Florida residents: Egoraptor, Tomamoto, The-Swain and Luis will be running a Newgrounds booth at MegaCon in Orlando this weekend! Go say HI!

A bunch of artists from the Audio Portal have come together to make an album, Synthetica!

You can also listen to a sample of the album! You can purchase it on iTunes by clicking here.

ReNaeNae has put together a great post highlighting a lot of current art activities. Two in particular:

1. Join the Isometric Pixel Art contest!

2. A group of artists have formed an account on NG to post tutorials! Check out Art101.

In other news...

Pixtropolis City, a pixel music video collaboration to Metropolis by ParagonX9, two months in the making, will be in the portal on March 6th.

Murudai and Rig have been developing an Xbox Live Community Game that will soon be available!

Remember back in 2000 when we had that Newgrounds party at the Trocadero in Philly? Does anyone still have original photos from that? Nathan is looking for hi-res pics for his documentary. If you have pics, email them to tom AT newgrounds.com.

Thank you to everyone who has bought Hans' One Shot Comic. Your support makes more projects like this possible!

14hourlunchbreak likes his Dandy t-shirt and so will you!

Join the Monkey Round the World experience! And thank you Rig for plugging it in the Artist News box. :)

In NG Twitter news, it looks like we'll have 600 followers by Monday... But what if we hit 700 instead?

There is some great Flash you may have missed this week! This list goes from serious, to funny, to totally random. Your favorite Flash of the week just might be here:

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  Juliet Morphina

  by Kizior

  Story about little girl's sad dream.

  Movie

  7,290 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  A Bird and a Burger

  by PIED3

  A man buys a burger, but a bird steals, he chases after it and hilarity and action ensue!

  Movie

  9,441 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Clifton

  by Duztin-Cruz

  Clifton never brings his folder to class

  Movie

  8,025 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  The Slide

  by Tawnik

  People do weird stuff =)

  Movie

  9,235 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  Laser Eye Surgery

  by FreekC

  He should've gone to specsavers

  Movie

  7,843 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  Just Desserts

  by Tugoro

  This movie is the greatest ever. not joking

  Movie

  19,549 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Psychiatric Hospital

  by Hulalaoo

  In a Psychiartric Hospital happens SLIGHTLY STRANGE

  Movie

  10,934 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  Totally Random

  by Calicard

  This is totally random!

  Movie

  3,425 Views

  (Everyone)

That's one sweet explosion of stuff you got there. I really need to sign up to Twitter soon, don't I?

if you offer prizes to one twitter subscriber every week, i'm sure you'll gain more than 700 fairly soon

This is all very exciting news, and yay for slides!

That CD looks pretty sweet. May have to purchase it some day...

If you aren't on Twitter, you don't need to go out of your way; we just want Twitter users to know we're there. And we just MIGHT start doing weekly trivia giveaways. :)

who I bet the EP guys are going to make quite a bit of money now =O

At 2/26/09 03:25 PM, TomFulp wrote: And we just MIGHT start doing weekly trivia giveaways. :)

Might? Hell, that's good enough for me, I've signed up to Twitter now. It's a pretty cool site and about time I conformed to all of this Web 2.0 nonsense ;)

At 2/26/09 03:21 PM, TomFulp wrote: A bunch of artists from the Audio Portal have come together to make an album, Synthetica!

You can also listen to a sample of the album! You can purchase it on iTunes by clicking here.

Don't forget to DIGG that shit if you can't afford to buy it!

http://digg.com/music/Synthetica_EP_Demo _Track

http://digg.com/music/Synthetica_EP_Demo _Track

http://digg.com/music/Synthetica_EP_Demo _Track

:D

At 2/26/09 03:41 PM, Zerok wrote:

Hey, it's Zerok :)

At 2/26/09 03:42 PM, Nicholas-Deary wrote:

At 2/26/09 03:41 PM, Zerok wrote:

Hey, it's Zerok :)

Hey ho whaddya know.

Wow did you send a memo out to all the light users to read this post or what?

They made a awesome album, might buy it, great songs etc ;D

Nice, I am going to try those art tuttorials, thanks!

And representing the pinkies...

lolwut. so many light users.

Anywho.. everyone should definitely buy Synthetica. It's made of awesome. Plus.. buying it encourages more collaborative albums in the future... which I believe are already somewhat in the works.

Also, tune in to Radiogrounds! It's one of the best ways to keep up with things going on in the AP. Lots of new DJs on the site (like me lololol) as well as new radio shows (like the Tuesday Zerobombcast) and the return of Monthly Audio Contest radio shows.. such as the MAC09 Valoltines Radiocast.

I'm out of town at the moment.. so I'm not on as much.. but lot's of other NG people are DJing live on the site very frequently. And hell.. I'm probably going to DL a pile of NG music and do a set on my sister's computer for lulz. It's great stuff.. so definitely check it out!

The pixel art contest sounds awesome.
Its to bad I don't have any art skills or I would enter.
Anyway thank you Tom for the EXPLOSION of great news.

Awesome, a shit load of news. I like the fact that I was 7 when that party happened, so no I probably don't have pics :3

At 2/26/09 03:21 PM, TomFulp wrote: Join the Monkey Round the World experience! And thank you Rig for plugging it in the Artist News box. :)

An interesting way to gain some Newgrounds publicity. I think this may be where one of my remaining NG Tank stickers from the meet up finally heads. Kudos to the lucky guy or girl who gets that in their box, when they open it.

Yeah, i guess I'll come follow Newgrounds on Twitter one day...

The NG Digg Team has submitted a lot of good flash to Digg but we still need more people to Digg those submits.

All you need to do is press the "Digg" button.

Please join Wade's Digg Team.

More info on the Digg team at http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic.php?
id=1014356

Also I made a post about the Digg team http://johnny29.newgrounds.com/news/post /266584

Are we ever going to have another Newgrounds party that doesn't involve meetups or cons?

Wow sounds great!

That's ALOT of great news! Guess i'm gonna have to stay tuned!!! :D

FUCK!

What the fuck about PS3 owners? Is NG ignoring us?

This is one explosion that I wouldn't mind running down a long corridor and jumping out of a window for.

At 2/26/09 03:25 PM, TomFulp wrote: If you aren't on Twitter, you don't need to go out of your way; we just want Twitter users to know we're there. And we just MIGHT start doing weekly trivia giveaways. :)

Seriously, that's the only reason I'd sign up for Twitter >.> Both for the chance to win a prize (whatever it may be) and also to show off my Newgrounds trivia knowledge ;p

Great news stuffs, the album sounds awesome. Not that I'm into techno or synthetic music at all but it's definitely a fantastic project and I hope it gets a bit of recognition.

At 2/26/09 04:52 PM, DocSprite wrote: What the fuck about PS3 owners? Is NG ignoring us?

The game being developed by murudai isn't associated with Newgrounds, it's just a project by him and Rig .. who I suppose met here on Newgrounds. Just goes to show how far the Newgrounds community reaches.

Developing a game for PSN is much more difficult than developing for Live because you need a dev-kit; with Live you can simply download the XNA SDK and develop games for free (though I think you need to join MSDN as a developer for $100 or something). Hopefully Sony will release a SDK allowing homebrew development for the PS3 but it's a lot of work and they'd only get a lot of stick about copying Microsoft, but as a programmer I can't think of anything I'd like more ^_^

I now need to get myself the comic book and the album. Bankrupt me why don't you :P

more like assplosion because most of the stuff posted there I didn't care about.

I love it when you explode Tom.