While the cross is upside-down (shades of Manson, but that’s a swastika… which has no upside-down!), it’s worth noting that pentagrams in this orientation actually represent holiness: a good Christian, legs firmly grounded, arms held out in worship, head pointing to the sky. (Reversed, it becomes more of a goat’s head.) But the point is… isn’t it just adorable?
We only just regained contact with him a couple of weeks ago, but Reanimator (now reNM8R if you will) has hit the ground running in the fashion of someone who fell into a cryochamber in 1995 and landed in 2016. Looking over his standard and NSFW galleries of MUX portraits, this particular piece jumped out as seasonally appropriate and so in it went to the MIST1016 Hallowe'en artpack, released yesterday: a lady might well go to the costume store in search of a scary bat costume, but sadly, all they’ll find is the makings for a “sexy bat” one. Well, fine then! Here’s your sexy bat! Just try not to, uh, visualise the logistics in too great detail. (In fact, the bat-woman represents a friend’s avatar giving the piece its name – “Dancing Echo”. But could I resist going down that road? I’m not made of stone!)
Leaping lightly from medium to medium, the next dollop of cream skimmed from yesterday’s MIST1016 artpack is this oil painting by The Mythical Man entitled “Strange Weather”. Rumour has it here in Vancouver we’ve just set a record of 27 rainy days in October, but that is not as extraordinary as luminous airbornejellyfish… that only happens during El Niño!
Happy Halloween! Here is a gallery of artwork courtesy @horsenburger. http://twitter.com/horsenburger
You can find all these artworks and more in the Mistigris @mistfunk Halloween artpack, which is OUT NOW! https://artpacks.org/2016/MIST1016.zip
I was hoping to showcase them individually but as you can see I might well grow old and die before I catch up… And would you believe that he’s got a whole other batch of sweet teletext goodness queued up for release just a couple of weeks from now? The basic conundrum is that he appears to be able to draw them faster than I can celebrate them!
The tip of the iceberg… Steve “Horsenburger” Horsley has emerged from retirement (as a onetime teletext illustration professional) and has discovered that the machinery is still all well-oiled and the motions near seamless. (For a pittance, he would be happy to sell you a teletext portrait!) The hard part isn’t getting him to draw teletext, it’s getting him to stop! Here we see a consummately Hallowe'eny piece from his massive appearance in yesterday’s MIST1016 artpack… it is of course the Ghostbusters logo, and as I noted elsewhere – it’s nice to see that seemingly antiquated computer art forms such as teletext aren’t actually any more dated than their contemporaries in the world of comedy and entertainment! This rendition allows you to celebrate them both like it’s 1984 all over again!
You saw this one yesterday in the pack-announcement post, but here it is all on its own in its full glory. Her name is Albina, and this desaturated Zodiac avatar is drawn by Elin Jonsson of Imaginary Games, creators of the fabulous mobile CCG Afterland. This was her first appearance with Mistigris (Elin’s, that is, not Albina’s… though that is also true) and her only offering in this particular artpack, but we have more of her dark and delicious art just waiting in the eaves to be shared with you.
Trick or Treat! Our Hallowe'en-styled 22nd anniversary (!) artpack (you may recall its awesome teaser trailer from a couple of weeks back) is officially released, and is now available for local download at http://bit.ly/mist1016 … there is some ANSI and ASCII art, by old hands and a few new names to boot, plus our ongoing investigations into other genres of textmode art (PETSCII, Shift-JIS, and a ton of teletext!) Also lots of #inktober sketches, drawings and paintings, plenty o’ varied hirez, even music… and of course it wouldn’t be a Mist pack without some lit!
Mar 10
I passed a man.
He wasn't human.
(Featured in this post: FILE_ID.DIZ by Nail, Ambush by Raqel Meyers as ACIDT*, Happy Helloween by reNM8R, Albina by Elin Jonsson, Hellboy teletext by Horsenburger, Strange Weather by the Mythical Man, Haunted House #inktober sketch by Bonemouse, Click or Treat Shift-JIS by Kalcha, Just Because You Are Afraid Of Me Does Not Mean I Am Dangerous #inktober sketch by Theresa Oborn, Castlevania by Whazzit. (Oh yes, and the poem is by Crowkeeper.) But everything in this collection is Hallowe'eny, this is just a sampling to demonstrate its incredible diversity!)
