Mistigram: and the pulse setting the rhythm for today’s posting schedule, here’s @blippypixel’s #teletext version of “Power Source”, a scene you’ve now seen three times in different forms! This screen was included in this month’s MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIOaKDkgE4Y/
Mistigram: @wolffdowntheworld has the skill set of a Renaissance man, but mostly our window into their world focuses on their #typewriterart. I believe that this piece, ironically, engages the subject of the medium but, aside from the caption, is hand-drawn. It was included in this month’s MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIOZ-u8n3rd/
Mistigram: here’s a striking #teletext portrait by @Jellica____, featuring a tribal design of make-up or facial tattoo (perhaps with anti-face-recognition properties?. This screen was included in this month’s MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIOZvT0MBKR/
Mistigram: @theoddfirefox provided a template for outside parties to use to design their own #ansiart “cyber helmet” as a fun audience participation activity as part of the MIST1120 festivities. We didn’t get too many takers (CoaXCable represents here, and I think @Mig_Moog), but it was still a curious exercise in intensely small-scale constraints. https://instagr.am/p/CIOZaEyD3VW/
Mistigram: an early and influential vision of cyberspace on the big screen, here’s an @andyuglifruit #teletext take on #Tron’s #LightCycles. This screen was included in the recent MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIOYyuFjr4I/
Mistigram: @Blippypixel’s “Power Source” here migrates into an intensely-dithered #BBCMicro hirez screen, his standard mode. This piece was included in the MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIOYm6tAmv1/
Mistigram: ldb commemorates the push to unionize the notoriously difficult-to-organize video game industry (who can schedule after-hours meetings during crunch time?) with this #asciiart logo celebrating #GameWorkersUnite. This piece was included in the recent MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIOYSUcA7uS/
Mistigram: a client from a region off the map of the digital underground came looking to license the use of a distinctive teletext cityscape by Cleaner and the much-loved artist BYM, but due to the lamentable early death of the latter, they were unable to come to terms. Team #teletext came swinging into action, seeking to clone the look and feel of the desired screen in all important regards, but despite this heroic effort by @carlos_teletextr, the client walked. At least you get to enjoy this homage! This screen was included in the recent MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIOXzXCgPaG/
Mistigram: as we keep mentioning, @blippypixel compositions often go through several iterations of style and medium. Here’s an interesting case study, “Power Source” from the recent 26th anniversary MIST1120 artpack collection, initially prototyped as a species of digital finger painting. https://instagr.am/p/CIOXLdIlDTo/
Mistigram: out there in the Discord wilds (ours is at https://ift.tt/33pChkw) a request was made to ANSIfy some animal imagery. Everyone who knows #ANSIart better declined, dismissing the source material as a poor fit for ANSI, but The Mad Tracer was listening quietly, and fulfilled the request despite its ill forecast. Well after the fact, we learned that the request was made on behalf of the Nuts Asylum BBS. This was part of a larger collaborative work, all polished up by Zeus II, included in this monthly MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIMGDIohtfm/
Mistigram: a eerie holdover from Hallowe'en, the #PETSCII warez ghost, drawn by @electrons_from_acorns, has some free pirated software for your #C64… but at what hidden cost to your eternal soul? This screen was included in this month’s MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIMFL8zhfo9/
Mistigram: NO CARRIER … thanks to that darned line noise, now we may never know just what image @Mavenmob was attempting to download in his terminal. Doesn’t look like a Cindy Crawford swimsuit GIF, that’s for sure! This piece was included in this month’s 26th-anniversary MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIMEw_Vh2UA/
Mistigram: @lego48x48 makes block art in all styles, especially sculptural recently, but here he continues in his sporadic tradition of physically building #Lego #pixelart images that would not be out of place in the middle of a computer graphics demonstration. This piece was included in this month’s MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIMEif_h6hi/
Mistigram: as part of his maniacal technique, @blippypixel has been minting multiple versions of his creations in different styles. You already saw his Vektor 1 animation earlier today in high resolution graphics, but now here it is as a #teletext animation! This was included in this month’s MIST1120 artpack collection.
Mistigram: @Illarterate has folded in a hidden cautionary message in this literary #teletext experiment, the subtext revealed when the REVEAL button is pressed on your remote control. These screens were included in this month’s MIST1120 artpack collection.
Mistigris: blasting out of the black space into the #BBCMicro hirez sector, this image, entitled “Vektor One”, was made by @blippypixel and included in this month’s MIST1120 artpack collection, celebrating the 26th anniversary of Mistigris’ first release.
