Today on Mistigram - one final ANSI art Mist logo by Nail (like all the rest!) from MIST1116’s infofiles. Not very Christmassy, is it, all sharp points and ribbons of gore? It is surely no accident. Which reminds me, wear eye protection while walking by… http://ift.tt/2iZSXZF
Today on Mistigram - as seen in MIST1216 (etc.), @Horsenburger drew this uncanny likeness of Will Farrell in the movie Elf.
There are plenty of pieces from that collection we haven’t looked at yet but with the 12th day of Christmas now behind us, the theme is beginning to feel a little hoary, so we’ll be leaving 1216 behind (for the time being) and future Mistigram posts will point further back - first to our tremendous MIST1116 artpack release (where you will find the quest to escape overrepresentation by the prolific Horsenburger was still a pressing concern), but also a return to the Mist Classic art vault. Stay tuned, Instagram friends and synchronized IFTTT viewers! http://ift.tt/2iRfSGi
Today on Mistigram, a hirez illustration from MIST1216, “Not A Creature Was Sleeping…” by @athenacreative depicting some cosy creatures all tucked in for a long winter’s nap. http://ift.tt/2i24uTZ
I was surfing around for some counterpart to Horsenburger’s masterful teletext advent calendar entries, thinking that they needed a complement for their appearance in the “Silent Night” music video and MIST1216 artpack, but something substantial was needed to counter them at the risk of being “all the teletext and then a couple of other things.” Then I found Vinny “@C64_endings” Mainolfi sharing a series of self-winterized images from classic C64 video games and I realised we just might have what we’re looking for! There were a pile of them (indeed, there are some he hasn’t even released yet) – these are ones we’ve featured in Mistigram so far, revamped versions of Bubble “Bauble” (Bobble), Impossible Mission, Bruce Lee, and Last Ninja (I Gave You My Heart). Formidable!
(As for the first… it appears to have slipped us by in all the confusion surrounding the release of MIST1116, but fear not: we will be returning to set the matter straight!)
It was a retrocomputing extravaganza, with the Apple ][ represented via Melodia’s curation of seasonal demos for that pioneering platform extruded into three dimensions through her Octalyzer, the Commodore 64 in full effect thanks to @C64_endings and his winterized screenshots of classic C64 games, Atari ST representing courtesy of STuART “Forgotten Grove” and his STatariART cadre… I faked a Mac Classic selfie thanks to the iOS Retrospecs app, and of course we had a pile of amazing Horsenburger pieces on board thanks to his advent calendar project this year! (The only truly vintage platforms missing are the TRS-80 and ZX Spectrum… well, and the Amiga, but they have their own thing going.) All that plus a few pieces from Mistigris irregulars – Diane Smithers’ Prismafied photos, FidoNet-style ASCII art by ldb and more.
You can enjoy the whole thing, admittedly a little after the fact, through a browser-accessible web gallery at textmod.es. Cheers!
Is it possible that we somehow failed to tell you about our major Christmas 2016 project? It is possible – the smashing of my main computer’s screen interfered both in the commission of the project and the promotion of it. Well, season’s belated greetings, folks – it’s an outtake from Melodia’s “1999” music disk, a remix of Enya singing “Silent Night”, complete with an array of vintage and contemporary retrocomputing holiday imagery from Horsenburger’s teletext advent calendar, @C64_endings’ winterized screenshots of classic Commodore 64 games, imagery from Apple ][ demos run through Melodia’s Octalyzer, a few tidbits from the STatariART crew… plus even a couple of seasonal pieces by Mistigris regulars! Don’t worry if you didn’t get a chance to see this in time this year, we’ll certainly be parading it out again next December!
