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Q-Bic 1999

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The final piece from my last full release in 1999... a favourite of many over the years... look at it any way you like - shallow or deep you'll find something aesthetically pleasing or intellectually stimulating. You can consider it something as trite as Q*bert on LSD, or as symbolic commentary on the rules of life, as per your liking.

A note about the length of the intro on top... ANSI used to be viewed on BBSes where the piece would scroll down, only showing 25 lines at a time. The cube field on top was intended to mesmerize before subtly breaking into the three-eyed bird. Nowadays I know it just doesn't work so I'm re-visiting this piece and will some day put up a modern-day remix that is more artistically cohesive and streamlined... but for now, I think you'll agree it's impressive enough to put online as is ;)

This is pretty much the last of my old material (released 1999 with Sztuka) so unless I dig up something else from the past anything you see from here on in will be new work... have I mentioned how goddamn time consuming these things can be? Ah well... enjoy :D
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filth412's avatar
man, i remember seeing this for the first time when you put it out in 1999 and thinking that this was the single greatest ansi ever made.  after a fourteen year "sabbatical" and seeing scores of fantastic artwork from those fourteen years, there was only one pic that i feel is on this level - a little while back Aaron Frick (fever) drew an amazing tribute to Doug Moore (Lord Scarlet @ sixteencolors.net) in .bin format. ... 

...hah, it just hit me how long ago you posted this and not sure how often you check deviant .  :)  oh well. it's still great way to say hello!