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INFOZINE
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000ILINE0080Art Releas
e Information
00IILINE0195Members L
ist Websites
0IIILINE0332How to joi
n Blocktronics
00IVLINE0351ANSi Art
Resources
000VLINE0389
ANSi Facebook Groups
00VILINE0412Web Tel
net BBS List PRESS START
0VIILINE0468Wisdom wit
h Joshua Hillyard
VIIILINE056316 ColorsReview
00IXLINE057816 ColorsTop 5
Pics
000XLINE060016 ColorsTop 5 Fonts
00XILINE0623Blocktronics Artist Statisti
cs
000ILINE0080Art Releas
e Information
The following by Fever
Hello, welcome to Blocktronic
s third art release of 2013 Space
Invaders. We didnt know how we would succ
essfully follow the
ridiculously good Blocktronics:16
Colors artpack released June 28th
but it has been done. This release exceeds that
on in quantity, quality, originalit
y so surely our 6th art release in October will be
total shit. A
lot of old faces have returned to amaze us this month
with a fresh
take on the medium. 2m MattMatthew
, for example, has
returned and created s
ome amazing pieces. He represented Blocktronics
in the EVOKE2013
textmode competition, placed 2nd after 15 years off
You might remember
2m as TS of TEKLORDZ.
Pandur pn joined us for this rel
ease and he also competed in EVOKE2013.
Pandur placed 6th with his b
uggy owl submission. He is an extremely
creative dude formerly of
Black Maiden. Search sixteencolors.net
for
Pandur to see more of his older work
sk!n has allowed us to re
lease some of his amazing amiga asciis. He
chose 30 asciis and they can be
found in the art-of-sk!n zip file. They
are already screen capped in jp
g format so you dont have to change
your textmode viewer to amiga to see them proper
ly. Thanks again sk!n.
We have several guest releases this pac
k, tons of joint artwork
productions, and a few other first time
Blocktronics releasers.
RaD Man has 6 pieces in this rele
ase and if nothing else in this entire
release amazes you, that should. However, I know that there
s going to
be a lot of things in SPACE INVADERS t
hat is going to blow your fucking
mind. Like cow.ans.
I want to cover some other ac
tivities that weve been involved in over
the past couple of months.
EVOKE2013 - One of the be
st showings for textmode at EVOKE in years,
if not ever. Several BLOCKTRONICS a
rtists stepped up and entered this
annual competition in Germany. BLOCKTRONICS
artist FILTH THE DESTROYER
took the grand prize.
MattMatthew
was a very close second. Misfits
Cortez the Killer pi
c was fourth. A joint by Spear, E
nzo, Knoc,
and Avenging Angel, 5th. Pandur
6th with Buggy Owl. AVGs
EVOKE 2013 ansi finished
8th, losing to a simple bee ascii
and showin
g me there is still some laughable bias there, the
reason I n
ever enter. DiamonDie finished 9th, ne
arly
besting
AVG. Misfits Under the Black Flag
ansi rounded
out the top 10, another tragedy at the c
ompo. Cleaner!
placed 12th
. It was really nice to see this great show
come togethe
r and the great work by the hosts. Thanks.
BLOCKTRONICS IN CHINA
- On August 7 there was a live gallery for
printed ansis in Beiji
ng, China called ACE2013. Visit
ansiart.org to see more
information and a gallery related
to the E
astern art scene. Blocktronics was invited to
participate as an e
xample of Western ansi art. It was an
honor and a priveledge to have our work printed and
displayed at ACE2013. Thank you to
ISTAR for supporting
Blocktronics. The ansis that were displayed
were
ungenanntleviathan, sm-dali, and TCF - 13 - Wolverine
Battle.
Sixteen Colo
rs: Archiving the Evolution of ANSI and ASCII
BSides Las Vegas
On August 1, 2013, Doug Moore spoke on behalf of
Sixteen Co
lors ANSI scene history, a little part art history
and a little part Sixteen Colors
history. This is the
link to the video presentation. http://b
it.ly/19BuIDU
The Blocktroni
cs world tour continues in Pittsburg, PA this Octobe
r 4th and 5th at
DEMOSPLASH. Visit demosplash.org for details. E
xpected attendees
are Filth, LordScarlet, Misfit
. This is your chance to meet
all of your 2nd favorite Block
tronics artists and get them to
autograph your laptop monitors with a
permanent sharpie.
