hen t h e e r the blender # eight h i t h e r e were we ever surprised when we joined #blender and found over 15 people in the channel someone quickly gave me ops and deopped himself and several other people iceage then went off to advertise some more asking others to follow his lead me and hennifer were shocked we didn t even expect to find anyone in the channel when we got there thanks go out to iceage who helped us by collecting submissions when we weren t there and for doing many other things too thanks also go out to everyone who participated this has been by far the most successful blender yet and it couldn t have been possible without people helping out and participating oh and thanks also go out to hennifer who came over to my house again to help me run blender and to do a joint with me well on to the more important things t h e t h r e e w o r d s the three words this week were pinguin or the guardian smoking and china or that s right you could have either picked pinguin or the guardian why when we announced that one of the picked words was the guardian many people started complaining so we decided to pick a 4th word participants could each pick one of the two to draw compose etc for the ramaining two words being unchangable constants i must once again remind everyone not to give us stupid words pick a word YOU would find easy to represent in the medium in which you specialize be creative and don t just come up with these on the spot do NOT give us more than one word! we only need one from each participant over 90% of the words we receive are things we need a variety! if you haven t already noticed one thing one action and one place are picked from the list we compile by giving us more places actions you will ensure that the words picked will be more interesting and more exciting to draw etc for p a r t i c i p a n t s here s a list of everybody who participated and what i think of what they did paratoxic ansi you may wonder why this isn t about the picked words somebody told this poor man that the words were drugs sex and rock&roll i don t know who this was but if anybody is found doing this again they will not be allowed to participate ever again i will also kill them about the ansi i like it it turns me on ) the background could have used more work though paratoxic ansi having been cheated like that this guy came back and drew another ansi! now that s what i call spirit good job!!! good ansi too fever ansi this rules i love it shaping is very good but the shading could have been much better iceage ansi no offense but this sucks ) you could have done much better who knows maybe you didn t have time kyo vga this is certainly interesting i like it more than some other vgas i ve seen recently but it just isn t anything special i guess damn i m bad at talking about vgas ) mel farr suppastar ascii whoa mel farr suppastar lit I M NOT AN UNFORTUNATE CHILD! I OWN 4 PAIRS OF SOCKS!!! mighty mouse ansi cool idea just work on those details and that shading sodium ansi i like the penguins they are so cute ) the story was extremely suspenseful and i almost fell off my floor while reading it speed freak ascii a homie pinguin! so a umm homie-guin it s ok just lacks shading the knight ansi me and hennifer started laughing out loud when we first saw this ) it s grrrrr-eat! ewheat ansi where did you two learn how to draw iceage MEL FARR S SCHOOL OF ANSI! ! ) iceage ansi extremely interesting the only thing mel farr suppastar i like about it is that the eye blinks to the beat of the song i am listening to now EXACTLY i ve been staring at it for a minute and it s still right on you guys scare me ) hennifer ansi we were both happy with what we managed warpus to come up with w i n n e r there were many ansis we liked so it was hard to pick the winner this week after many minutes of looking at everything we had we made our decision FEVER! he is currently the only person to win the blender twice and he told me that he is going to go for the hat trick he decided to give the point to eclipse so now eclipse is in the lead with fire each having 2 points all remaining groups have 1 point consult BLENDER HOF for more info c o n t a c t u s email warpus at warpus@skateshop xg com or tbroniew@undergrad math uwaterloo ca email hennifer at hennifer@skateshop xg com email warpus or hennifer on corrosive the only 888 board we call both of my emails work but currently i am only able to respond to mail sent to the first one in about four months you ll have to send email to the second address this will keep changing every 4 months i will keep you posted p a c k s i will be putting the packs on cdrom com as soon as they come out they ll be found in that acid newpacks directory you know pub artpacks incoming artpacks something like that plus they ll be on corrosive anybody wishing to be a courier email me asap as i want more people to get involved r e m e m b e r ! ! ! please do NOT disturb me while i m explaining the rules this includes changing your nick over and over it s extremely annoying and only gets me frustrated only give me your words when i tell you to i will also need your handle and group name please remember that i (or hennifer) have to write all of this down on paper so please be patient i usually get somebody to entertain the crowds while this is done so that people don t get bored and leave put your handle on the ansi ascii whatever i have to figure out who drew what when i m writing this up and if your handle is on your work then i will NOT screw up and when i say your handle i mean your FULL handle not just an abbrevation in one of the blenders i said that mighty mouse was magnetic m sorry about that mm ) that should be all for now take care and be there next sunday OR ELSE ) g o o d b y e the ninth blender event will be held sunday january 19th 7 30pm - 10 00pm (est) #blender (or #blender2 if something fucks up) please join us warpus ( lazarus awe )