Mistigram: this ##teletext portrait of ##IanMcKellan as ##Gandalf the Grey in Peter Jackson's 2001 film adaptation of JRR Tolkien's the ##FellowshipOfTheRing was drawn by @atonalosprey.bsky.social and included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

Fluted fruit-bearer, hush Into allycholly Fathoms, flush Fluted fruit-bearer, hush Drifting bare, with a pomegranate-blush Refulgent with a folly Fluted fruit-bearer, hush Into allycholly. #triolet #poem #poetry

A game development contest is being held where the games must fit within 1.44MB, the size of a floppy disk! In an age where games are horribly bloated in terms of storage requirements I think this is an awesome idea (¯▿¯)

Mistigram: this #ANSIart adaptation of the cover to scientist #SteveGrand's 2003 DIY domestic android manual #GrowingUpWithLucy was drawn by Moth and included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

Mistigram: a regretful reprint from our back stacks, rest in power to jazz titan #SonnyRollins, whose 1957 album #SaxophoneColossus was here celebrated in #ShiftJIS by @kalchano in the music-themed MIST0118 artpack collection eight years ago.

"Beaver, transformed in two directions" by Leslie Mesei, 1967. From the book Computer Graphics, Computer Art

Mistigram: Atonalosprey was so preoccupied with whether or not he could render #ChipKidd's iconic cover art design to Michael Crichton's 1990 bestseller #JurassicPark as #teletext #ASCIIart, he didn't stop to think if he should. This screen was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack.

I know, I know, I have some kind of severe ascii fluid sim addiction but I'm trying to build the once-and-for-all version and god damn this shit lookin good.

Mistigram: Cthulu attempted to depict the heavens and the earth using only 80 columns, adapting the cover to ##DAulaires 1962 Book of Greek Myths to ##ANSIart. This depiction of ##Helios' solar chariot was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

Mistigram: in this scene from ##ReturnOfTheKing, ##Gandalf the White surveys siege towers approaching Minas Tirith, Mordor smouldering in the distance. This ##BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen was drawn by @pixelblip.bsky.social & included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack.

After Dark 2.0: Flying Toasters

Mistigram: a guest apperance by @warpus.bsky.social of Lazarus, this #ANSIart entry in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection is a Polish historical atlas, clearly frequently-consulted judging by the wear patterns on its cover.

Hello Bluesky! It's been a little while since I've made my account but allow me to finally introduce myself. My name is The War on Christmas (not giving you all my real name), and I'm an artist with a passion for textmode! (1/2)

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Mistigram: trotting an old joke around the track, in last month's new books-themed MIST0426 artpack Cthulu made a batch file DOSbox adaptation of George Nachman's #RichardCory Interactive Adventure from 1998, a joke about #EdwinArlingtonRobinson's 1897 poem from over a hundred years earlier.

Mistigram: this #ANSIart adaptation of the cover art to #KurtCyrus' 2001 illustrated children's book #OddhopperOpera, a riot of bugs and creepy crawlers, was drawn by Moth and LDA, and was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

Tiny caged amongus...

Mistigram: Literature! Now that I've got your attention, this monochrome ##teletext adaptation of a cover art illustration to Japanese author ##HarukiMurakami's 1999 novel ##SputnikSweetheart was drawn by @atonalosprey.bsky.social and included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack.

Virtua Hamster is one of SEGA's more unusual lost projects. Think S.T.U.N Runner with rodents. Nearly finished on 32X, but cancelled before release, with a Saturn version never even started.

BOOB 2: Hell on Tits

It us!

https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/hellfury/?file=HELLFURY.ZZT&board=0 “Hell's Fury” by The Green Herring (2021) [HELLFURY.ZZT] - “Hell's Fury (by The Green Herring)” {🔫: 0} https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/hellfury/

Mistigram: Completing our Beat set - 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked', but Cthulu couldn't draw that in ##ANSIart, instead adapting ##Howl's 1956 cover design. This was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack.

Mistigram: from one celebrated '50s typewritten manuscript to another, today we look at Cthulu's attempt to adapt ##BillEnglish's abstract cover art illustration to ##JackKerouac's influential 1957 Beat novel ##OnTheRoad. This screen was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack.

