Ü ß²Ýß Ü ß Ü ßÝÜÜ ßß²° ÞÛÜ° ܲÛ °²Ý Ýßß²ÛÜÜ ÞÞßÛÞÛÞÛ ±ßÛÜ Ýþ ÞÝßß²² ÞÞ ÞÛÝÞÛ ² ßÛ²Ü ÞÝ°° Þ Þß ÞÛ ÛÜÛß ÝßÛÞÝn! ° Þ °ÞÞ ßÞÜÞÛ²° Ý ÞÛ² Þ ± ß ²ÞÞ ²ÜÜÛ ßÜ ÝÜß ÛÜß ² ßßßßß °ßßßß ß  ß ßß Greetings, Mistigris friends and fans, and welcome to yet another monthly artpack release from the 604 (... and all over!) Would it be gauche for us to continue tabulating how many consecutive monthly artpacks we'd now managed to produce in a row? (Yes, it would be. And it's 10, T-E-N. Double-digits territory here, folks!) Would you look at that up there. Isn't it glorious? And a return to form! Our classic colleague Nail got us off on the right foot providing FILE_ID.DIZ logos and other, supplementary infofile artwork for MIST1016 and MIST1116... the first steps on our increasingly crazy journey of monthly artpack releases ... and here he is again providing us the materials we need to make an artpack happen. (I know, you foolishly thought that all that was required was a pile of art, but as it turns out all that gets you is an art /pile/.) After MIST0617 we had a long and substantial conversation about some artscene conventions we are upholding and others we are flouting, and how we could better serve both our audience and our contributors. Inertia has kept us from doing much to act on these suggestions in a timely fashion, but in the longer term it will probably serve us well to inject a little "why?" into the "what!" (?!) of what we're doing. I guess we'll find out! But until then, there's the contents of this artpack for you to enjoy! It's the usual -- mostly teletext from our burgeoning stable of affiliated artists, plus the usual mix of drawings, paintings, Tweet-poems, architectural photos, textiles and accordion EDM remixes. You'll find no deliberately curated overarching themes here, but certain topics do regardless find themselves somehow engaged more than once across its contents -- for example, we play host to two pieces from David Lynch's Dune, two different renditions of A.L.F. -- what are the odds? (Hey! I resemble that remark!) and, of course, two teletext portraits of the breakout candidate in the recent UK election, Lord Buckethead. In addition to the usual peanut gallery I've somehow managed to assemble, in this month's installment we welcome two eminently worthwhile artists to the fold -- conceal anything shiny you're wearing and please join me in greeting Queen of Crows, who I've long sought to join our ranks but who was only able to finally make the time to join us here courtesy of an effortless iPhone glitch, and Aur‚lien "Wasabim" Vaillant, celebrating the game catalogue of the Atari ST! Both are consummate practitioners of "computer art" who could not be more different from each other in their standard creative practice. The common denominator? Mistigris! Vive la difference! While Mistigris itself isn't the main focus of anyone here (ahem, present company excepted!) a number of members of our creative community have interesting goings-on that would be of interest to fans of their work here. Illarterate's relentless campaign for world teletext domination continues apace, his scope having expanded from the global to the galactic with his SETI (Search for Extra-Teletextual Intelligence) workshops of puzzle creation, world design and ... an escape room? ... continuing apace at Wigan STEAM through July, August and September. Check teletextart.co.uk for full details! It would really be unrepresentative of modern Mistigris to include only one teletext-related announcement in our newsletter, so you also need to know that Horsenburger not only won teletext best in show (er, as if there was ever any doubt!) at the recent Nova 17 UK demoparty for his fabulous new unprecedentedly-long teletext piece (here included under the name Teletex Tor) ... his work also appeared there in the gold-winning (Oldschool category) Bitshifters "TeletextR" demo for the BBC micro! (Not to be confused with the individual TeletextR, also represented here in this artpack. Confusing, I know, but all eminently worthwhile.) In conclusion: hats off, gang!  Teletext is having its moment and we need not be weighed against the artscene ANSI art standard! (But if weigh you must, please direct your attention to our presentation of a rare annual VileR DOS Collection promotion! 8) Some of our visual artists are involved in exhibitions -- for instance, the Mythical Man will be participating (among quite a few other artists who haven't yet managed to wind up in Mist packs due to no fault of their own) in the 4th annual Back Alley Artists night July 8-9 at CBC Studio 700. Also exhibiting -- right now! -- until October 15, you can find Lord Nikon's typewriter art, such as you might have been blown away by back in MIST1116, in the backroom at the Esche Museum of industrial mechanisms in Limbach-Oberfrohna, Germany. (Granted, I understand that not many of you out there will be attending both of these functions.) You can find out more about it from an article I translated and posted on the mistfunk Tumblr as a complementary service for our greater creative community. The Vancouver Chipmusic Society (with whom, remember, we are not officially affiliated, but which seems to be helmed by longtime Mist Classic stalwart bryface) has another installment of their "Overflow" music series coming up locally -- August 30th, so you have a little time to plan to attend at the Fox Cabaret. On tap you can expect Mega Ran with Sammus, Together We Are Robots, Freaky DNA, our own Unicode (granted, you only heard him in MIST1015, but I'm reasonably confident we're responsible for this bit of matchmaking, so we try to take credit where we can 8), and visuals by Vectrola and Alterus. It'll be real, yo! Aaaand... do I really need to break 100 lines to make this a legitimate infofile? ... The votes are in. We have consensus, no, no I do not have to break 100 lines. So that's a wrap!  Please enjoy this artpack, and see you all again in August! (Adds the logo up top, exceeds 100 lines. Oh well!)  Cthulu / Mistigris founder, June 29, 2017 "Mistigris 2017: The common denominator!"