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.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC07

 Mistigram: Today is a day that will live in infamy: #PearlHarbour Day.  83 years ago today Hawaii was attacked by Japan, resulting in 2403 American casualties, rudely entering the USA into WWII.  This #ANSIart memorial was drawn by AdeptApril for the occasion.

ADVENT23/06_DEC23

 Mistigram: the northerly home country of @littlebitspace, the #ANSIart illustrator of today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar, also lays claim to Santa Claus.  But if you don't know your flags, you may not be able to see the forest for the trees.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC06

 Mistigram: Would someone in a resource extraction town please come collect their local sports team's logo?  AdeptApril's #ANSIart screen today observes a moment in the spotlight for those who toil below ground in the darkness.  Thanks for all the minerals!

ADVENT23/05_DEC23

 Mistigram: This sly character, drawn by LDA, appeared in last year's ADVENT23 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar on this date.  This year we have released another one, but you need to visit its program every day (under MS-DOS, on a BBS, or via https://16colo.rs/pack/advent24/ADVENT.EXE) to see the new screens.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC05

 Mistigram: Did I see that there was some unusual holiday being observed today? No -- in fact, I saw and heard nothing. (#ANSIart screen by AdeptApril.)

ADVENT23/04_DEC23

 Mistigram: This evocative nautical #ANSIart screen was drawn for today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar by @nitron, and you can see selections from both it and this year's new ADVENT24 calendar on his Hold Fast BBS via holdfastbbs.ca

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC04

 Mistigram: If you have any Dungeons & Dragons players in your family you already know what you're stuffing their stockings with: colourful platonic solids!  This #ANSIart screen was drawn for National Dice Day by AdeptApril.

ADVENT23/03_DEC23

 Mistigram: For today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar, Cthulu drew this take on the homocidal #RobotSantaClaus from #Futurama.  Both the 2023 and 24 calendars are bundled in Alpha's BBS door version of ADVENT24, now available for MS-DOS via https://github.com/robbiew/mg_advent_DOS ... this screenshot was taken live from the door as hosted at AdeptApril's Storm BBS, home of her daily ANSI calendar, which you can connect to via bbs.stormbbs.com

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC03

 Mistigram: Oh, you shouldn't have!  Judging by the shape of the package in this #ANSIart screen for Make A Gift Day, I do believe that AdeptApril is giving me a NeXTcube for Christmas!

ADVENT24/WELCOME

 Mistigram: this welcome screen, our first time sharing the text art handiwork of Hortau, is exclusive to the BBS door version of our ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar, ported by Alpha, which SysOps of Linux/Mac-based BBSes can download and set up for the enjoyment of collers to their own systems via https://github.com/robbiew/mg_advent

MIST1223/02_DEC23

 Mistigram: this cozy fireplace scene was drawn by @Darokin for this date in our 2023 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar - both 2023 and 2024 are now available as a Linux/Mac BBS door, adapted by Alpha - this screen was captured live from his SpaceJunk BBS... which you can telnet into at spacejunkbbs.com:2323.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC02

 Mistigram: nothing says December quite like basketball, first devised to give athletes an indoor sport to play in cold months.  AdeptApril celebrates it in #ANSIart today as it's the birthday of James Naismith, the Canadian inventor of the sport in 1891: a Canadian Heritage moment.

ADVENT24 FILE_ID

 Mistigram: As we mentioned previously, for the second year in a row, we at the Mistigris computer art collective have compiled and shared an executable #ANSIart #AdventCalendar to be enjoyed as part of the December lead-up to Christmas.  This festive image, by turns jolly and grim, is @littlebitspace 's FILE_ID artwork to this year's ADVENT24 calendar program.  To view today's (totally gnarly) image, find a way to download and run the program in an MS-DOS operating environment or virtual machine (eg. DOSBox) -- or simply check it out on the 16colo.rs archive.  (It will also shortly be available on numerous bulletin board services.)  Return the following day to see which new artwork is unlocked on the 2nd!  Repeat until Christmas cheer is achieved, or Dec 25th, whichever comes first.

MIST1223/01_DEC23

 Mistigram: we've just dropped an executable MS-DOS #ANSIart #AdventCalendar for December's lead-up to Christmas, for the 2nd year running. This cozy seasonal screen, drawn by codefenix of Constructive Chaos BBS (conchaos.synchro.net), was the first illustration in last year's. For further information about this year's Mistmas Advent calendar, stay tuned.

ADEPTAPRIL/DEC01

 Mistigram: we kick off our final month of coverage of AdeptApril's daily #ANSIart holiday calendar with a seasonal observance, of National Christmas Lights Day!  (If you don't celebrate, we're also curious about your Hanukkah and Kwanzaa light displays.)