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Happy Holidays! That’s my way of saying “Here’s one more piece of Christmas art we didn’t get around to sharing with you until after Christmas!” It’s the final installment of the Bells of Yule suite of tracker music from 1994 – the grimmest, darkest song representing the longest night of the Winter Solstice, illustrated here with a Rogue’s Gallery of nasty and crude textmode dudes, plus some filler from the artscene and textmode-related visual idioms of RIPscrip vector art and teletext. Better late than never! (Speaking of which… stay tuned!)

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Five years in the making, and yet hastily thrown together over the past couple of days, it’s a fresh Horsenburger teletext portrait of the late George Michael given some proud rainbow colour-cycling in the background and paired with a 2011 chiptune cover of “Last Christmas” by bryface. Together, they’re better! All that plus a parting blow from Melodia, an unused b-side from MIST0416, interpreting an early ‘80s cultural phenomenon as it might have been experienced on an early '80s home microcomputer. Everyone out there, take care of each other – if we can just make it a few days further, we can escape the curse of 2016! (And meet: the curse of 2017.)

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text-mode:

A tool to draw ANSI through music, in realtime. ANSI MIDIo visualizer
is small piece of hardware by Will Lindsay (aka VBLANK) that converts notes to text characters, and velocity to colours.

arcadephile:

Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope you all have a fantastic day.

blockygraphics:

SANTABAL.BMP, 

retrieved from the Carat Clipart Collection (1997), via cd.textfiles.com. Artist credit appreciated.

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Today we share with you the fourth movement of our five-part 1994 tracker music epic of original moody instrumental holiday music, remastered by Melodia in 2014, souped up with tons of period seasonal imagery from textmode and artscene sources in 2015 and … paraded out again in 2016. Enjoy!

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Today we share part 3 (of 5) of 1994’s Bells of Yule suite of seasonal tracker music, from Admiral Skuttlebutt’s Atari ST to your ears! Remastered by Melodia in 2014, we put together a slideshow of plundered textmode visuals to accompany its ~10-minute runtime – this movement has a focus on period Public Domain ANSImation clips. Merry Mist'mas!

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Mistigris Christmas 1997 intro

Today we share our final Mist Classic holiday presentation, after skipping 1996 due to the Mistigris World Tour then in effect (and with December 1998 ahead nothing but a bitter waste of failure for us) … but this multimedia bit rocks, with plenty of great tunes, lit and meet reviews, textmode and hirez visuals, a complete Christmas re-skinning of DoDEL and a little musical trolling of Silent (K)night to boot! There’s something for everyone!

Mistigris Christmas 1997 intro

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Yesterday we re-shared the second installment of the 5-part Bells of Yule epic seasonal holiday tracked music suite made on an Atari ST in 1994, remastered in 2014 and given period visuals from the PC artscene last year. This time around all we have to do is share the links! The music was composed by Admiral Skuttlebutt, remastered by Melodia, and the visuals this time around focus on 25-line ANSI art, largely from Public Domain sources, especially featuring the works of Ebony Eyes.

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Yesterday on Mistigram, our Mist Classic Christmas celebrations of December 1995, spliced in and around another coded effect (snowfall here), with the full representation of ANSI, hirez, tracker music (Sentience pulled out the stops rearranging Auld Lang Syne here!) and even lit in this collection. Season’s Greetings and Merry Mist'mas!

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unwashedmass:

Here it is: The Bells of Yule – an original instrumental suite of seasonal music composed on an Atari ST and released at the end of 1994, lost in the decline of area code 604’s BBS scene circa 1998, rediscovered, remastered by Melodia of Empress Play in 2014, re-released, and given music videos featuring wintry imagery from period artscene and textmode art collections in 2015. Now it is 2016, and all we have to do is remind you of its existence and to enjoy it while it’s in season! Here’s part 1 of 5, featuring the UseNet ASCII art stylings of jgs – stay tuned for the rest!

