great artists.. but now since this is in the past
I must wait and see what happens in the future and special thanx to
Kaleidas Acid Jack.. Epidemic.. Slick Willard .. and well blindman who
took over my position for those remaining two months while I was out of
comission.
May bASiC rest in peace and well you know the old saying
.. mess with the best, die like the rest ..
hOlocaust
mother@yesic.com
DARK aSCii pimp artist
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Tutorial on Throwing up the Dub. .,,.
Many of my collies, as well as some packs have been riddled
with a phrase unclear to many. Throw up the Dub is a form
al request for a person to put their hand into the shape of
the letter W, and raise it high in the air for all to see.
In its most common context, The Dub refers to West Side,
or Wessyde, and displays love and pride in ones home, if
located on the west side of wherever they live.
Enough explanation, its time for YOU to learn to throw up
the dub yourself.
Step One.
Place your right hand palms down, on a flat surface
out in front of you.
Step Two.
Fold your thumb, which should have been on the left
and coincedentally enough the west side of your hand UNDER
the rest of your hand, concealing it.
Step Three.
If you cant see your thumbnail, youre doing well.
At this point, there are two methods you can use. We will
outline both here. It is a little known fact that 2 single
hand dub methods exist, but youll be skilled soon enough.
Method One.
Keeping your index and pinky finger in place, move
your middle finger, placing the top part of it touching the
nail of your ring finger. This method is often a bit faster
and is preferred by W.C., and Mack 10 of the Westside Conne
ction, a West Coast rap group which brought The Dub to main
stream America.
Method Two.
Keeping your index and pinky finger in place, move
your pay attention now RING finger so the bottom of it is
overlapping your middle finger. This method often requires
more practice as well as dexterity of the hands, but I feel
it forms a much cleaner Dub, the extra practice pays off.
This advanced method of throwing up The Dub is often prefer
ed by Tupac Shakur, as shown on the cover of his multi-plat
inum album All Eyez On Me, Megga Hertz the Kingpin, and
any other people that wear large gold rings on their ring,
and pinky fingers.
Step Four.
At this point, a perfect Dub should be formed, and
youre ready to throw it high into the air. In one motion,
raise your handle off the flat surface, and twist your arm
so that your nails are facing AWAY from you. Be careful not
too undo your Dub at this point, especially if youre using
The 2Pac/mHz method. If youve been succesful, your dub
should be high in the air, and you can wave it all around
like you just dont care.
Step Five.
Go over steps one through four many times, and in
time, you will be able to throw up either kind of The Dub,
without using the flat surface. For a final test, try to
form The Dub on your hands WHILE youre raising your arm in
the air. That is the true way to throw up and instantaneous
Dub right after you hear Hey G, THROW UP THE DUB!.
I hope this clearly explains the art of The Dub for all
of those who have asked me. WESSYDE!
-mHz W
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Review of Paks since last Issue. .,,.
.. Skills, Kwest Review, GO-KWEST.ZIP.
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bio-kos asc 6 A bit better, kinda weird.
bio-kw asc 7 The dotted background helps this one alot.
bmkkbm01 asc 7 I dont know what this hes trying to do, but its ok.
bzr-blen asc 7 This logos non-standardness makes it good.
bzr-kws1 asc 7 Formatting problems, but nice and graf life.
bzr-kws2 asc 8 Just plain badass, and perfect.
bzr-kws3 asc 8 Badass ascii, badass meaning.
bzr-kws4 asc 8 Yet again. Baltazar is just all-around good.
cn-aftrm asc 8 A good representation of Cains new graf style.
cn-ill-b asc 7 Good Good. Nice shaping.
cn-m4sdt asc 7 Nice and curvaceous.
cn-sofar asc 7 Ok, Ive had enough.. ..
h4-ill asc 6 Weird musical chars..
ma-imge asc 7 I love massms shading, looks cut off though
par-flph asc 6 Same old Pariah, bad subject choice.
pr-dark0 asc 8 BAD ASS high ascii.
pr-obelx asc 7 Is this afs shit? Odd character set.
us-k!ho! asc 7 Cain shape + Massm shade good shit. Except the Bg.
us-life asc 8 Really good, pic coulda used more detail, still good.
