Another Mistigris regular (understatement of the century,...

Another Mistigris regular (understatement of the century, he’s singlehandedly the reason we ever started releasing monthly artpacks again), #teletext master @horsenburger had also been long since been dispatched to @blocktronics in the interest of getting his #textmode genius (even manifesting there in some very occasional ANSI art!) before their wider audience. This screen of #FritzLang’s #Metropolis was a surprise exclusive for their recent 10th anniversary artpack celebration. If you like Horsenburger’s work in Mist artpacks, you’ll love his stuff in Blocktronics artpacks - go on and check it out! https://ift.tt/2wzUI4x

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Also from the Mistigris camp, we sent over occasional 67...

Also from the Mistigris camp, we sent over occasional 67 contributor VileR’s latest #ANSIart tribute to the IBM PC dominance as a gaming platform to help salute @blocktronics on the occasion of their 10th anniversary. This piece credibly fuses graffiti typography with heavy metal imagery, no easy feat! (The Alleycat sprite ices the cake.) If you look closely, you can see the triumphant barbarian crushing the flags of inferior gaming platforms. This one is best seen at full size, either by downloading the Blocktronics artpack locally or viewing it over at @textmodes. Congrats again to the whole 67 crew on a 10 year run without peer! https://ift.tt/2NAZeXZ

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10 years ago, the PC underground computer art scene seemed to...

10 years ago, the PC underground computer art scene seemed to have run its course, a spent force mired in increasing technological obsolescence. Every year might see one release but not necessarily any more. Then some nostalgic artscene alumni decided to do something unprecedented, picking up the #ANSIart mantle after long since putting it down, seemingly for good, renewed with mature and modern design sensibilities. The name of the crew was @blocktronics, and this month they celebrated 10 years since forming with the release of a giant and substantial artpack commemorating the occasion. It included guest appearances by members of other crews, and hey! Here I am, bombing their artpack with a ridiculous lit - perhaps the first ever appearing in their collections! - built around incredible, preposterous rhymes I simply couldn’t resist. (Now let’s listen to some EuphoniX!) Thanks to, I think, @whazzit_b7 and Avg for whipping up the ANSI art frame on short notice and giving me a chance to take part. Mistigris salutes Blocktronics - make sure to follow them here on Instagram! https://ift.tt/2wx35yA

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Mistigram: @theresaoborn was unable to contain her collection of...

Mistigram: @theresaoborn was unable to contain her collection of drawings of fantasy fandom’s most essential prop keys to a single canvas, so here are the contents of her second keychain! This picture was released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2NyeUv3

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Mistigram: Uglifruit’s #teletext tribute to...

Mistigram: Uglifruit’s #teletext tribute to #BattleOfThePlanets slipped through the cracks for our children’s TV artpack in July, but we caught up with it in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2POMbDH

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Mistigram: hard-edged straight lines and wiggly curves converge...

Mistigram: hard-edged straight lines and wiggly curves converge in this @starstew drawing, “Alertnation”, released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2Ny8Imy

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Mistigram: @ty.p0 did peck out a second, truer-to-form...

Mistigram: @ty.p0 did peck out a second, truer-to-form negative-space (or “black sky”, if you prefer) version of his typewriter-textured #phasesofthemoon, also released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2PRSd6H

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Mistigram: from the desk of @MaxMouse__ comes this haunting...

Mistigram: from the desk of @MaxMouse__ comes this haunting moonlit #ANSIart scene in promotion of the BBS Operation Ivy, released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2C2EcQG

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Mistigram: some of us enjoy logic puzzles more than others, but...

Mistigram: some of us enjoy logic puzzles more than others, but none more so than @Starstew’s “Quatique” here, released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2olAHeg

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Mistigram: this bubble perhaps represents this month of August,...

Mistigram: this bubble perhaps represents this month of August, still intact and very much with us, and yet ephemeral and inevitably transitory. Or perhaps it is simply a drawing by @the_mythical_man? Either way, it was released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2NtL2Qh

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Mistigram: I know, what could be less interesting than a bunch...

