BLNDR2024A/2STONED-THUD!

 Mistigram: from last year's BLNDR2024A, here's 2Stoned's first-prize-winning #ANSIart entry improvising computer art on the topics of POWER RANGERS / ROBBERY / ARRAKIS. We're running another Blender compo this weekend -- check out #blender on the EFNet IRC or stay tuned! To learn more about the compo, check out https://mistigris.org/blender/blend.html

BLNDR2024A/ZIR-MMAK

 Mistigram: @zirroneous of Fire Graphics was awarded second place for the most recent Blender improvised computer art competition, with this long #ANSIart interpretation of the topics MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS / ROBBERY / ARRAKIS. We are hosting another Blender this weekend, Apr 20-21, on channel #blender on the EFNet. You are all welcome to particpate! Broad details at https://mistigris.org/blender/blend.html

BLNDR2024A/NI-BL124

 

Mistigram: "The Blender" is an improvised computer art competition where participants try to "blend" three spontaneous topics into a unified work of art. Last time around @_n1tr0n took the assigned topics of "Power Rangers / Robbery / Arrakis" as license to draw this #ANSIart portrait of #ElizabethBanks as #RitaRepulsa, and for his trouble he took home third prize.

We are running another Blender compo this weekend, from May 20-21. General details at https://mistigris.org/blender/blend.html , or just jump in to channel #blender on the EFNet IRC. Cheers & Blend on!

BLNDR2024A/NAI*

 Mistigram: Periodically Nitron likes to check in with the state of the art for AI handling of ridiculous topics when we assign him nonsense subjects in the Blender improvised art compo.  This time around its absurd words were "POWER RANGERS" / "ROBBERY" / and "DUNE" and, well, the hivemind needs to work a little on figuring out what a robbery looks like.  But if you need pseudo-textmode generative art on themes of desert tokusatsu (and who among us does not!) ... you could do worse!  Naturally these submissions are not eligible for competition, and I would express concerns over the potential of lost employment for skilled producers of niche fanart, but the specific Dune / Power Rangers overlap seems to be a hitherto uncapitalized territory.

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!)

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.

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.