MIST0118/KALCHA-ALBUM-SONNY_ROLLINS-SAXOPHONE_COLOSSUS

 Mistigram: a regretful reprint from our back stacks, rest in power to jazz titan #SonnyRollins, whose 1957 album #SaxophoneColossus was here celebrated in #ShiftJIS by @kalchano in the music-themed MIST0118 artpack collection eight years ago.

MIST0226 text art mosaic

 Mistigram: with the exception of a few pieces of computer music, nearly everything in the new, unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection that dropped last night is some form or another of #textart and #textmode art -- here is a sampling of specimens of #ASCIIart, #ANSIart, #ATASCII, #PETSCII and #ShiftJIS contained therein.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 6, 2016 at 2:19pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, Kalcha delivers more of his unique Shift_JIS illustration (the ASCII art of Japan, using a vastly extended character set) from the MIST1116 artpack with this suite of nine Gods from the Hindu pantheon.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 6, 2016 at 2:19pm UTC

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It gives us great pleasure (and enormous relief) to announce that MIST1116, the Mistigris computer artpack collection for which we’d been gathering submissions since the end of April, is finally out following a series of delays.

With a strong current of pieces dealing with themes of technology, transhumanism and cyberspace, there’s also plenty to enjoy to suit camps old and new alike – several varieties of textmode artwork, including typewriter masterpieces and an unstoppable parade of teletext, plus the “real-life” art forms historically absent, including drawing, painting, photography and collage. (Still no dance! We’ve got to have something to strive toward, I guess.)

And keeping us relevant despite our celebrating the occasion of our 22nd anniversary, the kids will enjoy an unsettling SnapChat face-swap and an canonical literary work transliterated into emoji.

(Also, at least three accordions. They’re made to fit in there thematically somehow, but huh – go figure!)

If you’d like to download the entire collection in one 185-meg go for local enjoyment, please point your web browser to bit.ly/MIST1116 ; if on the other hand you’d like to wander through a garden of thumbnails via a web gallery, textmod.es is hosting (most of) it at bit.ly/MIST1116gallery

(Pictured: “V for Vendetta” ANSI adaptation by cccfire
“Smoke and Mirrors” by Delphine Hennelly
Textile Kaleidoscope by Daniel Wickert
“God organ, its jubilant appreciation” painting by Nick Lakowski
Judge Dredd teletext by Illarterate
“A Hundred Impossible Species of Blue” collage by Arielle Olivier
“The Old Guitarist” Shift_JIS adaptation by Kalcha
“Maakscii art” by Pannekoekologist
“Couture” drawing by Theresa Oborn
“Imissthenineteenhundredandnineties” by xer0.)