Ahem – posted to the wrong account, but you get my drift 8)

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Aaaand it’s that time of year again: time to dust off the holiday content which, while awesome year-round, is only appropriate in late December. This video combines footage of an early intro made by Dr. CPU in December of 1994 with a hits parade of other seasonal art and writing made by Mistigris members in that month, set to the soundtrack of the first movement of the Bells of Yule music disk, which was also first released in that month. Enjoy!

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Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 18, 2016 at 3:55pm UTC

From the MIST1116 artpack collection we have this piece of found art by Steev Hise, an abstract composition rescued from airport security entitled “Tucson: still life with cashews and castor.” Granted, though this image is not the product of intentional human design, it did require the eye of an artist to realise the artistic merit of the image and act to capture it.

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Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 17, 2016 at 2:46pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, reNM8R continued his celebratory victory lap of his rediscovery of the artscene with this hirez piece from MIST1116, an exploration of duality – fire vs ice, good vs evil – as exemplified by two angel babes splitting a Mistigris logo cleanly in half. He’s some two decades removed from the artscene, but clearly it still pulses boldly in his veins!

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Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 16, 2016 at 1:28pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, another painting (“Smoke and Mirrors”) by the hugely talented Delphine Hennelly from MIST1116 – another piece in her series exploring the phenomenon of women and selfies. Woman posing for a painting drawn by a man = fine art, woman posing for a self-portrait = vain and shallow, right? That’s the standard breakdown. These paintings challenge that narrative. Sisters are doing it for, by and of themselves.

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Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 15, 2016 at 9:37am UTC

“Lit” (short for “literature” of course – generally in an artscene context taken to mean poetry and short fiction) has always been the odd man out in Mist artpacks. Don’t blame us, blame The Narccissist, president of NWA (New Wave Artists), the 604-based artgroup which merged with Quebec’s GRIP/AD into iMPERiAL, out of whose ashes Mistigris emerged. If The Narc hadn’t given us the false impression that lit was a valid and welcome form of creative expression among the computer arts, Cthulu never would have joined an artgroup – indeed, his trailblazing friend Creideiki never would have even obtained access to the NWA WHQ “Digital Holocaust” and blazed the trail for us to follow through.

But we did labour beneath this misapprehension (which RaDMaN made sure to challenge straight out of the gate with his expulsion of Israfel, the paragon of artscene lit, following ACiD’s absorption of GOTHiC.) Consequently, Cthulu looked for lit writers to form part of Mist’s’ membership. Relatively few people took him up on it, so he inflated their contributions by simply curating captured texts from dialup BBS and echomail message boards, simply republishing them (usually with permission). BBSes were a text medium in habited by users of MS-DOS, which was another text medium, and consequently the words flowed freely. But by the end of the ‘90s, folks accessing the web through Netscape in Windows '95 were quite a bit less in the habit of putting forth their feelings in letters and words, and the decline of this always-considered-marginal artform was irreversible. (It actually saw a curious late-stage boom in the form of CiA’s abysmal lit division ScrollZ under the steering of Blue Devil, but I can’t fairly present that as anything other than fiddling while Rome burns.)

So, Mistigris revived in 2014, and we thought we could represent all the classic streams of computer art – textmode visuals, tracker music, and lit of course! But Crowkeeper aside, classic lit was a defunct concern. (Even the logorrheic Cthulu himself has not shared any original works as part of our revival! Of course, he has no words remaining after hammering out all these infofiles and blog posts.) In any case, we were interested in advancing our scope to keep pace with recent trends in digital expression, not purely being a museum collection of historical re-enactment. So Cthulu began cruising for some literary works written in emoji. He pitched the idea to his invereterately experimental performance poetry colleague RC Weslowski, but nothing came of it in MIST1015.

Like the Minecraft pixelart, we washed our hands of artforms we’d like but couldn’t obtain ourselves. Naturally, then some emoji texts immediately presented themselves. Over on a spiritual successor to the BBS message forums, a Slack packed with inheritors of the legacy of the proto-wiki Everything2, Flamingweasel was taking a break from Pico-8 game development to translate the first book of the Bible into emoji for kicks. And lo, here it is. We saw that it was good, and it was good.

