Mistigram: an unorthodox #ASCIIart portrait of the number two artpack subject of all time (behind only Spawn), here’s @xtcomics’ take on Bill Watterson’s #CalvinAndHobbes. This piece was included in the new comics-themed MIST0720 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CDRMtC_n5vY/
Mistigram: an unorthodox #ASCIIart https://instagr.am/p/CDRI5VnHziL/
Mistigram: third mosaic in three days, happy to announce this is finally one full of OUR stuff - the contents of the new comics-themed MIST0720 artpack collection, now out in the nick of time! You can download it directly from bit.ly/MIST0720 (or mistigris.org) or view its contents in-browser via @sixteen_colors! https://instagr.am/p/CDO1Lr7ntnh/
Mistigram: while you’re waiting for the overdue MIST0720 comics-themed artpack collection to drop, fingers crossed tonight, here’s another Pixel Pompeii exploration into how the earliest ANSI artists in the Public Domain style drew comic book superheroes – https://ift.tt/30V8QEL https://instagr.am/p/CDMyXw5pHkX/
Mistigram: where is the new MIST0720 artpack collection? If it won’t reveal itself, we’ll have to flush it out. Commissioner, engage the Mist-signal!
This #ansiart logo is actually patterned after the 2005 Marvel Comics miniseries #HouseOfM (in which Scarlet Witch famously magics “no more mutants” – at which I like to imagine Raphael mouthing an expletive. The plain logo was drawn by Cthulu as a Plan B FILE_ID.DIZ for this month’s artpack, and redeemed as a #batsignal analogue by LDA, appearing in this month’s memberlist. Take my word for it. Hopefully you can confirm tonight 8) https://instagr.am/p/CDMOJ4SHozD/
To warm you all up for the imminent comics-themed MIST0720 artpack collection, here’s a new Pixel Pompeii archival investigation into Public Domain #ANSIart on comic strip themes: https://ift.tt/302eqG0 https://instagr.am/p/CDJ8SSjnFbN/
Mistigram: as much as last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection was a bottomless font of goodness, we’re just about ready to share with you the comics-themed MIST0720 artpack collection, due out tonight. Here is its FILE_ID.DIZ, featuring #Bongo from #MattGroening’s #LifeInHell, as started by Cthulu and polished off by LDA. https://instagr.am/p/CDJZgzsHqco/
Mistigram: perhaps the most incredible moment in the Textmode Friends victory lap around last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection, here’s an amazing hypercolor #ANSIart illustration by @Rhoq7 of the moment in #JurassicPark when #TimMurphy (#JosephMazello) is hiding from a hungry, doorknob-using #velociraptor pair in a kitchen. When you bring sophisticated pixelart sensibilities to textmode art, you wind up with something no one has ever seen before! https://instagr.am/p/CDHFXveHxRg/
Mistigram: this absolutely bonkers meta section capped off a nominally Egypt-themed collaborative #ANSIart scroller by the Textmode Friends - @Polyducks, @RetroStark, @Rhoq7 and @mig_moog - included in last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CDFZQncHma-/
Mistigram: these monochrome #ANSIart and #ASCIIart panels of illustrations from #LewisCarroll’s #Jabberwocky were drawn by @Polyducks, forming the basis of a complete #textmode adaptation of the poem, included in last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CDBqefUHyp5/
Mistigram: last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection featured a number of difficult-to-excerpt #ANSIart joints on various themes, pieced together by diverse artists. Here is a sampling from our #cat collaboration, featuring art by “Blast Thru Bill”, #ASCIIart kitties by @picrotoxin, @Polyducks, @theoddfirecat and @littlebitspace, pawprints and fish bones by LDA and a dangling collar by @alphaking67. https://instagr.am/p/CC8hbsun51p/
Mistigram: yesterday was the hottest day of the year thus far here at our WHQ, and we really could have gone for a refreshing splash through one of @BlippyPixel’s #BBCMicro high resolution fountains, as demonstrated here. This piece was included in last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection.
Mistigram: something has gone horribly wrong with @joninscii’s #ASCIIart claw machine, included in last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection.