Mistigram: I know, what could be less interesting than a bunch of apartment blocks, right? Just a bunch of boring boxes and rectangles… @webersso.n determined that you get much more fascinating results if you simply tweak their palette a little bit until they pop! This #fusionbead creation, entitled “Schiefe Strasse”, was released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2NvRvu8

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Mistigram: no, it’s not a celebration of the Blues...

Mistigram: no, it’s not a celebration of the Blues Brothers - in this #ANSIart BBS ad Apam has drawn a pallid Man In Black, presumably working for some shadowy intelligence agency (judging by the BBS’ name), lurking ominously behind New Zealand. This piece was released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2woI1u6

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Mistigram: slightly reminiscent of a crash test dummy video on a...

Mistigram: slightly reminiscent of a crash test dummy video on a damaged VHS tape, “Time Attack Mode” by @192.168.10.13 was released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2Pk1zXN

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Mistigram: two generations of #artscene #typography -...

Mistigram: two generations of #artscene #typography - traditional and gonzo - collide in this #ANSIart logo by @frandroid for the Crystal Palace #BBS, released 23 years ago this month in the MIST0895 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2Ns1yjV

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Mistigram: if you make your designs simple enough, you can get...

Mistigram: if you make your designs simple enough, you can get extra mileage out of them, as with Weird’s #ASCIIart / #ANSIart tomatoes here, released 22 years ago this month in the MIST0896 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2MyTRMq

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Mistigram: anime-style #RIPscrip vector illustration by Mordecai...

Mistigram: anime-style #RIPscrip vector illustration by Mordecai for Lost Souls BBS, released 21 years ago this month in the MIST0897 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2MDwHEz

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Mistigram: as one of her numerous and disparate creative...

Mistigram: as one of her numerous and disparate creative projects, @theresaoborn began making a complete inventory of prop key designs figuring prominently in fantastic pop culture. Can you unlock the identity of any of these? This was released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection https://ift.tt/2N2G54g

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Mistigram: we’re a few days late for his birthday, but...

Mistigram: we’re a few days late for his birthday, but here’s a @horsenburger #teletext portrait of renowned skeptic #StephenFry anyhow, released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2PL98aY

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Mistigram: a sprawling scene, from the looks of things the...

Mistigram: a sprawling scene, from the looks of things the result of one of the artist’s procedural drawing exercises, “Cytotem” by @starstew was released one year ago in the MIST0817 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2wpgHv0

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Mistigram: as the summer approaches its conclusion, it’s...

Mistigram: as the summer approaches its conclusion, it’s not yet quite too late to get out to a cabin getaway this weekend - but if you didn’t make reservations your options might be limited to pitching a tent off a logging road. Animated #pixelart by @mentalpoppixels, released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: typewriter genius @ty.p0 has prepared a sheet of...

Mistigram: typewriter genius @ty.p0 has prepared a sheet of typewritten phases of the #moon, released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2BVTBCi

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Mistigram: #ANSIart menu featuring X-man #Gambit, drawn by Lord...

Mistigram: #ANSIart menu featuring X-man #Gambit, drawn by Lord Maximoff for his BBS Legion of Knights and released 22 years ago this month in the MIST0896 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2PJvkCi

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Mistigram: come to think of it, this morning’s post...

Mistigram: come to think of it, this morning’s post isn’t the first time a swastika has appeared in a Mistigris artpack. This (somewhat hyperbolic) excerpted announcement by Schtroumph of the local poetry (“lit”) group Cenobite ran in issue 13 of our Kithe electronic magazine circa July of 1997. (Their releases were part of “the underground digital art scene”, but conspicuously the collections of lit groups Cenobite, Reality, Revolt and Candelabra are nowhere to be found in the major artscene archives, whose galleries have been caught algorithmically redacting lits wherever they are found, erasing them from the record even today. Of course, we championed lit, but you sure don’t see us posting many of our thousands of historical poems over social media now, do you?) I wonder how many randos he had to hit up on IRC before Blazemore agreed to draw him an #ANSIart Nazi flag? https://ift.tt/2PaIl6C

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Mistigram: Full of sassy attitude and vitamin D, it’s Evan...

