Mistigram: @n1tr0n613.bsky.social , who graciously put together the spooky new MIST1025 artpack collection in my stead, drew for it this #ANSIart portrait of Sesame Street's #CountVonCount, a promo for 16colo.rs (16! 16 colors! Ah ah ah ah!) ...

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Mistigram: this #teletext portrait of the late #TonyTodd as #Candyman was drawn by @horsenburger.bsky.social and included in the spooky new MIST1025 artpack collection.

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

Mistigram: @2stoned.bsky.social kindly carved us a ##jackolantern with his unfortunately stained machete. (That rust just won't come out!) This ##ANSIart piece was used as an infofile header in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection released two years ago.

Mistigram: if you like getting all dressed up for pagan rites, why not rock this ##Samhain headdress? This ##monochrome ##teletext illustration was drawn by @atonalosprey and included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection.

Mistigram: a synthesis of ##ANSIart and ##ASCIIart, all you need to know about this ##skull is that it's all scream. It was drawn as a creepy guest appearance by our main liaison with the new @0xpizzatoe.bsky.social computer art community, Jackey, and was included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack

Mistigram: hats off to Nail and Tainted of @firegraphics.bsky.social for taking home first place in this weekend's Blender improvised computer art compo with this ##ANSIart screen of ##SKELETOR / PERFORMING SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS / in a TEMPLE. Hearty congratulations to them!

Later in 2015, I would teamed up with Whazzit to make another ANSI animation using similar parallax techniques. We called it "Under the Sea," with a mermaid swimming through the ocean. It was released in Mistigris' 21st anniversary artpack. More: breakintochat.com/blog/2015/10...

Ten years ago, I made my first parallax-scrolling ANSI art animation. Today I cleaned it up, made it smoother and added titles and credits. The original was a user-controllable tech demo I made for my late daughter Jadzia on our BBS, "Guardian of Forever." #bbs #ansiart #textmode #retrocomputing

PI-AB3.ANS, 1995-09-03 from The Unsorted BBS Collection (other)

idea: Turbo-C-style initials

The Blender improvised computer art compo is on this weekend, for the next 24 hours (minus six minutes) we are challenging artists (and not AIs) to cook up art involving SKELETOR / PERFORMING SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS / IN A TEMPLE. deadline countdown at lazarusblocks.com/blender/

karnov the animated series. karnov the toy line. karnov the animated series: alpha squad. karnov myst-like. karnov inspirational posters. karnov cereal. karnov movie. karnov movie tie-in yogurt.

Good morning 😊 Yes, Sir Clive hated that the Spectrum was popular because of the games and a C5 could never go this fast, but I had a lot of fun making this tribute to Sir Clive Sinclair ZX Spectrum 👍 Animation made in Blender, sountrack made in Studio one #zxspectrum #retrogaming #8bitgaming

#computer #tractor_feed #trypophobia

Mistigram: VileR taps MS-DOS video games to celebrate annual updates to the ##TotalDOSCollection. Here he shows ##DayOfTheTentacle's ##DoctorFred cooking up some software, mad science-style. This excerpt of a larger ##ANSIart scroller was included in the spooky new MIST1025 artpack.

Mistigram: this ##teletext portrait of ##Bob the Shrinker (##shrunkenhead person) from last year's ##BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice was drawn by @horsenburger.bsky.social and included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection.

Mistigram: Originally intended as vegetarian menu art for the IMBIBE01 food-themed e-mag, Cthulu adapted the poster to the 1978 B-movie ##AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes to ##ANSIart with help from LDA and Moth. It was included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack released one year ago.

Mistigram: this ##PETSCII portrait of ##HPLovecraft's preeminent Great Old One, ##Cthulhu (who in his house at R'lyeh waits dreaming) was drawn by bnjmnbrgmn aka Bema. It was included in the spooky MIST1021 artpack collection released four years ago.

Mistigram: this witchy ##ANSIart cutie, surrounded by tiny details (the bats traversing the full moon, the flaming jack 'o lantern in her hand!) was drawn by Momo of the @0xpizzatoe.bsky.social computer art crew as a guest appearance in last year's spooky MIST1024 artpack collection.

Mistigram: this ##PETSCII illustration by @littlebitspace.bsky.social, 'The Last Gambit', presents an existential scene, all of us kings in our games of ##chess, all doomed to ##checkmate. This piece was included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection released one year ago

Mistigram: What do you get for someone whose birthday is on Halloween? This @illarterate.bsky.social screen, 'Ghost in a Box', placed 2nd in the @flashparty ##teletext compo two years ago and was included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection also released two years ago.

Mistigram: this ##ASCIIart illustration of a ##jiangshi or 'hopping vampire' of Chinese folklore, beloved of Hong Kong cinema, was a guest shot by Amy of the @Pizzatoe crew, included in last year's spooky MIST1024 artpack collection, resplendent in its Qing dynasty traditional garb

Mistigram: does Slenderman take acupuncture treatments? Where do the Cenobites play into all this? The more answers you find, the more questions are opened. This #monochrome #teletext screen was drawn by @pixelblip.bsky.social and included in the spooky new MIST1025 artpack collection.

