Mistigram: just as we were putting this month’s unthemed MIST0620 artpack collection together, this #ANSIart logo for the BBS at http://1984bbs.net/ came through. @MaxMouse__ managed to slip it in at the absolute last minute! All in all, a worthwhile inclusion. https://instagr.am/p/CCEGoFWnuWf/
Mistigram: the word “typo” denotes an accidental touch on the wrong keyboard key, but I can assure you that just about every keystroke composing these works made by @ty.p0 was, ironically, made very deliberately. This piece was included in this month’s MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CB_U6DTnudf/
Mistigram: a seasonal piece from the #pixelart file, here’s a summery sky scene by @c00k13_m0n5t3r_ . This was included in this month’s MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CB61nLbHAEE/
Mistigram:this aeronautical formation was drawn in #teletext by @blippypixel and included in this month’s MIST0620 artpack collection. Like all rainbow imagery we share in June, it makes for a good excuse to invite everyone to enjoy this summer’s Pride celebrations. https://instagr.am/p/CB3T7BUnbyL/
Mistigram: you may feel that you are already well-versed in human anatomy, but as @mig_moog demonstrates in this helpful #pixelart diagram, there’s always something new to learn on the subject. This piece was included in this month’s MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CB0q6nAn_g4/
Mistigram: @joninscii knows how to make an entrance! There is a Christian belief that after you die, your soul transmigrates to a suitable afterlife where the virtuous are rewarded and the sinful are punished. A Gnostic twist is that this has already happened, and that we are all living in Hell. This #ASCIIart animation was included in this month’s MIST0620 artpack collection.
Mistigram: this cosmic question, asked in #pixelart by @upper.case, was included in the MIST0619 artpack collection released one year ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CBuSjIpHZCa/
Mistigram: Arlequin made another promotion for the upcoming, online-only session of the annual @flashparty.ar demoparty, this one based around an oldschool #ASCIIart logo. I recommend you take part remotely!
Mistigram: this minimalist take on the invitational materials for the upcoming, all-online @flashparty.ar demoparty was also prepared by Arlequin and included in this month’s new MIST0620 artpack collection.
Mistigram: demoparty season is well nigh upon us, and yet… it is unsafe to gather indoors in large groups. Ah, but the nerds solved this one a long time ago! Boot up, log in, and party on! The @flashparty.ar festivities are going forward in a fully online capacity, so there is no excuse: submit your remote competition entries and watch the livestream to learn the results! Arlequin sent us several promotional clips for inclusion in this month’s new MIST0620 artpack collection… we included a couple of the smallest (this one not among them) and just hope to get the word out.
Mistigram: @electrons_from_acorns doesn’t mince words, folks! Wind him up with an Acorn Electron and stand back! This screen was included in the new MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CBlz9TKn-Vv/
Mistigram: he’s been out of circulation all year, but @xtcomics came swinging right back into action just in time to tag out Horsenburger with this #BlackLivesMatter #ASCIIart piece, included in the new MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CBlzer4Hrat/
Mistigram: though he has recently switched projects to works more in keeping with current events, @horsenburger also recently drew this, scene number 74 in his Space Misadventurer series of daily drawings, bringing together characters from the previous several dozen drawings for a big group photo. This piece was included in this month’s new MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CBlQYwYngxs/
Mistigram: and on to this artpack’s main attraction, an extraordinary crop of #ANSIart! @n1njaf1reman has been stockpiling it for a while, hence the 2019 datestamp on this steampunk skull boi, but we are thrilled to present his artpack debut. This #Warhammer40k piece is called “Mechanicus” and was included in the new MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CBjOd4vHGmC/
Mistigram: making his artpack debut this month, we’re proud to introduce you to the #emoji / #ASCIIart scenes of @kurogao96, demonstrating a wide range of recreational activities not possible at present. This roller coaster scene was included in the new MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CBjA7QqH-T9/
Mistigram: our current creative ironman, @blippypixel, was laid low over the past few months with a bout of the coronavirus. This #BBCMicro hirez screen, a celebration of light, was the first piece he made after recovering. This piece was included in this month’s new MIST0620 artpack collection.
