DARK0597.ZIP - Mistigris World Tour   for Digital Artists of the Rare Kind   by Mistigris

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Now, some will say that it happened because of ←[0m ←[1;35m a spilled can of cola, and others say that he was a spy technology smuggler ←[0m ←[1;35m from Japan. Some fancy an errant bolt of lightning during that dry and ←[0m ←[1;35m tense night's atmosphere, but these are all just rumours, drawing away from ←[0m ←[1;35m the soul of the story; it turned out that he discovered a new technique for ←[0m ←[1;35m developing film, one which produced prints so vivid and realistic that they ←[0m ←[1;35m were generally held to be an improvement on the original subject matter.←[0m ←[1;35m No one knows who this legendary technician was, or if he ever←[0m ←[1;35m existed at all, but that's not important to the account. What is important←[0m ←[1;35m is that he forgot to patent the process, and thanks to his negligence the←[0m ←[1;35m whole world was given the gift of this awesome reaction. Film stores←[0m ←[1;35m everywhere adapted to the new standard or went out of business; thus was the←[0m ←[1;35m public's hunger for these improvements on reality; for an escape, albeit how ←[0m ←[1;35m slight, from the world in front of them.←[0m ←[16C ←[34m▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[1;31m▄▄▄▄←[33m ▄▄▄▄▄ ←[31m▄▄▄▄ ←[49C←[0;30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[34m▄←[37m ←[16C ←[1;33mA Short Intro by XypherMC --- ←[0m ←[9C←[1;31mI awoke early on the first of April to the sound of knocking at my←[0m ←[1;31mfront door.←[0m ←[1;31mSnarling, disheveled, and breath like a post-game jockst ←[70Crap, I←[0m ←[1;31mwent to see who'd decided to join the hoops anchored at the bottom of my←[0m ←[1;31mpool.←[0m ←[9C←[1;31m"Hi! We're the members of Mistigris! We're here to tour with your←[0m ←[1;31m group, Dark Illustrated. May we come in?" chirped one of the overly cheery←[0m ←[1;31mlittle hobbits wavering in front of my eyes.←[0m ←[9C←[1;31mI turned and slammed the door and headed back for my welcoming bed.←[0m ←[1;31m"!@#*&$ canvassers."←[0m ←[1;31mThis was going to be a bad day.←[0m ←[9C←[1;31mNo sooner had I breached the threshold of my room did I hear an odd←[0m ←[1;31msort of gnawing sound at the door. By the time I'd made my way to the hall←[0m ←[1;31m half the door had been consumed by one of the grinning zealots among them.←[0m ←[1;31m ←[0m ←[8C←[1;31m"Neophyte, cut that out!" said what appeared to be their leader.←[0m ←[1;31m "Sorry about that. It's been a long trip. We'll replace it when our work←[0m ←[1;31mis done.←[0m ←[1;31mThey immediately stormed the place and made themselves at h ←[70Come.←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mOver the next month and a half, they'd use every imaginable surface←[0m ←[1;31m of my home to draw, write, or produce nearly symphonic barrages of noise.←[0m ←[1;31mAnd boy, they sure do talk a lot.←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mIn the end, it turned out for the best. They got along beautifully←[0m ←[1;31mwith the members of my DARK clan, and very few of my neighbours left the←[0m ←[1;31m area.←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mThey didn't replace my door though.←[0m ←[16C ←[34m▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[1;31m▄▄▄▄←[33m ▄▄▄▄▄ ←[31m▄▄▄▄ ←[49C←[0;30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[34m▄←[37m ←[1;35m Now there was just one side effect of this process which could be ←[0m ←[1;35mconsidered bad; whatever occured to animate the prints so as an aside also ←[0m ←[1;35mirrepairable damaged the negatives. This was a stark concern for two months, ←[0m ←[1;35mas multiple prints required tremendously greater quantities of film and even ←[0m ←[1;35mso the results couldn't always be duplicated. This was all solved, however, ←[0m ←[1;35mwhen some anonymous mind (again, one philanthropic in his laxity under ←[0m ←[1;35mcopyright laws) came up with the ingenius idea of taking pictures OF the ←[0m ←[1;35mpictures, and this is where the problem first made itself apparent.←[0m ←[1;35m You see, as the first set of pictures were improvements upon the ←[0m ←[1;35mmundane reality of the original subjects, the second iteration improved the ←[0m ←[1;35mimage that much more - a print at this stage would seem four times as ←[0m ←[1;35mappealing as it originally was.←[0m ←[1;35m Advertizers went nuts. They reasoned, and quite correctly, that ←[0m ←[1;35mthis process was exponential - hence you could take pictures of pictures ←[0m ←[1;35mindefinitely until you had arrived at a vision of an infinitieth away from ←[0m ←[1;35mperfection. Chaos broke out in the streets of the developed world. ←[0m ←[1;35mHusbands and wives would whisper most passionately in each others' ears when ←[0m ←[1;35mdiverting their eyes from the base and real and instead addressing a ←[0m ←[1;35mtenderly held framed print of "sur-reality," as it was described, as an←[0m ←[1;35mimprovement on reality.