woah, yikes. this was written in 2012. right before i had any
contact with the actual ansi scene. i believe i just jotted random stuff
down that i could remember from fourteen years prior. who knows, i cant
really pull myself together to finish reading this. enjoy!
i liked how aphex twin had a hapazard approach to drawing, / i liked how
maestro drew letters in the shape of narrow ciricles / i liked t2 and his
ability to do cool small scales / i liked how toongoon was named toongoon
and he brought toons to a whole new level / i liked how halaster adopted
cerebus for his own logo / i liked how ts was a fucking great artist and
always reprezented teklordz / i liked jeds ansimations / i liked konamis
spin on toons / i liked how acid did the same newsletter format until the
very end / i liked how stone the crow went on tour by releasing different
artwork through different groups / i liked how misfit and trip ran apathy /
i liked collys by squidgalator/2 for the fact that he did a lot of them, and
somehow managed to keep his style fresh / i liked the name squidgalator/2 /
i liked reading about the old OLD school rivalries pre-irc era / i liked
being a part of very illegal teleconferencing k0nfz sessions / liked the
anticipation of new packs every month / i liked when snake grunger put a
crisp nofx font in one of his ansis just for kicks / i liked how fluor and
the night angel put awe out / i liked blender / i liked how alla xul had
a sort of theme to his style his use of s / i liked the nick Corpulent
Cow / i liked how ewheat used TTY on confs / i liked when i realized that
hat this: , , ,
works better than this gawdy fucking scheme: . i
liked maestros manifesto that got the whole legion crew started, i liked
unzipping new art packs and seeing multiple pics from a paticularf artist
pop out, i liked the day i found out this trick: / actually, by found
i mean i saw someone else do it : / i liked it when i would recognize a song
quote in someones ansi / i liked the kind of joints where the artists worked
off each others style/idea in a more collaboration, and not just slapping two
different pics together / i liked the t2/SiDS acidview / i liked eeries
undergown even though i would constantly spell it underground looking like
a fucking jack-ass and his use with b.exe to run it / i liked the very first
time i saw nootropics h.r. giger pic for biohazard and making me realize that
wed only scratched the surface of what we were doing / i liked catch 22 and
his stick-to-yer-guns tenacity with glue hah, stick to your guns! and
gaining mad respect from everyone in the scene by doing so / i liked tempus
thales ansi where he greeted every artist in the scene / i liked the fact that
during my years in the ansi scene i never had to pay for the internet because
of people in the ansi scene helpin a brotha out / i liked magnetic ms
weird shading on his toons / i liked what halaster had going on with FiRE /
i liked klexikal records pack and the fact it remains one of a kind / i liked
first discovering who lord jazz was through a huge pile of ACiD packs which
ended up a costing a 300 phone bill, but totally worth it. / i liked how
eerie and iodine were putting together a board simply called , or ampersand
/i liked how the group eclipse had artists that drew in eclipse style / i
liked that misfit, transient, and myself were all from the 717, i liked the
CiA vinyl stickers, i liked that dude shrimp who would insult himself for
being an israeli jew, i like that reanimator ALWAYS drew in 80x50, which typ-
ically annoying for anyone else, but ra pulls it off / i liked setting up fake
cris.com accounts in the ninth grade using the schools phones to do it / i
liked the work dangermouse did with acheron.org / i liked being on a three-way
line and pranking old canadians at 03:00 / i like reading and writing black on
black text hidden in ansis / i liked connecting with people on an artistic
level when most of the people in my personal life in those days had their own
interests / i liked finding out people in the scene listened to punk rock. im
from a teeny hometown were punk still means no good rotten cowpoke/ i
liked belonging to something that ran solely by those involved / i liked when
jack phlash and i were putting out gutter and the scene gave us nothing but
love / i liked reading the first review of an ansi of mine didnt go too
well. / i liked the swedish invasion changing the game and making it fun
to be around / i liked the months when at least a dozen groups put out a pack
/ i liked how the scene belonged to the scenesters / i liked seeing graffiti
styles implemented into textmode fonts by actual graffiti artists not saying
doodleboys didnt give it a good go, but you know what i mean. / i liked it
when i, and others, would draw a font too big theres no room for the last
letter. solution: fuck it, just use the dos character equivalent / i liked
in the artscene segment of the bbs doc where shaggymetalhead of iCE fame
explains trying to explain it to other by simply saying its impossible./
i liked the nordic invasion of the finnish with their own special blend / i
liked when wat0r started using wu-tangs W for his personal logo / i liked
seeing the different way different artists did the same ansi when its good
/ i liked how fevers ansi style reflects his freehand/illustration style / i
liked the ansi bad karma made of a huge gorilla, but im not sure why / i
liked the work Kevin Olson and Chris Abad put into the ansi show at 20goto10 /
i liked spontaneous draw-offs / i liked the oldschool pics with twenty-five or
so lines of just stats / i liked the early iCE vs. ACiD rivalry / i liked it
when someone would request something for me, and their board was actually up /
i liked the moment something im working on really starts to come together / i
liked making this liked scrolling madness / i liked a million other things that i cant remember. i most likely will think of a lot of things that i REALLY
liked, but by the time i figure that out, this will have been released. / ...