Mistigram: yesterday we shared a typewriter, and now progress to ##WilliamSBurroughs' 1959 ##NakedLunch. The cover art of this 1992 Grove Press edition issued in the wake of its 1991 film, adapted to ##ANSIart by Cthulu, was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

Mistigram: Many a great novel has been written on a typewriter (and also, once in a while, an #emoticon #smilie.) This animated #ASCIIart #typewriter was drawn by Joninscii, and it was included in last month's literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

alley cat, 2025 🐱💾 #floppydiskart #cats

PC Paint 3.1 Three Borg cubes assaulting the Death Star, true to scale Circa mid 90s, artist unknown

Mistigram: Cthulu has (with great difficulty) adapted to #ANSIart Bob Barner's doodly cover artwork to #DavidHAhl's seminal 101 #BASIC Computer Games, a 1973 volume of fun #typein code listings published by the Digital Equipment Corporation.

Mistigram: this #teletext illustration, drawn by Atonalosprey, adapts a scene from #PaulGoble's award-winning 1978 children's book #TheGirlWhoLovedWildHorses. This screen was included in last month's new books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding

Mistigram: #PeterFHamilton's 2004 SF novel #PandorasStar, kicking off his #CommonwealthSaga, tells us of the creation of the powerful #MorningStarMountain hivemind here. This #ANSIart piece was drawn by @zeusii.bsky.social for last month's new literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

Mistigram: after seeing an intriguing scan of this early text art illustration from #WillardSBain's 1967 #InformedSources: Day East Received, Cthulu was moved to manually reproduce it as #ASCIIart and included it in last month's new literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

Mistigram: for last month's new books-themed MIST0426 artpack, Moth decided to celebrate #JamesGleick's 1987 book #ChaosMakingANewScience, a key volume in the popularization of #chaostheory, requiring the manual #ANSIart illustration of #fractal imagery on its cover, on which LDA helped out.

It's no mouse, but cats do have a certain affinity for chasing dots of light also.

Mistigram: this #ASCIIart adaptation of cover art to #BeatrixPotter's 1901 children's book #TheTaleOfPeterRabbit was drawn by @ascii.mozz.us and included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

Mistigram: looking for representation from the non-fiction field for last month's new literary MIST0426 artpack collection, Cthulu opted to make an #ANSIart adaptation of the maze-like cover art to #NickMontfort's 2005 history of the #textadventure computer game genre, #TwistyLittlePassages.

st format, magazine, excerpts (1991) archive.org/details/atar...

Mistigram: this typographical setting of an excerpt from #WilliamButlerYeats' 1919 poem #TheSecondComing was made in #teletext by TeletextR and included in last month's new, literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

Mistigram: back in 2022 Tapio drew this #ANSIart (ish) illustration of the scene in J.R.R. Tolkien's #FellowshipOfTheRing where #Gandalf faces off against the #Balrog in the Mines of Moria. We shared it in last month's new books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

I made a page for my HTML template on my Neocities site. Featuring a gif that had been sat in a folder collecting dust for ages. polyducks.neocities.org/shrines/indi... #indieweb #HTML #art

RIP Sam Kieth!

Mistigram: This ##teletext portrait of ##AlecGuinness as ##ObiWanKenobi was drawn by @horsenburger.bsky.social and included in the science fiction-themed MIST0523 artpack collection released three years ago. ##MayThe4thBeWithYou

Mistigram: this animated ##BBCMicro highres screen of ##Yoda levitating Luke's ##XWing out of the swamp in the ##EmpireStrikesBack was drawn by @pixelblip.bsky.social & included in the science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection released two years ago. ##MayThe4thBeWithYou

Mistigram: this ##ANSIart portrait of ##RogueOne and ##Andor's ##K2SO was drawn by @zeusii.bsky.social for use as an infofile header in last year's science fiction-themed MIST0525 artpack collection. ##MayThe4thBeWithYou!

Mistigram: this ##ASCIIart interpretation of the cover art to ##MarkZDanielewski's 2000 novel ##HouseOfLeaves was drawn by Moth. This piece was included in last month's new books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

Mistigram: Cthulu's ##ANSIart adaptation of the typographical cover design to the 1999 Mariner Press edition of ##JoseSaramago's ##Blindness was included in last month's new literary MIST0426 artpack collection.

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