CTHULU/MOONINITE_BOMB_SCARE

 Mistigram: This unreleased #ANSIart screen was drawn by Cthulu in tribute to a series of #LiteBrite art installations of #Mooninite characters from the cartoon #AquaTeenHungerForce, interpreted as bombs by the Boston police and detonated by their bomb squad on this date in 2007.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN31

 Mistigram: It's not too cold most places in late January but neither is it too warm (in the Northern Hemisphere, at least), so why not follow the lead of AdeptApril's #ANSIart screen here for Storm BBS and celebrate today's observance of Hot Chocolate Day? (Got any marshmallows?)

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN30

 Mistigram: hope your breakfast this morning was continental, because thanks to Storm BBS' daily holiday calendar, we have all just learned that today is Croissant Day, as communicated through AdeptApril's #ANSIart screen on the subject.

SE_D0124/FRQ-TITS.S3M

 Mistigram: Sorry to mislead everyone -- the song's filename is an acronym for "Trapped in the Subconscious."  This is a Scream Tracker S3M tracker music file composed by Freaq in 1994, played, interpreted and visualised by Eto's SEPLAY MS-DOS executable traditionally bundled with Sonic Equinox releases.  Both the song and the player are included in the new SE_D0124 music disk, rounding up a large quantity of unreleased computer music compositions dating to the mid-'90s.  You can download it via mistigris.org/newmedia or if you prefer you can enjoy curated selections via mistfunk.bandcamp.com

SE_D0124/SE_D0124.NFO

 Mistigram: We gutted a classic SONiC EQUiNOX infofile from the '90s and poured in some new content accounting for the unexpected, table-flipping SE_D0124 music disk of their hours of unheard old music we just released, getting fans up to speed after radio silence since their most recent release back in August of 1997, nearly 27 years ago!  If you like, you can download it via https://mistigris.org/newmedia/ 

... or enjoy a curated sampling of 34 highlights via https://mistfunk.bandcamp.com

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN29

 Mistigram: if the cracked presentation of this #ANSIart screen is puzzling, that's because it's repurposed art -- you're going to see permutations of this Viking longboat a few more times before the year is up. But today, AdeptApril uses it to celebrate #Puzzle day for the users of Storm BBS!

SE_D0124/FILE_ID.DIZ

 Mistigram: yesterday we finished what we began nine years ago and released the SE_D0124 music disk, a final collection of nearly two hundred hitherto unreleased module tracker tunes -- over seven hours' worth -- by our colleagues from area code 604's SONiC EQUiNOX crew, primary among them the composer known as Onyx.  You can download it via https://mistigris.org/newmedia/ or enjoy a curated sampling of 34 highlights via https://mistfunk.bandcamp.com

(Now playing: Onyx - Rhodrum, written in 1995.)

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN28

 Mistigram: go cut yourself a circle of wax paper (or, conversely, find your ear plugs) -- National Kazoo day is upon us! AdeptApril drew this commemoration of the occasion in #ANSIart for the benefit of the callers to Storm BBS.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN27

 Mistigram: all right, here's an occasion just about everyone can get behind! AdeptApril is using the #ANSIart medium to make the callers to Storm BBS, and you by proxy, aware that today celebrates the observance of Chocolate Cake day! If you're tricky around the International Date Line, maybe you can even arrange to be served a couple helpings.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN26

 

Mistigram: from the "very low-resolution maps" department, here's an #ANSIart map of #Australia, drawn by AdeptApril for the enjoyment of the callers to Storm BBS, celebrating that antipodean realm's national holiday today (or if you prefer, the imposition of centuries of colonial occupation on its aboriginal population. Don't know if you can exactly "celebrate" that reading. Fair dinkum!)

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN25

 

Mistigram: another day, another US state. (Well, that wouldn't even get us two months into the year. But I digress!) Today was Florida day! Everyone take a moment please to salute Florida Man as he rides a manatee through a hurricane... backwards, somehow. This #ANSIart illustration of America's undercarriage was drawn by AdeptApril for the Storm BBS daily calendar.

DARKMAN_ALMIGHTY/ROBBIE_BURNS

 Mistigram: tonight Scottish families around the world sit down to dinner of haggis, neeps and tatties (with maybe a dram of whisky) and celebrate the enduring legacy of #Scotland's national poet #RobbieBurns. This #ANSIart screen in commemoration of the occasion was drawn by Darkman Almighty.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN24

 

Mistigram: the pendulum sways from one extreme, formerly a dietary staple, to the other -- now prohibited from shared eating spaces!  Either way, to celebrate it or to be aware of the hazards it poses to those with allergies, we observe the complicated duality of this foodstuff today on National Peanut Butter Day.  AdeptApril observes it in the form of this #ANSIart screen for Storm BBS!

