MIST0620/STARSTEW-RIVEN-&-RADIANT-2

 Mistigram: here we have "Riven & Radiant 2", a page from one of @starstew's seemingly bottomless sketchbooks, filled with doodles inspired by galaxy brain puns and, in this case, intriguing manually-executed algorithmic patterns. It was included in the MIST0620 artpack collection released six years ago this month.

MIST-30/STARSTEW-SAD

 Mistigram: OG computer artist @starstew of SITO (etc.) was a regular to Mistigris artpack releases for years following our 2014 revival, and we shared hundreds of his offbeat doodles before eventually pivoting to a more explicitly computer-y computer art orientation. Still, for our recent MIST-30 celebration, we tapped his drawing of these demonic e-mail guardians to help represent the unorthodox path we've trod together.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 12, 2016 at 1:25pm UTC

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.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 12, 2016 at 1:25pm UTC

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While the version of the art included in our recent MIST1016 artpack was a static image, we all agreed that this was an optimal presentation for Ed “Starstew” Statsny’s Pixkeletal … somewhat akin to how it might be cranked out of a tractor feed dot matrix printer. I remembered how “back in the day” the old graphics viewing program CSHOW would present images that way, after performing some very processor-intensive calculations, no doubt! But CSHOW is unhappy performing in DOSBox today, and I had to go through a lot of MS-DOS graphics applications before I found one that could deliver the effect – that of underpowered limping – that I was searching for. Art isn’t always supposed to be easy! Even computer art. (ESPECIALLY computer art!)