Today on Mistigram, we break from tradition by featuring a seasonal piece without any obvious Mistigris branding. This Hallowe'eny character is Lord Pumpkin, from Malibu Comics’ short-lived Ultraverse, and he was translated to ANSI art (for what I’m suspecting was the first and only time) by our own Nitnatsnoc in our very first artpack, released 22 years ago in October of 1994.
From the long-lost August 1998 Mistigris artpack comes this spooky scene, of Image Comics mainstays Spawn (poster child of local boy Todd Macfarlane) and Violator before a full moon, rendered in hirez using eerie Photoshop smudging. Due to the agonizingly protracted circumstances of its release, you may not have seen it before, but a belated congratulations are due to its creator, Knightmare… wherever he is!
Today on Mistigram, this thunderbolt-and-lightning-very-very-frightening-y newschool ASCII art Mist logo by Crystal Meth, originally drawn and released in July of 1997. Those letters… must not be grounded!
Doing our little bit to pump more mad science into the world at this time of year, here’s this bubbling test tube of an ANSI art logo from Blender #31 in 1997, drawn by Happyfish (who now ironically finds herself a real life mad scientist, compounding pharmaceutical substances into bubbling test tubes of her own) atop a strange story knitting together the target subjects of “scientists / running / down a one-way street”. There isn’t room on Instagram for the typo-riddled story, but if you insist, you can read it here.
Separated at birth? Today on Mistigram: on the left, “Steampink” by legendary ACiD hirez artist (and wicked tattooist in his off hours) CatBones, featured as a guest in last year’s MIST1015 artpack… and on the right, the cover artwork to Jane’s Addiction’s 1987 eponymous live album. But only one of them has ASCII art printed on their midriff!
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He was a key character in the foundation of Mistigris (look up top in his timeline, the first ANSI he’s made this century, minted in TheDraw – c'mon man, that big blue Pablo logo from our debut means you know better! – where you see the brief blip we occupy at the start of his long and illustratious scene career) because he started where we started: with the NWA (Vancouver’s New Wave Artists) / GRiP/AD (Quebec’s Graphic Revolution in Progress - Art Division) merger known as iMPERiAL. It was not to be long for this world, but it got our feet up on the rungs. Before that particular bubble popped, he got well established with his influential-in-naming trendsetting BBS Sarcastic Toaster. Concretely he gave inspiration, advice and technical assistance to Nitnatsnoc when our first WHQ BBS, The Screaming Tomato, was being set up, possibly even before we had any plans to run an artgroup out of it.
Our continuity with iMPERiAL was disappointing, as most of the handful of its still-active former members at that early juncture lent their support behind Fab One’s competing proposed artgroup, PATRiOT, later RAiD (and ultimately leading to Darkforce’s Integrity.) Thanks to the connection with Nitnatsnoc he lent material support to our bid for existence not only with (as you can see above – the FILE_ID.DIZ for our first artpack release! that’s ground floor foundational contribution right there!) actual artwork (despite already holding membership in RELiC – a dual-grouping conceit that would shortly explode with membership held simultaneously – if briefly – in ACiD, RELiC, SHiVER, UNiON and Katharsis ASCII) as well as, with Sarcastic Toaster serving as CHQ, a whole potted division of Quebec-area artists he brought along with him, including Zoltar, The Naughty Tycoon, Diamond Traveller and The Extremist – that last who would carry on the role and continue representing us in the 418 code right up to our closing months with Dionyzos and Enelf Daragard.
To reiterate: Eerie was only with us for three months at the end of 1994, but echoes and effects of his brief tenure were still being felt in the final stages of Mist Classic, in August 1998 nearly four years later. In the meantime, he’d made a legend of himself. We weren’t the start of the legend, but we were near the beginning. (And reflect that any of the umpteen groups in which he held membership at one point or another could likely gush for as great length as I have here about his tenure there!) Here in this post you can enjoy his brief intersection with us, and as a bonus… here, enjoy a couple of brief Misty pieces – his spot illustration of one of my lits, and his abrasive tracked song from the “lost” Mist/Fire Radiance music disk we revived last year – that didn’t make it into his collection!
