Mistigram: if palm trees are the official foliage of vaporwave, the #Concorde would be the official means to travel to palm tree locales. This screen was drawn by @horsenburger and included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/32lmArg
Mistigram: and we can round out the botanical part of today’s program with this #fusionbead flower arrangement by @webersso.n, included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2NEc7Dv
Mistigram: @BlippyPixel has drawn a few similar scenes, though the noisy dithering of the #BBCMicro hirez style couldn’t be further from the cartoony clean lines we just saw. (And of course I don’t think they issue you your teletext license until you’ve demonstrated palm tree mastery. But I digress.) You can find more of these splendid screens in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2MNyVki
Mistigram: summer marches on, so we’d better share our tropical islands while they’re still relevant. This #pixelart landscape is a real change of pace (in style, if not subject) for @pixelartfortheheart, but the gearshifting is done very gracefully. You can find more of their new run of landscapes in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2NJOU2S
Mistigram: We’ve been showcasing @axltm’s pseudo-#PETSCII action figures for weeks - patterned after the Masters of the Universe, we recently learned that his line is called Champions of the Megacosm (totally different, you understand.) You may recall our early posting of Wankor, power master of self stimulation. Did you know he also came in a bionic variation? The cybernetic replacements raise some a few questions however… These pieces were included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2ZDBuvt
Mistigram: I made the previous announcement through Stories but it’s worth making a regular post for. As you all know, Mistigris (that’s us) releases regular themed artpack collections on a monthly basis. Next month’s theme is: VIDEO GAMES. The deadline for submissions to info@mistigris.org is Friday, Sept 13; the artpack should be released three days later. Please join us in co-op; computer art is a dry game in singleplayer mode. https://ift.tt/2HB0iKh
Mistigram: if you’ve been paying attention, probably you will not be floored to learn that ZXguesser drew this #teletext version of the #BritishRail logo. We included this screen in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2ZzaRrD
Mistigram: if ever we were going to make a post that was an implicit endorsement of #McDonalds, it seems today is that day. This @xtcomics emoji comic strip posits that the name #HappyMeal is not just marketing! This piece was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2ZzMKJs
Mistigram: the character of #Buzby the bird was used circa 1976 by #BritishTelecom to promote the use of long distance telephone calls. @horsenburger remembers! (That’s why he drew it.) This #teletext screen appeared in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/30HkAcF
Mistigram: since its mascot hour here, @lego48x48 will see you and raise you a #Lego #pixelart #Pringles mascot. (#JuliusPringles to his friends.) This piece was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2PqXllV
Mistigram: from this month’s unthemed MIST0819 artpack collection of arbitrary artwork made to satisfy the artists’ strange muses, here’s an @8bit_poet #pixelart rendition of outlaw advertising mascot #TwinkieTheKid. Why? Guess someone was in the mood for a snack. https://ift.tt/2LbMgRM
Mistigram: and from ZXguesser’s #teletext-locomotive laboratories, here’s a screen of a class 08 shunter! This piece was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/34cugxO
Mistigram: you would never have seen rocky textures like this before on the earlier phase of @pixelartfortheheart’s #pixelart landscapes, but their new wave is more sophisticated on many levels. You can find this piece (and much more) in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2UfR0Zj
Mistigram: here’s a special 2-part #ASCIIart/emoji comic strip from @xtcomics, included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/34aaMtT
Mistigram: peak #CGA? @my_life_computerized shares another seaside photograph forced through a time machine by way of a graphics filter. This piece was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2L6Akkd
Mistigram: @jellica_______ celebrates #Berlin in this #teletext screen, included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2ZycHoG
Mistigram: twilight #pixelart cityscape by Eve, included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2L20692
Mistigram: a mood - “Swept Away” by @192.168.10.13, included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2ZA4vnA
Mistigram: here’s a #teletext portrait of #Sanrio’s most famous mascot #HelloKitty, drawn by @horsenburger. This screen was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2Lh8P6p
Mistigram: #ANSIart key drawn by @MaxMouse__, included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2ZhtjFI
Mistigram: “Unintenders”, drawing by @starstew, included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2LiSY74
Mistigram: minimalist floral #fusionbeads design by @webersso.n, included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2ZhtdxQ
Mistigram: #pixelart #rubikscube drawn by @dos_grog, included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2LiSUnQ
Mistigram: “Sunrise-7”, #teletext cityscape by @blippypixel, included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2Zht6Cq
Mistigram: “Sky Is Falling”, glitch imagery by @192.168.10.13, included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2L0FrSG
Mistigram: can’t we find anything a bit more fantastical than Vespas and locomotives? Hang on a sec, here’s a #pixelart mecha drawn by @scofanogd! A less practical commuting option, but likely one with a larger payload capacity. This piece was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2NLzz1N
Mistigram: not to be outdone, the maestro of #teletext, @horsenburger, needed to demonstrate that he would not be left behind in this strange new regime of sixel locomotives. So here, he gave it a shot with this illustration of an #InterCity125 leaving the station. This screen appeared in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2ZplL39
Mistigram: lest you #railfan subscribers forget that this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection is filled with a wide array of British train types illustrated in #teletext by ZXguesser, here’s one dryly labeled the #NewMeasurementTrain, more whimsically described as Britain’s Doctor Yellow or the Flying Banana. https://ift.tt/2NG1NuN
