Today on Mistigram - one final ANSI art Mist logo by Nail (like all the rest!) from MIST1116’s infofiles. Not very Christmassy, is it, all sharp points and ribbons of gore? It is surely no accident. Which reminds me, wear eye protection while walking by… http://ift.tt/2iZSXZF
Today on Mistigram - as seen in MIST1216 (etc.), @Horsenburger drew this uncanny likeness of Will Farrell in the movie Elf.
There are plenty of pieces from that collection we haven’t looked at yet but with the 12th day of Christmas now behind us, the theme is beginning to feel a little hoary, so we’ll be leaving 1216 behind (for the time being) and future Mistigram posts will point further back - first to our tremendous MIST1116 artpack release (where you will find the quest to escape overrepresentation by the prolific Horsenburger was still a pressing concern), but also a return to the Mist Classic art vault. Stay tuned, Instagram friends and synchronized IFTTT viewers! http://ift.tt/2iRfSGi
Today on Mistigram, a hirez illustration from MIST1216, “Not A Creature Was Sleeping…” by @athenacreative depicting some cosy creatures all tucked in for a long winter’s nap. http://ift.tt/2i24uTZ
Today on Mistigram, reNM8R continued his celebratory victory lap of his rediscovery of the artscene with this hirez piece from MIST1116, an exploration of duality – fire vs ice, good vs evil – as exemplified by two angel babes splitting a Mistigris logo cleanly in half. He’s some two decades removed from the artscene, but clearly it still pulses boldly in his veins!
Today on Mistigram, another painting (“Smoke and Mirrors”) by the hugely talented Delphine Hennelly from MIST1116 – another piece in her series exploring the phenomenon of women and selfies. Woman posing for a painting drawn by a man = fine art, woman posing for a self-portrait = vain and shallow, right? That’s the standard breakdown. These paintings challenge that narrative. Sisters are doing it for, by and of themselves.
Today on Mistigram, we feature this 2D work from MIST1116 by our MIST1015 sculpture star Theresa Oborn. Are they three pearls in a nest of seaweed? Three zygotes implanting themselves in uterine lining? Or perhaps three stages of a Julia set fractal? It is… nice to look at. That’s all it takes to satisfy us!
And today on Mistigram, in the recent MIST1116 artpack the incredible Starstew gifted us with “Threecoil”, a piece of very contemporary high resolution artwork devised so as to appear to be the ingenius output of some primordial plotter hooked up to a monochrome terminal circa 1978.
Yesterday on Mistigram, we featured this appearance by our random Twitter textmode acquaintance Spitoufs (aka Lobo) from the recent MIST1116 artpack release. It’s a coloured ASCII art rendition of the 1913 Japanese superhero Ōgon Bat! (Don’t worry, we had to Google him also.))
Today on Mistigram, a painting from MIST1116 by Jenn Ashton entitled “Capacity”. On a first viewing, it might look like a map of ski runs at a resort, but this is secretly computer art of the highest degree: those are capacitors, and this is a circuit diagram on a breadboard!
Along the way, you can enjoy the diversions the logo went through – an icy take to counter its ultimately fiery temperament. Also you can see a version moderated by “Deep Dream”, as well as xer0’s post-complete glitched-out version. They’re only four little letters, but they leave you many, many options!
Today on Mistigram, another painting from the recent MIST1116 artpack. This one is by Finnish painter Antti Minkkinen aka Unseen Fate, of pen15 (among other affiliations). I assigned it a flippant filename involving saunas trying to make some sense of what I was seeing, but only Antti knows for sure what’s going on in this busy scene.
Today on Mistigram, an oil painting tribute to the Thin White Duke, if he were a small piece of green citrus fruit, as released in the recent MIST1116 artpack collection. The Mythical Man did this oil painting rendition of a bit of David Bowie wordplay, taking his song “Life on Mars” from 1971’s Hunky Dory album and tweaking a letter, turning it into … “Lime on Mars”. As one does!
Today on Mistigram, another genuine Horsenburger teletext work released in last week’s MIST1116 collection (was it somehow impossibly only a week ago?) – the only textmode fanart I have ever seen of the UK’s dark SF comedy Red Dwarf, the Jupiter Mining Corporation vessel depicted here.
Yesterday Canada’s Prime Minister put the nail in the coffin of Northern Gateway – but he gave government approval to two further pipeline projects, Line 3 and Kinder Morgan’s twinned Trans Mountain, the latter of which will be running quite a bit closer to Mistigris HQ. This is not what we voted for, and we, also, do not consent to this action.
Today on Mistigram, we feature a painting by Maeve Wolf from last week’s MIST1116 artpack release. While she drew some ANSI art back in the Mist Classic era, in more recent years she’s taken up painting and employment in the field of architecture – which leads us to today’s selection, one of her two paintings from that collection blending elements of all three realms!
In the style of the logo from Viz Magazine comes this, the teletext introduction to Illarterate’s MISTFAX teletext sequence in the just-released MIST1116 artpack! (which, of course, you can browse over here.) Sadly, the promises of naughty words and pictures are not substantiated… unless it turns out that something prurient is waiting to be unleashed by the teletext “REVEAL” button!
Today on Mistigram, a piece of hirez (high resolution graphics) trapped for years in the belly of the shipwrecked M-9808 artpack (finally released to the public in 2015) drawn by Knightmare, depicting some green cartoon character (my guess is The Mask) performing some incomprehensible gesture with his hand with the assistance of some props. It’s not bad – I just don’t understand it.
Today on Mistigram, this ANSI art logo by Whazzit capped off his mermaid ANSImation with Kirkman in last year’s MIST1015 artpack. Previously I equated the blue with water but now I’m thinking it might be more the phosphorescence of jellyfish tentacles or electric eels, wriggling among the seaweed growing amongst the planks of a sunken vessel.
Today on Mistigram, a curious experiment from the desk of Grim Reaper, the longstanding VGA department coordinator of Mist Classic. The one major idea in play here is wondering what a hirez (high resolution) artist could do with the circumscribed canvas permitted a textmode artist in the space alloted for use in a FILE_ID.DIZ file, the brief description of an archive’s contents that would display on BBS file bases. I guess he got stuck thinking on iconic logos beginning with the letter “M”, so we got a peculiar association with a brand we likely would never have endorsed or given free advertising to.
Today on Mistigram, an ANSI art Mist logo veering on the abstract by Tincat from a collaboration in our July 1997 artpack. As for the slogan? You know what you get when you throw everything at the wall and see what sticks? Then you take everything that stuck, and see which among those sticks the most… basically, the Mistfunk movement Tincat spearheaded was selectively breeding for catchiness rather than clear messaging.