←[0m ←[16C ←[34m▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[1;31m▄▄▄▄←[33m ▄▄▄▄▄ ←[31m▄▄▄▄ ←[49C←[0;30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[34m▄←[37m ←[1;33mDARK News←[0m ←[1;33m---←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mFrom out of the ←[33mMI←[31mRE, the FI←[33mST←[31m shoves D←[35mI←[31mR←[35mT ←[50C←[31m in your ←[35mM←[31mA←[35mS←[31mK.←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mOr, to be a little clearer, after a successful tour with FIRE, MIST's←[0m ←[1;31m World Tour '97 continues on it's next leg with yours truly, DARK Illustrated.←[0m ←[1;31mIf you aren't aware of it, Mistigris is a sort of West Coast counterpart to←[0m ←[1;31mDARK.←[0m ←[1;31mThey're incredibly talented in nearly all fields of the art sc ←[70Cene,←[0m ←[1;31mand they've brought back what was thought to be a dead art in DARK's pack:←[0m ←[1;31mliterature. It's been years since we've seen anything like desalvo's ←[0m ←[1;31m"Bradburies".←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mThis month has, without a doubt, been one of the most hectic in recent←[0m ←[1;31mmemory, and the pack is definitely the largest. We have here a complete←[0m ←[1;31mrepresentation of multimedia. And I don't doubt you'll enjoy it all!←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mI'll give you a rundown of the happenings in DARK, and a little later←[0m ←[1;31minto this document, Cthulu will share his mind with you on Mistigris.←[0m ←[8C←[1mSeraphim←[0m ←[1;31mreturns from his OWN tour of the underground world, and we'v ←[77Ce←[0m ←[1;31mall rejoiced with his decision. His ANSI skills are one of the most unique←[0m ←[1;31mand entertaining out there.←[0m ←[1;31mExpect him to blow your mind (again) soo ←[70Cn.←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mThe Lethal Aspect Online is gone. ←[37mwww.interlog.com/~xmtrx←[31m still ha ←[75Cs←[0m ←[1;31ma few links to things like the DARK Home Page, and Blender Compo Stats, but←[0m ←[1;31mthe major content will come with TURF. More on that later.←[0m ←[1;31m(The rea ←[70Cson←[0m ←[1;31mTLA Online was killed had a lot to do with the nightmare job of updating ←[0m ←[1;31meach individual group's memberlist, links, and information.←[0m ←[1;31mWith DAR ←[70CK alone,←[0m ←[1;31mthere was too much duplication in terms of memberlists in each pack, on the←[0m ←[1;31mmain page, on TLA the BBS, and on the web page to make it worthwhile.)←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mWhile we're on the subject, ←[37mDARK's WHQ←[31m, The Lethal Aspect, will be←[0m ←[1;31mundergoing a complete overhaul very soon, with a change of software to clear←[0m ←[1;31mthe cobwebs from the old Renegade setup.←[0m ←[1;31mMembers are urged to keep i ←[70Cn touch←[0m ←[1;31mand to re-apply once the time comes. The Telegard setup will feature many←[0m ←[1;31mthings never before seen on the original system, or any BBS anywhere.←[0m ←[8C←[1mPurple Dye←[31m has recently vowed to revamp the DARK Home Page. This'll←[0m ←[1;31mmake it a "site" to see.←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mA note on next month's Collection: don't be too surprised to see a←[0m ←[1;31mdifferent spin on the way it's done. I'm turning the duty over to a trio←[0m ←[1;31mof our Senior members, who'll←[0m ←[1;31mshow you what they've got beyond nice l ←[70Cegs and←[0m ←[1;31mANSI skills.←[0m ←[1;31mIt'll also give me a chance to work and worry on/about ←[70Cthings←[0m ←[1;31mother than pack collection. I've been doing it for too long. =)←[0m ←[52C←[1;33m-XypherMC (DIRTMASK)←[0m ←[16C ←[34m▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[1;31m▄▄▄▄←[33m ▄▄▄▄▄ ←[31m▄▄▄▄ ←[49C←[0;30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[34m▄←[37m ←[1;35m People began attaching, through clips, tape or other solvents, ←[0m ←[1;35midealized photographs of themselves to their foreheads, so that they could be←[0m ←[1;35maddressed directly without dishonouring their co-conversor by forcing them ←[0m ←[1;35mto see gritty, filthy reality.←[0m ←[1;35m New mothers in hospitals waited three hours for the prints to be ←[0m ←[1;35mreturned before bringing the purple monsters to their swollen breasts; ←[0m ←[1;35madolescent boys would masturbate at sur-realized representations of cars, ←[0m ←[1;35maeroplanes, cans of Campbell soup. Doctors and employers both were ←[0m ←[1;35mconcerned as workers would gaze for hours on pictures of dolphins, raw meat, ←[0m ←[1;35mor even themselves (as they might be depicted in their greatest and most ←[0m ←[1;35mfantastic dreams,) forgetting to show up to work, call in sick, or even take ←[0m ←[1;35mthe time to eat or defecate. Still, stylized graphs, charts and x-ray ←[0m ←[1;35mdiagrams always cast the bad news in the best light possible.