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   NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 17: RAVES, PENGUINS & LAURENCE LLEWELYN-BOWEN
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 This Week:
 - Everything starts with an "E"
 - Penguin Game
 - Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen Image Challenge
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 B3ta email 17 - 09 NOV 2001 - "We're saving the web"
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 : ARE YOU ONE ON MATEY?
   Bez, Mr. C, and dodgy ravers in a new animation.
 
   B3ta member Rob and his friend Lucy were
   chatting about their families.
   Lucy said, "Can we animate my Dad going to a
   rave? And turning into a bat?"
   Rob replied, "Hell yes! I reckon he'd be
   partying with Mr.C and Bez from the Happy
   Mondays."
   And so they got to work:
 http://b3ta.com/rave/
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 : PENGUIN / SLEEPY ECHIDNA GAME
   A web game about the forces of nature.
  
   Woo for B3ta member Shoehorn. He's made us a
   game.
   It features - you guessed it - penguins.
   You have to use your mouse to herd the penguins
   across the screen without waking the Echidna.
  
   The game is tricky, but as Shoehorn says,
   "Nature provides no warnings. Just be more
   cautious as the penguins get further across."
   This is the future of gaming:
 http://www.antimodal.com/flash/critters04.html
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 : ODD TODD - HE NEEDS A JOB
   Animator makes viral CV.
  
   Todd Rosenberg used to be a director at
   AtomFilms - the website that attempted to connect
   animators and filmmakers with new clients.
   However - since their huge layoffs in June - Todd
   has been out of work. "I've been on the skids ever
   since", he say. "I've cashed out my pension fund."
   To help him find work, Todd has attempted to
   build a viral CV. I.e. one that provides
   enough entertainment for people to pass it
   on via email.
   He says, "Hopefully the right person will see
   it and offer me the right job. It's already
   generating interest - I've made $150 with
   my tip jar."
   Good luck Todd - your animation is really rather
   sweet:
 http://www.oddtodd.com/
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 : GET YOUR HUGE B3TA POSTER HERE
   Download - print - and put it on your wall.
   B3ta member - Sul - is lovely. He's taken loads
   of images from the b3ta board and made a huge
   poster of a penguin from them.
   Beware if you're on  dial up, its a 3.5 MB file:
 http://www.sulsplace.com/archives/b3ta-photopengui...
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 : B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
   Results - winner - new challenge.
   Each week we run a competition to test your
   creative skills. We find an image, and you
   make our eyeballs bleed by messing it about.
   Last week was Ali G. Your stuff was wicked:
 http://b3ta.com/challenge/alig/
   The winner? Dr Kathryn Quinns' Ali P:
 http://www.b3ta.com/images/b3ta/pea.jpg
   This weeks challenge? : Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
 http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/llb/
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 : LINK OF THE WEEK
   Way of the exploding stick.
   Do you remember the fighting stickmen animations
   which everyone was emailing each-other a few
   months ago?
   A man called Jez Becker does - he's taken
   the graphic work - and turned it into a game.
   Jez says, "The chap who designed the graphics is a
   master. I'm sure he's sitting on top of a mountain
   contmplating the lotus, the grasshopper and the
   hand of the nine deadly flash techniques."
   (BTW: Jez has recently quit his web design job to
   take off round the world. "I'm currently seeking
   work", he says, "Anybody want a Bristol based
   flash bloke?")
 Go and kick some stickman butt:
 http://www.evolver.co.uk/wayofthestick.html
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