ALT Mistigram: this ominous grey banner image of some magical urban catastrophe was made by Dracomage for us to use as a website header in the late ‘90s, just in time for us to be basically killed by the web, kicking the bucket in 1998 and being very dead until flowers started growing on our grave in 2014. At which point we relaunched a website and finally got a chance to put this image to…
ALT Mistigram: four years ago, PixelDud had a month of #textmode art exploration, where he drew a screen daily for thirty days. This slice of isometric landscape excavation, “The Pit”, a little dig in preparation for The Big Dig, is one such specimen of the outsider #ANSIart that resulted, released in the MIST0822 artpack collection.
ALT Mistigram: cowabunga and hang ten, @kurogao96 is here to remind us just how much fun you can have with #asciiart and #emoji. This gnarly #surfing scene was included in the unthemed MIST0823 artpack collection released three years ago🤙
ALT Mistigram: How did Neosmurf do it? Was it just a matter of clicking some radio buttons in Kai’s Power Goo? (The history of artscene hirez suggests: Very Possibly!) In any event, this promo for wat0r’s Echo crew was included in the MIST0897 artpack collection released 29 years ago this month.
ALT Mistigram: This blue #ANSIart logo for #BlackApple was drawn by Rage, SysOp of Neosporin BBS, and included in the MIST0896 artpack collection released 30 years ago this month.
ALT Mistigram: this wriggly monochrome newschool #ASCIIart logo reading ‘Ill Bred’ was drawn by Jive and included in the MIST0897 artpack collection released 29 years ago this month.
ALT Mistigram: murder in progress? This #teletext illustration of a small group of crows going about their black business was drawn by Jellica Jake and included in the MIST0820 artpack collection released six years ago this month.
ALT Mistigram: our #ASCIIart colleague Mozz has just dropped a solo artpack, MOZZ-01, entirely consisting of colour studies from nature (mostly of flowers.) Here’s its FILE_ID! Enjoy browsing it over the web right now courtesy of the @16colors gallery!
ALT Mistigram: this #ANSIart screen by @codefenix_cc has been patiently waiting a very long time for us to get around to releasing our next video games-themed artpack, but other themes somehow keep getting in the way. In the meantime, however, #Metroid turns 40 today, so we can’t not share this portrait of #Samus in the #ZeroSuit! The galaxy is at peace.
ALT Mistigram: this moody, ominous #asciiart glyph, “Hexed”, was drawn by @vermileonhart and included in the MIST0822 artpack collection released four years ago this month.
ALT Mistirgam: our unthemed MIST0823 artpack collection, released three years ago this month, was assembled in the immediate wake of the death of #PaulReubens aka #PeeWeeHerman, and we scrambled to cobble together a small tribute to his #PeeWeesPlayhouse oeuvre. Cthulu dashed off this super smallscale #ANSIart rendition of #Jambi the genie (RIP #JohnParagon also!) turning his wish-endowing chant…
ALT Mistigram: this meditative #pixelart landscape, “Evening River”, was drawn by Pixel Art For The Heart and included in the MIST0819 artpack collection released seven years ago this month.
ALT Mistigram: @blippypixel contemplated painting his #graffiti tag on a supermarket when its parking lot was filled with uncollected trash during the Covid shutdown. (To play it safe, he just drew it in #teletext.) This screen was included in the MIST0820 artpack released six years ago.
ALT Mistigram: @zeusii drew this #ANSIart logoff screen, adapting Bizonacci’s #DumpIt crypto memes featuring the distinctive likeness of #IgorBogdanoff, for Monero BBS. It was included in the MIST0822 artpack collection released four years ago this month.
ALT Mistigram: June is usually #Pride month, but in area code 604 it’s August and celebrations are in full force right now. This #teletext screen by @atonalosprey, ‘Bright Idea’, conveys the experience. This piece was included in the MIST0823 artpack released three years ago this month.
ALT Mistigram: this ripe #ANSIart logo, falling out of the tree right into your hand, was drawn by Sarcasm in promotion of Wishbringer’s BBS Juice. It was included in the MIST0797 artpack collection released 29 years ago this month.
ALT Mistigram: this charming #emoji-based #ASCIIart suite of vignettes imagining how nice it would be to own various kinds of domestic pets is the unmistakable handiwork of Kurogao. They were included in the unthemed MIST0721 artpack collection released five years ago this month.
ALT Mistigram: this menacing #CGA-palette psychic furry #ANSIart mob scene (say that three times fast!) was drawn over a six hour peiod by The Green Herring in a Twitch stream (after which, maybe their hand was glowing magenta also!), and was included in the recent science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.
ALT Mistigram: in a tremendous demonstration of the cyclical nature of time, this #BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen of a gaze out the studio window, titled “Tuesday afternoon”, is being shared today on a Tuesday afternoon. It was made by @blippypixel and originally included in the MIST0721 artpack collection released five years ago this month.
ALT Mistigram: five years ago @polyducks Tweeted this proof-of-concept game layout, using fixed-width emoji as sprites for an unmade game where a mouse seeks cheese and avoids hazards while seeking the exit from a maze. This piece was included in the MIST0721 artpack collection.