Mistigram: on top of everything else going on, we're hosting another installment of the Blender compo this weekend, where artists combine (or blend) three assigned topics into a harmonized composition. This #ANSIart specimen, by Enzo of Glue, was drawn 26 years ago...

Mistigram: I don't know where DW of Dark Systems BBS sourced the pattern from, but he adapted it into this ##ANSIart illustration of ##Halloween killer ##MichaelMyers. This screen was included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection.

Mistigram: Remember remember... this ##teletext portrait of a man in a ##GuyFawkes mask (almost assuredly derived from ##DavidLloyd's work in ##VForVendetta) was drawn by @uglifruit and included in the MIST1121 artpack collection released four years ago this month.

Happy 5th November #bonfirenight! 🎇 #teletext

Mistigram: from the spooky new MIST1025 artpack collection, we are proud to present the boney 'Skeletext', the latest ##TrueType ##font from the @littlebitspace.bsky.social foundry.

Mistigram: this ##teletext screen by @atonalosprey adapts ##JohnTenniel's 1888 engraving 'The Nemesis of Neglect' for Punch magazine, 'making a clear connection between poverty and crime' in the era of ##JackTheRipper. It was included in the MIST1024 artpack released one year ago.

Mistigram: this illustration of ##Charon paddling across the river ##Styx was drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social and won 5th place in the ##PETSCII compo at @flashparty.ar two years ago. It was included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection released two years ago last month.

Our founder Cthulu, holder of the mistfunk social media keys, recently took a three week family vacation through the end of October. He diligently wrote spooky posts up through Halloween but was only able to schedule them on Facebook/Instagram. So apologies for the little catch-up spree here!

Mistigram: this iconic moment from the 1987 vampire movie ##TheLostBoys, where the gang dangled dangerously from the underside of a bridge, was drawn entirely in ##monochrome ##silhouette by @horsenburger.bsky.social. This ##teletext screen was included in last year's spooky MIST1024 artpack.

Mistigram: ok, so this incredibly gory ##ANSIart screen by @mavenmob may not be especially seasonal, but it sure is horrific! It was included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection released two years ago last month.

The 1977 Coleco Telstar Arcade answered the question, "What if a game console looked like a Wild West take on the TARDIS console?"

Halloween!

Mistigram: This ##teletext screen skullifying the 19th ##Tarot card of the Major Arcana was drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social as an entry for the Summer of Teletext 2023 Summer Postcard compo. It was also included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack released one year ago this month.

Mistigram: What if, in the afterlife, you are not made whole before being given eternal life? This thought-provoking skeletal ##ASCIIart illustration by Vermileonhart was included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection.

Mistigram: this ##monochrome ##teletext screen depicts a human ##skull from such an angle that you can observe detail both on its side and its front -- including a host of well-defined teeth! It was drawn by @atonalosprey and included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection.

Mistigram: Cthulu always finds himself gravitating to ##TheSimpsons ##TreehouseOfHorror vignettes when ##Halloween rolls around, and adapted this scene from 1990's ##HungryAreTheDamned to ##ANSIart for the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection.

Mistigram: this stomach-churning ##teletext portrait of half-human/half-mutant ##SemiColin (or ##BeastyBoyd) from the 9th set of ##GarbagePailKids trading cards was drawn by @horsenburger.bsky.social and included in the spooky MIST1021 artpack collection released four years ago this month.

Mistigram: with a novel approach, this ##PETSCII (yet another) ##skull is formed entirely of diagonal strokes from commas, apostrophes, slashes & shaded blocks. This piece, drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social, was included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection released three years ago.

Mistigram: This chilling ##ANSIart moment of ##MoeSzyslak joining his jar of pickled eggs comes from 2001's ##TheSimpsons ##TreehouseOfHorror vignette Hex and the City (S13E1) and was drawn by Cthulu with help from Zeus II and LDA. It was included in the spooky new MIST1025 artpack.

Levitate #halloween

Did you know that they have teletext in the underworld? Here's a random page about fire magic! #teletext

Perfected! (Ignoring the extra hole I had to plug at 8 o’clock).

Do wizards place in a halloween themed art pack? @mistfunk.bsky.social asked, I said heck yes, so now they do. Check out the new spooky Mistigris! 16colo.rs/pack/mist1025

Mistigram: and what modern Mistigris artpack would be complete without some ##teletext? Here are some appropriately creepy specimens included in the spooky new MIST1025 collection.

Mistigram: we've run the numbers... you can't have an artpack without ##ANSIart, sad but true, and so the spooky new MIST1025 collection contains a bunch of it. Here's a sampling of it, on many different topics and in many varied styles!