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1. Check it out! ANSI in two consecutive packs! That's a feat not done in two years.

2. Our featured artist this month is Stereophoenix, aka SPX. He's got a great interview for you to read, and two images in the pack. Come find out about this interesting Aussie :)

3. DJ Monkeyboy did a great intoduction to using Maya for our tutorial this month. So put those pens down and get your pucks out and get prepped for doing some 3D work on a $7500 (base price) professional package. You can download a free Personal Learning Edition from http://www.aliaswavefront.com/

4. Quick note to excessively thank Mynx and Quantum-X specifically, as well as everyone else in iCE for helping out with so much around the home base. The interview and tutorial html were done by Mynx this month, and Quantum-X has done previous months. You guys all kick ass, and it's great to see people kicking in to help the group!

5. We have a couple new members this month! First up is Yonadaan, a great new hi-res artist who survived our terrible application process. He's really excited to finally be a part of iCE, even though we made him shave his hands and hazed him a bit excessively. Although the police are investigating, we feel confident that they'll never find the photos or the name of the youth organization that was involved.

   Next up we have Allan! No handle, just Allan. Allan ran on the election platform of "Vote for me and I'll make babies cry!", which was a real hit among the younger crowd. He cleaned up at the election booths and made it into iCE. And we're very glad to have him with us! Congrats to both of our new members this month!

6. We have to wave farewells to a few people this month. First, we are sadly losing defected, who is leaving to be with Raster (using the name Psilic). We certainly wish him well with Raster! Andrew is a great guy and we'll miss him. Good luck Andrew!

   Also departing is Precurser, whose website (endeffect.com) and life are taking too much of his time. He's departing on the best of terms, and we will certainly miss him.

   Finally, Cadaverous Fate is leaving to join Noir. It's sad to see people go, but we only hope they're happy in their new homes. Good luck everyone!

7. Although we don't normally discuss group policy in our newsletters, I figured I'ld explain here. iCE has always had a rule against dual-grouping in cases where the groups overlap. In other words, if someone wants to join iCE to release artwork and join another group to release poetry, that's fine. But we ask that our members are dedicate themselves to the group and don't take membership lightly by "shopping around". Every group can always use help from their members - get in the one you want and work to improve it as much as you can.

8. We have a special guest release this month from Greg and Jito. We don't normally release non-iCE art in the pack, but this one was special. Greg and Jito are such fantastic artists and it turned out so well that we thought we should give it some extra publicity. So check out Greg and Jito's quilt from tiles in the pack this month!

9. We also have our Tribute to H.R. Giger in the pack this month. I think it turned out great, so go take a peek! You can grab the completed quilt image at http://tiles.ice.org/59.jpg. Just don't stop and wonder what all those tubes actually do - it's disturbing.

10. Huge thanks to Farmy and his brother for this past month. We've been having all sorts of server problems, mostly due to heat issues. But Farmy and his brother have constantly dropped everything to work late into the night trying to diagnose and fix our server issues. Farmy and Mike, we appreciate it! We really do!

11. Finally, I have to personally thank Root88. He has spent hours working every day to generate thumbnails and screenshots from loaders and RIP files from old packs. We all owe Root88 a huge thanks to preserving our rich history of art, music, and loaders back from the dark ages <grin>. All of fantastic art work that the lazy missed by merely web viewing iCE art instead of downloading the actual packs can now be easily viewed online. We have even created http://archiology.ice.org for a quick link to see all great work that may have been missed. Tune in again to archiology.ice.org next month when we re-release dozens of iCE ansi's never before seen in a pack. All the great artwork that was posted to BBS's before the idea of ice packs came about (8/92) has been restored from decade old tape backup for you viewing pleasure.

    Positive that all your resolutions have failed,
        Slothy and Root88

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