Mistigram: fans of Joss Whedon’s #Firefly, on the other hand, may recognize this insignia of the Independent Army of the Independent Planets, a corps better known as “browncoats”. It was drawn in #pixelart by @8bit_poet and included in the science fiction-themed MIST0519 artpack collection released two years ago. https://instagr.am/p/COS5rp6NLOT/
Mistigram: if you were a fan of British Supermarionation in the ‘60s, no doubt you will already be familiar with the subject of @Horsenburger’s #teletext screen, #CaptainScarlet (and the Mysterons). (If you weren’t, now you have enough to go get up to speed!) This piece was included in the science fiction-themed MIST0518 artpack collection released three years ago. https://instagr.am/p/COS5XZPNm3i/
Mistigram: how better to start – or end? – than a piece titled “Alpha Omega”? I’m not sure exactly what’s going on in this @blippypixel #BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen – either the beginning (and/)or the end of something – but it’s a pregnant pause to be sure. This screen was included in last year’s science-fiction-themed MIST0520 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/COS4nihtbPz/
Mistigram: @blippypixel here reproduces an iconic scene from Steven Spielberg’s 1977 movie #CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind as a #BBCMicro high resolution graphics animation. This piece was included in last year’s science fiction-themed MIST0520 artpack collection.
Mistigram: this eerie animated loop of Radium 2, drawn in #BBCMicro high resolution graphics, is the unmistakable handiwork of @blippypixel, and was included in last year’s science fiction-themed MIST0520 artpack collection.
Mistigram: every apocalyptic war machine deserves a tender green redemption. @axltm has worked all kinds of magic using his #PETSCII-inspired textures and palettes, and here he demonstrates a deft piece of environmental storytelling applying them to level design. This screen was included in last year’s MIST0520 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/COQuygmhlz_/
Mistigram: from the MIST0517 artpack collection released four years ago, here’s a @horsenburger #teletext portrait of #Babylon5’s #VirCotto, as acted by the late #StephenFurst. (Not a lot of B5 fanart in our back stacks – leave that to the Amiga superfans!) https://instagr.am/p/COQtTZoBNuz/
Mistigram: this sparky little guy was part of Silent Knight’s Vancouver Film School demo reel (presumably “introduction to particle effects”), a still from a rendered suite of clips made on SGI machines with pro 3-D animation software the likes of which us hobbyists at home on our PCs could only dream of. It was included in the FIRE0497 Mistigris World Tour stop 24 years ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/COQs-A1hR1d/
Mistigram: we’ll cleanse the palate with this practically perfect #pixelart starfield by @AFlamingoCup we also included in last year’s SF-themed MIST0520 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/COOSGQRhaQZ/
Mistigram: and what the heck, where there’s Dan Dare… here’s a @horsenburger #teletext screen of #TheMekon we never got around to including in an artpack, bouncing him back and forth between over-full collections of SF, comics and scary art. Let the taxonomists duke it out, in the meantime you can enjoy resting your eyes on its sinister green visage! https://instagr.am/p/COOR3qAh1Gs/
Mistigram: for a slightly more high-fidelity look at the pilot of the future, here’s a @horsenburger portrait of #DanDare, included in last year’s MIST0520 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/COORkBqB9R1/
Mistigram: we’re getting retrofuturistic today, in anticipation of the upcoming MIST0521 artpack on science fiction themes… here’s a @carlos_teletextr #teletext screen celebrating British comics hero #DanDare, pilot of the future! (and his arch enemy, the #Mekon). It was included in the MIST0717 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/COOPGuXB0qf/
Mistigram: and for a real change of pace, here’s a #BBCMicro Mode 7 #teletext #BladeRunner cityscape feverishly invoked into existence by @blippypixel. It was included in the MIST0519 SF-themed artpack collection two years ago.