←[0m ←[1;35m Indeed, medical practices of many kinds managed to prosper from this ←[0m ←[1;35mstrange love from the public, especially those involving cosmetic surgery. ←[0m ←[1;35mTattoos were no longer removed but instead recieved special layered ←[0m ←[1;35menhancements underneath the skin, whereby grafting the pictures directly ←[0m ←[1;35monto the patient's surface not only improved the reception of the pigmented ←[0m ←[1;35mimage but also ameliorated the general tone of the skin and such reflection ←[0m ←[1;35mof the patient's well-being on a whole. A tattoo on its own was worthless, ←[0m ←[1;35mbut after a few repetitions of this formidable procedure, it became ←[0m ←[1;35mobviously more pleasing than the most flawless of natural skins - even the ←[0m ←[1;35mhighlights of sores and past scars coming to life and telling their own ←[0m ←[1;35mstories in marvelous reproduction. The richest of the rich, not content to ←[0m ←[1;35msee their waking share of beauty, arranged for such sur-real images to be ←[0m ←[1;35mimplanted on the insides of their eyelids, out of sharp focus to compensate ←[0m ←[1;35mfor the extreme closeness, and illuminated by small lightbulbs inserted into←[0m ←[1;35mthe tear ducts. A popular imitation in poverty-stricken lands was to merely ←[0m ←[1;35mtear off the eyelids completely, leaving the optic sensors open to recieve←[0m ←[1;35msuch visible delights even when one was asleep.←[0m ←[16C ←[34m▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[1;31m▄▄▄▄←[33m ▄▄▄▄▄ ←[31m▄▄▄▄ ←[49C←[0;30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[34m▄←[37m ←[1;33m ←[0m←[7C←[1;33m ...Mistigris Meanderings and Musings...←[0m ←[7C←[1;31m The tour goes ever onwards, fading from the bright flames of←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mfame to a calmer sense of shadowy obscurity. We can open our eyes←[0m ←[7C←[1;31magain as the reassuring shadows draw longer upon the floorboards and←[0m ←[18C←[1;31mthe music of bats on moths begins in earnest.←[0m ←[7C←[1;31m Here we are, enjoying a place out of the sun with our←[0m ←[9C←[1;31mCanadian compatriots in the superstar anti-art-group, Dark. It's←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mquite a change from last month with Fire, but again many things are←[0m ←[24C←[1;31mthe same. Odd how that works out. ←[0m ←[7C←[1;31m We're working with ←[37mSamurai←[31m here in Dark, after missing←[0m ←[10C←[1;31mtouring with his group, Project 301, in March, 'cause it died,←[0m ←[10C←[1;31mleaving us in the breach. But no hard feelings 8). In case you←[0m ←[10C←[1;31mmissed us before that, by the way, we appeared in the last new←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mrelease of the art group Fistful of Steel before its retrospective←[0m ←[11C←[1;31mand then reincarnation as a mag, and with Blade before that.←[0m ←[7C←[1;31m But we're here now, producing art which could arguably be←[0m ←[12C←[1;31mcalled ←[37mour best ever←[31m, working with giants in the scene and←[0m ←[7C←[1;31maccomplishing things which we never would have been capable of nine←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mmonths ago without the peculiar bonding experience this road trip←[0m ←[32C←[1;31mhas thrust upon us.←[0m ←[7C←[1;31m Are we having fun yet? As an administrator, I'm having a←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mball. Going nuts. Ripping hair out, smashing heads into things,←[0m ←[10C←[1;31mstaying up all night on the IRC and almost managing to put an←[0m ←[9C←[1;31minfofile together. (This?) But the trip is taking its toll on the←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mmembers... they're starting to look back home rather than forward←[0m ←[7C←[1;31mahead. If they're unhappy, there's no good motive to keep going...←[0m ←[11C←[1;31mthough if we turn back, we might never come this way again.←[0m ←[7C←[1;31m ←[0m←[5C←[1;31mLook, kids! ←[37mThe world's largest artechoke!←[0m ←[7C←[1;31m ←[0m←[3C←[1;31mMist's co-op relationship with fellow 604-based←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mmusic group ←[37mSonic Equinox←[31m has resulted in a release, ←[37mSE_D0597 ←[70C.ARJ←[0m ←[7C←[1;31mand A01. In addition to that, their local pursuits are flowering in←[0m ←[7C←[1;31mupcoming releases from New Media productions, such as the TrackerFix←[0m ←[35C←[1;31mdisk part 2!