BLNDR2024A/DARKMAN_ALMIGHTY-BLENDER-SPICY

 

Mistigram: one of many similar tableaux resulting from last weekend's Blender improvised art competition, here is an #ANSIart scroller drawn by Darkman Almighty of the Power Rangers conducting a robbery on Arrakis. (In the stillsuit that Fremen at the bottom looks as though they might be auditioning to join the gang!)

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN23

 

Mistigram: What better way to observe Handwriting Day than with a little longhand cursive script? AdeptApril drew this #ANSIart screen for the occasion for Storm BBS' daily holiday calendar, but we can all learn from it (he says, typing away.)

BLNDR2024A/BLNDR2024A.NFO

 Mistigram: Continuing from his doodles in the previous Blender, Cthulu sampled and coloured some existing #ASCIIart floating around to tell the story of this Blender compo: Power Rangers / robbing / Arrakis. This collage turned up in its infofile.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN22

 Mistigram: an occasion observed today is Franco-German Friendship Day, as represented here in #ANSIart by AdeptApril's commingling of their flags on Storm BBS.

BLNDR2024A/CJY-BLENDER-JAN24

 Mistigram: this #ANSIart entry in this weekend's Blender compo by ConsoleJockey is at once abstract and plainly representational, depicting the Fisher-Price style figures of the #MightyMorphinPowerRangers attempting to rob #ShaiHulud, the Sandworm of Arrakis described as "the old man of the desert". Without their Dino Megazords, I don't think they're returning to the Command Centre with its lunch money.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN21

 Mistigram: until we get a Squirrel Girl movie, today's celebration of Squirrel Appreciation Day will have to suffice. This #ANSIart commemoration of the adorable occasion was drawn by AdeptApril for the Storm BBS calendar.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN20

 Mistigram: pardon me, but did you know... ah, yes I see. Well, for the rest of us: January 20th is #Penguin awareness day. (I see you, @pinguinokolb!) AdeptApril drew this #ANSIart screen to ensure that at least the callers to Storm BBS would not continue neglecting this important occasion.

BLNDR2024A/PROMPTS

 Mistigram: the first Blender improvised art competition of 2024 is underway! The topics have been announced, and ... they're a nerdy mouthful. There's a ROBBERY underway on ARRAKIS, and somehow the POWER RANGERS are involved. Whatever art results from these prompts, it's sure to be colourful! Impromptu submissions are due back in around 22.5 hours from this moment. Go forth and Blend!

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN19

 Mistigram: start melting some butter, AdeptApril has has just taught us through the Storm BBS daily #ANSIart calendar that today was National Popcorn Day! 

BLNDR2023D/CT-WWIII

 Mistigram: Cthulu mocked up this late #ASCIIart entry for the last Blender improvised computer art contest, to flesh out the pack due to low participation (due to low promotion.)  *NOTE: we are hosting another one this weekend!*  The three topics competitors needed to weave together were BORG / PARKOUR / and WWIII.  He ripped existing ASCII work (with credit) to collage this piece together, but the quick and dirty cocktail napkin sketch gets the idea across:  Borg 0, Alligator 1.

General compo details at https://mistigris.org/blender/blend.html

See you in #blender on the EFNet IRC!

M-9801/F3-UT1

Mistigram: this is the start of "Ugly Turds", Feral's allegedly final oldschool #ASCIIart colly, included in the M-9801 artpack collection released 26 years ago this month.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN18

 

Mistigram: cue up some techno or a Motown record and crack open a Stroh's (or a Vernors if you prefer), today is the day to celebrate, as AdeptApril has in this #ANSIart screen for Storm BBS, the US state of Michigan. If you can, chase it with a bag of Better Made Chips or a Coney dog!

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN17

 Mistigram: has your government imposed a policy of prohibition unjustly interfering with your responsible enjoyment of alcoholc beverages?  If so, then the holiday observed in Storm BBS's daily calendar today is for you: AdeptApril has drawn an #ANSIart screen celebrating National Bootlegger's Day with a wagon full of moonshine!  

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN16

 

Mistigram: I know, today's entry from AdeptApril's Storm BBS holiday calendar seems like a cop-out ("National Nothing Day"? Really??) but it is on the level. Maybe you're doing too much and could benefit from a little nothing, too!

FOS-0197/PZ-0297-14

 

Mistigram: this rather abstract green newschool #ASCIIart logo for Savage Exile BBS was drawn by Plastic as part of our Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel in the FOS-0197 artpack collection released 27 years ago this month.  (If you like it, he drew a dozen more that look exactly the same!)