Thats it for
me this time around friends. It has been an awesome
couple o
f months and a lot of time spent being harrassed by dood
leboys and a lot o
f time spent in this fucking info file. Thanks - fe
vertcf
The follow
ing by ENZO
Aristot
le said the aim of art is to represent not the outward
appearance of things, but th
eir inward significance. This is also valid
for the artist. An artwork allows you to
view the world with the a
rtists eyes, but youre free to interpret and connect it
with your own experience
s and emotions.
Blocktronics started as a group and now
powered by all these amazing
artists became a life style. A creative movement made
by incredible people passionated abou
t sharing their unique view of the world and
feed viewers souls with genuine and new emotions.
As Henri Matise once s
aid, creativity takes courage and I congratulate
all of you that made this artpack possible. Y
oure the bravest people I
know and I feel blessed to be one of you sharing the same
love for ANSi art. The Bl
ocktronics dream is made possible by your sincere love
and dedication.
This group belongs to everyone passionat
ed about art and feel an
irresistible urge to create or just admire
good and fresh artworks. I
hope you enjoy this moment as much as we did creating it.
enzOzO
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot
paint, then by all me
ans paint, and that voice will be silenced.
-Vinc
ent Van Gogh
00IILINE0195Members List W
ebsites
ABR Nickname Real Name
Website
Location
2m Mattmatthew Matthew Yee
Matt Yee on Behance
Hawaii, USA behance.net/m
attmatthew
ab Abdully Wahaa Unknown
Guest Artist
Iran
ad Access Denied Nick Boel
Pharcyde BBS
Wisconsin, USA bbs.pharcyd
e.org
ao AOX Unknown
Guest Artist
Unknown
avg Avenging Angel Ivan Segaric
Apple
Australia www.apple.com
biz Bizarro Mikael Aspli
ng Artist
Sweden
bw Binary Walker Florian Ochmann
Artist
Germany
bym Big Yellow Man Fredrick Olsson
Artist
Sweden
cap Captain Hood Hawk Hubbard
Black lag BBS
Florida, USA blackflag.aci
d.org
cl! Cleaner Frederic Cam
bus Cleaner.untergrund.net
Germany cleaner.untergrun
d.net c
r Cryogenic Karl Grenet
Artist
Australia
cx
Cyonx Pat Swanson A
rtist
Raleigh, NC, USA
del Delicious
Jamie Martin Live Jamie
Arizona, USA livejamie.com
eto ET
O Curtis Wensley Picoe Sof
tware Solutions Vanco
uver, Canada picoe.ca
fil Filth Joshua Hillya
rd Distortion BBS
Pennsylvania, USA http://d1st.o
rg
gj Grymmjack R
ick Christy Artist
Michigan, USA
h7 h7 Antii Kiur
u Haciend BBS
Helsinki, Finland hacien
d.bbs.fi
jp! Jack Phl
ash Jay Phillips Distortion BBS
Tennessee,
USA http://d1st.org
k1 Knocturnal
Unknown Artist
Georgia, USA
ls Lord Scarlet Doug Mo
ore Sixteen Colors
Washington D.C. sixteenc
olors.net
mi M
ongi Patrick Liu twitter.c
om/pottan
Stockholm, Sweden
mt Misfit James Bodie
Bodhi Tree Studio Tattoos+Illustr
West Virginia, USA facebook.com/B
odhi.Tree.Studio
no Noches Unkn
own Artist
Unknown
ns Ansichrist
Unknown Artist
Unknown
pn P
andur Thomas Kombuechen tom.drastic
.net Berlin, Germa
ny tom.drastic.net
rad RaD M
an Christian Wirth ACiD Productio
ns California, US
A facebook.com/ACiD.Productions
rod Ro
damned Rodman Lau Artist
Connecticut, USA
ret
Retribution Hingle McCringleberry Art
ist Kentucky, USA
sk!n art of sk!n Michael Hischer
art of sk!n ascii artist
Berlin, Germany DeZign - The Way We Wa
lk FB
sm Smoke Yahwe Chao
Artist
California, USA
sm Smooth
Lawrence Tony Manuel Artist
California, USA
sp Spear
Mark Pendell Artist
New York, USA
sph Sephiroth Hin Hale
Artist
Sweden
sz Skuz Leslie Given
Fluph BBS
West Virginia, USA fluph.darktec
h.org
tcf Fever
Aaron Frick Aaron Frick Art
Georgia, USA
facebook.com/aaronfrickart
tna The
Night AngelAlexandre Mnard Artist
Canada
txt
Textmode Exorcist Keith Nadolny Artist
New York, USA
ung
Ungenannt Unknown A
rtist
Georgia, USA
zii ZeusII Joel Brjel
Artist
Sweden
zO Enzo Luciano A
yres Artist
Brazil
Members, if you would like any information added
or omitted in future
releases send said information to
Aaron Frick or frick@insidehoops.net
0IIILINE0332How to join
Blocktronics.