←[0m ←[7C←[1;31m Catering more to the eyes than the ears, ←[37mSilent Knight←[31m's←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mcomic book company ←[37mDream Factory←[31m is in full stride, and the first←[0m ←[10C←[1;31mpromotional issue should be out any day now. He's looking for←[0m ←[7C←[1;31martists, writers, inkers, letterers, exotic dancers and lion tamers,←[0m ←[10C←[1;31mamong others, so if you want to apply those skills towards the←[0m ←[14C←[1;31mproduction of a non-profit comic book, contact him at←[0m ←[30C←[[email protected]←[31m!←[0m ←[7C←[1;31m Being in the tour has given Mistigris members time off from←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mfocusing on the petty politics and power games of the art scene to←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mexplore their other creative avenues and expand their repetoire of←[0m ←[7C←[1;31mstyles and forms. Normal migration patterns have slowed to a halt,←[0m ←[7C←[1;31mand while new members are coming in from month to month, the lack of←[0m ←[7C←[1;31mpressure to release a pack competitively has kept them producing at←[0m ←[7C←[1;31ma level which makes them happy, catering to their creative impulses←[0m ←[24C←[1;31mbut not demanding tedium from them.←[0m ←[7C←[1;31m But sometimes a little tedium is a good thing. Unexercised←[0m ←[9C←[1;31mmuscles atrophy, and after spending all of this time developing,←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mpumping up, perhaps it's just about time to flex a bit, discovering←[0m ←[11C←[1;31mour new space and stretching our improved abilities, without←[0m ←[15C←[1;31mdistraction or crutches. On our own and loving it.←[0m ←[7C←[1;31m Whether we go back to releasing in monthly packs like←[0m ←[8C←[1;31meveryone else or not depends muchly on the reception of this pack;←[0m ←[7C←[1;31mI will be the first to admit that the art in here is first-rate. I←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mwould even venture that, quality and quantity considered, there's←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mmore great ansi in this pack than in the past year of ACiD packs.←[0m ←[7C←[1;31m(Then again, who can't say that?) If the artists can see that their←[0m ←[7C←[1;31minnovation is really paying off, we will continue to spiral off into←[0m ←[14C←[1;31mthe unknown, leaving a trail of imagination behind us.←[0m ←[7C←[1;31m Third star from the right, and straight onwards 'till dawn.←[0m ←[7C ←[1;33m ←[0m ←[1;33m-Cthulu (MistiDark)←[0m ←[16C ←[34m▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[1;31m▄▄▄▄←[33m ▄▄▄▄▄ ←[31m▄▄▄▄ ←[49C←[0;30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[34m▄←[37m ←[1;35m Now it had been known for quite some time that the augmenting effects ←[0m ←[1;35mremained puissant, though to a far lesser degree, on pictures where there ←[0m ←[1;35mwas contained text; stop signs and corporate names typically underwent the ←[0m ←[1;35mprocess a few times over to ensure that they weren't ignored but the process ←[0m ←[1;35mto render mere words more appealing proved costly and inefficient, where 10 ←[0m ←[1;35miterations of a catchy icon could supplant thousands of repetitions on an ←[0m ←[1;35mexposure of more alphanumeric symbols. By and large the written word was ←[0m ←[1;35mphased out, for a picture was, after all, worth at least a thousand words.←[0m ←[1;35m Intelligentia, academics, philosophers, logicians, engineers and←[0m ←[1;35mscientists of all sorts, no longer hunched over desks or tables but rather ←[0m ←[1;35mreclining in lounge seats, gazing placidly at wall-mounted poster-sized ←[0m ←[1;35mblow-ups of images gotten from the long-disused eyepieces of microscopes, ←[0m ←[1;35mprecise gradiations of drafting equipment and readouts of gauges and dials,←[0m ←[1;35mwere alarmed. Words had always been the primary means of expressing precise ←[0m ←[1;35mlogic, identifiers et cetera. Pictures were quite handy but things were ←[0m ←[1;35mgetting to the point where one aptly presented graphic could sway the ←[0m ←[1;35mreception of major theses and proofs. Obviously academia had to do ←[0m ←[1;35msomething to save the human race from falling into inescapable hedonism, with ←[0m ←[1;35mits descent briefly broken by bouts of illiteracy, endemic ignorance, and a ←[0m ←[1;35mrenaissance of the Dark Ages, oxymoronic though the thought may be.