MIST0624 textmode art mosaic

 Mistigram: if your tastes run specifically towards #textmode artwork, notably #ANSIart, and #ASCIIart, we have a wide selection of genuinely extremely varied offerings on display in the new MIST0624 artpack collection! Here's just a sampling...

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN29

 Mistigram: say cheese!  Today was National #Camera Day, and as soon as we send in the roll of film and have it developed in the darkroom we can prove it.  This #ANSIart screen was drawn by AdeptApril.

MIST0624 mosaic

 Mistigram: here's a mosaic of the varied approaches, mediums and subjects of vintage computer art to be found in the new unthemed MIST0624 artpack collection, encompassing #pixelart, #teletext semigraphics screens and many varieties of #textmode art such as #ANSIart and #ASCIIart. Check it out via our homepage or on the @sixteen_colors web gallery!

MIST0624 FILE_ID.DIZ

 Mistigram: Wouldn't you know it, we have to go and change the sign that currently reads: "It has been [33] days since a Mistigris release" back to zero... introducing the MIST0624 unthemed computer art collection, featuring over a hundred pieces of #textmode and texty-adjacent vintage computer imagery!  We'll be sharing highlights here on social media, but if you'd like to take a big bite of it all in one go, you can download the artpack for local enjoyment via our homepage or browse it from the @sixteencolors artpack gallery.

Many thanks to Abstrakt of Fire Graphics for the guest submission of this striking #ASCIIart illustration used as its FILE_ID.DIZ!

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN28

 Mistigram: if you liked Pi day, you'll like #Tau Day twice as much! (Tau = the ratio between the circumference and radius of a circle, or double the value of pi: #τ = 2π. This celebratory #ANSIart screen was drawn by AdeptApril.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN27

 Mistigram: get out your dauber, today is the day to go wait for the numbers on your card to be called in the #Bingo hall! This #ANSIart screen embodying all of the thrills and chills of this popular game of chance was drawn by AdeptApril.

MIST0524/DARKMAN_ALMIGHTY-ST-LEGACY

Mistigram: the #StarTrek fans will not give it a rest, raising heck with fan campaigns and petitions since the original series' threatened cancellation in the late '60s. Darkman Almighty knows how it is, flexing his fealty in this #ANSIart demand for the #StarTrekLegacy spin-off of the story recently told in Picard. This screen was included in last month's science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection.
 

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN26

 Mistigram: this character, mascot for National #Canoe day, seems to be a kindred character to AdeptApril's recent #ANSIart spokesperson for International Surfing Day, perhaps paddling to the rescue of a gnarly wipeout.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN25

 Mistigram: somewhat appropriately, this is yesterday's news: #ColorTV Day. It may be a little underwhelming, but if you grew up watching the programming in black & white, your mind would have been blown by the leap forward. This #ANSIart screen was drawn by AdeptApril.

MIST0524/BLIPPYPIXEL-METEYEVERSE

 Mistigram: this @blippypixel #BBCMicro graphics screen, "Meteyeverse", strikes me as the Ludovico technique from A Clockwork Orange by way of Neuralink trials today. It was included in last month's science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN24

 Mistigram: you might see this after idly nibbling on one of the toadstools forming the magic mushroom ring. AdeptApril is celebrating International #Fairy Day here in #ANSIart, and I wonder whether this psychedelic pixie is going to help us open our third eye... or just hold our hair out of the toilet.

MIST0524/DOSDOC-ODYSSEY

 Mistigram: @Dosdocone prides himself on his literary inspirations, but sometimes these inspirations reach us second-hand via cinematic adaptations. This #ANSIart screen celebrates Arthur C. Clarke's #2001ASpaceOdyssey of 1968, filmed by #StanleyKubrick that same year. This portrait of #DaveBowman was included in last month's science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN23

Mistigram: If John Waters invites you to a screening today, run in the other direction! Not only is it National #Pink Day, but one of the most famous specific manifestations of pinkness -- the #PinkFlamingo -- also lays claim to today. This #ANSIart portrait of one such bird was drawn by AdeptApril.

MIST0524/MM-LEVITATE

 Mistigram: A sacred pink humanoid with a binary code in place of a heart reassuringly radiates a healing aura into a blinding white emptiness it levitates in the centre of.  This #ANSIart screen was drawn by @Mavenmob and included in the recent science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN22

 Mistigram: through the buzzing and throbbing tremolos of several forms of unseen insect, amphibian and bird life surrounding you, you can just barely perceive a trail cutting between heavily forested tropical hills, overgrown with verdant greenery in the oppressive, vision-obscuring humidity.  This #ANSIart screen celebrating World #Rainforest Day, was drawn by AdeptApril.

MIST0819/BLIPPYPIXEL-SUMMER_SOLSTICE

 Mistigram: from five years ago, here's a colourful & dramatic vintage @blippypixel #BBCMicro landscape enshrining the cosmic occasion of today -- the #SummerSolstice. It was included in the MIST0819 artpack collection.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN21

 Mistigram: this minimalist #ANSIart screen by AdeptApril captures the essence of today's holiday: International #Surfing Day. (If you really want to do it across national boundaries, you need to stay on the board for a long time!) Hang ten and stay radical!

