MIST-30/MOZZ-BIRDS-MISTIGRIS

 Mistigram: this elegant Mistigris promo, a minimalist tweaked #ASCIIart (Xbin) flock of birds taking flight, was drawn by Mozz and is the first piece we share from our new MIST-30 artpack collection released New Year's Eve, celebrating 30 years since the release of the first Mist pack.

BLIPPYPIXEL-2025

 Mistigram: so the future may be filled with man-made horrors beyond our comprehension, but still we've got to celebrate another trip around the sun, so here's @blippypixel ringing us in #teletext-style to the year of the AI and the end of objective reality! May your year have the right number of fingers!

KUROGAO-YEAR_OF_THE_SNAKE

 Mistigram: @kurogao96 wishes everyone a happy #ASCII art / emoji 2025, the #YearOfTheSnake! Not every animal can assume the shape of a numeral, but the twisty snake has a good shot at taking them all on! Can the first fully snake-based, mouse-powered computer be far behind?

best of 2024

 Mistigram: with all the turmoil in the social media world (eg. cohost) over the past 12 months, this isn't a complete reckoning, but here's a good stab at our top 9 most popular and well-received artworks shared across our fleet of mistfunk accounts over the past calendar year.  Congrats and thanks to all of our contributors, and here's looking forward to an inspirational and productive 2025!

IGNITE01 FILE_ID.DIZ

 Mistigram: for some time our oldschool colleague @kirkman of BreakIntoChat.com has been investigating and reviving the long-defunct #IGS (Instant Graphics and Sound) multimedia vector art format intended in the early '90s for use on #AtariST BBSes.  This research culminated in our joint release of the IGNITE01 artpack collection on the final day of 2024 (our second artpack release of that day!), including several animated screens with sound effects that he made and numerous static illustrations, many of them drawn by regulars of the Mistigris computer art collective.  You can enjoy seeing the static screens (and downloading the animated ones for local display) via the @16colors web gallery, or if you prefer you can watch them all display as they would have unfolded on period BBSes on YouTube via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS_riObN32o .  Kirkman's complete explorations into the history of the IGS file format can be enjoyed at https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and-sound/?order=asc