Mistigram: @BlippyPixel plays up the extent to which light refracts underwater in this aquatic #BBCMicro high resolution landscape, “8-bit Aquarium.” it was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2Zk499r
Mistigram: of course, who needs a scooter when you have a jet-pack? This pseudo-#PETSCII cyclops illustration is by @axltm, part of his series of gnarly little dudes inspired by the Masters of the Universe action figures. These were included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2NAT7pt
Mistigram: vroom vroom. For no apparent reason other than that it is executed so well, here’s a #pixelart #Vespa! It was drawn by @8bit_poet and included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. Now if you don’t mind, I’m out of gas and need to pedal it to the next station… https://ift.tt/2Zk44m9
Mistigram: we all know that @pixelartfortheheart works, under that name, almost exclusively in the landscape idiom. So surely this isn’t an abstract design, but rather some isometric topography of a terraced archipelago… but the palette choices make it difficult to prove definitively. This piece was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2U3JVep
Mistigram: surrealism grants us access to a space for experiments which are at once abstract and representative simultaneously! So it is with this study of drapery and dots by @the_mythical_man, included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/341Jq9l
Mistigram: today’s abstraction parade would not be complete without the inclusion of yet another one of Uglifruit’s experiments into the use of colour, texture and patterns in the #teletext medium. This screen was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2U3JUXT
Mistigram: and while we’re venturing into abstraction, it wouldn’t be right to go forward without including @dyscotopia. This piece is entitled “Unicorn” and if accurate, it might explain just why the majestic but elusive creatures are so darned hard to find. This piece was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/341JmX9
Mistigram: did someone say “abstract”? Here’s @philllllljames with these “Summer Pieces” either from deep in the guts of Glyph Drawing Club or a video game’s level editor. (again: why not both?) It was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2U7tGNp
Mistigram: I am very sure that I overuse tesseract/hypercube tropes describing these @kris10roos geometrical abstract pieces on vintage machines, but I remain resolute in my commitment that this is very similar to what a 4-dimensional ice cube tray would look like. This piece was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/33ST65M
Mistigram: @192.168.10.13 sees your tropical storms and northern lights and asks… why not both? This piece is entitled “Category 13”. It appeared in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2Zfy1nr
Mistigram: hot or cold, sun or moon… Don’t let me burden you with the drag factor of my interpretation of this #pixelart scene by Eve. Instead… Just enjoy it! This piece was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2ZurKzn
Mistigram: another sunny scene, here’s a #BBCMicro high resolution screen, “City Break”, by @blippypixel. This piece was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2KTd2xS
Mistigram: Sunday is here and it seems it’s going to be a hot one, so why not share this Masters of the Universe-inspired pseudo-#PETSCII character who appears to be emerging from a wall of blinding white-hot lava? It just works. This piece appeared in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/323Lko8
Mistigram: OK, I give up. If we’re going to all go up in a roiling conflagration, it may as well be a brilliant one. Here is a tremendous #pixelart scene of a dragonflame attack on a sailing ship, drawn as a rare exception from the pop culture beat of @chuppixel_, included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2zlkJqi
Mistigram: OK, all this dwelling on pieces curatorially informed by themes of climate change and biosphere collapse is bringing me down. Here, let’s buoy my spirits with this abstract design, presumably a found readymade from @kris10roos’ explorations into the world of pixelart textile production, with absolutely zero connections to or visual reminiscence of red hot fire. Ah… damn. This piece was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2P9v7vL
Mistigram: I guess if we can talk rainforests and smoke then we can discuss lungs. This stylized pulmonary painting is by @nouscentric and was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2KRlAp9
Mistigram: I’m going to give @pixelartfortheheart the benefit of the doubt here and suppose that this amazing #pixelart sunset scene is just very emotional and not thick with choking smoke. You can find more like it in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/322pYrc
Mistigram: one thing about forest fires - they make for spectacular sunsets. Here’s a painting of one by @theresaoborn, included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2zlFphD
Mistigram: when we planned to include this @xtcomics emoji / #ASCIIart comic strip in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection, we expected it to only be of middling relevance during forest fire season, not an epitaph on the tombstone of the Amazon rainforest. https://ift.tt/2PbEICw
Mistigram: but you can’t seriously discuss computer architecture until you’ve enjoyed @jellica_______ ’s Dreamview #teletext oceanside resort. This screen was included in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2L2Ru0I
Mistigram: one doesn’t often see architecture or any evidence of human habitation in the #pixelart landscapes of @pixelartfortheheart, but in his return to the hobby he had been broadening his practice somewhat. This brown castle appeared in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/33YrSLk
Mistigram: it’s an unusual #ANSIart logo, but we’ll take it. This curious string of characters, first as high ASCII, then coloured ANSI, is one of several ways to render the quantity “ten thousand” using Roman numerals. LDA kindly drew it for use in our infofile this month, as Mistigris celebrated the milestone of having released ten thousand distinct artworks. You can see it in situ (there he goes with the Latin again!) in this month’s MIST0819 artpack collection. https://ift.tt/2TZDn0s
