MIST-30/ONYX-TST

 Mistigram: as we demonstrated one year ago, in Mist Classic days Onyx was a non-stop music tracking machine.  In the meantime he's been a tireless writer of SF ebooks.  But recently he has taken up #painting, so for the new MIST-30 artpack we charged him with painting an homage to our first WHQ BBS 30 years ago, Nitnatsnoc's #TheScreamingTomato.

SE_D0124/OZ-WALL

 Mistigram: Our airing of dozens of unreleased and forgotten tracker tunes by Onyx has inspired him to start sharing them on his own YouTube channel, in promotion of his books, starting with "WallWalk", as pictured here.  (That one is, incidentally, included in the SE_D0124 music disk, including over 150 of his other songs!  You can download the entire collection at https://mistigris.org/newmedia/SE_D0124.ZIP or, if you like, you can peruse a highlights reel via https://mistfunk.bandcamp.com )

SE_D0124/SE_D0124.NFO

 Mistigram: We gutted a classic SONiC EQUiNOX infofile from the '90s and poured in some new content accounting for the unexpected, table-flipping SE_D0124 music disk of their hours of unheard old music we just released, getting fans up to speed after radio silence since their most recent release back in August of 1997, nearly 27 years ago!  If you like, you can download it via https://mistigris.org/newmedia/ 

... or enjoy a curated sampling of 34 highlights via https://mistfunk.bandcamp.com

SE_D0124/FILE_ID.DIZ

 Mistigram: yesterday we finished what we began nine years ago and released the SE_D0124 music disk, a final collection of nearly two hundred hitherto unreleased module tracker tunes -- over seven hours' worth -- by our colleagues from area code 604's SONiC EQUiNOX crew, primary among them the composer known as Onyx.  You can download it via https://mistigris.org/newmedia/ or enjoy a curated sampling of 34 highlights via https://mistfunk.bandcamp.com

(Now playing: Onyx - Rhodrum, written in 1995.)

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We vented most of the Canada-specific art from the Mistigris back stacks this time last year, with our parade of all the awesome Mist entries in the Canada-themed (and midget-wrestling-themed) Blender #39 art competition from back in 1997.

This year we found that we had a previously unreleased arrangement of the national anthem gathering dust, “O Canada” put together in Scream Tracker by Onyx of Mist and Sonic Equinox, also from way back in 1997. But because free video sharing arrangements are less suspect than audio sharing ones in 2016, we decided to throw together some quick visuals to accompany the audio.

The ANSI art maple leaf is by Quip, and you may recall it from last year’s roundup; we have lent it some ongoing visual appeal by colour-cycling it with the legendary GLOW3.EXE utility – credited to members of ACiD and iCE, but not conclusively belonging to either. Finally, there is a grand finale poached from a 1995 intro by Melkor.

Now the well is good and truly dry, so I have no idea what we’ll do for Canada Day 2017. Maybe… create new art? (shocked gasp) In the meantime, we’ll continue celebrating nostalgic outmoded notions like MS-DOS, modems and nation-states.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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His partner gave him an ultimatum: to focus on one of his creative gifts rather than splitting focus between them. So Ozero (aka Onyx, aka NinjaDude of (CORRECTION: fellow TPOE traveller to) HFR, aka Joseph Picard, onetime SysOp of The Crimson Helm) set aside his visual art (see Mist-released examples attached; apparently he also kept on keeping on for some time) and the tracks which filled Sonic Equinox music disks, and focused on his current creative mainstay as a purveyor of ebooks.

Then he suffered a long hospital stay, and in the tedium of medicalized confinement, looking for some small way for the spark of human whimsy to express itself in a wholy institutionalized environment, the drawings (well, doodles) crept back in.

Because nothing is wasted, after being released from the hospital these doodles were compiled into an ebook, and as periodically happens – this weekend it is being given away for free. Avail yourself! It is almost certainly the best collection of work ever produced on its subject: linguistical curiosities found on hospital meal menus.