And we’ll end on something particular to Mistigris that no other artgroup (you sure as heck would never have caught it in an ACiD or Integrity pack) would have allowed him to release: a “lit” of his own!
bloody mary
apoplexy of a bludgeoned country
emanations
corrosion
the last feedback is reechoing in your destroyed voice
wake-ups
highway's ending here
i could try
yea, yea, i could try to shout
to puke my bile by the pores of my skin
to be dismembered
i could try to weep
but it's impossible
cuz she's sticking in my landscape
cornering my brain without being able to exit
her humid body
the haemoglobin dropping from her mouth
we won't go anywhere
there's nowhere to go
i want her to stay
i still want to force myself to watch her at 3am
i don't want to rape anymore
i don't want to kill anymore
but without attacking i lose my only defence
sweet impaled flesh
sweet impaled flesh
SWEET IMPALED FLESH
i'm searching you
no clue on where you could be
bring me back home
don't die anymore
i want you
bring me back in your bed
bring me back i don't know where
don't bleed anymore
don't moan anymore
i love you
reclothe you
don't be hurt again
bring me back in your arms
so i can still believe i'm innocent
take me
so i can still believe i'm
eternal
amen
first motion
i
at some places on the asphalt
agenda pages, dispersed
a date another one
pages splashed with some blood drops
countries splashed
only the corpse and the scandal are missing
the newspaper car left the place
"we all know, you, journalists
only think about
SATISFYING
people" money
justice was undone
let's attack the city
let's attack those people swimming in their drains
mountains splashed
valleys assassinated
population drowning
my mother swallowing
scarlet rivers
start back from the source
no one would dare to regret
ISN'T IT?
ii
beautiful terror
beautiful panic
beautiful fright
spread on the surface
enough to corrupt everything
and confound everything in the burst
RIVER
into which the population was forced to
CLEANSE itself
beautiful dirty river
hands immersed in this incandescent liquid
incardinine
BUT YOU TOLD ME BUT YOU ADVISED ME BUT YOU APPROVED ME BUT YOU
when the widow
nowhere else
iii
- The bath has been filled with blood. Write this down.
- "The bath has been filled with blood."
- Write this down too. The woman has been drowned in this blood.
- "The woman has been drown in this blood."
- She is now dead.
- "She is now dead."
edge
yes of course i'll be waiting for you
get here fast i can't wait to
- We certified the decease. That's it. We don't have anything else
to do here. Let's go.
where will you meet me
with who
iv
memory you stab with the turpentine
the creature has gushed
poor frail innocence why
did you manifested yourself
beautiful and young so beautiful and young
why
no
the sea is prolonging day after day
already finished the story
everything that happens unconsciously
when the skin is naked
when the soul is turned off
when the conscience is dying
v
they were beautiful so beautiful
so magic
conversation recorded on magnetic tape
one day they will know
no
yes no yes
SET ME FREE
a life without disappointment
an existence without normality morality
them girls without disappointment
them girls without ignorance
without naivety
i tell you
set me free
yesb
cold shower
steaming bath
now
life can be
while a moment of ecstacy
while the absolute bombardment
of hell hell you see
real liberation
from the soft cushion and the old bread
from the paradise of the dungeon
adjunction of liberty
to the sad yesterdays that
continue cant stop
for an infinite deflagration
of which the epicenter will be
in my brain
synapses will create the spark
atomic garden
atomic garden
smell the radioactive flowers
of an internal hiroshima
un
the steep bank
the beach is empty
drown yourself
nobody is watching
search somewhere else
torn covers
land of crimes
buy my piece of asphalt
speckled with guts
a child, raped
under a fire-orange sky
the water the torrent rumbling faster
way too fast
i don't want to be the killer tonight
drown yourself alone
decimated i
and this time
at the window
beheaded remorses
a blood-stained body on the bed
in a chapel
administrative gods oracle
the territory
where the incestuous union will happen
nothing on the terrain
else than two naked bodies
fucking under the heat of an eternal summer
decimated ii
the serial killer
swimming in the innocence of his victim laying down on the mattress