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Recently Release/Coming Collies. .,,.
Recent/Coming Collies
Colly Name File Name Artist Availability Group
Bulletproof Lyrics ma-proof.txt MassMurd Coming. Kwest
Vitamin C o7-vc .txt Grey Coming. Penance
Kontinental td!-kv .txt Tim Drake Coming. Triloxy
Thug Immortal mas-thug.txt bugsymHz Coming. mAS.
Millenium r-mlnnm .zip Hiro P. Now. Remorse
a Activate My Hate!! r-mhzamh.txt mHz Now. Remorse
Exodus r-exodus.txt nMANCEr Coming. Remorse
The Story r-story .txt Nitrogen Coming. Remorse
xaA Year in the Life wr-year .txt Whirr Now. Quad-P
Satanic Verses 2 r-sv2 .txt Miasma/Bm Coming. Rmrs/Bsc
a - Denotes colly now available, previously listed as coming soon.
x - Denotes a change in colly information since last publishing.
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Interview with ArroganceRemorse .,,.
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mHz Im here with Arrogance, better known as aCk, one of the ascii scenes
most influential newschool artists.
mHz Tell us ack, tell the world, when did you start drawing?
aCk- Hmmmm.... lemme see if I can remember.
mHz Oh youll remember alright, you can fuckin try me.. .
aCk- Heh :
aCk- It was about 92-93 when I first saw an ansi pack and decided that it
would be cool if I could do that.
aCk- It was an acid pack I believe.
aCk- So I dled a copy of thedraw and got to work.
mHz ACiD, always setting the standard. So before your budding ascii
talent arose from beneath your fingers, youre telling us you tried
ansi, no?
aCk- I drew ansi for like 3 years. Ive been in more ansi groups than
ascii.
mHz Very interesting, no doubt. As far as the ascii scene, youve always
been in the larger, better groups, such as kTS, Trank!ascii, and now
Remorse. What was it like being in kTS!aSCII during its early days,
while it was molding the PC-ASCII scene into what it is today?
aCk- It was really fucking cool. Heh. :
mHz Great answer, asshole.
aCk- Well... We had some of the gods: K-spiff, Cyberkid, Sparr, TINYZ,
Shock G, and others. Even Eerie.
mHz I seem to remember a Trank colly of yours called Tribute 1.o, which
paid tribute to artists that you feel influenced the WHOLE ascii
scene. Who do you feel got you where you are today personally?
aCk- Well... to start off w/Phaser X who got me into the scene w/his shitty
little group KWiD back in 93. And then Piromaniak and Night Blade for
making me want to draw ASCiis, Tinyz for letting me in KTS, and
Necromancer for being a phat enough bastard to keep Remorse on its
feet.
mHz No doubt. Youre an op in ascii What do you think about the
ansi-ish direction the channel seems to be taking lately?
aCk- Well... There seems to be a lot of psyburt0st3ster0ne flying through
the air. People sometimes get so obsessed w/who is better than who at
what, and why this person sucks more than this person. Its retarded.
Than theres also some of the incredibly immature things that go on.
We dont have that as much as ansi thank god.
mHz Yeah, I dont think ascii will EVER be that fucked up.
aCk- But we do have some constant nagging, and arlequin still comes on
sometimes, and thats annoying. :
mHz What type of releases do you have slated for the future? More
newschool logos, collies, or some of that aCkoldschool?
aCk- Well... Ill still be producing shitloads of my phat phunky newschool
under the darky1/remorse lable, but I do have plans for an oldschool
colly called Last Cigarette due t ocome out July Some time.
mHz I know Ill get a copy.
aCk- w3rdemup. Ill let yah preview it before anyone else, bro.
mHz What direction do you feel the ascii scene is taking, and if you could
change one thing about it, what would that be?
aCk- Well... I fear weve already hit its heyday. There isnt really any
other direction to go. I think the ASCII scene will still be around for
a while, but I think that right now is as large and widespread as its
going to get.
mHz Yeah, increased net usage has driven it up. Just a few more questions,
and youll be free to go.