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN15

 

Mistigram: hats off, everyone! Or should I say: hats ON! AdeptApril's #ANSIart calendar of holidays for Storm BBS tipped us off to the fact that today is the observance of National Hat Day, so get yourself to a haberdasher posthaste!

M-9801/QP-AMATH

 Mistigram: this simple #ANSIart logo, condensed to the point of partial abstraction -- but still handily demonstrating the artist's specific aesthetic -- was drawn for Aftermath BBS by Quip, and included in the M-9801 artpack collection released 26 years ago this month.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN14

 Mistigram: you don't have much time remaining in which to do it, but I have just learned from this helpful piece of #ANSIart that Jan 14th was National Dress Up Your Pet Day. This screen was part of AdeptApril's daily holiday calendar for Storm BBS.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN13

 Mistigram: if you make bathtime so much fun, today just might be the day for you! It's National #RubberDuckie Day, and AdeptApril's #ANSIart calendar for Storm BBS is here to recognize such an auspicious occasion.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN12

Mistigram: in the coldest, darkest days of the year, people's fancy turns to vacations abroad. Hence, today AdeptApril's Storm BBS calendar shines its #ANSIart light on Shop for Travel day. Ooh, that suitcase has little wheels on it!

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN11

Mistigram: Big Dairy, not content with having the government subsidize its industry with the strategic cheese stockpile in caves, has now reached its influence to Storm BBS' daily holiday calendar, as evidenced by this #ANSIart screen of a menacing Holstein by AdeptApril, drawn on the occasion of National Milk day.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN10

 Mistigram: January 10th is, apparently, "Save the Eagles" day. (Will no one liberate them from the Hotel California?) Practical steps you can take include reducing pesticide and lead ammunition use. This #ANSIart commemoration is by AdeptApril for the Storm BBS daily calendar.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN09

 Mistigram: AdeptApril has set an elaborate #ANSIart scene for today's observance of #StaticElectricity day, with forked lightning bolts shooting into the water. All from the motion of water droplets passing by each other as the warm ones rise and the cool ones sink!

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN08

 

Mistigram: AdeptApril's Storm BBS has a daily #ANSIart calendar of holidays and special events, where today is enshrined as National Bubble Bath Day. Don't just stand there, plug the tub and get the hot water running!

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN07

 Mistigram: We were observing this occasion back on Dec 25th, but many Orthodox (and Coptic) Christian churches (notably not including Ukraine's, as of this year) celebrate Christmas on Jan 7th, as indicated by this #ANSIart illustration of what just might be #SaintBasilsCathedral in Moscow, as part of AdeptApril's daily holiday calendar for Storm BBS.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN06

 
Mistigram: today on AdeptApril's daily #ANSIart calendar for Storm BBS, the holiday of the day is #Epiphany, when Christians of varying creeds celebrate the visitation of the Three Wise Men to the baby Jesus in Bethlehem.

M-9801/WD-RNG

 

Mistigram: you might assume that Weird's newschool #ASCIIart logo celebrated random number generation, but in fact it was intended for use in promotion of the Raging Hype's project (a BBS?) Ruins of Neon Genesis. This piece was included in the M-9801 artpack collection released 26 years ago this month.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN05

 Mistigram: ok, Jan 5th is the Twelfth and final Day of Christmas, so now that we've shared AdeptApril's #ANSIart screen of a drummer drumming (eleven more are just around the corner, I can hear them) we can move on to other daily celebrations in the Storm BBS daily ANSI art holiday calendar!

FOS-0197/WB-COL1

 

Mistigram: Wishbringer, SysOp of Juice BBS, was a local #ASCIIart practitioner who passed through our ranks between stints in the perennial "#3" artscene crew at CiA, ("Creators of Intense Art"). This newschool logo celebrating them marked the beginning of his official association with our Mist crew, by way of our Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel in January of 1997, 27 years ago this month.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN04

 Mistigram: January 4th is the eleventh day of Christmas -- we're nearly through the most recursive carol! In today's #ANSIart calendar entry, AdeptApril has drawn one of the eleven pipers piping.

M-9801/QP-TJM

 

Mistigram: this monochrome newschool #ASCIIart logo for our 2nd WHQ BBS, The Jade Monkey (TJM), was drawn by Quip and included in the M-9801 artpack collection released 26 years ago this month.

ADEPTAPRIL/JAN03

 

Mistigram: January 3rd is the 10th day of Christmas, when my true love gave me ten lords a-leaping. AdeptApril drew one of them in mid-leap here in #ANSIart, as part of Storm BBS' daily art calendar.