Mistigram: Bringing us full circle at long last – @blippypixel also made a static, #teletext version of his mystical orb. Enjoy! Both were included in this month’s MIST1120 artpack collection celebrating the 26th anniversary of the establishment of Mistigris back in 1994. https://instagr.am/p/CIGwg58DhLm/
Mistigram: there’s no computer art quite like computer art made both by computers AND /about/ computers, so here’s part of a suite by @axltm in some textmode (SHARPSCII? JPETSCII?) celebrating the #AmstradCPC’s Locomotive BASIC. This piece was included in the new MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIGwX1KD7ZI/
Mistigram: the pendulum swings its way back toward the low-rez side of things with this awesome #pixelart adaptation of #DenisLoubet’s box art to #UltimaV - Warriors of Virtue, adapted by @minediru. This piece was included in this month’s 26th anniversary MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIGwGVuHGlw/
Mistigram: the day’s not complete until we’ve shared something from @horsenburger, so here’s a recent drawing by him of Doug TenNapel’s unlikely hero #EarthwormJim. This piece was included in this month’s new MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIGvvVtD_Ug/
Mistigram: we’ve been lulled into a bit of a false sense of security since our last warning message, but here’s another firmly phrased message written out by @andyuglifruit in #teletext to calm your troubled spirits and firm up your resolve. This screen was included in the new MIST1120 artpack collection https://instagr.am/p/CIGvYKmgHgz/
Mistigram: if we’re looking at creative use of #emoji, there’ll be no better time to bring out this creative re-imagining of Popcap’s monster #PlantsVsZombies game, faked out entirely by the playful @bhaal_spawn using the little glyphs. This piece was included in the new MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIGsiSBlTES/
Mistigram: A less traditional take on #ASCIIart, @kurogao96 spices up his textmode compositions with the strategic use of gonzo #emoji characters. As you can see, audiences don’t always know what to make of his inspired artistic creations! This piece was included in the new MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIGsOhsH9eg/
Mistigram: a slice of traditional #asciiart, here @littlebitspace draws everything you need for a cozy Sunday afternoon in, from the tea pot steeping to the guitar. Though as you can see it was drawn quite a bit earlier, this vignette was included in the recent MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIGsBt5nNFg/
Mistigram: straw man purists of underground PC #ansiart traditions, watch out! @Polyducks is here to challenge all of your assumptions about the use of iCEcolor and the 50-column character mode. This is only the beginning of a tall Moebius collaboration that was included in the new MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIGqaHDABwF/
Mistigram: is it a Christmas snow globe rolling prematurely onto the scene or are the contents of this mystical sphere more cosmic in nature? Only the artist @blippypixel knows for sure, and he’s far too busy drawing to elaborate. This animated #BBCMicro hirez screen was included in the new MIST1120 artpack collection.
Mistigram: from the desk of @mig_moog comes this splendid texty composition, entitled “The morning light greets King Darwin”. It was included in the new MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CIElQrcAgbm/
Mistigram: just prior to the release of this month’s 26th anniversary MIST1120 artpack collection, #teletext virtuoso @Horsenburger devised a technique for making extra-wide screens, demonstrating it with this composition featuring the quartet of player characters in Capcom’s 1994 beat-‘em-up arcade game #AlienVsPredator. https://instagr.am/p/CIEkuVRgPzy/
Mistigris: from the new MIST1120 artpack collection – sometimes @blippypixel graces us with different versions of his compositions, optimised for different mediums. Here is his space jockey navigating again, this time relying on monochrome #teletext instrumentation.
Mistigram: @joninscii gives us this animated #asciiart take on this year’s great leap forward for most of us in the telecommuting field: a grid of twitchy visages jittering through yet another #Zoom meeting. This piece was included in the new MIST1120 artpack collection.
Mistigram: this animated #BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen of a spaceship pilot maneuvering their vessel was made by @blippypixel and included in the new MIST1120 artpack collection, celebrating 26 years since our establishment!
Mistigram: and to leave things off on a note of bafflement, here’s a @gfascii #asciiart version of a consolidated Anonymous / QAnon logo, included in the new MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CH_DJjYBucS/
Mistigram: today’s parade of peculiar portraiture brings us to this @carlos_teletextr screen depicting actress Diane Morgan as parody television presenter #PhilomenaCunk. It was included in this month’s MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CH_Cw-Ih9bb/
Mistigram: and while we’re looking at tech figures with profoundly mixed legacies, here’s glitchy @nbreakfast textmode portrait conversion of the Boring fellow behind Tesla, Space-X and X Æ A-XII, #ElonMusk. This piece was also included in the new MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CH_CfZ6h5NP/
Mistigram: another sinister face from the other side of a screen – here’s “Trust In Me”, a portrait of #MarkZuckerberg of Facebook fame, tweaked by @192.168.10.13 for the revelation of cosmic truth. This piece was included in the new MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CH_CAO_BuH4/
Mistigram: @Illarterate had his own #teletext take on the #MaxHeadroomIncident, which he drew in this screen, which was included in the new MIST1120 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CH_ByIWBeos/
Mistigram: We were a couple of days late for the rest of the #MaxHeadroom celebrations on the anniversary of 1987’s Max Headroom Incident (go on, look it up!), but here from the new MIST1118 artpack is a spin on that theme, featuring #DonaldTrump as the virtual personality “Min Headroom”, holding forth against a jittery backdrop of coronaviruses. This animated #BBCMicro hirez screen was made by @Blippypixel.