tied to the poles
all she has is her cries
the virgin is there she looks to the sky
second motion
northwest
hallucinated amoebaes
hear the stretch of the glaciers
see the red disaster
of the sacrificed aurora borealis
of the infernal screen
the one that will prevent you
to think about the winter
flames will reach your mouth
and your tongue will decompose
your cells will split up
and carbonize the snow by their effervescence
and i'll shit on your corpse
insanities
i'm coming here to take you
we're going
average catholic images
life used to be moral normal with excellent reputation corporative
parents javellized childhood full of lethargic laughs and microwaveable
love
no way baby
the highway is just a second away
my soiled hand in your sweet blond hair
shut up
instant departures neighbouring regions
nocturnal celebrations with sulfuric acid
seas of sand
skidding continents
cannibal torrent
i'm building my non-existant soul
from the wounds of my victims
i lost my sight
because of the vinegar
i will never recover from my insanity
even with the radiations
even with the drugs
every day
every night
even with the insomnias i will never leave the nightmare
i went away
i left the dump when i saw you weeping
with an hatchet i broke the bones of my friends
they shouted and they shut up, petrified
i closed my eyes
mist on hometown, usa
grey pick-up on the nine
six am
come with me
i'm going outta here
i'm escaping to the states
don't suffer for me
i'll suffer for you
come with me
i'm the muthafucker who's awaitin you
to fuck me kiss me fuck me kick me fuck me kill me
to fuck me
i crucified my reality
i carved my acid truth
i drowned my cephalic territories
me, that compulsive liar
i have no intention of repenting myself
there's only you i can't lie to
come with me
i wanna get outta here
exit 223
i feel like dislocated by your presence
viaducts pass so fast
lamp posts and lamp posts
ten-wheelers and ten-weelers
you don't say anything
i first thought about doing as if it was okay
i even tried
but the only thing i did was to destroy myself more
when i saw you hurling in the rearview mirror
when i saw you losing the last remains of your purity
my heart is lacerated
your moans are scourging me
your bloody wrists are confounding with the explosion of my retin
was it you i was waiting for?
was it you i saw, yesterday, on the guard-rail
vomiting the medication inoculated the day before
the face demolished under a tide of industrial alcohol
emerging
desesperately seeking for air
radio is broadcasting its aseptised fast-mood
who cares
in my head the ten-wheelers are still driving
faster
louder
and the pelting rain
and the wipers
and on the right the acid sea
and on the left the dry fields
and the pelting rain
and the wipers
and on the right the acid sea
and on the left the dry fields
and the pelting rain
and the wipers
and on the right the acid sea
and on the left the dry fields
i love you
on the back seat
when you are dying
and your finger on the trigger
who cared
I COULD HAVE I WAITED FOR YOU ALL NIGHT LONG LYING ON THE SNOW WAITING
FOR TOMORROW EVEN IF I KNEW TOO WELL THAT AWAKING WOULD BE HELL ALL NIGHT
LONG CARS PASSED WHILE I WAS WRITING YOUR NAME I LOST ALL MY HOPE NOW MY
WORDS ARE LIKE KNOCKS OF HAMMER ON A FUCKING REALITY MADE FROM DREAMS HOPES
FIGHTS BEAUTIES UGLINESSES I WROTE YOUR NAME I SHOUTED IT I MASTURBATED IT
ALL NIGHT LONG SNOW FLAKES ONE AFTER ONE FELL ON ME AND BURIED ME I THEN
REALIZED THAT MY WORK THAT MY SHOUTS THAT MY CALLS THAT MY DESIRE THAT ALL
THIS DIDN'T EMBELLISH MY BURNED BRAIN I THEN DROWNED UNDER AN INTENSE
VOLLEY OF SNOW BLOODY MARY I KNOW THAT YOU WON'T COME I KNOW THAT YOU DON'T
EVEN EXIST I WAITED FOR YOU ALL NIGHT LONG KNOWING THAT YOU WOULD NEVER
COME I WAITED FOR YOU WITHOUT EVEN HOPING YOU ALONE ALONE ON THE ROAD DID
YOU HEAR ME DIE?
It had never really occurred to me that gathering old computer artists of 1994 and inviting them to make a new artpack in 2014 would be a viable undertaking… I thought, well, first let me get this textmode art gallery exhibition concept underway, and then if that sees progress wouldn’t it be fun to put on a little artpack theatre as a sideshow to it! But it turns out that all of the logistical and financial speed bumps of making things happen in the physical world are still in effect, while cyberspace is more frictionless than ever, and so since 2014 the tail has been wagging the dog.