Mistigram: Full of sassy attitude and vitamin D, it’s Evan Dorkin’s comix antiheroes #MilkAndCheese, drawn in #ANSIart by @hsifyppah (logo by Quip), used to advertise her BBS, Mist’s second WHQ The Jade Monkey. This piece was released 21 years ago this month in the MIST0897 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2Pdu8WN

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Mistigram: part of a series of architectural photographs...

Mistigram: part of a series of architectural photographs breaking down tall buildings into abstract fields of tessellating geometry, here is a @dubaiwalla photo of the Roppongi Hills #MoriTower in Tokyo. We released this photo one year ago in the MIST0817 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2MycAI7

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Mistigram: patron saint of air conditioning, is that you? Two...

Mistigram: patron saint of air conditioning, is that you? Two weeks ago we thought you had forsaken us! What? No? A case of mistaken identity? You must get that all the time. Folks, this @starstew drawing is entitled “Metallica” and was released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2P6jNvA

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Mistigram: if it’s acceptable to abbreviate a BBS with a...

Mistigram: if it’s acceptable to abbreviate a BBS with a three word name to three letters, why not represent a one-word name with a single letter? It reduces the namespace possibility but let’s be honest, the field is considerably compressed these days. In any case, this #ANSIart logo for the Agency was drawn by @MaxMouse__, who will likely be a little quiet on the ANSI art front over the next little years after suffering an arm injury.. it was released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2MQvbOQ

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Mistigram: for a fun exercise, as part of his minimalist...

Mistigram: for a fun exercise, as part of his minimalist limbering up, @8bitbaba created a whole grid of truly constrained 7x7 glyphs. (Content warning for the top center - no dog whistle, but a symbol with different semantic value in the artist’s native South Asian context.) Released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2wsjbJ9

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Mistigram: on his campaign to celebrate different cities by...

Mistigram: on his campaign to celebrate different cities by drawing their local landmarks with his typewriter, @jamie_graham93 eventually hit on #Liverpool. This piece was released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2PF0ASN

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Mistigram: #teletext celebration of the 35th anniversary of the...

Mistigram: #teletext celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Sinclair #ZXSpectrum home microcomputer, drawn last year by Uglifruit and released in the MIST0817 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2odqHE6

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Mistigram: #ANSIart illustration of a graffiti thug by the...

Mistigram: #ANSIart illustration of a graffiti thug by the recently rediscovered Sarcasm, an ad for Neosporin BBS, released 21 years ago this month in the MIST0897 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2NhJIQl

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Mistigram: #ANSIart of #Iceman by Questor, released 22 years ago...

Mistigram: #ANSIart of #Iceman by Questor, released 22 years ago this month in the MIST0896 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2PFtgLG

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Mistigram: angry prune dude #ANSIart by Praxis for his BBS the...

Mistigram: angry prune dude #ANSIart by Praxis for his BBS the Lapsus Linguae, released 23 years ago this month in the MIST0895 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2NhJF77

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Mistigram: #RIPscrip vector illustration by Kyo for Society,...

Mistigram: #RIPscrip vector illustration by Kyo for Society, released 21 years ago this month in the MIST0897 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2LsA4sy

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Mistigram: #ASCIIart logo for Neosporin BBS (misspelled for...

Mistigram: #ASCIIart logo for Neosporin BBS (misspelled for aesthetic purposes - how do you build a circle into the letter “I” when you build your font around circles?) (A: choose a different font style to better suit the word) drawn by Publius Enigma in the MIST0896 artpack collection released 22 years ago this month. https://ift.tt/2MSSFmu

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Mistigram: a rare #ANSIart scroller of #ScarletSpider, dating to...

Mistigram: a rare #ANSIart scroller of #ScarletSpider, dating to a period where most artscene artists had transitioned on over to Image Comics characters. This was drawn by Kurama (logos by White Insanity, a little more legibly this time, advertising the BBS The Midnight Flame. It was released 23 years ago this month in the MIST0895 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2LnDz3y

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Mistigram: from the #fusionbead workshop of @awesomeangela13, we...

Mistigram: from the #fusionbead workshop of @awesomeangela13, we included this image of a standing #WonderWoman in the MIST0817 artpack collection one year ago. https://ift.tt/2LrUUbI

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Mistigram: OK, you all enjoyed (some very discreetly)...