Mistigram: from the “what are the artists’ personal projects?” file we opened in this month’s new unthemed MIST0620 artpack collection, @axltm’s faux-#PETSCII character designs are finding their stride in game prototypes, like this aquatic character. https://instagr.am/p/CBis5PVnwIn/
Mistigram: OK, it has been brought to our attention that some among our audience would like to see more #ANSIart in our artpacks. We can’t make any long term promises, but this month at least we have an extraordinary buffet on offer. Stay tuned, MIST0620 launches tonight! (Thumbnails by LDA, @MaxMouse__, @n1njaf1reman, CoaXCable, @blippypixel, and @polyducks’s incredible “Textmode Friends” crew including @Rhoq7, @RetroStark and @Mig_Moog.) https://instagr.am/p/CBgaWI7HEAk/
Mistigram: a taste of things to come, here is a sampling of the wide range of subjects and styles engaged by the Mistigris computer art community in the new unthemed MIST0620 artpack collection, dropping tonight! https://instagr.am/p/CBgFiBkH47-/
Mistigram: “We’re all mad here” – the latest Mistigris artpack, an extraordinary unthemed collection, will be dropping later today. Here’s the FILE_ID.DIZ for MIST0620, a moody #ANSIart #CheshireCat drawn by @theoddfirecat (with an assist from CatX). It shouldn’t be the only piece of Lewis Carroll-alia up in there! https://instagr.am/p/CBgFPNkHTs0/
Mistigram: from the MIST0619 artpack collection released one year ago this month, here’s “Moment In Time” in #BBCMicro hirez by @blippypixel. (And the rainbow means again that we exhort you to celebrate Pride!) https://instagr.am/p/CBd2vIUn9-0/
Mistigram: another day, another crime against humanity. Today @horsenburger shares this #teletext memorial to #JavierAmbler: “Every time I saw him, he would kiss me on my forehead. He just had the biggest heart and cared so much about his friends, even people he didn’t know,” said Javier’s sister
For 15 months after his death his family had only been told he had died in police custody. In June this year they found the details of the events that led to his death, including that his death was filmed by a TV crew (who had since deleted the footage) and that the arrest was so aggressive an officer could be heard saying “ah, pretty sure I just broke his finger.” And this was a man who was unarmed, not resisting, had surrendered, and was repeatedly pleading that he suffered from congestive heart failure.
What was his crime?
This capital crime was for not stopping after not dimming his headlights.
His family and friends suspect that if the police officers had not been with a TV crew from the Live PD show at the time this would never have escalated and Javier might still be alive.
All officers involved were cleared after an Internal Affairs investigation, but after the body cam footage was released this week the DA has said the case could go to a grand jury. So, it is possible, but unlikely that justice may be served.
#JusticeForJavierAmbler #BlackLivesMatter https://instagr.am/p/CBbSkbunCVt/
Mistigram: our community was created and is administered in Canada, and @horsenburger’s latest #teletext memorial, for #AbdirahmanAbdi, reminds us that America’s polite neighbours have much reconciliation and justice work ahead of them also. “Abdirahman was a Somali Muslim refugee who settled with his family in Ottawa, Canada in 2009. He was almost certainly autistic and was described as a quiet, shy, polite man, who was socially awkward and would always greet people he knew with a handshake and a "Hi, how are you?” On the day of his death he went to his local coffee shop and approached a couple at a table. He started to talk to them and then tried to shake the woman’s hands. She panicked and pulled away from him and Abi left.
She then called the police and told them a crazy man tried to assault her. The police arrived and Abi ran from them. They chased, caught him, took him down with batons and pepper spray then continued to beat and kick him. Abi pleaded in Somali and members of the public tried to get the officers to stop but they didn’t until he was unconscious. They then handcuffed him and left him in a pool of blood.
It took 10 minutes before they tried CPR but he was already dead. Constable Daniel Montsion was charged with manslaughter and Constable Weir was classified as a witness.
This was a brutal attack on a helpless man with special needs which resulted in his horrific death and a scared community.“ #BlackLivesMatter #blacklivesmattercanada https://instagr.am/p/CBYnmWPnsWY/
Mistigram: @MaxMouse__ used #ANSIart to illustrate the contents of a character’s inventory in a BBS door game prototype. This screen was included in the MIST0618 artpack collection released two years ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CBUDz-PHUMI/
Mistigram; this #BBCMicro hirez screen of lush, dense green foliage could only be the handiwork of one artist in the 21st century - our friend @blippypixel. It was included in the MIST0619 artpack collection released one year ago. https://instagr.am/p/CBTkHCqnckP/
Mistigram: @horsenburger shares this harrowing #teletext account of misdeeds in a town where he used to live. “6th May 2013, Julian was enjoying a night out at Elements Nightclub in Bedford (UK). They were asked to leave, but when Julian demanded a refund he was taken down by a bouncer and then again by police officers. He was dragged into the police van where he suffered severe injuries including a broken neck and damage to his spine. He was not taken to hospital but to the local police station where the officer showed "inhuman indifference to his welfare”. Only when he suffered cardiac arrest did they take him to the local hospital. Julian has been left in a vegetative state and will always require 24 hour care.
