Mistigris computer arts

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

ADEPTAPRIL/NOV05


 Mistigram: It's AdeptApril's turn to urge us to #RememberRememberTheFifthOfNovember for #GuyFawkesDay, with an #ANSIart arrangement of his mask, as widely seen in the 2005 film adaptation of Adam Moore's #VForVendetta comic (where this specific design was the handiwork of illustrator David Lloyd) ... or every day, for members of #Anonymous.

Monday, November 4, 2024

MIST1124 call for submissions


 Mistigram: and now for something completely different -- we're not showing off art (well, thanks for this nice logo, @grymmjack!) but rather, we're requesting some of it!  Our crew is celebrating its 30th anniversary at the end of this month, and we want to give everyone the opportunity to take part in the festivities and party like it's ... 1994.

If you have something specific in mind, we're very interested to see what you've got -- but if you could use a prompt to get the creative juices flowing, we have some suggestions:

1) We will be circulating an uncoloured, unadorned #Mistfunk logo outline and challenging the typographers among you to shade/colour/finish it off _in your own style_, hopefully yielding compelling variations on a fun theme.

2) There are thousands of artworks in our 30 years of back catalogues, and we would love to see some creative remixes, remasters, radical re-interpretations, skilled restorations and postmodern deconstructions of your favorite classic works from our back stacks.

3) As though you just fell through a time wormhole into 1994, draw up a promo for the same kinds of things we used to advertise in our packs -- the KiTSCHNet echomail network, Kithe e-mag, our WHQ the Screaming Tomato BBS (or its successor The Jade Monkey, if you prefer), or the PabloDraw ANSI editor (still under active development!)  Or maybe you have a different cyberspace lost cause of 1994 that you'd like to give a last huzzah to -- a favorite MUD, newsgroup or GeoCities neighbourhood ... here's your chance!

4) If you care to open up the Moebius ANSI editor and join our networked server for the making of collaborative #ANSIart, in keeping with the #phreaking and #telephony roots of the underground computer artscene, we're hoping to collect a wide assortment of small ANSI vignettes of famous people, real and fictional, from TV, movies and real life, all taking part in a conference call on landlines, mobiles and cellular phones.

Please try to get your subs in not long after Nov 23rd, because we've gotta release this beast the following weekend!  If you have any questions, you know where to find us!

LITTLEBITSPACE-SKULL_MASK


 Mistigram: you can practically feel the texture of old dry bone beneath your fingertips looking at this custom #PETSCII illustration of a #skull by @littlebitspace. What's with the glyph drawn on its forehead? And why is it described as a "mask"? Some questions are better left unanswered. This piece was included in the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection.

ADEPTAPRIL/NOV04


 Mistigram: While we're still lingering in a Halloween frame of mind, here's an AdeptApril #ANSIart sketch of the inner coffin of #KingTutankhamun on the occasion of #KingTut Day, the date on which his tomb was discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. (And you know what's inside that coffin? A #mummy!) This subject sold a million boxes of Deluxe Paint and a million Steve Martin records.

Sunday, November 3, 2024

MIST1024/HORSENBURGER-THE_SHINING-WENDY


 Mistigram: RIP to actor #ShelleyDuvall, who died four months ago. @horsenburger has drawn a #teletext portrait of her somehow surviving an ax attack 44 years earlier as #WendyTorrance in Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Stephen King's #TheShining. This screen was included in the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection.

ADEPTAPRIL/NOV03


 Mistigram: for today's #ANSIart screen AdeptApril made a visual pun about thinking outside the box for #Cliche Day. At the end of the day, it is what it is.

Saturday, November 2, 2024

MIST1024/PIZZATOE-AMY-MOON_NIGHT


 Mistigram: our guest Amy of #Pizzatoe keeps things Halloweeny with this spooky outsider #ASCIIart tableau featuring a couple of Jack o' Lanterns grinning in a blasted graveyard while bats flitter across the swollen orange harvest moon and Ghostface gets his witch's hat blown off by a stiff breeze. This piece was included in the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection.