MiSTiGRAM: a memorable cyberspace meme by @taffi_louis, this scene imagines what it might be like if the #LawnmowerMan took place in a contemporary context and set a… somewhat lower bar for online terror. This piece was included in the MiST0417 April Fool’s artpack collection released three years ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/B_Jc7YWnuIG/
MiSTiGRAM: for our first April Fool’s artpack release (and indeed, our first release of any kind) following our revival in 2014, our founder Cthulu pulled out all the stops with a guided tour juxtaposing high and lowlights of computer graphics history. The #UtahTeapot is an important milestone in 3-D rendering, achieved here in #ANSIart through the forbidden #GIF2ANS conversion software… a cake iced with “lame” stock typography shipped with TheDraw, the ANSI art editor of the Public Domain. This piece was included in the MiST0415 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/B_JcNLsnBut/
MiSTiGRAM: You know him as the author of the longtime PabloDraw #ANSIart program, but did you know that Eto is also an accomplished ANSI artist? Controversially he prefers the 80x50 screen mode, and violates the precepts of Burps’ “no tocare” style guidelines, but he didn’t let that hold him back! This screen was included in the M-9804 April Fool’s artpack collection released 22 long years ago! https://instagr.am/p/B_JbWcYHB21/
MiSTiGRAM: here’s a patently false claim, cooked up via giphy integration with Slack. (Yes, Mistigris has a Slack. It has totaled about a dozen posts in the last four years. Visit our Discord instead!) it was included in the MiST0416 April Fool’s artpack collection.
MiSTiGRAM: Bookending today’s posts, here’s another #teletext rendition of #GrouchoMarx, as seen in the 1983 #ZXSpectrum video game My Name is Uncle Groucho You Win a Fat Cigar, by Automata UK of Pimania fame. It was drawn by @carlos_teletextr and included in this month’s April Fool’s MiST0420 artpack collection.
MiSTiGRAM: here’s a genuinely subversive piece of #ANSIart by @picrotoxin, juxtaposing the intellectual brand of #TEDTalks (like Mistigris, based out of Vancouver) with #IndustrialSocietyAndItsFuture, the manifesto of this Weird Al Yankovic-looking dude, the original social isolator - #TedKaczynski, the #Unabomber. This piece was included in this month’s April Fool’s MiST0420 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/B_Gho7AHMbl/
MiSTiGRAM: an incredible work of photocollage, this tableau by @fentanyl_beauty_, far-reaching in its profound implications, is titled “When You With Your Girls @ The Club And You Realize You’re All Just #FMurrayAbraham”. It was included in this month’s April Fool’s MiST0420 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/B_GgyhLnTsw/