Pulling down some super-high-resolution emoji icons for the occasion, we made this the opener of our MIST1116 trailer video, because in all the history of literature, is there really any better opening than “In the beginning…”? God (here depicted as “old black man”) then creates the heavens and the Earth, and we feature a couple of artpack pieces dealing with the sky and the land before slipping into a “transforming the human body through technology” vein.

Anyhow, zoom in and see if you can follow along!

Genesis 1 King James Version (KJV)

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 15, 2016 at 9:37am UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 14, 2016 at 4:12pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, we feature this 2D work from MIST1116 by our MIST1015 sculpture star Theresa Oborn. Are they three pearls in a nest of seaweed? Three zygotes implanting themselves in uterine lining? Or perhaps three stages of a Julia set fractal? It is… nice to look at. That’s all it takes to satisfy us!

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 14, 2016 at 4:12pm UTC

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Today’s Mistigram item from MIST1116 was selected as the 16 Colours ANSI of the Day on November 27th (the second time that month the sporadic artist had been so honoured!) but I wanted to wait until I had the chance to share the souped-up version I’d tried cobbling together for the MIST1116 trailer video (before ultimately rejecting it as not thematically fitting in).

Well, here it is! VileR, in association with his fellow archivists at The Dos Collection, was celebrating the 35th anniversary of the release of the IBM PC computer, the best way he knew how: by making reference to the BASIC game by Bill Gates that shipped with the machine’s PC-DOS operating system (running under its BASICA interpreter), DONKEY.BAS. This is not the first time this year VileR released a masterpiece involving DONKEY.BAS – a few months ago, as you may recall, he re-implemented it in textmode as “Sorry Ass”, boiling it down so concisely it fit in a floppy diskette’s boot sector.

I was hoping to better ANSImate the car blasting through the BASICA start screen (Did You Know: double-arrow characters used on the BASICA screen are ANSI control characters, so attempts to depict them accurately will result in glitched display output. I sure found out, repeatedly!), but my window of opportunity to soup up this file’s presentation coincided exactly with me losing access to my main computer and the opportunity passed me by. Alas! Maybe for the PC’s 40th I can take another crack at it. Hats off, VileR!

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 12, 2016 at 1:25pm UTC

And today on Mistigram, in the recent MIST1116 artpack the incredible Starstew gifted us with “Threecoil”, a piece of very contemporary high resolution artwork devised so as to appear to be the ingenius output of some primordial plotter hooked up to a monochrome terminal circa 1978.

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Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 11, 2016 at 7:17pm UTC

Yesterday on Mistigram, we featured this appearance by our random Twitter textmode acquaintance Spitoufs (aka Lobo) from the recent MIST1116 artpack release. It’s a coloured ASCII art rendition of the 1913 Japanese superhero Ōgon Bat! (Don’t worry, we had to Google him also.))

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Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 10, 2016 at 1:47pm UTC

From the recent MIST1116 artpack comes this piece of high resolution visual artwork by Jamie Stantonian, juxtaposing a classic nude photograph with biometric analysis the likes of which Facebook, the Xbox 360 Kinect and the CIA run on user-contributed content and surveillance footage to determine just who you are, which ads to serve you, and where you’re going.

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Today on Mistigram, a painting from MIST1116 by Jenn Ashton entitled “Capacity”. On a first viewing, it might look like a map of ski runs at a resort, but this is secretly computer art of the highest degree: those are capacitors, and this is a circuit diagram on a breadboard!

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 9, 2016 at 3:01pm UTC

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j33p33’s oldschool ANSI art Mist logo from atop the infofile of the recent MIST1116 artpack was today’s Mistigram pick, but those of you who saw it in our MIST1116 trailer would remember that it passed through a few beats en route to completion. j33p33 flaunted different takes and approaches in the internal Mistigris Facebook group all the while laughing off polite requests to submit an .ANS version so it could be used in the artpack’s infofile. Then he suffered catastrophic SSD card data loss! But fortunately, somehow, we found a mostly-complete version of the logo at its most fully-featured to run in the artpack, and if the bottom of the S and the crescent beneath the M were never filled in… no one ever complained.

