Mistigram: @starstew has reinvented the simple, happy accident...

Mistigram: @starstew has reinvented the simple, happy accident kind of profound upheaval (what the French might describe as bouleversement) resulting from the simplest of adjustments - re-orienting an image’s “up”. In this photo from the recent MIST0318 artpack collection entitled “Up Sky Down”, he somehow manages to compose a meditation on the wild blue yonder and the unfathomable cosmos lying just beyond it, even tickling the tangent of that Tesla Roadster en route to Mars, out of the most mundane material imaginable - taking a photo of a mud puddle in a parking lot. A positively alchemical transmutation - heady stuff! http://ift.tt/2ptjwZu

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Mistigram: it’s been a few days since we’ve featured...

Mistigram: it’s been a few days since we’ve featured a sweet @polyducks composition, so why not this little bit of pseudo-PETSCII from MIST0317 one year ago, in which a samurai warrior decapitates a robot? Wicked. http://ift.tt/2puMxUG

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Mistigram: you liked the “Belize” logo with an eye...

Mistigram: you liked the “Belize” logo with an eye instead of the letter I, so here’s @frandroid’s #ANSIart logo for “Nasal Malfunction” with a nose in place of the letter A. Sadly we never got around to turning the rest of the sensory organs into letter surrogates.) This piece was released 20 years ago this month in the M-9803 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2pwWiAE

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Mistigram: Surely it behooves us to come up with something on...

Mistigram: Surely it behooves us to come up with something on today’s occasion of UNESCO’s World Poetry Day. Not every underground computer artgroup can boast of having included poetry among its supported artforms, but for much of the classic ‘90s period Mist was choking on it – indeed its presence was likely what we were best known for, tarring us with an unspoken “ANSI artists, turn away” stigma that remains with us largely unchanged even today. But if not for the involvement of a poet the group would never have been founded, run or revived, so… eschewing it was never an option for us. (Strangely, the years took care of that for us; I blame the great interface shift, whereby the artists are still arting and the musicians are still musicking, but the writers are now tapping and swiping.) There were many great pieces to choose from, all intensely of their era, but I settled on this doggerel selection from March of 1995 (MIST0395) by Livewire, better known for his absurd prose and short stories, as hitting a celebratory note, invoking a period cyberspace theme (specifically DJ James Joyce’s BBS Al’s House of Meats) and really hitting the meta-ness with a satisfying oomph. http://ift.tt/2GeEcxR

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Mistigram: oldschool computer artist @otnooishphoo put together...

Mistigram: oldschool computer artist @otnooishphoo put together a series of abstracts a year ago in the MIST0317 artpack collection whose themes were hazy recollections of BBS colour schemes from 20-odd years ago. This one celebrates Magik Elvis’ board, and so is entitled “Memories of Neo-Graceland”. http://ift.tt/2GQIObm

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Mistigram: Kingyo delivered another of his trademark smudgy...

Mistigram: Kingyo delivered another of his trademark smudgy textmode #mecha illustrations (anyone care to tell us its specific make and model?) in this awesome #ANSIart piece advertising Thanatos’ BBS Skull Duggery (you’ll have to take my word for it, logo truncated to satisfy the Instagram aspect ratio gods) released 22 years ago this month in the MIST0396 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2G9LQcH

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Mistigram: from the MIST0395 artpack collection released 23...

Mistigram: from the MIST0395 artpack collection released 23 years ago this month, here’s a #RIPscrip vector art advertisement for The Heretic Asylum BBS, drawn by The Lite in his very brief stint of Mist membership following our merger with Fire that month. http://ift.tt/2DKhCaU

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