You can become a member of Block
tronics by speaking to Luciano Ayres
aka Enzo on Facebook.
We have a secret FB group with a very large
amount of scene and art related activity posted
on a regular basis.
They also discuss other interesting topics such as koala be
ars and twerking. The o
nly two requirements of membership are an interest in
low resolution art and do
nt be a shitty person. Being a shitty artist
is fine avg but not
a shitty person. If you would rather lay low and
draw without bothering to join s
end guest submissions to Aaron Frick
or Luciano Ayres. Email sub
missions are accepted by frick@insidehoops.net
00IVLINE0000ANSi
Art Drawing Resources
Here are links to your ANSi art drawing r
esources.
Pablodraw 3.1 - Pablodraw v.3.1 is an
ANSi/ASCii text and RIPscrip
vector graphic art editor/viewer with multi-user
capabilities. PabloDraw uses the awesome Eto.F
orms
cross-platform framework to provide native UI
for
Windows, OS X, and Linux, Mac.
Features - Draw ANSI and ASCII with your mous
e
- Load save 24-bit colour ANSi files
- New configurable ANSI/ASCII brush
- New colour brush
- New text drawing too
ls: pencil, line, circle
box, ink dropper
- Many Amiga and DOS fonts added
- Bug fixes
Blocktronics.org -
A very in depth website with Blocktronics services
, links, art reques
ts, tutorials, art releases, and
much fucking more.
Sixteen Colors -
Sixteencolors.net is the most comprehensive collec
tion of low resolution textmode
art in the world. Download artpacks f
rom 1990 to current or view them online.
Syncterm - syncterm
.bbsdev.net, a telnet client to visit the bulletin
board systems liste
d below. I recommend visiting through a
web browser if the s
ysop has made that option available.
0
00VLINE0000ANSi Facebook Gro
ups
Here are some Facebook
groups Blocktronics members are currentl
y involved with in
some way. Some of these groups might be private or
secretive so you hav
e to know a member listed above to gain access.
Arrows.PageName.Description.Re
levanceStars
Ansi, Ascii artists worldwide! - Closed grou
p. Invite only. **
ACiD Productions - Public page. Open
ACiD - Secret group. Invite only.
***** Bloc
ktronics - Open to the public group found through
search *****
BLOCKTRONICS - Secret, members onl
y group. Invite only. *****
DeZign - The Way We Walk Ascii / Ans
i Art - Open page. *****
iCE - iCE art group Open Page.
* Sixteen Colors
ANSI Art and ASCII Art Archive - Open page.
00VI
LINE0000Web Telnet BBS List
Most of these board
s can be visited via web browser and also have
Faceb
ook pages you can search for with more information.
Arrows.BBSName
.Sysop.Address
Affiliations
After Hours Greg Young
blood Telnet://afterhours-bbs.com
BLOCKTRONICS FELLOWSHI
P
Distortion Jack Phlash Telnet
://d1st.org Web Connect: htt
p://d1st.org BLOCKTRONICS ARTIS
T BOARD.Demonic WHQ.Zeronet WHQ
Fluph Skuz Telnet://fluph.darktech.or
g
Web Connect: fluph.bbsnexus.com
BLOCKTRONICS MEMBER
BOARD
LOCAL TO MISFIT
Haciend El Bananas BBS
H7 Telnet://Haciend.bbs.fi
Web Connect: http://haciend.bbs.f
i BLO
CKTRONICS WORLD HEADQUARTERS.27iNCH.Divine Styler
s.Mimic.
Damones.Hirmu.Impure Ascii.Innate Ascii.Aerosol A
scii.Sense Imagery.W
amma.Ducksquad Finland HQ.Accession.Alpha Design.
Dekadence.Spaceballs.
Primitive WHQ.
Hazard/2 Smoke
Telnet://Hazard2.org
BLOCKTRONICS ARTIST BOARD
Ink2
Smooth
BLOCKTRONICS ARTIST BOARD
Pharcyde
Access Denied Telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org
Web Connect: http://pharcyde.or
g BLOCKTRONICS ARTIST BOA
RD
Trans-Canada BBS Dimitri Papadopoulo
s BLOCKTRONICS FELLOW
SHIP
Under the Black Flag Captain Hood
Telnet://blackflag.acid.org
Web Connect: blackflag.bbsnexus.com/connect
BLOCKTRONICS MEMBER BOARD
.ACiD Florida Outpost.ACiDiC WHQ.