I know, what does any of this have to do with this illustration? The logo we see is a marvel of typography by textmode calligrapher par excellence Mattmatthew of Blocktronics, formerly in another life our fellow traveller ts of teklordZ, with whom we crossed paths and collaborated more than a few times. When I began stirring the nostalgia pot and seeing what fumes rose up, he responded with this miracle logo, containing within it worlds and worlds within those worlds. If he believed enough in my vague aspiration to grab ahold of it and carry it forward to this amazing fever dream, I had a sacred charge to follow through and keep going… which brings us to the present. This new piece of work was the gas in our tank pushing us forward, an angel on our shoulder saying “I believe in you!”, and this Tumblr Mattmatthew set up an open road ahead asking where we wanted to proceed to. (THAT part we’re still feeling out; in the meantime, it’s a merry joyride.)
The logo is dedicated to the late Swedish ANSI artist BYM, who died shortly before the MIST1014 release date.
So the creepy MIST1016 artpack is headed your way in one week – descending upon an unprepared populace on Hallowe'en – and to get you warmed up for it, we present a sampling of its eerie contents (but not 33rie contents, he has no time for that stuff anymore) in the form of this multimedia slideshow preview! (The annual anniversary artpack will follow in November, so fear not… by which I mean, only fear this extremely terrifying Hallowe'en computer art!)
Today on Mistigram, another kingly piece of ANSI art from a familiar face in these parts, Quip, the dynamo whose ceaseless revolutions generated impetus for Mistigris nearly singlehandedly for the final year and a half of its “Classic” period. You’ve seen him mint logos by the ton, and no less so here, with a great green glowy oozing ANSI art font that just happens to be the mere preface to a consummate rendition of that most artscene of subjects, a comic book babe. (In its original incarnation, the piece continued along with a closing logo for the Mistigris WHQ BBS The Jade Monkey, but due to the proportion restraints imposed by Instagram for this particular series, we have cropped it. But go on and see for yourself, if you care that much! It appeared in full in the August 1997 Mist artpack.)
Today on Mistigram, this ANSI art Mistigris header (excerpted from a longer piece) drawn by our longtime 418 coordinator (and later Sietch Tabr coordinator) The Extremist and first released in January of 1996!
Today on Mistigram, this piece of hirez from the late Mist Classic period – June 1998! The cat (“Mistigris” is French for “alleycat”, you may recall) is drawn by local #hirez rando Katz making his first and only Mist appearance here, enhanced with a splendid logo by Weird – the source for this year’s animated call for submission graphic.
Today on Mistigram, another appearance from our 418 ace in the hole Diamond Traveller, ANSI art demigod with no past or future. As our current Instagram series is on Mist logos specifically, you can’t see the virtuous piece that this merely served as the header to, but perhaps divorcing it from that context allows you to better consider it on its own merits. This was first released in our second artpack, way back in November 2014.
Today on Mistigram, this humble Fone Bone ANSI by Babyface, which lingered through the whole dagblamed Mistigris World Tour of 1997 in an incomplete state until the heroic Quip rose to the occasion and finished it off with an abstract background (and a logo by Kleenex of Dark, omitted here) for release in March 1998, at which point it’d been in limbo for probably at least a year. Art: sometimes it needs to simmer on the back burner for a while! Now… who wants to take on Happyfish’s unfinished suite of Star Control 2 ANSIs?
Today on Mistigram, the conclusion to that piece shared a couple of weeks ago – the rest of Muton’s superheroic newschool ASCII art piece from our third anniversary, capped off with a killer logo by Weird! What more could you want?
Today on Mistigram – sometimes… usually the further you get from the mid-‘90s… you need a textmode logo and you just can’t find one. This was, believe it or not, a factor in the indeterminate delay of M-9808 (finally released in 2015, after waiting for 17 years – surely, enough time for a new textmode artist to be born and come of age to fulfil the demand!) But if you’re feeling more pragmatic and less… doomed… you can usually find an underutilized logo that can be spruced up and re-issued to people who genuinely haven’t seen it before. So when I was running a little short on official artgroup iconography for our MIST2000 collection of loose ends from the turn of the century, I sought out this relic from happier times – a month that we had so very many worthwhile FILE_ID.DIZ submissions we just stacked them all up in the infofile. This one is by Quip, and it’s respectable enough!
The noseless cohort of Image Comics heroes characterising the ANSI art of the computer underground didn’t leave much room for original characters (happily, there were exceptions such as Lord Jazz’s “Dive” and Eerie’s “Noise”) but here we have just one just character making their only appearance, the toony “Mist-Man” celebrating atop an infofile from our second-anniversary artpack release in October of 1996, drawn by guest artist Penn of Rune. Move over, mild-mannered Mr. Gris!
