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VOR Newsletter Edition 01 Visions of Reality Information Packet October Pack, Nineteen Nighty-Four Welcome to the October edition of the Visions of Reality artwork. The Visions of Reality art pack is a representative of the artwork that has been made as advertisements for bulletin boards or other groups by Visions of Reality members. This pack has been going out monthly, ever since fall of 1993. The pack is only a represetative of the artwork that has been used as advertisements, and all work by artists may or may not be included. This file is to to give the viewer of the Visions of Reality packet information as to what has going on in the group for the past month. This includes major news, additions of members, and general talk about Visions of Reality: Ummm, its like our one year anniversary and stuff. Weve been putting packs out for a year now, so i decided to draw an ansi out of joy to show my happiness! See above. We definately arent the same group we were a year ago. This can be seen as good and bad. A LOT has gone on this month in VOR, from near-death to major clean-up. As it seems with every other group out there, VOR was having a hard month. We didnt have too much work, and frankly no one in the group except for me Venom gave a shit or so it seemed. The month went by and we had one hell of a weak pack. So we decided oo to delay it for a week. On the 28th of the month, after calling everyone up, Venom and I had decided that it wasnt worth running a group that no one was interested in being in. Of course, we were looking at things kind of one sided and only noticed those people who werent interested in the group. Rumours wM were leaked, and the people who liked being in VOR started letting us know. So we decided to keep VOR alive, but we decided a lot of changes needed to be made. We kicked a lot of people out, demoted some people, changed some policies, and gained some more members. B I R T H D A Y Our first step was to kick out some of the lazy members or those members who didnt give a shit about VOR. The members that have left VOR this month via getting kicked out of by just quitting are Ackman, The Dog, Shatterstar, Chaos, and a few other people who would could really not give a shit about. Sonic Engima has also left VOR, but on totally different conditions, so I dont think its right for me to group him into the other people. Demotions in the group include Hollow Point and Sinister Outlaw. Both were head of their section ansi and coding respectively and both held a senior council position. The replacement for Sinister Outlaw is Lief O Pardy, the coder who codes Illuminate and most of our GIFs. A replacement is still being decided on for Hollow Point, but it has been narrowed down to two members. On a totally different note, Scythe has officially changed his name to Skarecrow cuz its easier to say. And Zenophobus changed his name to Djinn because he got tired of Zenophobus, and unlike Skarecrow, he wanted an alias that no one could pronounce. : Our viewer has been updated to a new interface. If for some reason the ansi - high resolution doesnt work, run univesa as included in the pack. Same with the high resolution GIFs that were coded into EXEs. in the next version of Illuminate, you will probably be able to choose from three to five interfaces. Umm, oyeah, Venom and I have Voice Mail Boxes now, cuz were like el33t and know people who phreak and stuff. My VMB is 1-800-241-7337, box 1628, and Venom incidently has the same for a VMB, but his box is . Ummm, you can call and say anything about VOR on my VMB. On our last VMB we got a few messages about how much VOR sucks in a Beavis and Butthead mimic. Those are great, but they can get boring. So like umm, think of something original. Example: voices of pirates are always cool. : An explanation of sorts... of VORs near death experience by Venom VOR It was kinda wierd and maybe symbolic in a way that it would happen at our one-year-anniversary, but it was building up over the last half year or so. VOR just wasnt working anymore. VOR originally started with a core of people whose dream was to start a group from scratch - from a group of people with practically no computer art experience or experience that was well in the past - and to end up with a successful group able to compete with the best. It sounded absurd, everyone said it wouldnt happen, but that group somehow managed to pull it off, because they had the motivation to do it they had no DOUBT that they could do it. VOR worked fine when that core was around to motivate the group. VOR grew stronger and better with every passing month. We had no need of imposing strict rules on ansi production of kicking people out for not turning in work every single month of really having to constantly evaluate our members, because they did it anyway and did it with a vision in