Mistigram: also a year ago, @Horsenburger discovered he could use a tablet to really crank out illustrations! He kicked things off with a spree of daily drawings celebrating his befuddled antihero “Space Misadventurer”, here seen observing a robot zombie apocalypse in shock and horror. This piece was included in the MIST0520 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/COLc5A9B9KR/
Mistigram: One year ago we began sharing the #Lego pixelart creations of @Farrell_Lego in our collections. Here’s an #Ohmu from #Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, included in last year’s MIST0520 artpack. https://instagr.am/p/COLcn1XB4mY/
Mistigram: two years ago we discovered @blippypixel’s seemingly bottomless appetite for cosmic vistas. This #BBCMicro high resolution graphics scene, titled “Vortex”, was included in the MIST0519 artpack collection. Set the controls for the heart of the Sun! https://instagr.am/p/COLb9MoBkFK/
Mistigram: As we wind down April and approach May with another science-fiction-themed artpack closing in on the radar, we can look back at some SF art we’ve shared in past years. This #teletext version of the #RylanStarLeague’s insignia, from #TheLastStarfighter, was drawn by @Horsenburger and included in the MIST0717 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/COLbea0hljh/
Mistigram: in case you were thinking you’d like a slightly closer view of his #ASCIIart Gothic calligraphy of the (itself rather gothy) word “Death” – maybe you wanted a closer look at the descenders on the closing “H”, previously rendered as a couple of parentheses … the artist @littlebitspace is only too happy to oblige. This piece was also included in this monthly MIST0421 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/COIk4YUNuSW/
Mistigram: not settling for a single alphabet, @littlebitspace refocused his #ASCIIart adaptation powers on the Japanese script; this character, “shi”, denotes “death”. One description elaborates: “The top and left side lines indicate a bone, and the right indicates a person upside down in the ground.” Dense symbolism baked into brushstrokes! This piece was included in this month’s MIST0421 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/COIknysNYXu/
Mistigram: “Birth, Worship, Death, Eternity”. We should have used this all-encompassing slogan as a subtitle for this month’s MIST0421 artpack of sacred architecture! The typography here was drawn #ASCIIart-style by the collection’s central mover, @littlebitspace. https://instagr.am/p/COIkVEdNXSH/
Mistigram: French synthwave musician #Perturbator, of Hotline Miami soundtrack fame, has a song called “The Church” on their 2016 album “The Uncanny Valley”. Perhaps it is to illustrate that single that @Hayn9 has drawn this #ASCIIart megachapel? This piece was included in the recent MIST0421 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/COHDsP2NbKE/
Mistigram: not all sacred places exist in the realm of the real. Here @dwimmer.tm has made an ominous #ASCIIart illustration of the #Tristram cathedral from Blizzard’s 1997 game #Diablo. This piece was included in the MIST0421 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/COHDJ6UNucJ/
Mistigram: we almost made it through the entire MIST0421 artpack collection of sacred architecture with no duplicates, but something about Denmark’s distinctive #GrundtvigsChurch proved irresistable for @littlebitspace to also try his hand adapting into his #ASCIIart style, so here you get to enjoy a second approach at the same subject. https://instagr.am/p/COD7N1dhT63/
Mistigram: a guest appearance from a distinguished old hand who’s been making #ASCIIart since the last century, @filipdehaes of @galza_txtmode couldn’t resist taking a crack at our MIST0421 artpack’s theme of sacred architecture, so here is his “block #ANSIart” interpretation of the distinguished #GrundtvigsChurch in Copenhagen, Denmark. https://instagr.am/p/COD683Uhhq7/
Mistigram: this #ASCIIart-styled drawing of the #TampereCathedral in Finland was made by @littlebitspace and included in this month’s MIST0421 artpack collection of sacred architecture. https://instagr.am/p/COA9lZLNDvU/
Mistigram: this #ASCIIart rendition of Nagasaki’s #OuraTenshudoTemple (aka the Basilica of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan) was drawn by @Darokin and included in this month’s MIST0421 artpack collection of sacred architecture. https://instagr.am/p/COA9ayGNhGs/
Mistigram: @littlebitspace goes far in this #ASCIIart-styled adaptation of #ChristopherWren’s zenith, London’s #StPaulsCathedral. Feed the birds, tuppence a bag! This piece was included in this month’s MIST0421 artpack collection of sacred architecture. https://instagr.am/p/CN-dmuHtXQ8/