mHz What do you think of that mobsta Megga Hertz the Kingpin?
aCk- I think that hes one mean bastard, be he knows whats up. Hes not
one to be fucked with. Hell bust yer shit up like tha atom bomb.
mHz Im gonna have to agree with you on that one. Thanks for the
interview, if you have any last words, type them below, then sign your
name to show that I will not be held responsible for any manipulation
of your answers that may occur.
aCk- Ok... props to my niggas. Fuck yous to blatant rippers, Bill Gates,
Piker, Arlequin, racists, and lying bitches. Keep cool in 97. --
aCk/darky1 rMRS/aCid/dRONE 97
mHz Alright, peace. grab your threes, throw up the dub, and leave the
channel with dignity. Later.
aCk- cyaz
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Results of Skills 2s Tutorial. .,,.
A few people decided to show me what they made with the help of my
tutorial, which was contained in Skills Ascii Press Issue Number 2
Tek
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mHzs words : This guy is an IDIOT. Obviously he wasnt paying attention.
Speed Freak
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look mHz, i tried your tutorial... whatcha think, dont you just LOVE my
style?
mHzs words : Another IDIOT. I said put your own spin on it!!
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- ASCII Skills, With Megga Hertz. .,,.
I got tired of the same old slashes and dashes, so I incorporated
some never used low-ascii characters into an ascii, and came I up
with this:
// / mHzkills,
Try it. As far as curves, instead of the same old / or the spicy
/ , try using /, or swap out the / for or .
use to stretch the letters, and to break open the tops
of letters. I find that when the actual font has so much going on,
as shown above, its best to use a simpler background. Megga Hertz
characters? -- Very useful and elite.
F i s t f u l o f S t e e l
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As shown here, double slashes and // are a good way to shade
ascii, and give your font depth. Never, repeat never, use triple
slashes, unless you want your font to look horrible for some
reason. Use or to connect curves. Also, follow my new trend,
as shown above and extend the background, in this case comprised
of signs INSIDE the letters it makes the font flow better.
- Megga Hertz TKP
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - Interview with Pk of Afluence Design .,,.
People see Serial as a respected group in both the PC and Amiga scene,
something that Remorse dosent have in the amiga scene
p h r e a k / / / / k l a s s
mHz Im here with Phreak Klass, ex-Remorse oldschool ascii artist Pk, Ive
heard youve recently started an amiga type colly releasing group clled
AfluenceDesign, tell us about the group, its plans, etc.
pk well the group is an amiga group limited to 7 people, oldschool only.
pk i have also joined a PC group, serial
mHz You left remorse fairly abruptly after joining, and if I remember
correctly, you had some fairly outspoken reasons for doing so
what were some of those?
pk well i dont want to state them as i feel it is irelivent and may
influence other oppinions of remorse all i can say is that i left on my
own accord.
mHz What ascii group do you feel is on top now, both pc and amiga..
pk well i think that serial is the best pc group ..
pk and amiga well that a tuff one, i think Tropic Ascii has great potential
at being a raising star in the ascii scene
pk however i think Jedi takes the cake
pk Jedi have a great team, who are dedicated at what they do. However, I
think ED, -T and Style are not far behind at all
mHz Serial has had some controversy surrounding it, including beefs with
more then a few rMRS artists -- what do you say to people who have a
problem with Serial?
pk I think that they should give serial a go, i mean it has a great line of
artists, including sQuish who is in my group Afluence, i must admit i am
adicted to his style. I think Serial is the choice for ami dudes
migrating to the PC scene
pk people see Serial as a respected group in both the PC and Amiga scene,
something that Remorse dosent have in the amiga scene
mHz Who else is in AD besides you and sQuish? Is it invite only?
pk its basically invite only we choose who we want and offer, altho if you
think your up to the standard feel free to apply, in the group there is
myself, sQuish, war-child and mSO
mHz That seems like a fairly good team for now Let me go back to the
remorse subject Do you have feelings of apathy towards any remorse
staff/artists, or did you leave on somewhat friendly terms?
