Mistigram: and since we were discussing The Neon Jesus BBS for, ahem, seasonal Jesus reasons, here’s an #ANSIart logo for it drawn by Bleak in the MIST0396 artpack collection 22 years ago this month. https://ift.tt/2Gp4IBp
Mistigram: when I said that we didn’t historically release artwork on religious themes, I must have somehow forgotten this item. I heavily suspect the parable this hirez piece is based on is gnostic at best, but only its artist Onyx knows for sure. It was released 20 years ago this month in the M-9803 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2H17y0K
Mistigram: while we’re thinking of a hero who regenerates in spite of opponents who would sooner see him exterminated, here’s a #fusionbead #DoctorWho #Dalek that rolled right on out of @awesomeangela13’s workshop in time to appear in the MIST0317 artpack collection one year ago. https://ift.tt/2E98H3e
Mistigram: whatever you believe, there is a flavor of Jesus to suit every ideology, so this #Easter to counter yesterday’s distinctly faith-based piece, here’s @8bitbaba’s #pixelart “Science Jesus” to renounce intelligent design and abstinence-based sex education. This piece was released in the recent MIST0318 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2pTKs4F
Mistigram: from the desk of @illarterate comes a #teletext illustration of the US State Department. No wait, it’s the Brexit bureau. No, no, wait a second, my mistake - it’s a pile of flaming trash. This screen was released one year ago this month in the MIST0317 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2pRQVwV
Mistigram: nice weather today, starting to feel like a season of growth and renewal, so I think we’re almost ready for the nature-subject pieces. This is a spontaneous drawing by @the_mythical_man, released in the recent MIST0318 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2Gqhf7G
Mistigram: generally speaking (poets aside) we haven’t as a collective dealt much with religious themes since Genocide Kitten shattered his BBS the Neon Jesus, especially not engaging it on any kind of sincerity, and typically I would have allowed this piece to pass by my curation but you know what - if not at #Easter then when? This bit of evangelical #ANSIart for The Fishing Net was drawn by the recently disappeared Max Mouse and was released in the recent MIST0318 artpack collection. Hope everyone has a… great Good Friday! https://ift.tt/2J6ig6D
Mistigram: … and one final step further back, here’s an #ANSIart logo for the Impulse BBS software made entire out of breaking waves from the looks of things. This one was drawn by Prince of Darkness and released 23 years ago this month in the MIST0395 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2E5k1NM
Mistigram: Kestrel drew this small-scale #ANSIart #Rikuo for a shuttle login menu to the Savage Lands BBS, released in the MIST0396 artpack collection released 22 years ago this month. https://ift.tt/2pOSQ5n
Mistigram: Dead Soul kept the newschool #ASCIIart flowing in the M-9803 artpack collection released 20 years ago this month, including this logo for Kyo’s BBS “Ray Earth”. https://ift.tt/2GX6rPG
Mistigram: this curious black-and-white image is “Indecisive” (no, I’m not being cute with you, that is the name the artist assigned the piece.) It comes from the desk of @redeyephoto and was released one year ago this month in the MIST0317 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2GCAxdf
Mistigram: this ominous #ANSIart bird, apparent coat of arms of Operation Ivy BBS, was drawn by fled artist Max Mouse and released in the recent MIST0318 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2pO5Jf6
Mistigram: and from two years prior, here’s an #ANSIart joint between Kingyo (picture) and Inwire (logo), a piece for the BBS “The Hood”, released 22 years ago this month in the MIST0396 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2GFqep7
Mistigram: here’s a pure monochrome newschool #ASCIIart piece drawn by Dead Soul 20 years ago this month in the M-9803 artpack collection, a logo for Pedantik’s “Zero”. https://ift.tt/2DZubiV
Mistigram: our homebase smartphone ran out of juice due to a faulty charger cord, but we persevered and hacked our way into making more posts today from the desktop. Here’s a colourful painting by Nick Lakowski with the prosaic title “Parasitism Apologizes For Itself”, released one year ago this month in the MIST0317 artpack collection. Enjoy! https://ift.tt/2GfvLDf
Mistigram: @jellica_______ is just about the only person who could have drawn this nighttime #teletext vista of an intriguing seaside cove. The screen was released in the recent MIST0318 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2J0oYel
Mistigram: You saw the logo yesterday, and here’s the #ANSIart picture that went with it - Diamond Traveler’s ad for Sarcastic Toaster from the MIST0395 artpack collection released 23 years ago this month. https://ift.tt/2Gj6e8i
Mistigram: our trip back brings us to an #ANSIart logo footer from one of our GOAT alumni, area code 418’s Diamond Traveler, advertising (following a great illustration I’ll be sharing with you soon) Eerie’s influential BBS Sarcastic Toaster. These were released 23 years ago this month in the MIST0395 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2I7klxL
Mistigram: there’s so much curious stuff going on in this Kestrel #ANSIart promo for his BBS Legion of Knights I just don’t know where to start. The Whats are like straightforward - flaming humanoid demon, cartoon rabbit - but there is simply no shortcut explaining the Why of their meeting in the same work like this. This piece was released 22 years ago this month in the MIST0396 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2DYi5qc
