Instagram photo by Cthulu • Oct 4, 2016 at 2:02pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, Reanimator’s bit of then-gobsmacking Photoshop wizardry (and oh, the thematic resonance – look at the way the logo is emerging from the mist!) represented Mistigris in our little-seen 1996 604 Music Disk, presented by the New Media Group at the NAiD 1996 demoparty in Montreal (and then lost to the ages until we exhumed it in May 2015!)

Reanimator emerged from a multimedia school context rubbing shoulders with Onyx and Silent Knight, and I will never forget a meeting with him at his Chinatown apartment, sharing a wall with The World’s Skinniest Building, to discuss The Next Step for Mistigris. (Forget the next step: this second act will have been, I’m sure, far more interesting.) By way of illustrating the new potential, he described taking a photo of an angry male model, replacing the eyes with fire, and giving the illusion of having branded the word “Mistigris” into his forehead with red-hot metal. Well yes, that’s one direction we could explore…

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Oct 4, 2016 at 2:02pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 21, 2016 at 1:21pm UTC

A big change of pace for today’s Mistigram post: this is a piece of hirez (high resolution artwork) by Weird, most recently seen rocking the Alpha-Bits logo style in newschool ASCII art. But the times were changing (this is from our January 1997 Fistful of Steel artpack on the Mistigris World Tour), and sometimes you have to go from being the best at the old style to being a rank beginner of the new style. Certainly Photoshop gave artists powerful options (did I mention lens flare?) that PabloDraw did not, so in the interest of moving forward our artists had to shift gears from time to time. Weird ended up doing visual work for the video game industry, a path that assuredly this kind of stuff unlocked more helpfully than her elegant but outmoded ASCII art. But commercial concerns aside, that latter has probably better stood the test of time as an eternal classic of computer art 8)

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 21, 2016 at 1:21pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 3, 2016 at 2:14pm UTC

Bearing the unmistakable imprint of ‘90s tablet use, this whole little world of greyscale sketching inside the twisting proportions of a Mist logo was drawn by longtime Mistigris fellow traveller Pure Voltage and released in the 2nd (high resolution) volume of our May 1998 artpack – two months away from our grand crashing to a halt. As you can see, things were coming to a head.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 3, 2016 at 2:14pm UTC