MIST0524 infofile header

 Mistigram: at wit's end trying to think of iconic science fiction franchises whose distinctive typography hadn't yet been plundered for previous years' SF-themed artpacks in May, Cthulu stumbled upon #HeavyMetal... then continued stumbling all the way through #ChrisAchilleos' poster art of #Taarna for its 1981 movie, adapting it in #ANSIart as the MIST0524 artpack's infofile header.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN20

 Mistigram: In deference to Emma Lazarus' poem #TheNewColossus inscribed at her base ("Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,") AdeptApril has drawn the #StatueOfLiberty in #ANSIart for World Refugee Day.

HORSENBURGER-ABRAHAM_LINCOLN

 Mistigram: if you prefer for your calendar to be punctuated by arguably more significant milestones, here's a @Horsenburger #teletext portrait of #AbrahamLincoln, "The Great Emancipator", shared on the occasion of #Juneteenth.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN19

 Mistigram: do you ever feel like you're trying to do too many things at the same time? Maybe you don't have _enough_ balls in the air! Today's deep cut from AdeptApril's #ANSIart calendar is World #Juggling Day. (Now add a chainsaw!)

MIST0524/MIST0524.MEM

 Mistigram: from last month's science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection comes this #Dune-inspired #ANSIart landscape by Darkman Almighty, used atop that pack's memberlist.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN18

 Mistigram: if you follow the advice of AdeptApril's #ANSIart calendar, the place where you can usually be found today should instead display a sign reading #GoneFishin -- you should instead be down by the creek or your local fishing hole, seeing if the fish are biting.

MIST0524/BLIPPYPIXEL-CYBER_TOWN

 Mistigram: gotta make a move to a town that's right for me... gotta keep it movin', keep it groovin' with some energy. This #BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen of #Cybertown (that must be the most meta neighbourhood of Geocities) was drawn by @blippypixel and included in last month's science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN17

 Mistigram: See you later, alligator! On June 17th, Crocodile. That's right -- today is World Croc Day. Here one of these prehistoric reptiles is hiding in plain sight, sinisterly pretending to be a couple of jungle-covered islands jutting out of the ocean. This sneaky #ANSIart screen was drawn by AdeptApril.

MIST0524/NI-IPIPE

 Mistigram: this greyscale #ANSIart portrait of #ColetteHiller as dropship pilot Corporal #ColetteFerro ("Fly the Friendly Skies" written on her helmet) in James Cameron's 1986 movie #Aliens was drawn by @_n1tr0n and included in last month's science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN16

 Mistigram: the tortoises and terrapins can just go right on back into their shells, because today the limelight is on their salty cousins -- it's World #SeaTurtle Day, mofos! This #ANSIart screen in commemoration of the occasion was drawn by AdeptApril.

MIST0524/MM-FATHERFIGURE

 Mistigram: when you were young, it was important you had someone you trusted to hold your hand and keep you safe when you crossed the busy byways and thoroughfares. This #ANSIart screen, "Father Figure", was drawn by @Mavenmob and was included in last month's science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN15

 Mistigram: at the convergence of global #wind day, fly a #kite day, and #electricity day, you get this, AdeptApril's #ANSIart (blink-animated on some platforms!) tribute to #BenFranklin.

MIST0524/BLIPPYPIXEL-AFTERNOON_CRUISE

 Mistigram: the palette of unearthly pastel colours help to establish an otherworldly ambiance in this @blippypixel #BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen, "Afternoon Cruise". Here's hoping your weekend can soar to similar #vaporwave heights! This piece was included in the recent science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN14

 Mistigram: As a non-American, I'm rather "meh" about AdeptApril's choice of occasion to celebrate in #ANSIart today, "United States #Flag Day", but ... let's run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.

MIST0524/LDA-TAKEMYANSI

 Mistigram: LDA continued on a lowkey spree of ANSIfying popular internet memes by making an #ANSIart version of this still from 2010's #Futurama S6E3, "Attack of the Killer App", only in this version #PhilipJFry isn't quite saying "#ShutUpAndTakeMyMoney!" This screen was included in the recent science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN13

 Mistigram: AdeptApril has illustrated the distinctive design of the #Singer hand #SewingMachine in #ANSIart in observance of Sewing Machine Day today. Everyone who wears clothes and is too impatient to make their own with needle and thread should be celebrating!

MIST0524/DARKMAN_ALMIGHTY-ST-VOYAGER

 Mistigram: From the recent science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection comes this #ANSIart screen from #StarTrek specialist Darkman Almighty of the USS Excelsior BBS, celebrating the seven-season run of the fourth live-action Trek series, finding its way home from the Delta Quadrant. Depicted is the ship, NCC-74656, that gave the series its name.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN12

 Mistigram: Tell me, O Muse, of #Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! This one's for the Classical pagans out there: today is the day to honour the chief sky-god of the pantheon of Ancient #GreekMythology -- lover of many, progenitor of countless doomed heroes. AdeptApril acknowledges the occasion with this #ANSIart screen. (You might instead choose to burn the best cuts of a sacrificed ox -- either way, sincerity is the key.)

MIST0524/TELETEXTR-PRIS

 Mistigram: this #teletext portrait of #DarylHannah as #Pris in Ridley Scott's 1982 film #BladeRunner was drawn by TeletextR and included in the recent science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection.

ADEPTAPRIL/JUN11

 Mistigram: Today's occasion, immortalized here in #ANSIart by AdeptApril, celebrates "#Corn on the Cob Day", a dietary staple of First Nations since time immemorial. (If you absolutely can't access it on-the-cob for supper tonight, you may have to settle for corn chips, corn dogs or popcorn.)