My mistake, we had one more loose piece of winter art from MIST1216 – the cozy hobbit hole under “Hawthorne Hill”, by Claire Roberts. It’s not new, dating to 2011, but it was new to us, so … good enough! It was originally painted as a gift for her friend and collaborator (on, for example, her #inktober comic book included in MIST1116 which we’ll have to get around to visiting here sometime soon) Edd Macdonald… but now it can also be enjoyed by the masses!
While the Mistfunk Tumblr was … down for maintenance during the holidays, we ran several swell Horsenburger teletext pieces on Mistigram to celebrate the holiday season. We’re doing a bit of a batch catch-up here, so as you can see you missed his blocky renditions of the Grinch, Scrooge McDuck in Mickey’s Christmas Carol, Jimmy Stewart in It’s A Wonderful Life, and Stripe the Gremlin dressed as Santa in Gremlins. Also, a totally nuclear New Year’s wish for everyone. You could catch most of these as part of his teletext advent calendar through December, and also we used the images for visuals in the music video for our 1999 “Silent Night” remix and from there in the MIST1216 artpack. So now we should be just about all caught up! Cheers!
It was a retrocomputing extravaganza, with the Apple ][ represented via Melodia’s curation of seasonal demos for that pioneering platform extruded into three dimensions through her Octalyzer, the Commodore 64 in full effect thanks to @C64_endings and his winterized screenshots of classic C64 games, Atari ST representing courtesy of STuART “Forgotten Grove” and his STatariART cadre… I faked a Mac Classic selfie thanks to the iOS Retrospecs app, and of course we had a pile of amazing Horsenburger pieces on board thanks to his advent calendar project this year! (The only truly vintage platforms missing are the TRS-80 and ZX Spectrum… well, and the Amiga, but they have their own thing going.) All that plus a few pieces from Mistigris irregulars – Diane Smithers’ Prismafied photos, FidoNet-style ASCII art by ldb and more.
You can enjoy the whole thing, admittedly a little after the fact, through a browser-accessible web gallery at textmod.es. Cheers!
Is it possible that we somehow failed to tell you about our major Christmas 2016 project? It is possible – the smashing of my main computer’s screen interfered both in the commission of the project and the promotion of it. Well, season’s belated greetings, folks – it’s an outtake from Melodia’s “1999” music disk, a remix of Enya singing “Silent Night”, complete with an array of vintage and contemporary retrocomputing holiday imagery from Horsenburger’s teletext advent calendar, @C64_endings’ winterized screenshots of classic Commodore 64 games, imagery from Apple ][ demos run through Melodia’s Octalyzer, a few tidbits from the STatariART crew… plus even a couple of seasonal pieces by Mistigris regulars! Don’t worry if you didn’t get a chance to see this in time this year, we’ll certainly be parading it out again next December!
