Mistigram: Happy hump day!!!!! I’ve been kicking myself since posting our last piece of #camel-related computer art on the wrong day of the week and, you know, camelid computer art doesn’t come around every day (unless you’re the YaK.) This #teletext screen was drawn by @illarterate and included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CNF3-13lnI_/
Mistigram: here’s the #ANSIart-styled version of a dope Mistigris logo drawn by @Grymmjack for last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection inspired by the #CGA palette! Yow! https://instagr.am/p/CNBMaj0glr4/
Mistigram: here’s a fun retro throwback for the #selfie era – a #teletext #Polaroid self-portrait by @blippypixel!, called “Casual Observer”! This screen was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CNBL8fijRVK/
Mistigram: the culmination of our mighty sideways #ANSIart jam – here it is, The Big #Piranha itself, giving the piece its name. This ravenous little fish was the handiwork of Zeus II while it is understood that that LDA is responsible for sending the load of Spanish gold to the briny deep. This piece was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CNBKrFhME6f/
Mistigram: the shell command “rm -rf” should only be invoked by users with sufficient command to be responsible for what results. I don’t know if the face of @dwimmer.tm’s #PETSCII cyber-skeleton necessarily communicates “no regrets”, but certainly “no fear”. This screen was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CNBJcCtnKac/
Mistigram: this dense #ANSIart cyberpunk scene packs a lot of action in to 25 lines, with a gyro in hot pursuit of a motorbike as a green ASCII virus escapes containment… it was drawn by @theoddfirecat and included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection! https://instagr.am/p/CNA4-cXjQE2/
Mistigram: this serene #teletext scene of cherry blossoms by a lakeside pagoda was drawn by @atonalosprey and included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CNA37IhlNNk/
Mistigram: one more @blippypixel #teletext visit to the jammed #EverGiven, here he has managed to crash his game of Tetrisuez. https://instagr.am/p/CM-OJSbn1fe/
Mistigram: @BlippyPixel takes the comparison of the #EverGiven’s size to that of the #EmpireStateBuilding as a literal metaphor in this #teletext screen, “Beached Fail”. https://instagr.am/p/CM-N-3En2T5/
Mistigram: @BlippyPixel returns to the #SuezCanal crisis and the disruption of global trade by way of a little #teletext #SalvadorDali, in this screen called “The Persistence of No Toilet Roll”. https://instagr.am/p/CM-Nwa8nmvf/
Mistigram: the distinctive GPS contours attributed to the #EverGiven’s final moments of freedom are redrawn here in #teletext by @blippypixel, in a screen called “Boat Float”. https://instagr.am/p/CM-NbCVHwI7/
Mistigram: @blippypixel moves so fast adapting current events to #teletext we often don’t even try to include them in our artpacks because the news cycle moves so quickly even takes on matters from a few weeks ago no longer make sense. But he has been very active on the #EverGiven situation in the #SuezCanal - here’s the heroic excavator operator attempting to liberate the jammed vessel, in a screen entitled “Molehill Mountain”. https://instagr.am/p/CM-M9C4HNzh/
Mistigram: LDA’s “ANSI Academy” virtual instructor of #ANSIart technique displays a tiny ANSI skull of its own and leaves its students with some parting wisdom until next they cross paths. This piece was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM5ES-aA7Bm/
Mistigram: it’s the end of the week and spring is upon us! Think of your relaxing place and close your eyes! @Polyducks takes a good crack at a refreshing tropical vista in this #textmode flight of fancy, complete with hermit crab, included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM5EHpkjtMx/
Mistigram: this very intense, very /red/ #ANSIart “Last Callers” screen for Filth BBS was drawn by CoaXCable and included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM5D5GuMxw3/
Mistigram: @joninscii has some deep, dark uncomfortable truths to share, @asciiart style, about what really goes on while working from home. This piece was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection.
