Because I've got too much to do this morning and an old partner in crime sent an art pack from September of 1996 to me yesterday, I'll share some of my old art with you today.
I was in a couple of art groups, but I never really left the 713 (and later 713/281, and then 713/281/832) scene: MAD, PEZ, Jive are the ones I remember. My handle was
deathrai (and I often tagged pics with "d" or "d!"). There are
others with my name nowadays, but there was only one of me then. Anyway, here's some of my art. I hope you enjoy it. You can click the images to see the full-size version.
This was a flyer for AnsiCon, which we held at Woodlands Mall a couple of times. We also had a PezCon at Willowbrook one year. It seems mall security was always involved in those things. I once wrote a skapunk song about it called "Misplaced Priorities."
Here we have a menu for a board called Nitrous Oxide. I don't remember who the sysOp was:
I had a Save the Sheep foundation, and promoted it in a couple of bigger pictures. This one was for a board called Pandora, whose logo was cut off at the bottom:
We have here a skinhead that was done for another BBS called Shadows of Darkness:
Sometimes the SkinHeads Against Racism and Prejudice would come to our punkrock shows and start fights with antidisestablishmentarism punks. I normally got along with them though. Once, when I was stuck in the mud in some guy's yard, a group of them brought their truck and tried to pull us out. They ended up getting stuck too.
I've also been paying attention to
Sixteen Colors since the same friend who sent me the pictures above pointed me to it a little while back. To prove to you how k-rad 31173 l338 (I was more than 1337) I was, you can see
I was greeted in the AvengeView documentation in the same paragraph as
RaD Man.
When I first went there, I couldn't find any of my art even though I did find myself in a lot of greetz. But when I went back today,
I did find some. Looks like someone uploaded a few art packs from MAD.
A couple of pictures I couldn't find through the Sixteen Colors search, but they did come up through Google. If you can't tell, I rather liked drawing cartoons. Here's
an alien with his hand down his pants:
You might think his hand is down his pants because I was trying to be funny (I was 15 - juvenile humor is funny at that age.) But it wasn't that I was trying to be funny, so much as I thought a two-hook-hand alien would be less believable than a one-hook-hand alien. And since I couldn't draw hands very well (still can't), I hid the other one in his pants.
This one is my favorite on Sixteen Colors, found through Google:
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Haha - That logo is classic. Incidentally, the bottom of that guy in the "Somebody in Good" T-shirt was promoting something similar, though with words, not pictures. =)
Seriously, awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing!
Anyone else? Surely more than one of you were an artist.
Posted by
Sammy Larbi
on Apr 23, 2008 at 07:00 PM UTC - 5 hrs
Oh, I love this quote: 700 Megs. I still remember my first 100 MB hard drive, and how I thought I'd never fill it up.
I like the one of Mr. Furley (it looks a lot like him, anyway) with underwear on his head:
http://sixteencolors.net/packs/1995/ciapak21/FN-PS...
Posted by
Sammy Larbi
on Apr 23, 2008 at 07:08 PM UTC - 5 hrs
Oh those were the days, I just viewed
http://sixteencolors.net/packs/1994/mad0694/MEMBER... and would love to find a way to get in touch with some of those old guys.
Possibly I need to Launch A HoustonAnsiScene.com and try to preserve history. I don't know if any pez packs ever made it too the interwebs. Someones gotta have their old bbs packed away on a 120meg hard drive somewhere, with the Houston scene preserved in time...
onwelfare bbs is still online via telnet. maybe houston's last elite board :)
nightrain, 90's forever.
Posted by nightrain
on Apr 23, 2008 at 08:16 PM UTC - 5 hrs
Deathrai!
Aww man this makes me so happy to read and see these images:). #ANSIPUNX for life! So fun to see that old AvengeView documentation, but man, was I ever a bad speller! :) Did we start substandard in 98?
Jacque and I just applied for a little digital art grant to undertake an ANSI based interweb graffiti art project using Empathy at the core.
http://www.thoughtengineers.com/modbrowse/. Would love to have you involved with it and brainstorm on how to make it most fun for people. Also, random ANSI comment, but it's really interesting to look at how popular shading techniques really changed between 94-98. Your ANSIs are so krad!!
grant
Posted by
grant (skaboy)
on Apr 24, 2008 at 06:09 AM UTC - 5 hrs
@NT - If you still know any of those Pez guys, see if they can't drag out the old HDs (or really, any of the sysops of boards we frequented.) A 713 Ansi website sounds like a lot of fun - I've wanted to do one in the past, make it look like a BBS and such. Email me and we'll see what we can't work out.
Also, why don't I have access to onwelfare yet?
@skaboy: I looked at that project and it looks like a whole lot of fun. I'd be glad to help any way I can, but it sounds like you've got things covered pretty well! Let's talk some more when you're in town again, or through email.
Re: substandard - I think it was just before you turned 13 (so, whatever year that was - I was 18 I think, so it would have been before Sept 1998. In fact, I was still in HS with Barry in English class, so it would have been before May 1998).
Misplaced Priorities started off as a Hax0rz song (with NT above), IIRC, but since we never did anything with it, and I needed a song to play at your house the first time we got together, I played it there. Then we brought Dave and Barry along and Barry added the goodness in the guitars, and we put in on track 009, and the rest is history.
Posted by
Sammy Larbi
on Apr 24, 2008 at 08:17 AM UTC - 5 hrs
This is Doug (Lord Scarlet), the designer/owner/whatever of Sixteen Colors. First, sorry that the search has let you down. The site certainly requires a lot more work to truly be great. Second, if you're trying to get in touch with people from your scene I would be happy to post a note on Sixteen Colors in an attempt to get in touch with them.
Thanks for the clickthroughs to the site!
Posted by
Doug Moore
on Jun 26, 2008 at 04:01 PM UTC - 5 hrs
Hi Doug, thanks for the comment.
The site hasn't really "let me down," I think its awesome and you've done a lot of great work.
If you wanted to post a note for the 713 ansi punx to visit me here, that would be awesome. Certainly way above any expectations.
In any case, keep up the good work on the site. It was great to find some of my old art work - I had no other way to find it, as all my old 20 MB hard drives are long gone. =)
Posted by
Sammy Larbi
on Jun 26, 2008 at 06:56 PM UTC - 5 hrs
