While the cross is upside-down (shades of Manson, but that’s a swastika… which has no upside-down!), it’s worth noting that pentagrams in this orientation actually represent holiness: a good Christian, legs firmly grounded, arms held out in worship, head pointing to the sky. (Reversed, it becomes more of a goat’s head.) But the point is… isn’t it just adorable?
We only just regained contact with him a couple of weeks ago, but Reanimator (now reNM8R if you will) has hit the ground running in the fashion of someone who fell into a cryochamber in 1995 and landed in 2016. Looking over his standard and NSFW galleries of MUX portraits, this particular piece jumped out as seasonally appropriate and so in it went to the MIST1016 Hallowe'en artpack, released yesterday: a lady might well go to the costume store in search of a scary bat costume, but sadly, all they’ll find is the makings for a “sexy bat” one. Well, fine then! Here’s your sexy bat! Just try not to, uh, visualise the logistics in too great detail. (In fact, the bat-woman represents a friend’s avatar giving the piece its name – “Dancing Echo”. But could I resist going down that road? I’m not made of stone!)
Leaping lightly from medium to medium, the next dollop of cream skimmed from yesterday’s MIST1016 artpack is this oil painting by The Mythical Man entitled “Strange Weather”. Rumour has it here in Vancouver we’ve just set a record of 27 rainy days in October, but that is not as extraordinary as luminous airbornejellyfish… that only happens during El Niño!
Happy Halloween! Here is a gallery of artwork courtesy @horsenburger. http://twitter.com/horsenburger
You can find all these artworks and more in the Mistigris @mistfunk Halloween artpack, which is OUT NOW! https://artpacks.org/2016/MIST1016.zip
I was hoping to showcase them individually but as you can see I might well grow old and die before I catch up… And would you believe that he’s got a whole other batch of sweet teletext goodness queued up for release just a couple of weeks from now? The basic conundrum is that he appears to be able to draw them faster than I can celebrate them!
The tip of the iceberg… Steve “Horsenburger” Horsley has emerged from retirement (as a onetime teletext illustration professional) and has discovered that the machinery is still all well-oiled and the motions near seamless. (For a pittance, he would be happy to sell you a teletext portrait!) The hard part isn’t getting him to draw teletext, it’s getting him to stop! Here we see a consummately Hallowe'eny piece from his massive appearance in yesterday’s MIST1016 artpack… it is of course the Ghostbusters logo, and as I noted elsewhere – it’s nice to see that seemingly antiquated computer art forms such as teletext aren’t actually any more dated than their contemporaries in the world of comedy and entertainment! This rendition allows you to celebrate them both like it’s 1984 all over again!
You saw this one yesterday in the pack-announcement post, but here it is all on its own in its full glory. Her name is Albina, and this desaturated Zodiac avatar is drawn by Elin Jonsson of Imaginary Games, creators of the fabulous mobile CCG Afterland. This was her first appearance with Mistigris (Elin’s, that is, not Albina’s… though that is also true) and her only offering in this particular artpack, but we have more of her dark and delicious art just waiting in the eaves to be shared with you.
Trick or Treat! Our Hallowe'en-styled 22nd anniversary (!) artpack (you may recall its awesome teaser trailer from a couple of weeks back) is officially released, and is now available for local download at http://bit.ly/mist1016 … there is some ANSI and ASCII art, by old hands and a few new names to boot, plus our ongoing investigations into other genres of textmode art (PETSCII, Shift-JIS, and a ton of teletext!) Also lots of #inktober sketches, drawings and paintings, plenty o’ varied hirez, even music… and of course it wouldn’t be a Mist pack without some lit!
Mar 10
I passed a man.
He wasn't human.
(Featured in this post: FILE_ID.DIZ by Nail, Ambush by Raqel Meyers as ACIDT*, Happy Helloween by reNM8R, Albina by Elin Jonsson, Hellboy teletext by Horsenburger, Strange Weather by the Mythical Man, Haunted House #inktober sketch by Bonemouse, Click or Treat Shift-JIS by Kalcha, Just Because You Are Afraid Of Me Does Not Mean I Am Dangerous #inktober sketch by Theresa Oborn, Castlevania by Whazzit. (Oh yes, and the poem is by Crowkeeper.) But everything in this collection is Hallowe'eny, this is just a sampling to demonstrate its incredible diversity!)
