MIST-30 FILE_ID.DIZ

 Mistigram: the Mistigris computer art collective turned 30 in 2024.  Oops, almost ran out of time to celebrate it!  @Grymmjack provided this wild FILE_ID.DIZ imagery to announce the arrival of our thirtieth anniversary collection, now viewable at the 16colo.rs web gallery.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC31

 Mistigram: today we share the final image from AdeptApril's ~2020 Storm BBS #ANSIart calendar, a swan for the seventh day of Christmas on December 31st, marking a complete year we have spent posting one of these screens daily.

MIST1221/BLIPPYPIXEL-LONDON_SNOW_MOON

 Mistigram: this animated (on some platforms -- the bottom three lines of traffic jive across the scene) #teletext screen, 'London Snow Moon', was drawn by @blippypixel and included in the wintry MIST1221 artpack collection released three years ago this month.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC30

 Mistigram: if the song lyric is to be believed, not only is this #goose a-laying, but there are five more just like it just out of sight.  Me, I think the #ANSIart illustrator AdeptApril was perhaps taking some shortcuts here.  (Granted, I would too in that situation!)

MIST1223/ATONALOSPREY-EMPEROR_PENGUIN

 Mistigram: The splash of yellow at the penguin's throat is the only accent in this severe #teletext portrait of an Emperor #Penguin, drawn by @AtonalOsprey and included in last year's wintry MIST1223 artpack collection.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC29

 Mistigram: on the fifth day of Christmas, AdeptApril drew for us... five go-old rings... in #ANSIart.

M-9808/other/doodles/ds-peng2

Mistigram: to fully appreciate just why acclaimed Mist Classic ASCII artist Dead Soul drew an illustration of gladiatorial combat in an ice rink between two very mismatched penguin champions, you would have had to attend a Mist meet-up at Benny's Bagels in the summer of 1998.  Because you didn't, you are doomed to bafflement.  This piece was included in the long-delayed M-9808 artpack collection.
 

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC28

 Mistigram: Today is the fourth day of Christmas, so AdeptApril has drawn one of four calling-birds  If the bird is able to establish a handshake and make a connection, it may even transmit some carrier signal! (See RFC 1149.)

MIST1220/CXC_CHANUKA2020

 Mistigram: many years, the parallel winter celebrations of Christmas and #Hanukkah do not coincide, but this year they overlap.  (The third candle gets lit tonight.)  So here's an #ANSIart #menorah drawn by CoaXCable, included in the MIST1220 artpack collection released four years ago.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC27

 Mistigram: For the third day of Christmas, AdeptApril gave to us an #ANSIart screen of one #FrenchHen, the other two implied somewhere out of sight.

MIST1223/A_MOUSE-DEER_LT3S

 Mistigram: In last year's MIST1223 artpack collection, we included this monochrome #PETSCII illustration by @a_mouse of a white stag carefully keeping track of its suroundings on a snowy night.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC26

 Mistigram: #OnTheSecondDayOfChristmas AdeptApril drew for us two #TurtleDoves in an #ANSIart screen from Storm BBS.

ADVENT23/25_DEC23

 Mistigram: for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar, @littlebitspace drew a magnificent and chilling #blockASCII portrait of the late Jolly Old St. Nick, apparently reduced to nowt but bones and beard following his magical night's impossible exertions.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC25

 Mistigram: If you don't remember what you were given by your true love on the first day of Christmas, don't worry -- you'll get plenty of reminders.  This #ANSIart screen was drawn by AdeptApril.

ADVENT23/24_DEC23

 Mistigram: @thegreenherring drew this #ANSIart scene of #RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer's big moment for this date on last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC24

 Mistigram: #TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas on the screen of my system, and if I didn't share AdeptApril's daily #ANSIart screens, you'd feel like you'd have missed 'em.