mind. Things turned around when our original core started dropping out. Dark Wolf - our original president - and Muttonhead - one of the best lo-res VGA artists I have seen to this day - both had a higher goal that beckoned them - college life! Dark Wolf still calls, but his work output and involvement have dropped considerably. Next, Hollow Point - our first real success in VOR, an ansi artist that started from nothing and has risen to ansi making of the highest quality - grew out of ansi he got a job and on the overall decided that hes grown tired of making ansi. He gave up his council position and has also reduced his involvement. Our members started reducing output as well, mostly working only after being constantly bugged to do it. It wasnt that much of a problem when the original core was still around, because we shared the responsibility of managing the group, but over the past few months, Widow Maker and I have had it all dropped on us. We slowly grew sicker and sicker of this with every phone call we made to one member or another at the end of the month to get him to do just one more ansi or VGA or whatever. Finally, WM and I both broke and, after seeing that nothing was working anymore, decided to quit the group. When we announced this, the group instantly seemed like it was going to fall apart. Without us, it seemed like there was no one to lead the group and no one that even WANTED to. We expected everyone to not really care about what happened. We were surprised. As we expected, some members didnt really care at all. But we found out that many members - and even many of the NEWER members, whom we thought didnt give a flying rats ass about the groups fate - were PLEADING us to keep the group alive, and even worked 200 as hard to make up for the members who did 50 less every month. After thinking about it, WM and I finally concluded that the group didnt need to die.. it needed to EVOLVE. We needed a new core, a new council, and a whole new organization and APPROACH to it. As a consequence, a new council is now in the process of being assembled, our member list is being carefully purged of all the excess waste that has been cluttering it up just to get a free affil, and WM and I are actively working on recruiting some great new artists. Were slowly catching up so to speak. Anyhow, this pack is meant to reflect both aspects of this months occurrences: Our death and our sudden rebirth, all in the course of four weeks. Hope youll enjoy it as much as weve enjoyed being able to bring this - and a whole year of other VOR packs - to you. Hope this wasnt TOO cheesy. Finally, thanx for all the guys that stuck around and gave your best to us. With guys like you, I think there isnt a doubt that VOR will live to see another anniversary! And to all the groups that have tried to push us down, humiliate us, laugh at us, grind us into the dust - Well, well just have to wait and see what happens when 1995 rolls by, wont we? Yessss... I think that will be all for now... -- Venom VOR SS/VGA Head A lit written by Djinn when VOR during the near death experience:
VOR - Visions Of Reality : October 1993 - October 1994
The idea was a vision of reality,
A vision of truth, love, and human interaction,
The members there, the art forever etched in thought.
The rise was at hand.
Surge after surge, with teeth barred and mind acknowledged,
The others went down, the vision was alive!
The light shown upon the majestic Wind.
The love was there, the power unbridled.
Never again would the mind be tamed.
The reality of life was non-existant here,
We had one vision, the life beyond life,
Our paintbrush was our mind, we were free.
Darkness, nothing but darkness.
The mind is entrapped, closing...
The struggle is fought by a valient few.
Their minds must not be tamed.
It is too late, the battle field lay barren
Not one whisper, not one word.
The Wind was at a standstill..
The visions were gone, only the modern struggle remained.
The mighty few who fought this battle were no more,
The others had escaped, no one remained.
Maybe one day, the light will blaze again,
The visions are still alive in the minds of the dead.
A mind entrapped by life and the struggles of existance
is the mind of a soul not worth living. The Visions of
Reality are a few, but they shine through the evil and
darkness of life with a glow to make the heavens weep.
- Djinn Visions Of Reality
Members of the Vision: Venom, Widow Maker, Hollow Point, Shadowdancer
Sinister Outlaw, Asterix, Dark Wolf, Forego,
Murcurochrome, Pluto, Raisltin Majere,
Skarecrow, Spam, Starbuck, Silver Rat, The Dog
Ackman, Calypso, Chaos, Fat Ass, Hros,
Inquisitor Thrax, Sonic Enigma, Muttonhead,
Pizza Dude, Absolute Zero, Lief OPardy,
Lord X, Thunderhawk, Wraveth Windrose,
Arturious Pendragon, Alexa, Apothecary,
Felyne, Grey Mouser, Ralgoth, Vicious, 187,
Entropy, Perides, Plasmatoid, Tklp,
Tyrius Sitius, and Hi Polymer.