Today on Mistigram, the beginning of a wild trip. At some...

Today on Mistigram, the beginning of a wild trip. At some unclear time (most likely sometime in the mid-‘80s) BC poet Robin Skelton had his “night poem, Vancouver Island” published by the Massachusetts Review. Quite a bit later, around the turn of the century, I used a line from the poem, “time has its lives to eat”, as starter fuel for an online round of the telephone Pictionary game “Eat Poop You Cat”. Faced with the task of illustrating such an abstract phrase, @maureenevans produced this valiant effort: Father Time - so magical he floats, so aged his beard trails along - breaking his hourglass ⏳ and consuming a red, man-shaped leak of its contents as surely as in a Goya painting… Well done! And then this drawing got described, and then that description got drawn, and the semantic signal got gradually mutated to a delightful and hilarious extent, culminating in the most incredible round of EPYC this evangelist ever experienced.
You can see the entire (NSFW) round at http://ift.tt/2jQ7poa , as it found itself included wholesale in the MIST2000 collection of unreleased turn-of-the-century art finally made public following the great grand MIST2000 treasure hunt (a whole other story) in early 2016 - just about exactly a year ago! http://ift.tt/2iTDxTE

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Today on Mistigram, from MIST1014 comes this illustration by...

Today on Mistigram, from MIST1014 comes this illustration by Mist Classic alumnus Sentience entitled “Game of Frogs”. You can compare & contrast directly with hirez he created on his Amiga back in the ‘90s, but he claims that this was just an experimental exercise putting a new tablet through its paces. http://ift.tt/2iPvszc

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Today on Mistigram - Hein Cooper’s head-scratching...

Today on Mistigram - Hein Cooper’s head-scratching landscape photo from MIST1015. Sometimes if you want to appear in an artpack you need to lose sleep over individual pixels, agonizing between a sine and saw wave… while other times all you need is a friend to accidentally post your vacation picture upside down. We may not be the only artgroup whose organisers have ever read a book about Marcel Duchamps but the capricious genius of our curations has by far filled our artpack collections with the most found readymades. http://ift.tt/2iL9Io3

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Bonemouse - What Lies in the Mist

Today on Mistigram - from the #inktober spree of @bonemouse we presented this eerie drawing of balloon-headed ghasts in MIST1016. He had a ton of amazing spooky drawings, many of which arguably outclassed this particular one (which is a nice idea but a little goofy in its execution), but when we saw its title we couldn’t say no: “What Lies in the Mist”. And that’s the truth!

Jamie Stantonian - eolas trachta

Today on Mistigram, this amazing photo from MIST1116 by Jamie Stantonian. If you can’t find a piece of textmode artwork, this is absolutely the next best thing. My guess is that this is some kind of diagnostic mode on a sign demonstrating the possible characters available to convey your message. What kind of message? “Information” doesn’t clarify that much (any signal will do), but I can report that “eolas trachta” translates (from Gaelic) to “traffic information”. A bandwidth report here on the information superhighway then? Allegorically so, perhaps. In any case, I don’t see many box-drawing characters, perhaps explaining why Ireland never had any renowned ANSI art groups.

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!

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While the Mistfunk Tumblr was … down for maintenance during the holidays, we ran several swell Horsenburger teletext pieces on Mistigram to celebrate the holiday season. We’re doing a bit of a batch catch-up here, so as you can see you missed his blocky renditions of the Grinch, Scrooge McDuck in Mickey’s Christmas Carol, Jimmy Stewart in It’s A Wonderful Life, and Stripe the Gremlin dressed as Santa in Gremlins. Also, a totally nuclear New Year’s wish for everyone. You could catch most of these as part of his teletext advent calendar through December, and also we used the images for visuals in the music video for our 1999 “Silent Night” remix and from there in the MIST1216 artpack. So now we should be just about all caught up! Cheers!