Today on Mistigram, another ANSI art Mist logo by Destro, minted circa August 1995. This was a standard, stock “type” of font that artists of the era would assemble when they needed words for a piece and didn’t have any particular ideas on a good fit or special style. It got the job done!
Totoman (formerly Grinch) strikes back with another stab at outsider RIPscrip vector graphics! Though there are elements of abstraction all over this canvas, I always liked to believe that the central tangle was merely a deeply obfuscated Mist logo, rendered illegible in the best graffiti tradition… but I would be hard pressed to prove it!
This piece was originally released in our March 1998 artpack, but as you can see, it is eternally timeless.Today on Mistigram, this spooky ANSI art Mistigris logo drawn by early Mistigris enabler Mavrik of Daemon’s Gate. The logo is excerpted from a larger piece, an illustrated lit whose eternal poetry might not have aged as gracefully. (Actually, it was DOA.) Enjoy the logo!
Today on Mistigram, another exciting piece from the then-overlooked newschool ASCII artist Crystal Meth. Here we see not only a cruel, wicked pointed greyscale Mist logo, but also a chief contender for the all-time title of “smallest textmode Mist logo”. Not bad!
Today on Mistigram, this amazing MIST2015 ANSI art appearance from ACiD alumnus Vordreque (who also graced us with formidable hirez visuals and some great retrowave tunes from Arcade Summer, which we should also get around to blogging about). The spider in this extra-wide piece is one kind of greatness, but it’s when you start looking at the 3D logo (come to think of it, seemingly patterned after the classic 3D Realms logo) that you appreciate how this scene is amazing – and impossible!
For further details, please consult its Facebook page.
From August of 1995 comes this ANSI art Mist logo, another by Elysius… whose tenure with us was brief, but not without fruition! I don’t know what that luminous violet inset in the letters is supposed to be (whose style is utterly unknown and without precedent), but as my 4-year-old daughter will proudly tell you, purple is my favorite colour.
You eat your Thanksgiving dinner (although these days, thanks are optional)
and then what do you do? Why, of course, you go lie down in a comfy chair with
one hand in your pants (men only). Why? Because, as modern science has
discovered, turkeys contain a certain endorphin that causes drowsiness. Thus,
after eating enough turkey, you'll get drowsy and fall asleep. (Usually in
front of a good hockey game, but this year's NHL contract difficulties have
precluded that option) :(
So why do turkeys contain this endorphine? Well, I found out many years
ago, when I lived on the farm. It was mid-september, and it was late
afternoon; we were just getting everything put away, and getting ready to wash
up for dinner. As I was penning up the animals, one of the turkeys got loose.
Not a problem, I just had to run after it. This one had a good head start
though, so I got my jacket, expecting to be out for at least a couple of hours
in the forest. After about 15 minutes, I managed to catch up with the renegade
farm fowl, when suddenly, to my horror, it was attacked by a wolf. I ducked
behind a tree, hoping like hell it would devour the turkey, and leave me alone.
Luckily, it did just this, and loped off in the direction it had come from. I
stepped out to examine the remains of the turkey. It was well picked over.
Only a few bones and its feathers remained. A sudden sound behind me gave me a
start, and thinking it might be another predator, I leapt into the bushes to
hide. To my utter shock, it was in fact a small group of turkeys. I couldn't
tell, due to the waning light, whether they were ours or not.
After they had passed, I came out of hiding, and followed them down the
trail. About two miles later, the turkeys stopped. They began to spread out,
silently advancing on a nearby bush. Without warning, they pounced on it, and
began tearing it apart. I was amazed to see the wolf, lying under the bush
sleeping, was suddenly being assaulted by this pack of wild turkeys. They were
ripping off its flesh, pecking it eyes out... I can not describe the horror.
When they were done, not a scrap remained. Even the bones had been chewed up
and swallowed. White-faced and shivering, I made my way home, quietly as
possible, so as not to alarm the turkeys.
Since that day, I have a newfound respect for turkeys, and after a big
Thanksgiving dinner, I sleep with a loaded magnum under the seat cushion, to
blow away any killer turkeys, or annoying, unwanted house guests.
+ END +
-Travis
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Pic by Phaze
Story by Livewire
Today on Mistigram, this RIPscrip vector art Mist logo drawn by Quip and released in our February 1998 artpack. Purple haze or fleshy brain mass?