Mistigram: a little light humour in @xtcomics’ patented melange of ascii art and emoji! This piece was included in last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CC1JKBvn5W7/
Mistigram: @Polyducks and his Textmode Friends colleagues took on a request last month for some #ANSIart screens for #HobbitEmpire BBS. Here he joins forces with LDA (a small fellowship) to depict Sauron’s fell tower at #BaradDur. This piece was included in last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CCyl3fUHPLP/
Mistigram: today is your last chance to get your remote computer art submissions in to this weekend’s @flashparty.ar demoparty! Promotional art by Arlequin.
Mistigram: the humidity has broken overnight, but yesterday was the hottest day of the year so far and I was desperate for one of these - a #fan, drawn in #BBCMicro #pixelart by @blippypixel. This piece was included in last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection.
Mistigram: sometimes there is no subtext and a #teletext #tractor is just a teletext tractor. This one was drawn by @zxguesser (in what must be an advanced version of the teletext spec) and was at least one person’s favourite piece in last month’s entire MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CCqfSauHzyU/
Mistigram: from last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection, here’s a #teletext scene by Uglifruit depicting a moonlit race between a knight errant on horseback and a flying dragon! https://instagr.am/p/CClWCBsHVDv/
Mistigram: we shared a ton of @Starstew’s distinctive drawings in last month’s unthemed MIST0620 artpack collection. This one is titled “Easy Piezo”. https://instagr.am/p/CCjCPHZH_Us/
Mistigram: the kind of miscellaneous subject that only really fits in an unthemed artpack such as last month’s MIST0620 collection, here’s some curious #ASCIIart by @docpop who, when not drawing textmode art, is it turns out an accomplished #yoyo practitioner! https://instagr.am/p/CCgf-P7nZtp/
Mistigram: from last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection, here’s an #ANSIart illustration of a #Telecaster guitar and a Vox AC30 amp - “My Noise” - drawn by LDA. https://instagr.am/p/CCdoG-aHndn/
Mistigram: @chuppixel_ drew Hamburg’s #HeinrichHertzTurm in splendid vaporwave #pixelart. This piece was included in last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CCbDPqsn-eh/
Mistigram: inspired by and prototyped on vintage computing hardware, this geometric textile design was made by @kris10roos and included in last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CCZDx_XnLd8/
Mistigram: July’s Mistigris artpack takes an extraordinary focus on the topic that, for most vintage underground computer art groups, was the default: comics (comic books, strips, comix, webcomics etc.) Submissions welcome, projected release date Jul 20th.
Please be gentle with Cthulu’s Moebius #ANSIart trace of the cover art to #ScottMcCloud’s #UnderstandingComics. https://instagr.am/p/CCWMZwmHaF8/
Mistigram: it’s #ANSIart, Jim, but not as we know it. This pastoral spring scene captures a moment of very extraordinary lighting conditions, an experiment by @blippypixel in drawing ANSI like teletext renditions of BBC Micro high resolution graphics. It’s quite a rabbit hole! Hm, that reminds me of something… This piece was included in last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CCTo_i9n89e/
Mistigram: but wait! Not to be outdone, @hollydollydinkleberry had to try her own hand at illustrating the #snakelemma (despite which, that hashtag will not be trending anytime soon) in textmode characters, here lovingly rendered as #FANSI art. This makes last month’s MIST0620 collection not only the first and only artpack to ever demonstrate this mathematical tool - but we did it twice in one go! Truly an unparalleled feat that shall never be surpassed. https://instagr.am/p/CCRD2U7HB13/
Mistigram: the #snakelemma is one of those subjects you need to include in an unthemed artpack, lest you risk waiting until the time comes for you to curate a collection on the subject of homological algebra. This specimen was made by Sassafras, I believe using the Glyph Drawing Club software, and was included in last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CCRDLxTHQsc/
Mistigram: here is an extraordinary #pixelart scene from the deep back catalogues of @pixelartfortheheart, included in last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CCOgvsgnVGR/
Mistigram: we have suffered a phone-related disruption in our art-sharing pipeline, so even though it is now July I still have so many worthwhile works share with you from last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection. For instance, I wanted to continue harping on Pride month using this @blippypixel #BBCMicro hirez #rainbow dividing night from day! https://instagr.am/p/CCJAjMYHg1B/
Mistigram: customarily on the occasion of Canada Day (today) there are fireworks displays. With that in mind, here’s a painting by @niklkovfska from last month’s MIST0620 artpack collection of a still frame from a viral YouTube video of an explosion at a fireworks factory. https://instagr.am/p/CCGws59HeHJ/