pk well i dont think i left on the best of terms with anyone in the group,
i dont really think that i should comment on the remorse subject as i
say, all i would like to say is peace, and if anyone there thinks they
won there wrong, because i am simply stating i dont care what they
think, i am open to peace. if that makes sence 8-
mHz Nope.
mHz Alright, just a few more questions. What do you think of that crazy
mutherfucker Megga Hertz the Kingpin?
pk hahha
mHz Ill take that as somewhat positive.
pk well i think he is a prick,,! nah just kidding .. he is a cool ducky
pk i respect mega hurtz
mHz Which artists if any influenced your style/ascii career?
pk well, none really, except for my friends who have given ideas, i
remember back in the old scene before i even had an inet account Acid
Kid, and Psyche both amiga dudes from my city teaching me how to
sprooce up my packs and crap.. also Dartagnan lately helped me spred out
my packs, peace to all of you
pk hah im still heere 8-
mHz Alright, thanks for the interview, and good luck with Afluence Design.
If youd like to add anything else, say it below, and then sign your
name to show that you hold neither Megga Hertz or any of the Skills
staff responsible for unauthorized answer manipulation.
pk haha
pk -- Kearhp Ssalk
pk 8-
pk phreak klass
pk peace to the ascii nation
mHz later.
mHz youre free to go.
pk ok
.,,. EPILOGUE .,,.
Less then two minutes later, Phreak Klass was banned from ascii.
mHz whyd messiah ban pk?
HAISSEm mHz because he paraded around for 2hours one day saying shit like
fuck you remorse, suck my fucking cock and shit like that
skatter who is pk
And thats that.
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Hiro Protagonist Speaks on Styles .,,.
hiro protagonist of remorse 1981
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.. speaking his mind in an editoral on the issues of style and orginality ..
I wont bother to introduce myself. If youre reading this you should
already know who I am. If you dont, then you dont know the oldschool
Ibm-pc ascii scene and none of this will really matter much to you. So
quit reading this and go back to idling in ansi Nam or something.
As many of you should recall, several months ago I released a little
text outlining what I felt was a style-rip perpetrated by Feral. Feral
probably caught a good amount of flack after I released that text, as
I didnt see him around ascii as much anymore, but I didnt encourage
anyone to make life rough for the kid. I did and still do agree with what
Whodini expressed in his little response to Ferals little response. If
you missed that text by Whod, it basicly said you got caught, dont do
it again. I believe that by taking some kind of high road in these
matters I do what is best for for myself and the scene as a whole.
We dont need a million text files flooding our scene the way they did
the Amiga ascii scene a year ago. I read a good chunk of them when all
that was going on and I dont think any of it helped their scene. I agree
it is important to differentiate from the artistic innovators and the
style copiers, but at what cost to the scene and who is to decide what
constitutes one or the other?
By now a certain portion of our readers have decided I take the scene
far too seriously theyre wrong and I encourage them to stop reading
this and go back to idling in oldwarez or something. I do take ascii
very seriously however. Were I not to, I would be devaluating the time
and effort I put into it. Ascii is an artform, as valid as any other Ive
ever worked with. I see ascii as a greater challenge than many other
forms of computer art however, as the scene is growing rapidly and it is
becoming harder and harder to find a new technique or style that has not
been done before in order to seperate yourself from the pack. I have an
advantage over many in this area since Ive been working with ascii for
a long time since 1989 and in my time have viewed more styles than most
people even realize are out there -40c temperatures in february leave me
with alot of free time to sit at the machine.
So when I see an artist try on a new style that contains elements of
other artists I must always ask myself on which side of the line does
this fall? Is it biting someone elses style or is it simply the result
of one artist influencing another? Every ascii we ever see effects how
we look at the artform and produce our own styles. And its not just the
actual construction of the art either.
In fact, the people whove been the greatest influence on my own ascii
have been artists with an attitude all of their own. Many of my favorites
are considered by many to be in the true foreground of todays scene, and
I believe this has as much to do with their attitude towards their art as
the artwork itself. For my influences are the ones who have always been
original to themselves.
So, by my way of seeing things, what does it take to be more than just
another ascii artist and seperate yourself from the pack? Style and
originality - perhaps the two most often discussed but least well defined
aspects of the scene.
