Ive killed it.
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Merry Christmas! Heres a weird celebration of the season from us here at
Mistigris, nothing less than you might reasonably expect, mainly consisting of
a couple dozen artworks we just released a month ago in the ADVENT23 executable
reprinted in artpack format for the benefit of those who might have had
reservations taking a gamble at running an unsigned application -- even an
MS-DOS one in a JS-DOS DOSbox sandbox ... even though the cunning Advent
calendar program refused to show you the artwork of future dates, all of its
data was just hidden out in plain sight in its datafile, a renamed .BIN, and
would have given up its secrets in any old ANSI editor. Re-packaging them in
this way allows the artists to personally take credit for their screens and
feature them in their web gallery portfolios, and also accommodates lazy sods
who may not have been arsed to revisit the program every day to check in and
see what was new. Its all here! Nitrons entry for Dec. 4th is even
extended into a process piece including its work stages, so you can observe
just how he took a rather minimalist scene and made it more painterly over a
course of revisions.
But thats not all! We also decided to ice that cake by also making this
release the final destination for a tremendous collaborative ANSI art scroller
we jointly chipped away on for ... basically a year and a half, in fits and
starts. Thats ... well, its a lot of water under the bridge, and it actually
has its own entire infofile written all for itself, presented in a third major
revision at the bottom of this infofile. We were looking at making it an
artpack all to itself, scheduled for release at the very end of last month, but
late in the game we had a change of heart and bundled it in here instead.
Then we made a very Mistigris move and took two releases that were both each
essentially 100 ANSI art, and packaged them up with a bakers dozen of
specimens of other worthwhile computer art on seasonal themes, mostly made in
other mediums, notably teletext and computer music. We couldnt not do it
that way, its just who we are. We hope everyone will be understanding.
Thanks to P1nky, who appeared for the first time in a Mistigris release
indeed, in an artpack of any kind in ADVENT23 and who we were only able to
acknowledge in that way here thanks also to Mozz for making their artpack
debut here in this collection. And, as we note below, his logo appearing at
the end of the big scroller also marks we believe the first official Mistigris
appearance of Savage. Thanks for bringing us on home!
Now the stagehands rotate all the props and scenery and get ready for the giant
scrollers chapter of the infofile, featuring its own apt but ultimately unused
DIZ iconography, as displayed below:
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This artpacks long scroller was first envisaged as an experiment, like Willy
Wonkas Three Course Dinner Chewing Gum, of integrating everything that might
go into an artpack -- art, info, DIZ -- into one single massive megafile, like
the Amiga ASCII art scene does with its collies. And that pill worked out OK
for Violet Beauregarde in the end, right? Us here at Mistigris have long been
preoccupied with questions of alternate ways of distributing underground
computer art other than the artpack in its traditional shape and size. We
just discussed that at some length in the infofile of MIST1121 and ADVENT23
reaffirmed it shortly thereafter! In the end, after a tortuous journey weve
released 14 artpacks since digging this ones first ceremonial scoops with the
golden ANSI shovel just over a year and a half ago, we listened to the art and
it told us just to let it do its thing and keep all the commentary to the
regular channels. So: hi! Heres the usual chatter, in the usual place. In
the sense of challenging the conventional artpack in which it was originally
proposed, this piece is a failure -- but an interesting failure, the kind of
failure we could continue having on a regular basis and wouldnt be very upset
about!
Just after wed finished releasing the cat-themed MIST0322 artpack collection,
Cthulu cleared out the networked Moebius server that LDA administers on behalf
of Mistigris rabioli.ca / pw: mistifunk with a curious vision for the
thematic content of this joint:
Next Pack Theme: draw what you will, but
Cthulu has a nutty dream of turning a Very Tall
collaborative ANSI scroller into a core sample of
all the wild things you might find digging a hole
to the center of the earth. or... to China?
eg. Ruins, Dinosaur Fossils, cursed crypts, blind newts in
subterranean rivers rushing through caverns, subway trains,
mole men lairs,
the nine layers of Hell, etc. etc.
making a single-file-artpack incorporating and interweaving
contributions from all kinds of everyone on that general theme
could start high up with birds in a blue sky above a drill rig or derrick, then
down to ground level, maybe warning signs posted about the construction below..
the neat thing is that we can insert segments as needed between different
strata
I love this nutty dream /ZII
And we were off!
...a wild robot appeared!...
...can I participate, please? pretty please?
AFFIRMATIVE, ROBOT
FRIEND. YOU MAY JOIN
US!!!!!!!10101001
LDA 0A
Theres a weird perception that because we dont make it our primary and sole
focus, Mistigris doesnt care about ANSI art, but we hope that with this piece
we can go some distance toward officially challenging that narrative. Weve
had some fun with Textmode Friends joints in recent years, but I dont think
that weve worked together on anything texty this sprawling since the Mistfunk
ASCII joint in our 3rd anniversary in 1997... so its nice to finally get
around to having some fun in a taller format, since Blocktronics blazed that
trail a decade ago.
As usual, huge thanks and congratulations are owed to the contributors to this
work I initially wrote this big weird experiment but were Mistigris, much
is already implied: hats off to the master engineers Zeus II and LDA, and the
subtler but critical contributions of Zylone, recent Blender 2023b champion
Teleko, Polyducks, cccfire, Pixeldud, Odd, ANSI titan Savage ... and even
Cthulu inflicted a few unavoidable blocks on us! Did we miss anyone else?
This is why we encourage you to sign your work on the networked Moebius
server!!!
A special acknowledgement is due to to Teleko for making his debut Mistigris
artpack appearance here with a beauty of a sinister necrotic foot, like
something in a Yukon bartenders mixer cabinet, just prior to determining that
the artscene was a little extra and that he needed to beat a hasty retreat
before getting sucked in. I cant really contest his premises I just have to
take his word for it that the conclusion he drew from them was the correct one
for him. We all hope that we see him back someday! We also fire the confetti
gun for Savage, making his first official guest appearance in a Mistigris
artpack with a wild logo ... watching Mistigris make a giant scroller while
hearing crickets out of Blocktronics must have made him wonder if hed somehow
taken a detour into Bizarro-world. In a nutshell: Bizarro-world is absolutely
our domain! US AM VERY SAD TO HAVE YOU HERE.
Weve got more computer art coming up for you, and in 2024 we hope to make good
on the promise threat? Ive been making you all year, of hitting you with
some ANSI art you can hear. ?!@ Also on Jan 20-21st, well be hosting
another Blender improvised computer art compo, so dont miss out!
This concludes our missive this time around. Go give the big dig another once-
over, its rather extraordinary by anyones standards!