Mistigram: one of the thematic currents running through our November artpacks is always a look into retrofuturistic cyberpunk perspectives and the culture of consumer electronics then and now! Here’s a taste of the varied topics and approaches covered in this month’s collection. https://instagr.am/p/CH8MyMMHZqI/
Mistigram: light off the #ANSIart fireworks, the MIST1120 artpack collection celebrating the 26th anniversary of our establishment has been released and can be enjoyed online via @sixteen_colors at https://ift.tt/2UPVbfH
Thanks to @theoddfirecat for the FILE_ID.DIZ artwork! https://instagr.am/p/CH8L9TDHzsa/
Mistigram: this painting by @minkant, which we described as “Boulevard of Tears”, was included in the MIST1118 artpack collection released two years ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CHwvpnmnNVL/
Mistigram: this artwork, Memories Of Catalunya, was made by @the_mythical_man and included in the MIST1118 artpack collection released two years ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CHwvcp5nNGR/
Mistigram: this drawing, “Indiestabilized”, was made by @starstew and included in the MIST1118 artpack collection released two years ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CHwuyJPHElC/
Mistigram: this @bonemouse illustration of the most terrifying thing to a technologist - a “haunted hard drive” - was part of an October daily drawing challenge but saved up for the following month’s computer culture-themed MIST1118 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CHwseTwnxnU/
Mistigram: finally, here’s another hirez portrait of #DmitriyBogatov by @electrons_from_acorns, drawn in celebration of his release from the custody of the Russian authorities. This piece was included in the 25th anniversary MIST1119 artpack collection released one year ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CHs10FLA2rT/
Mistigram: @kris10roos was up to some kind of digital manipulation with this portrait. Precisely what was going on here, I can’t presume to speculate, but rest assured it was exceedingly vintage in nature. This piece was included in last year’s MIST1119 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CHs1nP9gXun/
Mistigram: here’s a dope #ansiart logo for The Nut Asylum (?), drawn by j33p33 and included in the MIST1119 artpack collection released one year ago. https://instagr.am/p/CHs1SsbgXYK/
Mistigram: this is a @horsenburger portrait of his historic #teletext comrade-in-arms, the celebrated Mr. Biffo of Digitiser fame. This screen was included in last year’s 25th anniversary MIST1119 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CHszeCKgu1e/
Mistigram: From last year’s 25th anniversary MIST1119 artpack collection, here’s an illustration from a daily drawing challenge undertaken by Skonen_Blades – Lord #Pinball, a regal personification of the game itself, who /really/ does not appreciate it when you tilt his machine with your hips. https://instagr.am/p/CHszJ5nA_B9/
Mistigris: in April of 2017, Russian mathematician #DmitriyBogatov was held responsible for content posted via a Tor node he administered, and was imprisoned. Because online freedom is @electrons_from_acorns’ beat, he drew this monochrome hirez screen championing Dmitriy’s release, which was achieved in June of last year. This piece was included in the MIST1119 artpack collection released one year ago. https://instagr.am/p/CHsySL-AwLy/
Mistigram: this ponderous interstellar vehicle, replete with mechanisms of unfathomable scientific workings, was drawn in #BBCMicro hirez graphics by Blippypixel and included in the MIST1118 artpack collection we released two years ago this month.
Mistigram: @_freddy43 found perhaps the best way of displaying #ASCIIart - by launching it, rotating, at high speed, like anti-tank ordinance - and demonstrated his incredible technique on this vintage late-‘90s Mist logo by Dead Soul. This piece was included in the MIST1117 artpack collection released three years ago this month.
Mistigram: this ominous and intricate portrait, depicting depth through layers upon layers, was made by @ty.p0 and included in last year’s 25th anniversary MIST1119 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CHoHBBdngxk/
Mistigram: I believe that this bold (and, for its #teletext medium, extraordinarily ORANGE) proclamation was made by @illarterate and included in last year’s 25th anniversary MIST1119 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CHoGxooHIIz/