There were no criminal charges brought to the officers involved but in 2018, 3 police officers involved were found guilty of lying in a tribunal and were dismissed, a 4th was given a final warning.
There is a petition online to bring charges to the the officers involved in a criminal court.“ https://t.co/50xrRF7554
#JulianCole #JusticeForJulianCole https://instagr.am/p/CBTQAk2npxN/
Mistigram: this #ANSIart illustration, an ad for the “Toon’s Town” BBS run by Toon (renamed shortly thereafter to watOr if I’m not mistaken), was drawn by Tribe (aka the 4th Disciple) and included in the MIST0695 artpack collection released a quarter century ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CBRHNtOn5Da/
Mistigram: another landscape, this forest vista was painted by @niklkovfska and included in the MIST0617 artpack collection released three years ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CBQqCqInHBw/
Mistigram: here’s an #ANSIart landscape and interface prototype design by @MaxMouse__ for a multiplayer BBS MUD. This piece was included in the MIST0618 artpack collection released two years ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CBQp0ZlHLc7/
Mistigram: and another exhortation to celebrate LGBTQIA2S+ diversity this June with this #Lego #pixelart mosaic of the king of the jungle - even when they aren’t rendered in all the colours of the rainbow, you can often find lions in a #Pride. This piece was made by @lego48x48 and included in the MIST0619 artpack collection released one year ago. https://instagr.am/p/CBQpa0nHHo_/
Mistigram: today’s @horsenburger BLM #teletext portrait is by request of @8_bits_at_a_time. Thanks for reaching out! “David Dungay Junior was just 26 years old when he was killed in custody in December 2015 for refusing to stop eating his biscuits. He was held face down on his bed by 5 guards until he died, 10 minutes later he was pronounced dead. David loved poetry and sports but by being an Aboriginal in white Australia, he was very unlikely to become anything but a statistic.
Almost 500 deaths in custody in 30 years and that is not the true figure, these numbers are rising all the time as more cases are being uncovered.
Australia’s history of genocide continues to this day, this must stop.
Please consider supporting David’s mother in her fight for justice for David on #gofundme ” https://t.co/UUETLA3Cxt
#blacklivesmatteraustralia #BlackLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatterUK #DavidDungay https://instagr.am/p/CBQojEKnLde/
Mistigram: this drawing, “Degravity”, was made by @starstew and included in the MIST0618 artpack collection released two years ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CBNzOcrnFhV/
Mistigram: this #BBCMicro hirez screen, “Spring”, was drawn by @blippypixel and included in the MIST0619 artpack collection released one year ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CBNzBqLns9d/
Mistigram: Thanks to @horsenburger for using his masterful #teletext skillz to keep the focus on this critical theme. “#EricGarner’s killing was another brutal act by police filmed and posted on line. Eric was objecting to yet another stop by undercover police for the capital crime of selling loose cigarettes. It’s the case of yet another very large black man being killed in the street in an unnecessary show of violence.
There’s more to this story, such as the man who filmed the video being victimised and eventually arrested & jailed after taking a plea to stop his mother being sent to prison.
Again, no legal action taken against the officer involved at the time, but he was forced to resign five years later after the result of a civil action which awarded the Garner family over $4 million for Eric’s death (this was ruled a Homicide at the time).” #BlackLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatterUK #PoliceBrutality https://instagr.am/p/CBLfKqMn9Nb/
Mistigram: There’s no lack of subjects for @horsenburger to illustrate, tragically never more the case than in this potentially bottomless series of #teletext screens. “#JimmyMubenga’s death at the hands of G4S employees was so violent British Airways staff that witnessed it could no longer work because of the experience, but the men that killed him got away with the murder with help of a friendly judge who thought allowing the racist views of the killers to be made public would prejudice the jury against them.” #BlackLivesMatterUK #BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe https://instagr.am/p/CBHm5v3nWfv/
Mistigram: this oldschool #ASCIIart logo for @araknet was drawn by pz and included in the MIST0619 artpack collection released one year ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CBFdhYlnS19/
Mistigram: this #ANSIart marsh valley landscape was drawn by @maxmouse for an online BBS game never widely available to the general public. It was included in the MIST0618 artpack collection released two years ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CBFdLG-nCFk/
Mistigram: this glitch imagery, evocatively titled “Night City”, was made by @fontvirus and included in the MIST0617 artpack collection released three years ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CBFcjNTHuws/
Mistigram: given the subjects of their other renders, I have to assume that this 3-D rendering of futuristic jet planes by rzicus - more hold-the-phone impressive in 1998 on gutless home kit than today - depicts some variety of Veritech in aircraft mode. It was included in the M-9806 artpack collection released 22 years ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CBFbLZ9HPvp/
Mistigram: this #ANSIart illustration of some species of samurai mecha, an advertisement for the AuraNet echomail network, was drawn by Kingyo! and included in the MIST0696 artpack collection released 24 years ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CBFaVUFno1d/
Mistigram: here’s an #ANSIart logo drawn for the first installment (of two) of the North American International Demoparty, or NAID for short. It was drawn by @frandroid and included in the MIST0695 artpack collection released 25 years ago this month. I don’t believe that there are any demoparties taking place this summer for pandemic reasons, but in their place if you like you can find footage of the hardware-throwing contest from this event a quarter-century ago up on YouTube. https://instagr.am/p/CBFZl16nf5R/
Mistigram: if you don’t think @horsenburger can do one of these #BlackLivesMatter #teletext memorials every day, you haven’t been paying attention. “#WillieMcCoy was a young man, living in a rough town, he fell into a life of crime but the (Vallejo, California) police didn’t know that when they were called about a man being unresponsive in a car outside of a Taco Bell.
