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!
From the MIST1116 artpack collection we have this piece of found art by Steev Hise, an abstract composition rescued from airport security entitled “Tucson: still life with cashews and castor.” Granted, though this image is not the product of intentional human design, it did require the eye of an artist to realise the artistic merit of the image and act to capture it.
Today on Mistigram, reNM8R continued his celebratory victory lap of his rediscovery of the artscene with this hirez piece from MIST1116, an exploration of duality – fire vs ice, good vs evil – as exemplified by two angel babes splitting a Mistigris logo cleanly in half. He’s some two decades removed from the artscene, but clearly it still pulses boldly in his veins!
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.
From the recent MIST1116 artpack comes this piece of high resolution visual artwork by Jamie Stantonian, juxtaposing a classic nude photograph with biometric analysis the likes of which Facebook, the Xbox 360 Kinect and the CIA run on user-contributed content and surveillance footage to determine just who you are, which ads to serve you, and where you’re going.
Today on Mistigram we share this image from MIST1116, Pinguino’s cover artwork to this year’s ToonCon program guide. The movie Hackers may have celebrated its 20th anniversary, but it is more on fleek than ever!
A day after his first appearance in an artpack, our still-fresh MIST1116, we look to the work of Cuban artist Yaimel López to try to find some understanding in today’s death of Fidel Castro. The powerful ideological symbolism in this piece, entitled “The Man”, is potent stuff, even if the nuances of just what it all means are still left up to personal interpretation. One thing for sure: nothing is as it seems, but toward what end? Well, I suppose that’s an eternal constant of life. So much for deeper meaning!
Today on Mistigram, a piece of hirez (high resolution graphics) trapped for years in the belly of the shipwrecked M-9808 artpack (finally released to the public in 2015) drawn by Knightmare, depicting some green cartoon character (my guess is The Mask) performing some incomprehensible gesture with his hand with the assistance of some props. It’s not bad – I just don’t understand it.
Today on Mistigram, a curious experiment from the desk of Grim Reaper, the longstanding VGA department coordinator of Mist Classic. The one major idea in play here is wondering what a hirez (high resolution) artist could do with the circumscribed canvas permitted a textmode artist in the space alloted for use in a FILE_ID.DIZ file, the brief description of an archive’s contents that would display on BBS file bases. I guess he got stuck thinking on iconic logos beginning with the letter “M”, so we got a peculiar association with a brand we likely would never have endorsed or given free advertising to.
Tempo probably didn’t intend to kill Mistigris for fifteen years and change when he gifted this piece of website art to us, but nonetheless that was the effect of his generous gesture. Thinking we could kill two birds with one stone by innovating the artpack-as-website, we invested our energies heavily in exploring the untravelled territory at great length (in M-9808, finally released in 2015) and the only thing we ended up killing was ourselves. Hardly seems worth it, to look at it, but at the time it seemed a promising sign that we were on the right track. Signs: don’t read too much into them.
This seems to be the only appearance Bryce made in our back catalogue, but at least he packed in enough glitz and sparkle to make up for a whole career with us! (One question: how come the background gradient isn’t in effect inside the hole of the “g”? Is it a gateway to a similar, but slightly different, dimension? Only Bryce knows for certain, and he’s not talking!)