←[0m ←[1;35m They immediately set about tinkering with the various elements and ←[0m ←[1;35mforces in that elusive but widespread mysterious photographic process, ←[0m ←[1;35mputting what remained of their brainpower to work, fighting for its very ←[0m ←[1;35msurvival, and within months a solution had been found; a refinement of the←[0m ←[1;35mprocess by which text could be rendered simply and inexpensively as ←[0m ←[1;35mappealing as photographs which had undergone the process many times over. ←[0m ←[1;35mIt was deemed a full success and students at institutions around the world ←[0m ←[1;35mcelebrated by covering university campuses with graffiti; graffiti which was ←[0m ←[1;35msoon covered up with pictures of the same. ←[0m ←[1;35m Pages torn from dictionaries enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, if ←[0m ←[1;35monly as a novel wallpaper pattern, and books and writing became the objects ←[0m ←[1;35mof a brief but intense love affair from the public. The regurgitated text ←[0m ←[1;35mallowed people to feel good about investing hours spent poring over sheets ←[0m ←[1;35mof dead tree, and long-closed bookstores were restored in the second ←[0m ←[1;35mchildhood that only a passing fad can trigger, inundated by callers for the ←[0m ←[1;35mmost aesthetically pleasing, the least offensive and above all else the most←[0m ←[1;35msatisfying reads possible. Complete volumes of Camus and Kafka went ←[0m ←[1;35muntouched but with minor revision, the vast majority of literature could be ←[0m ←[1;35mdistilled into palatable tales of two optimisms - where it was the best of←[0m ←[1;35mtimes in the best of all possible worlds.←[0m ←[16C ←[34m▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[1;31m▄▄▄▄←[33m ▄▄▄▄▄ ←[31m▄▄▄▄ ←[49C←[0;30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[34m▄←[37m ←[1;33mSupport Sites (DARK) --- ←[0m ←[5C←[1mThe Lethal Aspect←[9CWorld Headquarters←[9CXypher Matryx←[0m ←[5C←[1;31mThe Regency←[15CInternet Headquarters←[6CHalaster ←[0m ←[5C←[1;31mMad Cows?!?←[15CDARK Member Board←[10CNight Stalker←[0m ←[5C←[1;31mSavage Exile←[14CDARK Member Board←[10CAcidic Soap ←[0m ←[5C←[1;31mSight & Sound←[13CDARK Member Board←[10CDrone-Fly ←[0m ←[5C←[1;31mSpecial Sauce←[13CDARK Member Board←[10CSamurai ←[0m ←[5C←[1;31mAbraxas/Diabolic←[10CDARK US Support Site←[7CMegga Hertz ←[0m ←[5C←[1;31mABCD Cafe←[17CDARK Support Site Kyo ←[0m ←[1;33mWhere to obtain DARK Collections ---←[0m ←[1;33m ←[0m ←[1;33m ←[31mVia the Internet, DARK packs can be obtained from The Reg ←[65Cency's←[0m ←[1;31mFTP ←[0m ←[1;31msite, at←[0m ←[1mtregency.res.cmu.edu←[31m, or from the ACiD Artpacks←[0m ←[58C←[1;31mArchive at←[0m ←[1mftp.cdrom.com ←[31m(/pub/artpacks/incoming/artpacks/).←[0m ←[4C←[1m ←[0m ←[1;31mMost DARK members can be contacted through e-mail (addresses←[0m ←[69C←[1;31mavailable←[0m ←[1;31min the memberlist), and some may be found lurking on the←[0m ←[1;31mIRC, in chan ←[70Cnel←[0m ←[1m#dark←[31m. (EFnet)←[0m ←[5C←[1;31m On the World Wide Web, you'll find support for DARK Illustrated, as←[0m ←[1;31mwell as the latest pack, via ←[37mwww.darkillustrated.org←[31m.←[0m ←[5C←[1;31m For more detailed information on DARK Illustrated, DARK's own←[0m ←[1;31mF ←[71C.A.Q.←[0m ←[1;31m(Frequently Asked Questions) text file is included in this←[0m ←[1;31marchive.←[0m ←[1;31mFilename:←[0m ←[1mDARK-FAQ.186←[0m ←[16C ←[34m▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[1;31m▄▄▄▄←[33m ▄▄▄▄▄ ←[31m▄▄▄▄ ←[49C←[0;30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[34m▄←[37m ←[1;35m The greatness of a work soon became apparent by virtue of the speed ←[0m ←[1;35mwith which it could arrive at a satisfying conclusion; if past works of ←[0m ←[1;35mgreat literature were lacking such, ghost writers joined forces with ghost ←[0m ←[1;35meditors and together gave literary plastic surgery to the greatest works of ←[0m ←[1;35mthe twentieth century and beyond, so that the masses responded to the←[0m ←[1;35mSavage's attentions to Lenia in much the same way as they did to the feely ←[0m ←[1;35mtheatres, and these professional hacks knew that they had outdone themselves ←[0m ←[1;35mwhen they managed to leave a reader sympathizing with Alex's forlorn need ←[0m ←[1;35mfor the stirring tunes of Luddy Von and Winston's ultimate love for Big←[0m ←[1;35mBrother. No one spoke out about the rearrangement and omission of a few←[0m ←[1;35mugly words and distasteful phrases - they couldn't remember the book ever←[0m ←[1;35mhaving been this beautiful in the first place, and they certainly weren't←[0m ←[1;35mgoing to act against this wonderful process.←[0m ←[1;35m Eventually this comeback, however, was given a boost by the ←[0m ←[1;35mstill-impressive forces of the graphic, which had not been forgotten by the ←[0m ←[1;35mpublic. Indeed, when the two medias combined forces once again to provide ←[0m ←[1;35mthe formidable and venerable vehicle of the picturebook, the flaring heyday ←[0m ←[1;35mof the word was already over. Passages of nice things were enhanced, then ←[0m ←[1;35msupplanted, by pictures of nice things, and convoluted plots were slowly but ←[0m ←[1;35msurely broken down into images of fewer twists and turns, until the length ←[0m ←[1;35mof a book could be diminished tenfold while the enjoyment of it still be ←[0m ←[1;35mincreased, and this desperate attempt to preserve society as we know it was ←[0m ←[1;35mpronounced dead when they started replacing book titles and author names ←[0m ←[1;35mwith tasteful reproductions of kittens, palm trees and carrion birds. The←[0m ←[1;35mfocus had returned, inveitably, to the instant and gratifying fix that a←[0m ←[1;35msneek peek could provide over the slow and imperfect thrill derived from←[0m ←[1;35mwasting time skimming over dialogue, literary devices and plot development←[0m ←[1;35mand then pondering and considering its washed-away message, often while ←[0m ←[1;35mlooking at nothing more beauteous than the insides of one's eyelids; a ←[0m ←[1;35mcomplete write-off.