Along the way, you can enjoy the diversions the logo went through – an icy take to counter its ultimately fiery temperament. Also you can see a version moderated by “Deep Dream”, as well as xer0’s post-complete glitched-out version. They’re only four little letters, but they leave you many, many options!

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 7, 2016 at 2:15pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, another painting from the recent MIST1116 artpack. This one is by Finnish painter Antti Minkkinen aka Unseen Fate, of pen15 (among other affiliations). I assigned it a flippant filename involving saunas trying to make some sense of what I was seeing, but only Antti knows for sure what’s going on in this busy scene.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 7, 2016 at 2:15pm UTC

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Cyber Monday? Let me tell you about Cyber Monday. Back when I was a kid, every Monday was “Cyber Monday”! But… I guess it didn’t mean quite the same thing it means now. What was I talking about again?

Oh yes – our artists, they do not get paid for appearing in artpacks. But if you approve of their work, here you do have a timely chance (for there is a gift-giving occasion rapidly approaching) to become their patron or at least a collector of their creations. In some cases, you can get your hands on physical versions of their artworks – reproductions, or even occasional originals – and in other cases you can purchase the services needed to mint virtual goods to order, deliverable immediately upon completion with no shipping of electrons needed! (And in some final cases – curiously over-represented among the musicians – all you get is the opportunity to give an artist a tip in support of the work they’re creating anyway. But they may provide convenient legitimate MP3 downloads where the only free alternatives were streams and hassle.) I’m here to lay out the grand catalogue of Mistigris artpack participants with goods for sale this holiday season, and if you’re part of the artscene and have a storefront that could use a signal boost, let us know and we can fold you in here, as what you’ve got will probably be up the alley of any of our hypothetical customers also.

* Abstract painter Andrea Schmidt, last spotted in MIST1015, has micro and macro paintings for sale to suit a range of budgets, from $28-840… and not much in between!

* An Historic, whose accordion JRPG arrangements you’re still enjoying from MIST1116, is a musical genius engaged in several compelling projects. One donation gets you access to his entire vaults!

* Another feverish musical madman, Seattle’s Brad Dunn, gives you precious few opportunities to financially support his vital work. But here is one!

* For the love of God and all that is holy, please fund bryface, so he can give up his day job and become a full-time international chipmusic evangelist.

* They only contributed a single song to MIST1015, but the Creaking Planks have … a second song available by donation for you to further enjoy. They also have awesome T-shirts, but need to get their act together before they can send you one. But while on the subject of their music…

* You can enjoy $20 prints of Elin Jonsson’s perfectly gothy creatures from Afterland (which you can also play for free on iOS and Android devices – micropayments optional!)

* Mist Classic writer Eoanya is living the dream, and has a few books available for sale – including a brand new one not yet turning up on her Amazon page.

* Mist Classic visual artist Etana has her original paintings available for a song ($50-250), plus other goodies. (But I have the only Mistigris coffee mug she designed!)

* You can give Mist Classic mainstay Happyfish a tip for her award-winning filk music!

* The teletext genius known as Horsenburger, rockstar of the recent MIST1116, is not only taking £20 commissions for portraits, but he’s just branched out into wearables also!

* Production guru Ill-esha has a vast back catalogue and it is for sale, so load up!

* Tireless painter Jenn Ashton sells a wide range of both prints and originals as well as a variety of other goods.

* You only saw the drawings of Jenny Ritter in MIST1015, but you’ll thank me for having a chance to get an earful of her music!

* Jeremy Stewart also is a creative industry whose iceberg we’ve only been in a position to show the merest tip of.

* Self-publishing DIY guru Jim Munroe has books and ebooks, comics, movies and games, all available for sale and all eminently worthwhile.

* Kevin Bryce was the favorite musician of Mist Music when we revived in October 2014; maybe his tunes will catch your fancy also?

* Lord Nikon has graced our collections with insanely detailed typewriter art, which is also available for sale as prints and on T-shirts.(Also available for sale: shirts featuring his ASCII art designs, released elsewhere.

* The paintings and drawings of Mist Classic artist Maeve Wolf are available for sale on a casual basis: “Just email me to buy!”

* The vintage video game cover art designs of Marc Ericksen are available for sale as prints and on T-shirts.