The Vallejo PD serve 122,000 people with 100 officers.
In 2012 VPD officer involved fatal shootings were 38 times higher than the US national average and a third of all the city’s homicides were as a result of officer shootings. (reported 2012) #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/clWdpQ5jBT” https://instagr.am/p/CBFGeYonv_K/
Mistigram: June is Pride also! We weren’t able to pull off the dedicated artpack we’d hoped for, but there are some great rainbow images in our back catalogue. This #BBCMicro hirez screen, “Vortex”, is by @blippypixel and was included in the MIST1118 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CBDyEtNnPJh/
Mistigram: @BlippyPixel drew this #teletext landscape of the Moon of Monmium, included in last month’s science fiction-themed MIST0520 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CBBlBKmH51S/
Mistigram: this hefty slice of cosmic #ANSIart strangeness - the #Zapper, #KoolAidMan, and the posterior event horizon of the dark matter unicorn - could only have been a collaborative product of @Polyducks’ #textmode friends club, with @RetroStark, @Rhoq7 and @mig_moog. This piece was included in last month’s science fiction-themed MIST0520 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CBBhojvHD7t/
Mistigram: this recursive #textmode computer-screen-within-a-computer-screen was made by @axltm and included in last month’s science fiction-themed MIST0520 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CBBhKT-nf-d/
Mistigram: @horsenburger’s Space Misadventurer finds a novel way of concealing himself from unfriendly locals after crash landing into an intergalactic toy store. This drawing was included in last month’s science fiction-themed MIST0520 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CBBhBjjn2uy/
Mistigram: this #BBCMicro hirez animation, “Awakening”, was made by @blippypixel and included in last month’s science fiction-themed MIST0520 artpack collection.
Mistigram: another day, another nod to the critical work being done by #BlackLivesMatter activists worldwide. Artists participate as best they can. Here’s a #Lego #pixelart portrait of the late #GeorgeFloyd, made by @farrell_legos. Rest In Power! https://instagr.am/p/CBBOh6MHq9t/
Mistigram: the Robocop pieces were a good fit for when the unrest really picked up, but in truth posting science fiction-themed art all last month felt a bit like a verse from Gil Scott-Heron’s “Whitey on the Moon”. @horsenburger again grounds us with a new #teletext screen explaining the struggles of today without hiding behind the metaphor of the future. “On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old woman, was fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police Department officers 8 times in her sleep.
No charges for any of the officers involved.” #JusticeforBreonnaTaylor #BlackLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatterUK #SayHerName https://instagr.am/p/CA_VDEFnX2F/
Mistigram: @horsenburger’s Space Misadventurer just can’t get a lucky break, it seems. Maybe he was hoping to discover some buried treasure, but it seems instead he is destined to become that archaeological artefact. This drawing was included in last month’s science fiction-themed MIST0520 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CA-b1f5nAje/
Mistigram: @electrons_from_acorns also got the bite of inspiration from #EliteDangerous, as demonstrated in this hirez illustration, titled “Homeward Bound”. This piece was also included in last month’s science fiction-themed MIST0520 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CA-UcsVnvXe/
Mistigram: this animated #BBCMicro hirez screen was made by @blippypixel in homage to the game #EliteDangerous. It was included in last month’s science fiction-themed MIST0520 artpack collection.