Agoranet US Eastern Hub.DeZign USHQ.
Blocktronics and Sixteen
Colors Support.
X-TReMe BBS The Doctor Tel
net://xtremebbs.flnet.org
BLOCKTRONICS FELLOWSHIP
0VIILINE0000Blocktronics Wisdom w
ith Joshua Hillyard
Here are some status updates from Filth.
i know that most people will agree that rock
y IV is the best in the
franchise. theres a lot to like: 80s us/russia pr
opaganda, rocky se
eking vengeance, and then rocky bridging the gap between
two heated
nations by beating ivan drago and winning the heart
s of the fine folk
s in russia. oh yeah, and james brown!
but it seems to be TOO awesome and distracts
us of one strange part
of the story. i never really thought about
it until now, but theres
the whole mini story of rocky buying his pal paulie
a robot. but real
ly its more of a cyborg thats capable of understanding
spoken
commands, and mimicking human emotions. were so ca
ught up in all the
boxing action that we sort of dont bother t
hinking about the fact
that theres an out-of-place sci-fi situati
on in a movie about
boxing. THE ROBOT CAN MIMIC PEOPLE!!
ive hit the three
year mark of no booze. however, ive found that i
do go on extreme mp
3 and mobile app benders. ill spend hours on a
downloading binge, and wake up
the next day with no recollection of
downloading things like the fir
st two TLC albums. ahh well.
i aint too proud to beg.
my friends seven year old daug
hter explained to me today the reason
behind why sometimes when you g
o into a dark room and turn on a
light, the bulb quickly goes ou
t: because there are ghosts in the
room and they don
t like the lights on. so they break the bulb to
keep it dark.
my first thought was oh, well now, thats
just the dearest thing...
but on my way home i kept thinking about al
l those movies about
ghosts that talk to children. by the time i
got home i had myself so
worked up over this one of my greatest fea
rs in life are ghost
children i almost knocked over the coffee
maker fumbling for the
kitchen light thinking PLEASE DONT GO OUT
!! PLEASE DONT FLICKER
OFF WHEN I TURN YOU
ON!! but dont worry, im okay.
from time to time i still
have severe night terrors jolting me awake
and screaming from horrendous nightmares about
how much Boondock
Saints 2 sucks.
I met Jerome Bettis tonight at
work. He shook my hand and said Woah!
I like that hair-do! Maybe I sh
ould try that out sometime! and sort
of chuckled. It was everything
I imagined it would be.
i did something for the first t
ime ever today: bought my own
umbrella. seems like everywhere
ive lived there was always an
umbrella stashed in some closet
. so i went all out and bought a
super classy 14.99 umbrella. w
hen ya go, ya go big. something
else i did for the first time
ever today: jammed a 14.99
umbrella into a garbage can. se
ems 14.99 umbrellas and kites are
made out of the same material.
they say you cant see teardrops
in the rain. but you know what
you can see? some jerkwad fighting
a 14.99 umbrella on the rainy
streets and losing. being a grownup
is hard sometimes.
you know who probably hates mon
days more than anyone else ever?
the woman in the movie Office S
pace who had the popular line
Looks like someone has a case
of the mun-days! she most likely
heard that quote at every singl
e place she ever went to in
public, every single
day.
waiting in a slow
checkout line can be a slight annoyance.
luckily, i have a little piece of humanity that ena
bles me
to NOT let it destroy my life. i cant s
ay the same for the guy in
front of me who is doing
that annoyed customer interpretive dance
that goe
s a little something like this:
...LOOK AT THE TIME ON PHONE
...SIGH...LOOK AT THE TIME ON PHONE AGAIN
...SIGH LOUDER...LOUDLY WHISPER MUMBLE BROKEN SENTE
NCES LIKE IS HE EVEN, OH, UGH. C
MON, OH, OH CFOR THE LOVE OF GOUGH! CANT
SOMEONE ELS-OH, UH, UGH. ...SIGH LOUDER AGAIN.
..GIVE UP ON PHONE CLOCK...LOOK AR
OUND FOR ANOTHER CLOCK...SHAKE HEAD IN UTTER
SICKENED DISBELIEF AFTER SPOTTING A
NOTHER CLOCK AND REALIZING
THIS IS OBVIOUSLY NOT SOME NIGHTMARE, THIS IS REAL LIFE..
i also have a good feeling hes one of those p
eople that will look
over his shoulder to make
brief eye contact with me then stare
at the floor in my direction and mumble something e
lse about the performan
ce of the poor kid at the register and hoping im on boa
rd with him and his cru
sade to endure this horrible joan of arc
situation hes making it out to be.
im assuming he and th
e bag of muddy buddy chex mix he has clutched
in his shaking hands have some serious business t
o attend to.