Mistigram: a recurring motif in @dwimmer.tm ’s #PETSCII work, here’s a cyber-skeleton sharing a pithy rhyme with us! This screen was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM45_2PguUe/
Mistigram: inspired by last summer’s endless rounds of civil unrest in the streets of America, here’s an #ANSIart scene by Godfather. This piece was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM45zrXjXkp/
Mistigram: this minimalist #BBCMicro high resolution graphics nocturnal landscape, entitled “Blue Moon”, was drawn by @blippypixel and included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM45MVRHcn2/
Mistigram: as if the Smurf, the Space Invaders, and Cthulhu writing his infofile wasn’t bad enough, continuing this epic #ANSIart Moebius joint’s endless scroll to the right reveals further challenges ahead – #Terraria’s “Eve of Cthulhu” boss, drawn by @theoddfirecat , and a sassy beholder drawn by @grymmjack . And yet there’s still more ahead! This piece was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM43evIjaDV/
Mistigram: one more @mig_moog appearance for today, here’s another one of his demented emoji mashups, this one illustrated in some kind of suitably twisted #textmode. Whatever it is, the advice is sound: don’t pet the hatted alien llama. This piece was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM2xznFAJFC/
Mistigram: we’ve gotten to the point in our sprawling sideways #ANSIart Moebius joint where you might mistake the subject for myself, writing one of an endless series of artpack infofiles. But it is not so: I am Cthulu, not #Cthulhu. If I had to speculate, I’d guess that this portion of the collaboration was mostly drawn by @Polyducks, with assistance from LDA. There’s more to come! This big chunk of craziness was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM2wmp_lmqX/
Mistigram: last month @kalchano dropped an epic complete suite of #Shift_JIS adaptations of #Hokusai’s #ukiyoe series #FugakuSanjurokkei (Thirty-six Views of #MountFuji) on us, which can be found in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. Here are the first nine views! https://instagr.am/p/CM2wNEjnYIu/
Mistigram: when an #ANSIart joint is surreal from start to finish, how do you rein it in? Tap @mig_moog to cap it off with another promo for #DawnOfWorm – which, rumour here has it, may well be the greatest worm ever! This piece was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM2vzg4BANh/
Mistigram: did you hear something? Maybe it was just me. I thought I heard a … wait, there it is again! That *buzz*, don’t you… YIKES! I think we’ve found our Asian Murder Hornets! This #asciiart insect was drawn by @littlebitspace and included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM0UQ2QlzIp/
Mistigram: @jellica_______ was able to make this blocky old village building look pretty cozy using a palette from a higher version of #teletext! This screen was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM0UDeeF1fX/
Mistigram: it takes a few steps to get there, but LDA’s sample “ANSI Academy” #ANSIart #skull eventually starts looking pretty boney! The space on the right is reserved for your own attempts. This piece was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM0T3xlB3fc/
Mistigram: I won’t be completely satisfied by @mig_moog’s zany #textmode #Dingbat until it’s rendered in Microsoft Write for Win 3.11 using Wingdings, but in the meantime… this micro scene is pretty wild! It was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM0ToMeFZ2g/
Mistigram: @dwimmer.tm adapted the culmination of a #Rammstein song into this quiet moment in minimalist, super-small-scale #ANSIart. This screen was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM0TVJlFdCp/
Mistigram: meanwhile, in our other epic #ANSIart scroller – the sideways one – the Lego-munching elastic Smurf demon is being pursued by a very @Polyducks flotilla of rampant polygonal #SpaceInvaders, themselves being de-rezzed by glowing green angular bolts fired somewhere out of sight, presumably by P1 far beneath the bottom of the screen. This piece was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CMxW5f7LbYj/
Mistigram: continuing along with our crazy epic #ANSIart scroller from last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection, following the alien invasion, the puppet show and its tip hat, Cthulu’s hamster (in a nod to #ManiacMansion) is perched happily inside LDA’s time-travel microwave oven, which the Earl of #Lemongrab does not agree with. https://instagr.am/p/CMxTd8grL0w/
Mistigram: Here’s our #stopasianhate story. It was mid-1997 and we were always trying to cultivate relationships with new practitioners of #ANSIart. Artist “Fire From Heaven” requested a lit (a rhyming poem) on a problematic topic – the fundamental superiority of Asian women as a focus for romantic and erotic longing. So many issues, where to start?
We carefully curated a complete collection of vile objectifying Orientalist tropes calibrated precisely to at once fulfil the request while demonstrating to the client that the lens through which the art was shown revealed a monstrous perspective, but we made a critical error: we put too much faith in the power of our art to communicate contrary positions. Perhaps it was too much to expect out of teenagers.
When he saw the poem its subtext went right over his head and he was delighted enough to incorporate it into his exotic blow-up-doll illustration, released, with deadpan sincerity, in both the 15th @fuelwtf and 2nd Everglo artpacks, with our name attached as if to endorse the positions contained in the art… the risk of sarcasm that fails to land properly.
Based out of the intensely multicultural area code 604 on the West Coast of Canada, we had a robust understanding that Asian women are just people like everyone else. (We counted some Asian women among our active membership at the time!) Upon receiving the request, we should have taken FFH aside and explained that we had to decline his proposition due to its flawed and othering premise, and that he had a lot of soul-searching and growth ahead of him. Encouragement was not needed, though privately we were intrigued by the creative challenge of convincingly writing from a position we found repugnant.
(It didn’t even make for good art in the end, so the entire regrettable venture was fruitless on every level! But it leaves us with this anecdote to share with you as a cautionary tale. You’re entitled to your kinks and erotic fixations, but if you’re going to create and share art celebrating their imposition on minority groups, you’d better rigorously interrogate their sexist and racist underpinnings first!)
