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1m 2 O l 4: A S C E N E O D Y S S E Y
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133moutro by filth
0m In the fall of 2014 I was hanging out with an old-school ANSi pal and
sixteencolors.net captain, Doug Moore.
130mAKA: Lord Scarlet
0mWe were having
lunch and I noticed he had my 16 Colors ANSi as the wallpaper on his
phone...
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133m ..
0m Theres a lot happening in that paragraph so let me break down a few key
componets before we move on.
130m When I say break down a few I pretty much
mean talk a lot about.
0m
133m Long story short:
0mI started doodling ANSi when I was about 14. I joined
a few local ANSi groups
130mThey released 25 liners in a message group
0m
130mlinked with BBSS
0mwhen I was around 15. At 16, I joined my first actual
ANSi group: CiA.
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133m Then, memory permitting, it went like this:
33m 1996-------------------------------------------------1999
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33mLEGiON - CiA again - vii
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133mGroups during the Gutter days
0m In that span of time I got to know great artists, be a part of great
groups, was involved with this literary gold trash mag, and learned
the craft well enough to run with the big dogs.
130mWell, enough to be
AROUND the big dogs.
0m But most importantly, I became friends with people
I would have never known if it werent that one thing that brought us
together:
133mANSi art
0m.
It was a cool thing to have going on when you were a teenager. It was
sort of like a parallel life if you wanna get deep about it. But it was
also a weird situation Im sure a lot people from the textmode scene can
understand. Pretty much every single thing I ever did in those days went
unseen by my friends and family. Outside of a few friends who knew what
a modem was, no one knew about your old pal, filth the destroyer.
This was the mid-late 90s. If you brought up the internet to people then,
most of them would say
133mOh, you mean AOL?
0m ANSi is already complicated
enough to explain to people
130meven though its a simple format
0m, so trying
to get into BBSS and all of that madness was a futile deal when you just
wanna tell them youre into some dope underground shit. And I couldnt
exactly take my entire PC to school to show people ANSi art. So it remained
that invisible hobby we all enjoyed in those years.
I enjoyed being a part of that so much that I wondered what other
teenagers did when they werent hanging out with other teenagers. The
idea of coming home and not firing up ACiDDraw or sitting on IRC for
hours seemed like an abstract concept to me.
When you subtract all the obnoxious teenage driven drama that went on
during those IRC days, we still had a reason to be online: Art.
And thats how those friendships were forged. Thats how I made those
great parallel friendships.
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133mAnd out of all of that:
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133m I never met a single one of them face to face.
0m Not only did I NOT meet them, I didnt even know what their 90s face
even looked like. And that didnt matter one bit. Art, it was the only
thing that mattered. And in that decade, theres a lot of art to show
for it. So for most people like me, the only people who would see it
were the peole who were in some way involved with it.
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133mAnd out of all of that:
133m The rest of the world had absolutely no idea. At all.
0m Thats how it went. And when my days in the scene came to an end I felt
that I had done a lot with my time. Im sure others feel the same way in
a lesser/greater capacity. We oWNED that corner of the underground art
world. So in the summer of 99, I shipped off to college thinking I
finished that chapter in my life. And I probably felt the whole scene had
run its course as well.
133m I couldnt have been more incorrect in that assesment.
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1mITS FULL OF STARS
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133m Lets get back to lunch with Doug in 2014.
0m When I said that there was a lot happening in that first paragraph,
130mand
0m
130m would later explain in many paragraphs somehow
0m, I had been click-
clacking the keys in PabloDraw for about a year.
Then came the day when news broke about there being a demoparty right here
in my city Pittsburgh, PA and plans started getting set. It would
be my first demoparty ever. Doug was the first to arrive. First to arrive,
and the first person from the ANSi scene I met. EVER.
It. Was. Surreal. Seriously. Id known Doug from back in the day, but just
like everyone else, I never met him.
After that, a series of firsts would happnen over and over. Like my ANSi
on his phone. Im pretty sure back in the 90s we would laugh at the
thought of being able to pull an ANSi
1many
0m ANSi out of your pocket.
Over the course of that weekend Id meet my old 717 pal Misfit and special
surpise guest, RaD Man. This was fucking unbelievable. Having conversations
IN PERSON with these people that I knew so long ago face to face.
133m Truly, UNCANNY.
0m From there, we would meet up every year for Demosplash. I met one of my
bffs from back in the day: The Creep Fever. Its hard to explain to anyone
not familiar with what we do. One day this mother fucker is standing on
my porch and knocking on my door. Im meeting these people for the first
time, but Ive known them longer than Ive known most people Ive known
in my life. It would go on. I met old homie Smoke. Old homie Textmode
Exorcist aka: 50 other names. Old CiA cohort Jazz. And new homie and
local 412 RPRZNTR xer0.
And this isnt just a get together and talk about the old days. Well,
we did do that - 14 year absence from the scene, ya gotta catch up. But
we yuck it up and hang out like the friends we were when we were teenagers.
But FOR REAL.
133m All of these are firsts.
0m Winning awards, exhibitions in other countries, t-shirts, some dude who
does some sort of performance art has a video with Andrew WK and wrestler
Mankind doing crazy shit with our megascroller scrolling in the background.
Thanks to geek culture, media outlets are loving our shit. People who we
dont know - know us. That never happened before. AND ITS STILL GOING
on. I just saw a picture of a kiosk in Brazil with our artwork on it.
And an ANSi of ME made by Misfit. Its a crowning achievement.
And the quality of what we do NOW is unbelievable. ANSi legends are drawing
again. But not in that sad way like Motley Crue goes on tour and makes crap
now banking on their popularity from before. LEGENDS are upping their game.
It didnt seem possible. We truly are making the best art we ever made. And
were doing it right now.
This world we operate and create was made by us. From the early days
of those 25 liners all the way up to right now. There is zero outside
influence on what we can and cannot do. This underground where we live
is something a lot of artists in other mediums would go insane over.
From an outsiders perspective, it must look insane that we just casually
collaborate with other people in other countries. And this isnt some
social media invite for anyone to participate in. WE ARE THE KEY PLAYERS.
All textmode artists. WE ARE THE ROCK STARS - ALL OF US.
Im lucky to have had this in my teen years and once again as an adult.
Im glad that although the production of these things come out at a slower
process then before. They result in the best of what we have. And were
doing this together.
We create art. Were a fortunate breed of specific artists. We have an
amazing history of acting like assholes, breaking laws, making friends and
making art. And thats just how we do now and always have.
Thank you to everyone from every point in time of the art scene. This is a
little slice of me that people on the outside dont really understand. And
I know thats the same with a lot of people out there doing this. And
thats okay. Ive met so many incredible people over the years because
of this sort of thing that its become a characteristic of mine.
We all have our priorities. Our families. Our Jobs. Just like everyone else.
But unlike them, we have this. And these fantastic memories and art work
weve created will always be a part of this evolution of technology - the
internet.
So thanks again to the people that came together, not just for this mag,
to build this scene from the very beginning.
xoxo - filth Joshua Hillyard Pittsburgh, PA USA - 02.16.18
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