VIIILINE000016 ColorsReview by D
D
Wow, this art pack was really huge. Must have taken
you ages. Some parts feel a bit
too solid while others are bordering on messy and
there are
a few places that I feel are missing antialiasing, but
its
still very good. The nose of the .bin guy looks a slight
ly too sharp to me.
Obviously, you dont know anything about art.
00
IXLINE000016 ColorsTop 5 Pics
Base
d on Blocktronics members and artists voting.
Cong
ratulations to these guys for their fan favorites in our
very
own B7 popularity contest!
Rank.Artist.V
otesReceived.Artwork
5.Rodamned 05 Votes rod-theGrid
4.Misfit
07 Votes mt-bonsai-heart
3.Avenging A
ngel 09 Votes avg-16c
3.Fever 09 Votes TCF - 13 -
Wolverine Battle
3.Ungenannt 09 Votes ungenanntit
sover 2.
Fever 13 Votes TCF - 16 - Colors
1.
Ungenannt 18 Votes ungenanntleviath
on
000XLINE060016 Col
orsTop 5 Fonts Based on
Blocktronics members and artists voting.
Congratulations to these guys for the
ir fan favorites in our very
own B7 popularity contest!
Rank.Artist.VotesReceived.Artwork
4.Fever 03 Votes TCF - 06 -
Vii3
4.Fever 03 Votes TCF - 08 -
Pharcyde
4.Smoke 03 Votes sm-crisis
3.Knocturnal 0
4 Votes k1-bflag 2
.Fever 06 Votes TCF - 02 - b7
2.Spear+AVG 06 Votes we-spearcameback
1.Avenging Angel 09 Votes avg-
tna2013 1.Knocturnal
09 Votes k1-alove
00XILINE0623Blocktronics Artist
Statistics
Im a little bit of a stats nerd. Whatever you wa
nna call it
but I think statistics can be fun and even someti
mes motivating.
Here are some Blocktronics artist stats
. Coolness
Artist.ArtworksReleased.VotesRecieved
2
M 011 00 VOTES Top 10 by releas
es Blocktronics Contest
70 008 00 VOT
ES
AD 001 00 VOTES 1
AVG 058 Rank.Entrants..Points.
AES 0
04 00 VOTES 2 ZO 03
9 1 NA 0
0 AO 002
00 VOTES 3 K1 038
2 NA 0 0
AVG
058 28 VOTES 4 TCF
028 3 NA 0
0
BIZ 008 04 VOTES
5 BW 026 4 NA
0 0
BW 026
00 VOTES 6 ZV 022 5
NA 0 0
BYM 0
06 00 VOTES 7 FIL 014
6 NA 0 0
CL!
005 00 VOTES 8 H7
013 7 NA 0
0
CRY 003 00 VOTES 9
TXT 012 8 NA 0
0
CX 002 00 VOTES 9
RET 012 9 NA 0
0 D
EL 006 00 VOTES 0 2M
011 10 NA 0
0
FIL 014 00 VOTES
11 NA 0 0
H7 013
01 VOTES 12 NA
0 0
JP! 005 00 VOTES
13 NA 0 0
K1 038
24 VOTES 14 NA 0
0
LS 001 00 VOTES
15 NA
0 0
MI 008 00 VOTES
16 NA
0 0
MOS 003 00 VOTES
17 NA 0 0
MT 006
08 VOTES 18 NA 0
0
N4 003 00 VOTES 19 NA
0 0
NO 009 02 VOTES
20 NA 0 0
NS
010 01 VOTES
PN 001 00 VOTES 1ST
10 Points RA
D 006 00 VOTES 2ND 8 Points
RET 012 03
VOTES 3RD 6 Points
ROD 001 05 VOTES
4TH 4 Points
SM 006 00 VOTES 5th
3 Points
SMK 003 06 VOTES Ente
r 2 Points
SP 006 06 VOTES
SPH 001 00 VOTES
TCF 028 41 VOTES
TNA 004 02 VOTES
TXT 012 04 VOTES
UNG 008 32 VOTES
ZII 001 00 VOTES
ZO 038 02 VOTES
ZV 022 00 VOTES
B7 ARTIS
TS: If you go through the 5 B7 packs to date and Ive ma
de a mistake message me, Aaron Fr
ick, and I will correct. Thanks!
fv
S P A C E I N V A D E R S
artpack.05.august.28.2013
BTW, the 100th submission for this release was submitted by
none other
than BYM. Thank you all for viewing our work. - Aaron Frick