←[0m ←[16C ←[34m▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[1;31m▄▄▄▄←[33m ▄▄▄▄▄ ←[31m▄▄▄▄ ←[49C←[0;30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[34m▄←[37m ←[1;33mSupport Sites (Mistigris) ---←[0m ←[1mThe Jade Monkey (604) 730-2467 Happyfish / Cthulu WHQ / Net ←[0m ←[1;31mC1ty iZ Burning (418) 841-3410 The Extremist CHQ / Net ←[0m ←[1;31mThe Regency tregency.res.cmu.edu Halaster USHQ ←[0m ←[1;31mDaemon's Gate (604) 948-0363 Mavrik KiTSCHNet WHQ/Ne ←[77Ct ←[0m ←[1;31mHarvest Moon (216) 951-7059 Qur'An Twingle HQ / Net ←[0m ←[1;31mSavage Exile! 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(360) 336-5976 Prong Site ←[0m ←[1;31mBlue Moon +(618) 8332-3403 Pulse Site ←[0m ←[1;31mJuice (604) 522-9797 Infinite Madness Net ←[0m ←[5;30m ←[0;1;31mWWW URL @ ←[37mhttp://www.geocities.com/Athens/1758/mist.html←[0m ←[16C ←[34m▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[1;31m▄▄▄▄←[33m ▄▄▄▄▄ ←[31m▄▄▄▄ ←[49C←[0;30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[34m▄←[37m ←[1;35m It was decided that man's ultimate calling truly was the organized ←[0m ←[1;35mand ritual viewing of such images, and clever and cunning machines and ←[0m ←[1;35msoftware were crafted to allow every adult to spend only a half of an hour ←[0m ←[1;35mof every day at work, mostly in vast film-developing complexes, and the rest ←[0m ←[1;35mof the day being dedicated to sitting in long rows in frugal chairs, ←[0m ←[1;35muncomfortable but unnoticed, gazing upon a wide, vast gallery of enhanced ←[0m ←[1;35mpictures. A surreal spectacle, that of the silent and awed masses ←[0m ←[1;35menthralled by the sur-reality of visions of beaches, forests, the eyes of a←[0m ←[1;35mmighty stag and those of a killer.←[0m ←[1;35m While it was to have been expected, it was surprising that this did ←[0m ←[1;35mnot happen sooner; a blind man, whipped into a frothing rage at his apparent ←[0m ←[1;35minability to appreciate those finest things in life, managed to find his way ←[0m ←[1;35mto a gallery despite an inability to consult large friendly reproductions of ←[0m ←[1;35mmaps and street names, and, white cane flailing erratically like a lizard's ←[0m ←[1;35mbroken-off tail, ripped a poster in two, tearing a terrible crevice down its ←[0m ←[1;35mflawless sheening surface. A jury of twelve sighted folk condemned him to ←[0m ←[1;35mdeath for the crime of blasphemy. This started a chain reaction where ←[0m ←[1;35mhordes of God's Chosen, those who could see the divine apparitions He had ←[0m ←[1;35mallowed his children to create, rose up and, in a swift, bloody movement, ←[0m ←[1;35mexecuted savage pity upon those whom had been deprived of the ability to ←[0m ←[1;35mworship properly - the blind were rounded up and locked away, and those who ←[0m ←[1;35mrequired glasses or bifocals were regarded, when at all, as highly suspect.←[0m ←[1;35m As has been noted, the subject matter of the picture of the picture ←[0m ←[1;35mof the picture mattered hardly at all in relation to what pleasure was ←[0m ←[1;35mderived from its viewing - masses reacted equally well to displays of ←[0m ←[1;35mrippling puddles, miraculous fetuses in-the-womb, and man's ultimate ←[0m ←[1;35mexpression of power - mushroom clouds billowing menacingly but ←[0m ←[1;35mbeautifully. Of course, everyone was too busy looking into sur-reality to ←[0m ←[1;35mactually spend the time singing in the rain, making babies or detonating←[0m ←[1;35mbombs, but archives provided an ample supply of past experiences which could←[0m ←[1;35mbe re-lived, and better, through this irreplacable process. Any image, ←[0m ←[1;35mgiven sufficient dedicated repetition of the process, could be rendered ←[0m ←[1;35mequally appealing and they could all attain the penultimate pinnacle of ←[0m ←[1;35mbeauty regardless of what their source was - but eventually even that rule ←[0m ←[1;35mwas broken.