Mistigram: a curious scene by late-period Mist Classic hirez coordinator Dominion, wherein a sinister demonic figure peers out of some kind or portal at a fractally generated craggy seaside landscape. This piece was released 20 years ago this month in the M-9803 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2IXUjhP
Mistigram: others shied away, but @carlos_teletextr was unafraid to harness his #teletext editor to demonstrate to you a mockup prototype of what #WarrenRobinett’s pioneering #Adventure for the #Atari2600, Easter egg innovator, would look like in his chosen medium. This screen was released one year ago this month in the MIST0317 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2GcXwMP
Mistigram: @kalchano demonstrates his extraordinary breadth of subjects with these #Shift_JIS versions of #Lalique #artdeco glass hood ornaments from the 1920s and 30s, released in the recent MIST0318 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2GuKkSK
Mistigram: and completing our backwards March spree today is another Bleak #ANSIart logo, this one for the “Dementia Praecox 3” BBS, released 23 years ago this month in the MIST0395 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2pGQRAc
Mistigram: some characteristically out-in-left-field hirez by Grim Reaper, likely following his typical workflow of “heavily process existing elements, then composite them”. (The procedural fractal plasma background probably is original, at least, except to anyone else generating output from the same random seed.) Despite our snootiness, we love collages - provided they are up front about what they are. But I digress. This ad for the BBS “House of the Holy” was released 22 years ago this month in the MIST0396 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2G5BMCi
Mistigram: a comfortable serving of some of that good ol’ underground computer art typography, it’s an #ANSIart logo reading “Hysteria”, drawn by Haquisaq and released in a logocolly 20 years ago this month in the M-9803 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2GsSueh
Mistigram: and the lonesome astronaut discovers that there are worse things than being alone. #teletext screen by @horsenburger, released one year ago this month in the MIST0317 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2Gv8Xib
Mistigram: from @ty.p0, a little typewriter illustration of the electronic home consumer good without which none of what we do would be possible. This picture was released in the recent MIST0318 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2I7KPPY
Mistigram: this colorful newschool #ASCIIart menu template for the BBS Geeksta’s Paradise is practically trademark Weird style, circa 20 years ago this month in the M-9803 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2Gnv4ad
Mistigram: one more appearance from our MIST0395 #RIPscrip vector art all-star The Lite, we released this ad for Fire WHQ The Regency 23 years ago this month. https://ift.tt/2pBZviu
Mistigram: this sunny #ANSIart logo for Onyx’s Crimson Helm BBS was drawn by Bleak and released 22 years ago this month in the MIST0396 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2uqpAqD
Mistigram: it’s been too long since we featured a @horsenburger #teletext screen, the secret rocket fuel of our monthly release schedule, so here’s #RobertDowneyJr in the role that has dominated his second act, #IronMan in the MCU. This screen was released one year ago this month in the MIST0317 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2IPbFgQ
Mistigram: from the recent MIST0318 artpack collection, here’s a @starstew drawing, entitled “Understanding Is Discovery.” https://ift.tt/2ugMAIv
Mistigram: 20 years ago this month, Gasol released this tres stylized #ANSIart logo for the BBS “Hook” in the M-9803 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2I4l9nh
Mistigram: another rainy day, so here’s a painting from @dashsharon’s “blue period” - “Two Turned Inward”, released one year ago this month in the MIST0317 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2pAD3qO
Mistigram: Q: Can we get enough of @Polyducks? (A: No, we cannot.) This selection from the recent MIST0318 artpack is quite a bit more PETSCII than our last pick, plus it performs admirably beneath the additional constraint of a Game Boy palette. https://ift.tt/2I1DpO6
Mistigram: and one March (our first!) further back still, it’s Prince of Darkness again with an #ANSIart logo for our original WHQ BBS, The Screaming Tomato. This piece was released 23 years ago this month in the MIST0395 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2GiBuXW
Mistigram: Wetworks always had time to draw an #ANSIart logo for his BBS Legion of Knights, and this instance is no exception. Released 22 years ago this month in the MIST0396 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2G7NQPz
Mistigram: going back through the Marches, here’s an #ASCIIart logo by Exude (in their one Mistigris appearance?) (thus far!) for our last WHQ, The Jade Monkey BBS, released in the M-9803 artpack collection 20 years ago this month. http://ift.tt/2I1eRop
Mistigram: and on the more organic side of things, “Roots”, a drawing by @the_mythical_man released in the recent MIST0318 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2pA4OyQ
Mistigram: I can’t even imagine how I’ve managed to be sitting on this piece for over a year without sharing it with social media. Like a freeze frame still from some demoparty production, @carlos_teletextr presents “Tunnel Vision” from the MIST0317 artpack collection released one year ago this month. http://ift.tt/2IOr6pA
Mistigram: a year later Kestrel also was doing header images of slices of eyes-and-face. This monochrome specimen - some Asian lady - is from another #ANSIart colly of similar images released in the MIST0396 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2HWVAnQ
Thrown together in the middle of the night in honour of @wcstreetart becoming our 1000th follower on Instagram. Tumblr, we were here first but you never showed us the love!