ADVENT23/23_DEC23

 Mistigram: you can communicate a lot of winter vibes with a cold palette of whites and greys, with maybe a splash of red for an accent.  The green you can take or leave.  @Nitron drew this #ANSIart screen for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC23

 Mistigram: the family of author Daniel O'Keefe was celebrating the invented holiday of #Festivus 30 years earlier than the rest of us started to, after it featured in the S9E10 episode of #Seinfeld #TheStrike in '97.  AdeptApril drew this #ANSIart screen in observance of the occasion.

ADVENT23/22_DEC23

 

Mistigram: @grymmjack drew this pleasantly hyper-saturated #ANSIart Alpine scene of a pine tree growing in a snowy meadow, intended to be shared on this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC22

 Mistigram: For one day at least, it's time to reconfigure your web browser to accept them, because as AdeptApril indicates with this #ANSIart screen, today is #Cookie Exchange Day.

ADVENT23/21_DEC23

 Mistigram: with aid of a microscope, @littlebitspace conducted some #blockASCII research investigating just why snowflakes are so cold in this screen from today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.  His report back: be very glad they are not warm.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC21

 Mistigram: If you're looking for something in the darkness, this might help you to find it.  AdeptApril has drawn this #ANSIart screen in honour of #Flashlight Day today, calibrated to coincide with the #WinterSolstice -- the date of peak darkness and hence flashlight need.

ADVENT23/20_DEC23

 Mistigram: For this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar, @consolejockey drew an #ANSIart screen of Rodney Recloose's Ski Shop from Electronic Arts' 1990 minigame compilation #SkiOrDie.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC20

 Mistigram: As you may soon be having time to awkwardly fill with rarely-seen family members, AdeptApril invites you to beat the rush and familiarize yourself with the options available today, during Games Day.  This #ANSIart screen shows #chess, but the holiday was actually established by Games Workshop in 1975 so #WarhammerFantasyBattle might be more appropriate.

ADVENT23/19_DEC23

 Mistigram: 'Then he got an idea. An awful idea. #TheGrinch had a wonderful, awful idea.'  LDA drew this incredible #ANSIart screen from #ChuckJones' 1966 animated adaptation of #DrSeuss' 1957 book #HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC19

 Mistigram: I hope no Christians with persecution complexes storm out after hearing AdeptApril wish them a Happy #Holly Day.  She drew this #ANSIart screen to celebrate the evergreen occasion.

ADVENT23/18_DEC23

 Mistigram: @littlebitspace drew this wickedly grim #ANSIart screen for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC18

 Mistigram: They say that no two of them are alike, but they all get celebrated on the same date: today AdeptApril drew this #ANSIart screen in honour of Flake Appreciation Day.  Start the day with a bowl of corn flakes or Frosted Flakes, and season your lunch with bonito flakes.  (Dinner is your cheat meal.)

ADVENT23/17_DEC23

 Mistigram: #EpicMegagames' heavily-armed green lagomorph #JazzJackrabbit was drawn in #ANSIart by @Grymmjack, as he appeared in his seasonal 1995 #HolidayHare bonus disk, to appear on this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC17

 Mistigram: on this date 121 years ago, Orville Wright became the first person to ever make a sustained airplane flight (for 12 seconds at least) near #KittyHawk, North Carolina.  AdeptApril has drawn this #ANSIart illustration of the #WrightFlyer in honour of the occasion.

ADVENT23/16_DEC23

 Mistigram: @littlebitspace drew this cozy-but-not-relaxing #monochrome #blockASCII screen of an indoor view through a crowded window on a snowy day for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.  The house rule is: don't rub the cat's tummy.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC16

 Mistigram: AdeptApril's #ANSIart screen today commemorates that on this date 251 years ago, the #BostonTeaParty in Massachusetts took place, ushering along the American Revolutionary War of Independence.  One lump or two?

ADVENT23/15_DEC23

 Mistigram: For today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar, @littlebitspace drew a tiny 1-bit #textmode #pixelart design writ large in #blockASCII, of what appears to be a fool, jester or joker in the Mistigris poker vein previously explored.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC15

 Mistigram: today AdeptApril notes in #ANSIart that on this date 233 (!) years ago, the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, also known as the #BillOfRights, were ratified.