←[0m ←[16C ←[34m▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[1;31m▄▄▄▄←[33m ▄▄▄▄▄ ←[31m▄▄▄▄ ←[49C←[0;30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[34m▄←[37m ←[1;33mIF ART WEENIES RULED THE WORLD... --- ←[31m Seeing as Mistigris and Dark are two of the more prominent canadian art groups... We took a little political poll. (Yes, politics and the art scene shouldn't mix, but this is a great training ground for ruthlessness and empty campaign promises...) In any event, we phrased the question to participants in ←[37m#mist←[31m and ←[37m#dark ←[73C←[31m thusly: "Which party would you vote for, out of the below choices, regardless of whether or not you actually can vote - because of restraints of age, country of citizenship or laziness..." And here are the results. votes % Party (Oaths, comments and other editorializings are in brackets.) ←[37m8 23.5 Liberals←[31m (Jean Cretian r0x0rs.) 4 11.8 Reform 3 8.9 Green (green party. because they never get anything good to happen..) (I'm voting Green. Not because I think they will get in, but because then my vote is actually counted and I don't have to feel apathetic.) (Cthulu voted Green!) 3 8.9 Spoil your ballot (soil my ballot.) 2 5.9 Conservatives 2 5.9 an Independant 2 5.9 Natural Law (Natural Law will Legalize Pot.) 2 5.9 Rhino (even if they're not forwarding candidates this election) (I dont know what you're talking about. But I like the sound of this guy.) 1 2.9 Bloc Quebequois 1 2.9 MAX HEADROOM FOR PRIME MINISTER! 1 2.9 New Democratic Party 1 2.9 Robin Williams 1 2.9 I vote for DON KING. 1 2.9 i vote for you going the hell away. 1 2.9 Self-exile! 1 2.9 Timothy Mcveigh ←[0m ←[1;31m1←[0m←[3C←[1;31m2.9 Royal LePage←[0m ←[1;31m 0 0.0 Canadian Action party 0 0.0 Christian Heritage 0 0.0 Marxist-Leninists __ ____ 34 100.0 So you can see that although the government and even the opposition would have been the same, the distribution of votes and of the remaining seats would have been drastically different. Kind of a powerful political statement that Don King got more votes than any of the bottom three legitimate political parties. So what have we learned from this little exercise? ←[37mMan, I've gotta get hair like that...←[31m ←[0m ←[1;33m ←[0m ←[1;33m-Cthulu (Mistidark ←[70C)←[0m ←[16C ←[34m▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[1;31m▄▄▄▄←[33m ▄▄▄▄▄ ←[31m▄▄▄▄ ←[49C←[0;30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[34m▄←[37m ←[1;35m Perhaps it was instinct, or mere shadows of a mother's whisperered ←[0m ←[1;35mwarning long ago, but there was one thing which was rarely gazed upon and ←[0m ←[1;35mnever captured on film - the celestial orb above. Traditional photography ←[0m ←[1;35mmade it nearly impossible to take representative pictures of the celestial ←[0m ←[1;35morb above without running the risk of over-exposed film and damage to ←[0m ←[1;35mequipment, both of the camera and of the photographer's eye. This unwritten ←[0m ←[1;35mrule followed through in this aesthteic movement but, when all else had been ←[0m ←[1;35mcaptured to film and honed to a perfect print, this lonely star alone←[0m ←[1;35mremained to be immortalized on cellulose.←[0m ←[1;35m With only two or three iterations, prints of the sun quickly came to ←[0m ←[1;35mnote for their unique and exquisite beauty - singular and unique among the ←[0m ←[1;35mblocks and blocks of static sur-real glaciers, lions, hummingbirds and ←[0m ←[1;35mparamecia. Heads began to turn to the rising star, or at least wallet-sized ←[0m ←[1;35mversions of it, and soon its shining face was seen peeking from every street ←[0m ←[1;35mcorner and in the wrapping of any package. This was to be the era of the ←[0m ←[1;35mSun, the dawning of a new age, and cults sprung up in veneration of its←[0m ←[1;35mperfect image, considered by many to be the face of God.←[0m ←[1;35m Weather machines were devised to divert clouds to uninhabited ←[0m ←[1;35mregions, and early one morning, midway between dawn and noon, a joint ←[0m ←[1;35mproject sponsored by the twelve greatest nations on Earth took place many ←[0m ←[1;35mmiles up, where a series of shuttles and sattelites came together to ←[0m ←[1;35mconstruct what had long been thought blasphemous but now was universally ←[0m ←[1;35mregarded as the only remaining course of action. Tubes and reinforcements ←[0m ←[1;35mcame together in zero gravity, and by the time the sun was at its highest, ←[0m ←[1;35mmeasured in the time zone of the most populous region on the planet, of ←[0m ←[1;35mcourse, the field was activated. The Sun had been framed and new images of ←[0m ←[1;35mitself, propagated through hologaph and lenses, appeared in the sky, ←[0m ←[1;35mshowering the entire world with the benign rays of a more perfect star. ←[0m ←[1;35m One truly could make out divine features in the radiant face, and as ←[0m ←[1;35mone, the world turned to see the most glorious sight possible. Faces ←[0m ←[1;35mtwisted and contorted into grotesque masks of rapturous ecstasy, and their ←[0m ←[1;35mminds exploded as their eyes turned dark, to savour forever the most perfect ←[0m ←[1;35msight possible in the universe. The legions of the newly blind, though it ←[0m ←[1;35mwould no longer serve them, tried to position themselves so that they would ←[0m ←[1;35mbe facing the heavenly object, that God might see them as they had seen Him,←[0m ←[1;35mand as it swept over their faces the light reflected in their rotting eyes←[0m ←[1;35mslowly clouded and faded to a dull sullen glow of decay and eternity.