* The textmode art designs of Blocktronics typography wizard Matt Matthew are available as prints and you would be exceedingly foolish to not take advantage of the opportunity to class up your house with his works on every flat surface.

* Melodia is just pivoting her “Paleotronic” shop from store to workshop, so opportunities to financially support her ventures there are up in the air… and her indispensible mobile apps are given away for free, so no luck there… but you can at the least show your appreciation by flipping her a tip on her Empress Play music page!

* It didn’t ever really occur to the Mythical Man that anyone would want to buy his paintings… but he was delighted when someone inquired, and is happy to sell his original pieces. Just ask him about the one you’d like!

* A selection of the colourful original paintings of Nick Lakowski are for sale at prices ranging from $360-1150.

* Mist Classic musician Onyx pivoted to writing sometime around the turn of the century, and you can purchase his books and ebooks through Amazon (or, if you like, in hardcover from Lulu.)

* Galza’s ASCII art (and now PETSCII) genius Otium has his textmode designs for sale as prints, garments and phone cases, with a secondary EU-based shop to help local consumers avoid import taxes.

* Phatal’s striking design “Two Minutes to Midnight” from MIST1016 is available in limited quantities as a print and on T-shirts. Inquire directly!

* When we say that Raquel Meyers delivers the goods, we usually aren’t speaking quite so literally, but her brutalist PETSCII and teletext are available for sale in book and fabric forms through her website.

* Drum ‘n bass producer Psidream has an enormous back catalogue of recordings, and they are all available for sale.

* Mist Classic artist Sentience is involved with the graphic design venture Heart Monsta, whose creations are available for sale today!

* Starstew’s latest offering is a book for the cat-lovers on your Christmas list, but he has other goods for sale through his Etsy page.

* Also on Etsy, you can find the Sculpey creatures that crawled out of the feverish brain of Theresa Oborn.

* A limited supply of the original fine art creations of Tom Heuckendorff are available for sale for budgets ranging from $30-300.

* Finally, you can flip Vordreque, the hardest working man in retrowave, a tip.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 6, 2016 at 2:19pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, Kalcha delivers more of his unique Shift_JIS illustration (the ASCII art of Japan, using a vastly extended character set) from the MIST1116 artpack with this suite of nine Gods from the Hindu pantheon.

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Today on Mistigram we share this image from MIST1116, Pinguino’s cover artwork to this year’s ToonCon program guide. The movie Hackers may have celebrated its 20th anniversary, but it is more on fleek than ever!

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Everyone’s always making ANSI art of comic book characters, but no one’s ever making ASCII art of comic strip characters. So alike, yet so different! This year in MIST1116 we compiled what must be a decade of textmode doodles made by my old TABNet colleague Pannekoekologist into a digest of textmode art adaptations of Tony Millionaire’s ‘90s alt-weekly staple, “Maakies”, boiled down into something we couldn’t resist calling “Maakscii art”. Pictured here is the dipsomaniac character Drinky Crow, likely mere panels before filling his head with bullets.

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As art imitates life, no contrived glitch can be as compelling as a genuine hardware error resulting from the inadvertent contact between a fragile monitor and a hard object. Garlic Joy made this expensive discovery and immediately we knew we had a cyberspace readymade on our hands perfect for MIST1116. Where pictures of the contents of a monitor might conventionally be described as “screen shots”, these were branded “screen shards”.

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Today on Mistigram, an oil painting tribute to the Thin White Duke, if he were a small piece of green citrus fruit, as released in the recent MIST1116 artpack collection. The Mythical Man did this oil painting rendition of a bit of David Bowie wordplay, taking his song “Life on Mars” from 1971’s Hunky Dory album and tweaking a letter, turning it into … “Lime on Mars”. As one does!

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Today on Mistigram, another genuine Horsenburger teletext work released in last week’s MIST1116 collection (was it somehow impossibly only a week ago?) – the only textmode fanart I have ever seen of the UK’s dark SF comedy Red Dwarf, the Jupiter Mining Corporation vessel depicted here.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 1, 2016 at 1:18pm UTC