v9- f1RE gRAPHICS Inferior CPU dots It s recently been pointed out to me that things at Fire are starting to get a bit well routine The fact that there isn t much for me to say about the past month has pretty much proved this to me Sure it might be nice to sit back once you ve assembled a great team of artists and just expect great things to happen but that s no fun To remedy this we ll be taking on a whole new attitude We ll be shaking up convention exploring new avenues taking on new challenges I want all of our members to think of a project they ve been meaning to do for a long time and just do it Get it out of the way Or even more appropriately take something you ve already dismissed as impossible or inappropriate and do THAT To me art is all about evolution Stagnation equals death Do what hasn t been done before either by yourself or anyone else and you should end up better off than you were before Fireweb org is getting close to being operational Look for some kind of official launch this month Until then you can find us at http patriot net panacea -god among lice domino no way we color and shade our blocks Shortly after the last pack we finally were ready to give longtime Fire member and k-spiff font artist Vade79 what he deserves and so he was promoted to senior staff of the Golden Bees congrats Chris We welcome two new ansi guys to our ranks this month who come to us from the heat of early European summer From the ashes of Blend Riddler decided to follow his pal Ville into Fire look out for his fresh logo stuff in this pack and hopefully some new pics soon With Noize another german artists joins up with Fire Coming from Mean Scheme and Black Maiden he already made himself a name in some areas and will hopefully get YOUR attention now too Nobody leaving this month Hey looks like we re kinda stable again One more thing i have to say thanks to somebody special who helped me and cheered me up when i was deep down and was about to quit scene for good last month so it s thanks to the fontist of the fontists thanks Alex -nail We ve gone to Alaskii Our ascii artists seem to have gone on a summer vacation of sorts this month Baphomet was apparently left behind however as he was able to send us something for the pack Let s just hope it was only some hiking and sightseeing in Denali National Park and not a permanent change of address Real Art naaaah Fire vga now officially has a new motto No Boundaries The goal here is to stretch all previous ideas of what computer art is and to change what people expect to see from it This will involve an increased infusion of material from other more traditional media as well as a greater emphasis on exploration and creation of new styles Another step taken will be the active search and recruitment of artists who share this attitude and who take their artwork as seriously as we do I know there are people out there who have similar goals in their artistic endeavours it is only a matter of letting them know that we exist and that there are others like us Look for some fresh faces and fresh attitudes come next month -god among lice Turned soporific Things look just great To think not long ago I was downright worried about Fire s future Right now I can t remember the last time I was so excited about the road ahead For the first time I feel like we actually have the power to do something significant Now I dare you to do something significant yourself -god among lice