Mistigram: this incredible #ANSIart Mistigris logo, humbly written using only numerals, was drawn by @grymmjack and included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CMncSrJnC-2/
Mistigram: this lovely #BBCMicro high resolution graphics illustration of the sky above #London on a nice day was drawn by @Blippypixel and included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CMna1kDBms4/
Mistigram: this dashing and dynamic #ANSIart logo for #DangerBay BBS was drawn by Zeus II and included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CMnafHRBhHy/
Mistigram: @mig_moog has a big, exciting project coming up this Spring. What is it exactly? No one knows precisely… perhaps not even him! Nonetheless, we encourage you all to prepare yourselves… for #DawnOfWorm! Here’s a little #textmode screen to get you in the mood! https://instagr.am/p/CMnaSK2hYkG/
Mistigram: This extra-wide #ANSIart logo for The Ruins BBS (note the way it’s haphazardly falling down in disrepair!) was drawn by Godfather and included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection! https://instagr.am/p/CMnaFRUhMJs/
Mistigram: No one can put their #teletext finger right on the pulse quite like @jellica_______ , who populated last February’s lewd MIST0220 artpack with all kinds of lusty and lascivious screens in garish hues. This one was minted a little too late for inclusion there, so we saved it to lead another collection of what would assuredly be more of the same in 2021, right? Turns out we went in a different direction in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection, but this picture is still a banger! https://instagr.am/p/CMnZ63HhkGv/
Mistigram: the collaborative “Textmode Friends” #ANSIart jam has really started to go sideways – literally and figuratively – and I put the blame squarely on @Polyducks. Come for the demented melting giant Smurf, stay for the rampant Space Invaders! This scene appeared in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CMnY-8zBHby/
Mistigram: @littlebitspace came up with something new in the field of #ASCIIart, a four-part sequence depicting the eruption of an active volcano. Stand back! This piece was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CMnYq9bhrDN/
Mistigram: LDA kicked things off in his “ANSI Academy” primer with the first step, teaching the reader how to block out the simple contours of a small-scale #ANSIart skull. From humble beginnings… This piece was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection! https://instagr.am/p/CMnYeZpB6fK/
Mistigram: one of the viral online meme highlights of February 2021, here @horsenburger captures in #teletext that darned lawyer who couldn’t figure out how to disable the cat-face filter in his Zoom session. #ImNotACat! This screen was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CMnYTEYheYI/
Mistigram: @mig_moog hopes you enjoyed the puppet show, and now he’s passing the hat in search of tips. This was a scene from a most peculiar #ANSIart collaboration included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CMnX-S-BYE1/
Mistigram: this striking #ANSIart portrait, “Intrabit”, was drawn by our rookie of the year @dwimmer.tm and included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CMkWgdAjOMG/
Mistigram: this vaguely #artdeco “City View” in #BBCMicro high resolution graphics could only have come from the desk of @blippypixel ! It was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CMkWW89DaoZ/
Mistigram: this pleasant #Lego scene by @Polyducks greets one of our most stalwart boosters, @aifukusima, as part of a weirdly wide collaborative #ANSIart scroller included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. It gets quite a bit stranger just off to the right! https://instagr.am/p/CMkWKsEAbho/
Mistigram: @kurogao96 used emoji and #ASCIIart to draw this scene envisioning what it might be like to safely spend a pleasant day outside in the nice weather with your friends and family once the coronavirus epidemic has been curbed. This scene was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CMkV8vFlVqr/
Mistigram: LDA drew a friendly, helpful desktop computer mentor to help instruct his first “ANSI Academy” tutorial. This #ANSIart piece was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CMkVgNnFNy8/
Mistigram: Here’s the oddly literal #asciiart metaphor-as-loaf-of-bread “Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you”, by @joninscii, part of last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection!
Mistigram: green means go go go! These #teletext traffic lights were drawn by @atonalosprey and included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CMkLlfrlgve/
Mistigram: whoops, got distracted from our social media feed for a few days there! But we still have so much great computer art to share!! This was part of a sprawling nutso Textmode Friends #ANSIart collaboration included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection, this portion conspicuously featuring the handiwork of @mig_moog and LDA. https://instagr.am/p/CMkLWovlkmX/
Mistigram: @dwimmer.tm made this foray into newschool #asciiart typography, experimenting on their name! This piece was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CMVhogsgO-F/
Mistigram: here’s a collection of celebrated Japanese #ukioe prints dating from 1600-1800 AD, adapted into #ShiftJIS textmode versions by @Kalchano. This suite of them was included in last month’s MIST0221 artpack. https://instagr.am/p/CMVhdgij09K/
