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Today on Mistigram, a tiny, almost throwaway monochrome high-ASCII logo Blocktronics artist (and TeklordZ veteran) Mattmatthew tossed off to help us let people know our 20-year reunion artpack, MIST1014, had left the gates… nearly two years ago now. (He also put in a number of other necessary labours, up to and including setting up this very Tumblr to act as our most substantial pulpit.)

It wasn’t included in the artpack in question, but was quickly repurposed to act as FILE_ID.DIZ for the re-released “best-of Mistigris” Living Closet artdisk, finally being shared with a wider audience since its failed distribution on floppy diskette at an art party back in 1999

With a nip, a tuck and a tweak, the logo (the elegant “M” massive and masterfully designed, leaving plenty of room for almost occult ornamentation, the “Mistigris” perhaps the smallest possible rendition of the full group name in only two rows of characters) was also put to work extensively in the MIST2000 Treasure Hunt, including this colour-cycling variant reserved for the grand finale… which to this point perhaps no more than three people have ever seen.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 30, 2016 at 1:19pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, one of the crowning achievements of Mistigris artist Muton (seriously, as best as we can tell he never released pieces with any other groups), his ironic Mistfunk newschool ASCII used in the infofiles in our 3-part 3-year anniversary artpack in October of 1997. He really hit the burgeoning zeitgeist with the stylized DJ (a burgeoning that has never quite deflated in the 19 years since) and clearly we missed an opportunity by never getting this printed on stickers!

Bonus! See the “krap” logo on his baseball cap in homage to the plucky little crew who provided such an infusion of fresh blood and morale into Mistfunk!

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 30, 2016 at 1:19pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 29, 2016 at 1:12pm UTC

Platinum (briefly Bleak) made his mark on Mistigris Classic for years, lingering in the eaves as an ANSI logo specialist, endlessly experimenting with different approaches and new effects. In today’s specimen from Mistigram, he laid the logo on an ASCII art bed, then superimposed a pair of virtual triangular prisms on the ANSI font like a pair of sunglasses lenses, lending everything on the other side of it a smoky appearance.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 29, 2016 at 1:12pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 28, 2016 at 2:05pm UTC

Today on Mistigram: an astounding hirez Mist logo in dope graffiti style by our Hawaiian friend Kyo, drawn for us in 1998 and resolutely sat upon until the MIST2000 artpack, released at the start of 2016 (or a little bit earlier for the resolute few who successfully traversed the puzzle-filled MIST2000 Treasure Hunt!)

It was worth the wait!

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 28, 2016 at 2:05pm UTC

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Dracomage: the man, the myth, the enigma. It looks like sometime around the start of 1998, I was getting antsy for an injection of fresh blood – I could see the close of the 1998 high school year on the horizon, and knew that most of our members in that Grade 12 cohort would not remain with us following that life transition. So I began looking further afield; the artscene had eschewed us, so I had to draw in new computer artists from outside. What does that get you? Outsider art.

I found Dracomage in EFNet #poetry, while trying to branch out and build bridges, so naturally after I drafted him he primarily submitted… tracker music and high resolution art. He didn’t possess an easy mastery of the forms, but what he lacked in raw skill he made up for in enthusiasm and ease of access, with a nigh ubiquitous IRC presence.

We only showcase his visual work today (the blue iceberg piece is featured today on Mistigram, our Instagram feature), but in addition to his musical and literary sides, this lonely seaman, lost forever in the mists of time, also got points for trying (in vain) to get us up and online with mistigris.org circa 1998. (It didn’t happen, and indeed the attempt destroyed us, but he tried!)

If you know of the current whereabouts of Dracomage, please consider putting us in touch! Cheers.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 26, 2016 at 1:18pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, this juicy ANSI art logo was drawn for our use by guests “rz” and “tr” – there was so little textmode art coming our way in 1998 you figure I would have remembered what their full nicknames were, but no dice. We first used it in infofiles in May 1998 (which explains the bizarre caption beneath the logo – informative and creative text followed) and then again in our 2014 revival artpack when confusion and forgetfulness impelled us to re-use the logo in infofiles there as well. Just as well – ACiD re-used logos over and over again, and no one had greater access to fresh textmode art than them!

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 26, 2016 at 1:18pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 25, 2016 at 1:13pm UTC

This monochrome newschool ASCII logo was drawn by Weird – who drew us a lot of logos, didn’t she? – and released in our 3rd-anniversary artpack back circa October of 1997. It doesn’t read “Mist” or “Mistigris” – remember, we were busy reinventing ourselves as, if not an elite clique, at least a hip crew… an approach which worked until it failed.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 25, 2016 at 1:13pm UTC