That said, several of our contributing artists DO maintain estores and are open for business this holiday season! I don't know if these goods will be guaranteed to arrive by Christmas Eve if they ship today, but I do know that there are readers out there who REGARDLESS still have presents to order that may well be arriving belatedly, and so ... please allow us to present the 2017 installment of the Mistigris 2017 Holiday Gift Guide:
- Just about everything you've seen by Awesome Angela in a Mist pack (and quite a bit more besides!) is for sale -- selling these pieces is the main reason she makes them. But because e-commerce is not a solved problem for a small business, your best bet is to catch her tabling at a con or craft fair. That said, if you reach her at her Facebook group she will be only too happy to make arrangements to sell and ship you one of her fusion bead creations!
- bryface has lived up to our pledge last December, taking on the chipmusic evangelist mantle with great gusto and aplomb; I don't know that he has any /new/ recordings for sale, or indeed any physical recordings at all at the moment (he's been known to vend SD cards stuffed with his tunes) but his work with the Vancouver Chipmusic Society is so important, I urge you to encourage him any way you can, even if it's just by gifting a digital download of his compositions to a friend and blowing their mind.
- Mist Classic visual artist Etana has her original paintings available for sale ($80-250), takes commissions, and plenty of other goodies to dress your walls, phone and sofa with. (But I still have the only Mistigris coffee mug she designed! When can we move that one into mass production?)
- Due to a liquidity crisis, the teletext genius known as Horsenburger, responsible for lighting a fire under the entire past year of Mistigris artpack activity, is, after a move of house following a year unemployed on hiatus, currently a proverbial starving artist. He's given us so much, I will not rest until I manage to somehow drive some traffic to his storefronts so he won't suffer the very real possibility of a bare dinner table on Christmas Day. If he fades away in poverty and disappears in this era of unprecedented wealth we will have a very difficult time filling out Mistigris artpacks, so it is in all our interests that we give generously to keep him going.
There's a wide range of goods bearing his incredibly prolific designs on them, in addition to which you can commission original 3-bit teletext designs by him, second to none, or support him on an ongoing basis through Patreon. (Just please, after last week, no more $1 subscriptions!) I don't know if he has a Bitcoin wallet, but if you are willing to give, we will see to it he gets set up with one!
- Jellica Jake, the psychedelic alt-teletext guru, has "Cosmic Moon Wolf" stickers for sale. You sure loved them on social media, so maybe you'd like one of your own? Contact them to make arrangements today!
- Tireless painter Jenn Ashton has been not much seen in Mist packs as of late -- but not because she has trailed off in her art practice, but rather the opposite reason: too busy making and moving art to take part in our curious little historical re-enactment over here. That said, if her work is to your taste, as well as art books (!) she sells a wide range of both prints and originals of her pieces as well as a variety of other goods patterned after her designs:
- I appreciate that Mistigris audiences have only just seen a single appearance of a single piece of work out of Leah Nilson, but I've had my eye on her design practice for over a decade and understand that her storefront belongs on this list as surely as her artwork belonged in a Mist pack! (Which is to say: to the extreme!) (insert guitar solo here) While her newest stuff is only available at Kenora-area craft fairs, she has last season's electronic storefront where you can find a sprinkling of her designs that, unlike much of this stuff, you wouldn't have to be a weirdo to have decorating your house.
- The textmode art designs of our patron saint 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.
- Melissa Grimm is slinging jewelry and collaborative art commissions out of her website.
- I can see that I'm now sadly three days late to advise you to support Melodia's "Paleotronic" magazine Kickstarter, but I bet you still might find some way of cutting a deal to get your hands on some of the perks.
- 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! (And check out this commission…)
- A selection of the colourful original paintings of Nick Lakowski (with the most delightful names!) are for sale at prices ranging from $360-1150.
- Longtime artscene fellow traveler Pinguino has been turning up more prominently in Mistigris artpacks this past year and should also be unleashing a new round of stickers Real Soon Now.
- Starstew has a veritably Protean art practice; at present you can purchase the new annual edition of his recent sketchbook.
- Theresa Oborn's feverish brain has also been launching volleys of hot, unfettered creativity in more directions than last year; her prints are very charming and her sculptures unreasonably affordable, so I hope that you each take home eight or nine.
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