“when it comes down to making aliens, hey… anything goes.”
Today on Mistigram, this dense little Mistigris ANSI art logo by Platinum, included as part of a “colly” in our June 1995 artpack. It can be hard cramming all of the letters in at the best of times, and here he pulled it off with room to spare!
On Mistigram today, the top third of this newschool ASCII art Mist promo by the long neglected Muton, with Olde English thug lyfe typography and an unknown presumably Image Comics superhero. We’ll be revisiting the bottom portion of this particular piece down the line.
Today on Mistigram, this ANSI art one-panel comic strip which was used in the infofile of our Mistigris World Tour appearance with Fire in April of 1997. It was drawn by our resident font specialist Platinum, and we’re glad to also be sharing it with you today.
Just yesterday we wrote up Reanimator’s 604 Music Disk Mistigris logo on Mistigram, and already he’s been revived from digital embers and is celebrating the good old days with this slideshow music video celebrating one of his Mist Classic songs from MIST0195, his tracker music cover of the soundtrack to Activision’s Aliens game for the C64. Not bad!
In 1994 I moved to vancouver for college and joined a small demo group that made mods and s3m’s.
I decided to recreate my favourite themesong from my favourite video game of all time. Aliens for the c64.
I lost the file.
I found it last night after 15 years while surfing the internetz.
An ode to LV-426!
Please Enjoy
…
God, I feel freekin old
Today’s Mistigram Mist logo is an ANSI art one from the desk of Quip – surely our most prolific forger of Mist logos – originally appearing (in the infofiles) in our August 1997 artpack.
Also, hats off to Freddy43! Upon learning, the night before the submission cutoff, that the Deadline demoparty in Berlin was accepting remote entries, he spent an hour throwing together this little aalib greetro, and took home 3rd place (admittedly of only three entrants, but the point spread wasn’t so very dramatically against him!)
Sometime I will have to write a longer post about Mistigris’ demoparty history, since a look at our Demozoo activity log indicates the hilariously long gap in activity – dipping our toes in the water in 1996 and 1997, I then headed off to Assembly and Evoke in the summer of 1999 with some fresh tracks and bearing with me the hazy memory of Mistigris… and then the conspicuous silence of the permanently stilled, until our name begins popping back up on the historical record in 2015. Maybe we’ll be able to take it a little further this time around! In the meantime, Freddy43 (and Creonix, another subject for a later post) have given us a great start for our second chance.
Reanimator emerged from a multimedia school context rubbing shoulders with Onyx and Silent Knight, and I will never forget a meeting with him at his Chinatown apartment, sharing a wall with The World’s Skinniest Building, to discuss The Next Step for Mistigris. (Forget the next step: this second act will have been, I’m sure, far more interesting.) By way of illustrating the new potential, he described taking a photo of an angry male model, replacing the eyes with fire, and giving the illusion of having branded the word “Mistigris” into his forehead with red-hot metal. Well yes, that’s one direction we could explore…
We’ve had a number of artists involved in exhibitions – Jenn Ashton is basically perpetually exhibiting non-stop, and it’s a substantial failure on our part to not manage reporting on any of them (but fortunately, there are also many chances to pick up the ball). We’ll try to do a better job in the future, as we are only but one minor outlet artists have to get their works seen.
Here it is, possibly the very first Mistigris logo of any kind ever drawn. This came from the desk of Mavrik, a foolhardy jack-of-all-trades who took other people’s grand ideas and crazily … made them happen. This logo was seen in the inaugural Mistigris artpack of October 1994, both on its own and also in the first issue of the Kithe E-mag (electronic magazine) that was bundled in – also a Mavrik project. (Today he hosts mistigris.org!)
Today on Mistigram we feature this four-way collaboration from our May 1997 Mistigris World Tour stop with Dark Illustrated – the ANSI art portrait of Todd Macfarlane’s Image Comics mainstay Spawn was drawn by Mist member Dead Soul and Dark members Samurai, The Green Hornet, and Corinthian… who would go on to feature further in Mist artpacks before disappearing altogether. (Has anybody out there seen Corn?)
That there is a pixel perfect digital fire effect.
Today on Mistigram, an oldschool ASCII art Mist logo by Feral, originally released in July of 1997. Simple but effective!