ADVENT23/14_DEC23

 Mistigram: for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar, Cthulu manually made an #ANSIart reproduction of #pixelart sprites from Chris Pirih's #SkiFree, first included in 1991's Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC14

 Mistigram: I don't know when exactly you expected the monkeys to have their day, but turns out December 14th is it!  You'd better pause the Christmas baking long enough to go find a banana somewhere.  This #ANSIart screen was drawn by AdeptApril.

ADVENT23/13_DEC23

 Mistigram: On yesterday's unlucky date for our ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar, @littlebitspace drew this extraordinary (boney) hand of playing cards, including two jokers (perhaps they are playing a variation of poker in which they are wild?) and an oddly familiar red-nosed deer skull.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC13

 Mistigram: AdeptApril's #ANSIart screen yesterday featured a juxtaposition of two subjects celebrated, the #violin and the #horse, so mutually unrelated as to seem almost ominous framed together here... but I am sure there is nothing actually sinister about the pairing.

MIST1023/MM-JASON

 Mistigram: in honour of #FridayThe13th yesterday, here's an #ANSIart illustration of the horror movie series' celebrated homocidal maniac #JasonVoorhees, doing what he loves best.  This screen was drawn by @Mavenmob and included in last year's spooky MIST1013 artpack collection.

ADVENT23/12_DEC23

Mistigram: @Codefenix drew this cozy #ANSIart scene for today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.  If you like it, you can see more such ANSI screens from this year's ADVENT24 at his Constructive Chaos BBS via conchaos.synchro.net
 

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC12

 Mistigram: AdeptApril drew this #ANSIart screen for National #Poinsettia Day, this festive Aztec plant demonstrating Christmas colours.  I will add that it is mildly toxic to pets, so please keep it out of reach.

ADVENT23/11_DEC23

 Mistigram: For today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar, LDA drew an #ANSIart screen of #HermeyTheMisfitElf from the 1964 Rankin/Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer stop-motion animation, seemingly endorsing the use of Microsoft's Windows 11 at his dental clinic.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC11

 Mistigram: Why did AdeptApril draw an #ANSIart screen for International Mountain Day?  Because it was there.

ADVENT23/10_DEC23

 Mistigram: @TheGreenHerring drew this totally lagomorphic wintery #ANSIart scene for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC10

 Mistigram: Today AdeptApril observes a celebration of the #DeweyDecimalSystem, that library organization system that attempts to impose a taxonomy on the sum of all human experience and endeavour.  When this #ANSIart screen appears in a Misprint Manuscripts book about computer art, you should find it filed on the shelves under a 776 call number.

ADVENT23/09_DEC23

 Mistigram: this peppermint-striped number 9 was drawn in #ANSIart by Pinky as part of last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar -- whose entries you can experience at Amessyroom's BBS 'Too Lazy' via toolazy.synchro.net:2323

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC09

 Mistigram: AdeptApril has drawn this #ANSIart illustration for #ChristmasCard Day.  I guess it means to say that you'd better mail yours soon if you hope for them to arrive in time, though here in Canada the management of the national postal service has left us out of luck!

ADVENT23/08_DEC23

 Mistigram: this newschool #ASCIIart screen of a trio of skeletons navigating the darkest time of year together was drawn by @littlebitspace for last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC08

 Mistigram: Some December calendar events are more obviously seasonal than others.  Today AdeptApril's #ANSIart screen celebrates National Christmas Tree Day, a stealth rebranding for wider audiences of the Catholic Immaculate Conception Day during which trees are often put up.

ADVENT23/07_DEC23

 Mistigram: For this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar, @grymmjack drew an #ANSIart portrait of 'Bumble', the Abominable Snowmonster of the North, from 1964's Rankin/Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special.