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MiSTiGRAM Pack theme : Halloween
MiSTiGRAM Pack Num. : 112
MiSTiGRAM Release date: 22/10/29
MIST1022 List of Contributing Artists:
Adel Faure learned in the pandemic summer of 2021 that they were not
creating text art in a vacuum, as they had thought, but that there was a
community of colleagues to work with and learn from. Everything since then
has been a feverish frenzy of creation and getting up to speed.
adelfaure.net / adelfaure.itch.io / twitter.com/adelfaure
Atonalospreys credentials and qualifications for participating in an
undertaking such as the commission of a computer artpack are so increasingly
abundant -- now moreso than ever! -- that it would be pointless to elaborate
upon at any further length.
youtube.com/user/antonvanoosbree / instagram.com/atonalosprey
Batfeula is a skilled illustrator of whimsical pixelart on smecksy and
videogame themes.
twitter.com/batfeula
Mike Blippypixel Rose is a digital artist whose tastes veer toward the
vintage in electronic music and visuals, dabbling in low-poly 3D modeling,
LED pixelart, and teletext as well as work in the distinctive palette of the
BBC Micro.
instagram.com/blippypixel
CoaXCable of CoolPHat is a helpful sort, always happy to throw in a handful
of blocks on short notice. Wherever we have a rough spot, hes holding it
together, specialising in infofile art and demoparty participation.
Codefenix is a retrogaming and retrocomputing enthusiast, to the extent of
being SysOp of ConstructiveChaos BBS and dressing it appropriately in ANSI
art.
conchaos.synchro.net
Darkman Almighty administers the USS Excelsior BBS, and picked up a little
ANSI art along the way so as to better skin his Starbase in cyberspace most
appropriately.
excelsiorbbs.ddns.net:2000
DW of Dark Systems BBS has recently been adapting video game sprite art and
bead / cross-stitch patterns of classic and nostalgic nerdy subjects into
ANSI art versions, free for all and sundry to make use of... but is
graduating to more elaborate and interesting projects. Stay tuned!
dsbbs.ca
A genuine professional teletext illustrator two decades hence, Steve
Horsenburger Horsley has recently returned to the game for love of the
art: Its kind of frustrating to discover you are good at something only to
realise its pointless in todays world, but I just really like doing it so
I am going to carry on. We feel your pain, Steve! At his website you can
commission original teletext creations from him, so dont delay to get your
own piece of textmode art history!
horsenburger.com
Illarterate is a multimedia artist from Wigan, UK. Despite attempts to
modernise, he will forever be known as That Guy That Does Teletext Art.
But whoever said thats a bad thing?
twitter.com/illarterate / teletextart.tumblr.com
danfarrimond.co.uk / portfolio.illarterate.co.uk
Kazunari Kalcha Naito represents the tip of an iceberg we know little of
and understand still less of -- Japans Shift-JIS parallel textmode art
scene. His works are informed by his interests in 70s prog rock, jazz, and
fine art.
Part of a feral tribe of uncontacted textmode artists at the 8bitMUSH at
ANSIART.COM, LDA emerges from a family textmode art concern to grace us with
the imagery of his people.
LittleBitSpace experiments with text art, now turning it into a line art
medium, now dabbling with the use of negative space, animating it and visiting
PETSCII climes after hours.
littlebitspace.com
Melodia doesnt need an artgroup, she is an artgroup. One more case of the
parade continuing after the band stopped playing, courtesy of the bottomless
music in her head she kept on keeping on -- and indeed, has never stopped.
We are humbled by her continuing association with us, as to her, all we have
to offer is drag factor!
soundcloud.com/xennial
You wont see any of Mavriks creative work in our recent archives, but
theres a very good chance that the collection will have passed through his
graciously-offered web hosting at mistigris.org en route to you, picking up
from his historical facilitator role greasing the gears of Mists KiTSCHNet
echomail network from its home at Daemons Gate BBS.
daemonsgate.com
Minhoca2d is a Brazilian graphic designer and avid user of GlyphDrawing.Club,
organizing a o-s foundry, with fonts and modules.
instagram.com/@minhoca2d / twitch.tv/minhoca2d
A Milk Dud isnt a failed candy, but a happy accident, an inadvertent
discovery of something great. Which brings us to Pixeldud!
twitter.com/ThePixelDud / ko-fi.com/pixeldud
Mr. Polyducks, Esquire, is an artist and web game programmer living in
greater Manchester, UK. His interests are in tile-based, PETSCII and pixel
artwork using limited palettes. Often presents his bio in the third person.
pixeljoint.com/p/125346.htm / polyducks.co.uk / twitter.com/polyducks
Over the course of nearly 30 years, from his upside-down cyberspace terminal
on the far side of the planet Randers has contributed ANSI art to artpacks
from a wild and random assortment of crews, including Adfa, DiE, SHiVER who
we very nearly merged with in 1994 following our launch, Quick and
Blocktronics. Mistigris is just one more stop along his grand tour.
Rhoq is not only a creator but a veritable scholar of pixelart.
twitter.com/rhoq7
Uglifruit is the alter-ego of Andy Jenkinson. Andy is quite tall does things
with music. Andy on occasion feels the need to express himself elsewhere.
andyjenkinson.com / twitter.com/andyuglifruit
vermileonhart has been into tech since I was a little kid, Ive been
fiddling with computers all my life but my heart has always yearned for the
arts and any means of creative expression... sadly, Ive never been good at
it, or couldnt find any medium that felt fulfilling.
But one particular night it came to me... ASCII art. I remembered my dad and
I playing in his old DOS computer, writing shit into terminals and getting
drawings made with text. And it was like an epiphany: I could make art that
was in my tech realm, and it would pay homage to those old days when I was a
kid and everything was alright. So I became obsessed with it... I started
looking for anything related to ASCII art, found out about BBSs, art packs...
all of that.
And that got me here.
twitter.com/vermileonhart
From Twilight, the Legion, Avenge, Fire, Fuel and through to Blocktronics,
the Swede known as Zeus II is a one-man ANSI art industry. Also, a hell of a
cook!
twitter.com/ZeusII
MISTIGRIS DISTRIBUTION SITES:
conchaos.synchro.net
bbs.inktwo.com:23
bbs.planetcaravan.org
erb.pw/the-bbs
bbs.stormbbs.com
excelsiorbbs.ddn.net:2000
16colo.rs/group/mistigris
artpacks.org
mistigris.org
instagram.com/mistfunk
twitter.com/mistfunk
discord.gg/9R84QUN
tumblr.com/mistfunk
... and our
usual round of greetz to our colleagues at: blocktronics.org,
Lazarus, Legacy, impure.nl, Hermanas del Perro Magnetico,
NiGhTmaRe HiJaCk GuiLd, galza.org, @hirmuofficial,
paleotronic.com, soundcloud.com/bitcouver,
vanchipmusic.ca, ArakNet and TABNet!