Mistigram: European colonies in the New World only come in rather late in the historical record, which is why it’s taken so long for us to get to sharing this #asciiart church, Her Majesty’s Royal Chapel of the Mohawks in Brantford, Ontario, drawn by ldb. It was included in this month’s MIST0421 artpack collection of sacred architecture. https://instagr.am/p/CN-c0q8tdiN/
Mistigram: in more standard #ASCIIart style, here’s an adaptation of India’s renowned #TajMahal drawn by @littlebitspace. This piece was included in this month’s MIST0421 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CN7zbA5t16D/
Mistigram: Here’s an old Konami favorite, the #Moai heads 🗿🗿 of doomed #EasterIsland , drawn by LDA in uncoloured #ANSIart (or “block #asciiart” if you will). This piece was included in our recent MIST0421 artpack collection of sacred sites and architecture. https://instagr.am/p/CN7zI1cNnNE/
Mistigram: @littlebitspace shares with us a monochrome #ASCIIart take on one of the most iconic cathedrals in the world, the distinctive onion domes of the Orthodox #StBasilsCathedral in Moscow, long a placeholder for Red Square, the KGB, and most sinister of all… Tetris. This screen was included in this month’s MIST0421 artpack collection of sacred #textmode architecture. https://instagr.am/p/CN5IsKyH5M6/
Mistigram: @hayn9 of the @legacy_krew was able to take a brief break from winning demoscene ANSI art competitions to make a guest appearance sharing this #ASCIIart rendition of the #BasiliqueSaintUrbain in Troyes, France. This piece was included in this month’s MIST0421 artpack collection of sacred architecture. https://instagr.am/p/CN5IOCKgNrs/
Mistigram: and here’s the blueprint that kicked it all off, France’s #NotreDameDAmiens cathedral, drawn by @littlebitspace in a stark monochrome #asciiart style. This piece was included in this month’s MIST0421 artpack collection of sacred architecture. https://instagr.am/p/CN2qzXAruAy/
Mistigram: I believe that our new MIST0421 artpack collection on sacred architecture featured not one but two @darokin #ASCIIart illustrations of this cathedral, #NotreDameDeReims – the previous one was depicted in a palette of somber greys, while this one reimagines itself as a stained glass window, perhaps trimmed with neon tubes. It’s a beacon of hope to the lost, to be sure! https://instagr.am/p/CN2qi2JF8mf/
Congratulations to Mister Roboto for taking home the second consecutive first place ranking in this weekend’s Blender improvised art competition! This is just a taste of his masterful #ANSIart composition blending the topics of GEESE / SMASHING and UNDERGROUND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS. The points go to @blocktronics and you’ll all shortly be able to enjoy perusing all the competing entries via the @sixteen_colours website. https://instagr.am/p/CN1QSh_DLIJ/
Mistigram: @littlebitspace demonstrates their own flex on the pure monochrome #ASCIIart style, depicting Norway’s historic #BorgundStaveChurch. This piece was included in this month’s MIST0421 artpack collection of sacred architecture. https://instagr.am/p/CN1KFlSHGYz/
Mistigram: from this month’s MIST0421 artpack collection on sacred architecture, here’s the #NotreDameDeReims #cathedral drawn in greyscale #ASCIIart by @darokin. https://instagr.am/p/CN1JjPVnFip/
Mistigram: this extraordinary uncoloured #ASCIIart side view of Paris’ celebrated #NotreDame cathedral was drawn by cccfire and included in the new MIST0421 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CNy_vSpHEzz/
Mistigram: LDA gives us another specimen of fine uncoloured #ANSIart (or “block #ASCIIart”) architecture that you may have seen the last time you visited #Petra in Jordan, or perhaps in a movie sometime. This is #AlKhazneh, “The Treasury”, as seen in the new MIST0421 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CNy_O_EnOVI/
Mistigram: A different kind of architecture for a different kind of temple! We leap forward over a thousand years here to one of the #Aztecs’ architectural marvels, the #Teocalli or “god house” stepped #pyramids, here drawn in #ASCIIart style by @littlebitspace. This piece was included in the new MIST0421 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CNu5EJZJ94i/
Mistigram: lurching forward in antiquity from Ancient Egypt to #AncientGreece, here’s LDA’s uncoloured #ANSIart (or “block #ASCIIart” if you prefer) rendition of the #Parthenon, the temple of Athena located atop #Athens’ #Acropolis – the elevated plateau allowing distant surveying of the entire extended Athenian city-state. This piece was included in the new MIST0421 artpack collection.
