Greetings, anvilhed here. Im a newbie on the artscene I joined the artscene
a coupla months ago or something. This may all sound real lame and all but
read on. I want everyone to know who I am.
I was born in Finland, I live in Finland and hopefully I will die in Finland.
I believe Im ONE of the youngest ppl on the artscene these daysim born 84.
I started drawing ANSI, as I remember, in late 97like, almost immediately
after I got my own PC, a Compaq laptop. Dont underestimate me now .. :
In the middle of 97-98 I was hanging around on BBSs a lot.
From there I learned a lot of what people do on the computerscene and got to
know a lot of stuff which I and many other ppl would take for granted today.
People say the finnish BBS-scene is dead and was dead before I knew anything
about these boards so I havent been through much. ANSI was tought to me by
one man, one finnish man who was then called Psyched. Today he is known by
the nick Liepo, afaikalthough he has left the scene by now, I hope youll
return some day, man ...
Well, anyway. I learned to draw some ANSI and I became more popular
in some private warez BBS rings .. Several months passed and more and more
boards went down. So this guy, Alpha Planein yer face! x tought me what IRC
was : So I left the BBS-sceneor what was left of it and started hanging on
IRC. At this point I completely stopped drawing ANSI and consentrated on
IRCnet warez groups and tracking music. Many of these groups cried out for
NFO headers and ascii art and I couldnt resist on serving the poor pirates.
My ascii was lame, but nobody seemed to care.
The warez people started to know me on IRCnet and I got more and more requests
of these blokscii headers ppl use in their NFOsehrm: like etc. :.
Well, this went on for a bit, but as before, change was inevitable.
I quit drawing ascii and consentrated on music more.
I learned to track some and I was having fun while talkin shit on IRC.
Well yeah, that was fun I guess but still I wanted something more.
I wanted to go back to ANSI. I wanted those sweet colours back in my
art! GIMME GIMME GIMME!@ ...
I had heard this ans channel name somewhere, maybe from Liepo ..
Anyways, I headed for Efnet to check out what this channel was.
But hey!@ there I met some ppl I knew a bit already through Seduction and IRC
I guess. These guys are Unseen Fate and Prosthesisfunk-e. These dudes
kinda introduced me to the real artscene.
I learned to understand the scene and learned all that shit
ppl speak etc. So I really started practising ANSI and while browsing artpacks,
reading *COUGH*gutter*COUGH*, that FILTHy mag that is dead by now and
looking at some old stuff Prosthesis showed me, I learned a lot of new things.
At a certain point, I joined CIA, which was fun to be in, until I left,
after pack 63.
Now Im in EPIC, I was with it pretty much from the start, and I expect a lot
from it. from Us.
Whats my newbie-opinion of the scene? I think its great. People just worry toomuch about BWAAH! The scene is dead! .. I dont think its dead. You just
have to keep trying .. You, who dont believe in the scene, propably wont
keep it alive, not with an attitude like that, anyway.
I would like to thank all who have thought me stuff and helped me grow into
the scene, anyone who have helped me reach this state where I am now and
inspired me, or simply those who I personally want to greet.
I respect you all as artists and as human beings. *sob sob*
these people are, not in any particular order:
liepo,seduction,whatever. - thanks for the kickstart, you are the r00t.
unseen fate - my personal scene-teacher etc.
funk-e - my instructor/personal art-teacher
blue devil - my instructor
savagecow - my instructor/personal art-teacher
argon - a man with great mind, as well as my instructor.
rippa
reanimator
crayOFF
lemonizer
napalm
filth
YOU who I forgot. sorry man, I have a short memory. :
and of course greets to all weird dewdz from my BBS times, including jammer,
hiippari, stupe, puke, spectre, razoredge and daedalon.
personal hellos go to toad, ele, nich, mystic cloud, oxygener, maktone,
hetero, antibody, goldpush and some unofficial shoutouts to fragment,
ld0d and the rest of Sikala @ IRCnet staff.
So there it was, in a nutshell.
I hope to get to know more people on the scene and on ans, so contact me.
or something .. :
- anvilhedEPIC -- in bAnAnAcoLOrtM
anvilhed@hotmail.com