Instagram photo by Cthulu • Oct 4, 2016 at 2:02pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, Reanimator’s bit of then-gobsmacking Photoshop wizardry (and oh, the thematic resonance – look at the way the logo is emerging from the mist!) represented Mistigris in our little-seen 1996 604 Music Disk, presented by the New Media Group at the NAiD 1996 demoparty in Montreal (and then lost to the ages until we exhumed it in May 2015!)

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…

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Oct 4, 2016 at 2:02pm UTC