Its not up for me to define these elements, and I believe the only one
who can ever properly define them for you is yourself. You have to decide
where that line is, and how to best ride it. About all I can do is speak
with the knowledge grained from my own 8 years of working with ascii. And
again, you have to decide which of my words are of value to you.
So by now a few of you are wondering what the hell inspired me to go
off at 3am and write this editorial, and guess what kids, Im going to
tell you big surprise, huh?. The other day someone sent me the
following logo by Squish from the most recent Vintage:
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Certainly a well constructed peice of ascii, and it got a nice placing
in Vintage. The ascii was sent to me from one of my callers you know
who you are as some people had been expressing they felt it looked a
hell of a lot like hiro entered the compo. I did not enter it, btw.
So I load the piece up into one page in TheDraw and bring up my style
records yes kids, I have records of every style Ive ever done, going
all the way back to 1989 - this again relates to taking the artform in a
serious way and placing value on it one by one in the other page. I
collect little elements from one style after another until I have a nice
big old mess of things strewn across a couple pages of workspace and
begin to see the combination of elements into the whole.
So now a good number of you are all saying Hiro thinks he was ripped
again.. yadda yadda and again youre wrong, kind of. I think the font
carries with it some style twists I developed and made popular, and the
E almost has my name written on it, but at the same time I keep drawing
myself back to what I think is good for the scene. And I think its good
that someone like myself who works hard at ascii can influence other
artists and in turn inspire them to create something new, even if there
isnt anything particularly new in that font up there.
Influences are key to finding you own style of ascii. Now notice, Im
not saying rip to become good because that type of attitude it utterly
moronic and belongs on AOL. What I am saying is when I look at that logo
I can see something I have done has spoken to Squish on a non-verbal
level of communication, and influenced him to try to take the art to a
new place its never been before.
Im certainly not the only person who has influenced that logo either,
which is why I just shrug it off as the way things work. There are very
few artists today who are lucky enough to have so many people get in
tune with that other level of communication they broadcast in their
ascii. When I see my art making that kind of impact I know Im doing
something right - and I hope the scene is all that much better for it.
Does this mean I want to see every style element I ever use wind up
in everyone elses book? Of course not, if everyone did exactly what I
do there would be no point at all for any of this. And if all you can
ever do is take other peoples style elements without creating any of
your own theres not much point for you being around either.
So create my children.. with each new twist of characters we come one
step closer to the type of scene we need. If Ive been an influence on
your work you really dont have to tell me, I can usually see it one
way or another of course doing me a few logos is always a good way to
say thanks. Experience just gives me an edge in that department.
Of course Im still not to happy with Squish, and I do wish held get
off that style and move back to something more of his own - but this is
really neither here nor there as far as this editorial goes.. this was my
attempt at speaking about the things we always speak of, but never really
explain. And if its not too late I might have actually made enough sense
for you to understand..
- Hiro Protagonist /
4:05am, Tuesday June 17, 1887
Hiro logo by Vouck of Looker House
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Skills Ascii Press -- Public Release Issue Number Three.
.,,. Section of Magazine - -- Contributors Skills Site List. .,,.
Contributors / Issue Three3.
Megga Hertz the Kingpin aka Bugsy. Squish.
Tek. Tinyz. Exar-Kun. Hiro Protagonist.
Biogenesis. Holocaust. Sagramore. Cain.
Skills Sites
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BBS !abraxas/diabolic. Megga Hertz 818,,,/,,,,
.vos. Felix 213,,,/,,,,
The Lethal Aspect Xypher Matryx 416421/1015
AlderAAn Mindcrime 908224/8780
Free Coke The Night Angel 514,,,/,,,,
Infinite Darkness Midnight Sorrow 954316/4663
Spoof Black Jack 416499/2319
Piranha Captain Hood telnet://piranha.nws.net
Power of the Darkside Boba Fett 864639/1007
IRC G0AT Necromancer ascii / asciirox
FTP ACiD Artpacks Archive RaD Man ftp://artpacks.acid.org
Lit.Org Crowe ftp://lit.org/skills
E-M The Skills Dropbox Megga Hertz mhz@bigdog.clemson.edu
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