(If you want to see ANSI art of the detailed sculptures ornamenting the temple, you’ll have to see our upcoming “British Museum” artpack.) https://instagr.am/p/CNu4t7inEgg/
Mistigram: one of the earliest (and still impressive, millennia later) surviving works of monumental sacred architecture, this minimalist bird’s eye view rendering of a #pyramid such as the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt erected with the assistance of hundreds of thousands of slaves… required the labor of but one solitary #ASCIIart craftsman: @littlebitspace. This piece was included in the new MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CNth537HvCV/
Mistigram: @dwimmer.tm reminds us, through the power of #ASCIIart animation, that to nomadic groups of primitive humans in pre-agricultural times, the earliest sacred sites, the most constant aspects of their itinerant lives, were likely the #constellations in the celestial spheres wheelng overhead. This piece was included in the new MIST0421 artpack collection.
Mistigram: another one of the older sacred sites on the map, here @littlebitspace brings their #ASCIIart style to bear on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, as we wait for the moment of the summer solstice to paint the druidic standing stones of #Stonehenge. This piece was included in the new MIST0421 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CNqYjd4AXJ3/
Mistigram: from the improbable new MIST0421 artpack collection on holy sites and sacred architecture, here’s what must be the oldest of them all, Australia’s incredible red #Uluru, aka #AyersRock, drawn as #ASCIIart by local @dwimmer.tm https://instagr.am/p/CNqYT2jMiaJ/
Mistigram: here’s a sampling of some of the many beautiful spiritual structures venerated through #asciiart in the new MIST0421 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CNm_f7mlc3N/
Mistigram: from the depths of our hiatus, we’re pleased to announce the unexpected release of the new MIST0421 artpack collection, featuring ASCII art on the somewhat extraordinary theme of sacred sites and architecture. You can browse it now via the @sixteen_colors website at https://ift.tt/3theJZI
FILE_ID.DIZ #asciiart by @littlebitspace. https://instagr.am/p/CNm_KUQDBkW/
Mistigram: This #ANSIart illustration is of Animaniacs evil genius Pinky, likely drawn by Ironghost, accompanying the first half of a poem by Cthulu (as part of the Serial Killers, an ad-hoc challenge to the champs in the group Serial) exploring Blender #22’s challenge words of “FEAR / ESCAPE / ALCATRAZ”. https://instagr.am/p/CNlDVVon6UO/
Mistigram: this #ANSIart illustration by Happyfish (text likely tossed off by Cthulu) is part of a larger Team Mistigris joint for the 35th Blender improvised art competition, defying artists to make art about “VEGANS / SACRIFICE / LEGOLAND”. Blender is on this weekend, see more at https://ift.tt/3dNDfuA https://instagr.am/p/CNlDAHBHKCu/
Mistigram: this #ANSIart illustration dates to Blender #30, circa 1997, including a picture by Catch22 and a logo by Platinum attempting to capture the zeitgeist of the challenge words “NINJA / KUNG-FU / SWEATSHOP”. There’s a Blender on this weekend! Details at https://ift.tt/3dNDfuA https://instagr.am/p/CNlCqCsjr0y/
Mistigram: In what was presumably a chance one-time IRC encounter, Neosmurf endowed Mistigris with a handful of high resolution graphics logos resulting from a striking secret process, all released in the MIST0897 artpack collection. This one celebrated the regular Blender IRC improvised art competition, which we have re-launched and are hosting an installment of this coming weekend! Details at https://ift.tt/3dNDfuA https://instagr.am/p/CNk22u3HJg1/