Mistigram: and for no particular reason, here’s a #teletext screen of a much-loved, gently-distressed, vintage toy tin robot, drawn by @horsenburger and released in the recent MIST0318 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2IJM093
Mistigram: an intriguing letterbox slice of #ANSIart BBS/e-mag interface artwork by Halaster, briefly of Mist, formerly (and subsequently) of Fire, currently of @sexyaccident. This piece was released as part of a “colly” of brief works sandwiched together in the MIST0395 artpack collection released 23 years ago this month. http://ift.tt/2DMUlVV
Mistigram: @starstew has reinvented the simple, happy accident kind of profound upheaval (what the French might describe as bouleversement) resulting from the simplest of adjustments - re-orienting an image’s “up”. In this photo from the recent MIST0318 artpack collection entitled “Up Sky Down”, he somehow manages to compose a meditation on the wild blue yonder and the unfathomable cosmos lying just beyond it, even tickling the tangent of that Tesla Roadster en route to Mars, out of the most mundane material imaginable - taking a photo of a mud puddle in a parking lot. A positively alchemical transmutation - heady stuff! http://ift.tt/2ptjwZu
Mistigram: it’s been a few days since we’ve featured a sweet @polyducks composition, so why not this little bit of pseudo-PETSCII from MIST0317 one year ago, in which a samurai warrior decapitates a robot? Wicked. http://ift.tt/2puMxUG
Mistigram: you liked the “Belize” logo with an eye instead of the letter I, so here’s @frandroid’s #ANSIart logo for “Nasal Malfunction” with a nose in place of the letter A. Sadly we never got around to turning the rest of the sensory organs into letter surrogates.) This piece was released 20 years ago this month in the M-9803 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2pwWiAE
Mistigram: Surely it behooves us to come up with something on today’s occasion of UNESCO’s World Poetry Day. Not every underground computer artgroup can boast of having included poetry among its supported artforms, but for much of the classic ‘90s period Mist was choking on it – indeed its presence was likely what we were best known for, tarring us with an unspoken “ANSI artists, turn away” stigma that remains with us largely unchanged even today. But if not for the involvement of a poet the group would never have been founded, run or revived, so… eschewing it was never an option for us. (Strangely, the years took care of that for us; I blame the great interface shift, whereby the artists are still arting and the musicians are still musicking, but the writers are now tapping and swiping.) There were many great pieces to choose from, all intensely of their era, but I settled on this doggerel selection from March of 1995 (MIST0395) by Livewire, better known for his absurd prose and short stories, as hitting a celebratory note, invoking a period cyberspace theme (specifically DJ James Joyce’s BBS Al’s House of Meats) and really hitting the meta-ness with a satisfying oomph. http://ift.tt/2GeEcxR
Mistigram: oldschool computer artist @otnooishphoo put together a series of abstracts a year ago in the MIST0317 artpack collection whose themes were hazy recollections of BBS colour schemes from 20-odd years ago. This one celebrates Magik Elvis’ board, and so is entitled “Memories of Neo-Graceland”. http://ift.tt/2GQIObm
Mistigram: Kingyo delivered another of his trademark smudgy textmode #mecha illustrations (anyone care to tell us its specific make and model?) in this awesome #ANSIart piece advertising Thanatos’ BBS Skull Duggery (you’ll have to take my word for it, logo truncated to satisfy the Instagram aspect ratio gods) released 22 years ago this month in the MIST0396 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2G9LQcH