Mistigram: OK, you all enjoyed (some very discreetly) @horsenburger’s #teletext portrait of young #BillyConnolly that we shared this morning. But Mr. Connolly has the distinction of being one of the very few people to have been the subject of _multiple_ Horsenburger portraits. Now, squaring the circle, here is the mature, fully evolved if you will aged form, immortalized in 3-bit sixels. This screen was also released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2Ne63yp

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Mistigram: there is a trick to reading this #ANSIart logo by...

Mistigram: there is a trick to reading this #ANSIart logo by White Insanity. Unfortunately, it is a lost art, and I do not know the trick myself, without which I can’t even tell you what it’s supposed to be saying. Fortunately for us, the composition is nonetheless jolly and lively with a good mix of colors and textures, hard edges and details, and can be fully appreciated as a Mondrian-style abstract. (See, Jellica, you’re not the only one who suffers this fate!) Feel free to field your guesses in the comments below. Whatever it says, it was released 23 years ago this month in the MIST0895 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2LsHo7s

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Mistigram: if indeed Trinity was concerned about wasting his...

Mistigram: if indeed Trinity was concerned about wasting his time he would have been well advised to seek a hobby with more immediate and longer-lasting benefits than #ASCIIart calligraphy. (And indeed, we can be reasonably well assured that he has - though we actually stumbled upon him about a year ago lurking in a graffiti group account, so it’s not like he’s forsaken typography altogether 8) Anyhow, here’s his logo for Neosporin BBS, released 22 years ago this month in the MIST0896 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2My7HyI

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Mistigram: “Crux”, a hirez experiment into cruciform...

Mistigram: “Crux”, a hirez experiment into cruciform polar inversion, by LOD, master of the rave flier aesthetic, released 21 years ago this month in the MIST0897 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2NkdsfO

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Mistigram: from a year ago, here’s the @starstew drawing...

Mistigram: from a year ago, here’s the @starstew drawing “Tomatomb”, released in the MIST0817 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2PBO5Yg

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Mistigram: speaking of no particular reason, here’s...

Mistigram: speaking of no particular reason, here’s @8bit_poet’s #pixelart #Bigfoot cruisin’ on by. Don’t bother making a screen capture of the #sasquatch, nobody will believe it’s real. This piece was also released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2P2lASi

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Mistigram: for no particular reason, @horsenburger drew this...

Mistigram: for no particular reason, @horsenburger drew this #teletext portrait of Scottish comedian #BillyConnolly in his prime. As part of his gallery of portraits of comedians, we released it in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2Mu7TyJ

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Mistigram: perhaps once it was the gas element on a stove, but...

Mistigram: perhaps once it was the gas element on a stove, but once @192.168.10.13 was done glitching it up it graduated to being “Afterburn”, a privileged up-close look at a fighter jet’s exhaust port. This image was released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2P2lvhs

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Mistigram: #ASCIIart logo for Superfiend, drawn by Weird and...

Mistigram: #ASCIIart logo for Superfiend, drawn by Weird and released 21 years ago this month in the MIST0897 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2BHJkJQ

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Mistigram: “Shift”, a colorful painting by...

Mistigram: “Shift”, a colorful painting by @the_mythical_man, released this month in the MIST0817 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2BEtsb5

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Mistigram: a rare logo for Eto’s eponymous BBS Entrance to...

Mistigram: a rare logo for Eto’s eponymous BBS Entrance to Obscurity, the Sonic Equinox (sorry, SONiC EQUiNOX) WHQ. Drawn by Neophyte, this #ANSIart logo was released 22 years ago in the MIST0896 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2BG1uvh

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Mistigram: it’s a little cooler today, still summer but...

Mistigram: it’s a little cooler today, still summer but the break in the heat wave reminds us that a change of season is not far ahead. So here’s @involtinopixel’s #autumn panel from their four seasons #pixelart suite, released in this month’s MIST0818 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2BFXFX5

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Mistigram: one can’t know just what was in...

Mistigram: one can’t know just what was in Platinum’s mind when he drew this #ANSIart logo for Daemon’s Gate 23 years ago for release in the MIST0895 artpack collection, but I can’t get over the idea that he may have been listening to Gob, wishing he could jump in a lake. https://ift.tt/2o1KO86

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