←[0m ←[16C ←[34m▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[1;31m▄▄▄▄←[33m ▄▄▄▄▄ ←[31m▄▄▄▄ ←[49C←[0;30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[34m▄←[37m ←[1;33mFilename Conventions ---←[0m ←[1;33m ←[0m ←[5C←[1;31mFilenames work like this:←[0m ←[1mXXXXX-##.*←[0m ←[1;31m ←[0m ←[5C←[1mXXXXX ←[31mis a five-letter abbreviation of the artist's alias. ←[5C(Should the alias fall within five characters or less, the entire alias will be used.) ←[0m ←[1;33m ←[0m ←[5C←[1m## ←[31mrepresents the current number of pieces the artist has pro ←[69Cduced for ←[0m ←[1;31mthe year of 1997. ←[0m ←[1;33m ←[0m ←[5C←[1m* ←[31mcan be any valid extension for images, executables, data fi ←[69Cles, or←[0m ←[1;31mmusical compositions. The most common are DRK for ANSI images,←[0m ←[1;31mJPG/G ←[70CIF/BMP/←[0m ←[1;31metc... for high-resolution graphic images, and MOD/S3M/XM/etc... for music←[0m ←[1;31mdate files. ←[0m ←[8C←[1;33m*SPECIAL*←[0m ←[1;33mFilenames with the ←[37mMASK-##←[33m prefix are joint e ←[64Cfforts by DARK←[0m ←[1;33mand Mistigris Members!←[0m ←[16C ←[34m▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[1;31m▄▄▄▄←[33m ▄▄▄▄▄ ←[31m▄▄▄▄ ←[49C←[0;30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[34m▄←[37m ←[1;35m After the cities and megalopolises of the world were silent for many ←[0m ←[1;35mdays, the few remaining blind freed themselves from their captivity. Coming ←[0m ←[1;35mupon the silent and unmoving shells of their former friends and relatives, ←[0m ←[1;35mmany still living, they moaned and beat their breasts and poked out their ←[0m ←[1;35mown eyes in tragic fury. Still, theirs was the world to inherit - they had ←[0m ←[1;35mlost nothing, and their daring resourcefulness allowed the world to live ←[0m ←[1;35magain.←[0m ←[1;35m You may have noticed than many a grizzled storyteller is blind. ←[0m ←[1;35mThis hearkens back to tradition of the Norse and the Greeks and beyond, for←[0m ←[1;35monly one posessed by the spirit of the story can repeat it properly, ←[0m ←[1;35mobjectively, without clouded interpretation from personal sights and past ←[0m ←[1;35mimages. Their visions are the most perfect, their relations with God the ←[0m ←[1;35mmost personal, and they truly are set apart, for they smile more and greater ←[0m ←[1;35mvolumes with their useless eyes than most of us do with our sardonically ←[0m ←[1;35mturned lips. Remember that behind the darkened glasses is inspiration and ←[0m ←[1;35mprophecy beyond the most tantalizing of sights, and that the tinted glass is ←[0m ←[1;35mthere to protect your naked mind from being destroyed by the great forces ←[0m ←[1;35mwhich operate beneath them.←[0m ←[16C ←[34m▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[1;31m▄▄▄▄←[33m ▄▄▄▄▄ ←[31m▄▄▄▄ ←[49C←[0;30m ←[31m▄▄▄←[30m ←[35m▄▄←[30m ←[34m▄←[37m ←[1;33mThe End ---←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mIt's odd. Despite being relieved that the packing job for this month←[0m ←[1;31mis over, I'm somewhat saddened too. This DARK/Mistigris collaboration was...←[0m ←[1;31mfun?←[0m ←[1;31m I can't find a word for it. Suffice it to say though, that it' ←[70Cs been←[0m ←[1;31man memorable experience.←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mTo Cthulu, and all Mistigris members, from myself and the entire DARK←[0m ←[1;31mclan (and local hanger-ons):←[37m Thank-you.←[0m ←[8C←[1;31mAnd good luck with your future endeavors.←[0m ←[52C←[1;33m-XypherMC←[0m ←[1;33m(DARK...)←[0m ←[44C←[31m▄█■←[37m←[9C←[31m▄←[1;41m■←[0;31m▄ ▄←[37m ←[36C←[31m▄▌←[37m←[5C←[31m▐←[1;41m■░←[0;31m▌←[37m←[9C←[31m▐▀←[1;41m░←[0;31m▌ ▐█▀←[37m ←[35C←[31m▐←[1;41m░←[0;31m▄←[37m←[5C←[31m▄▀ ■▄←[37m←[9C←[31m▐▒ ▄▀ ▓←[37m ←[29C←[31m▄█▄ ▀ ▄ ▄▄ ←[1;30m░←[0;31m▐←[1;41m▒░←[0m←[8C←[31m▓░ ▄▄ ▄▒▀←[37m ←[19C←[31m▄▌←[37m←[7C←[31m▐←[1;41m■░←[0;31m▌←[37m←[6C←[31m▀←[1;41m░←[0;31m▄▀←[1;41m░▒←[40m ←[44C←[0;31m▌←[35m░ ←[1;30;41m░←[0;31m▀▌ ▒ ▐▄■▀←[1;41m░←[0;31m▄▀←[1;41m░←[0;31m▌ ←[62C←[1;30m░ ←[0;31m▄▄░←[37m ←[18C←[31m▐←[1;41m░←[0;31m▄←[37m←[8C←[31m▐▓■ ▀←[1;41m░←[0m ←[31m▄ ▄←[1;30;41m░←[31m░←[40m ←[42C←[0;31m▀▀ ←[35m▒ ←[31m░ ■ ▀←[1;41m░←[0;31m▀▀▄■▄←[1;30;41m░ ←[0;31m▓ ←[1;30m░ 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Transmission Terminated.←[0m ←[0m→SAUCE00DARK Newsletter 05/97 Multiple Authors DARK Illustrated 199706 5♀╟