.-'( )'-..-'( )'-..-'( )'-..-'( )'-..-'( )'-. ,'/)(_m_)(\`. ,' (_i_) `. ,'_/(_s_)\_`. ,'/)(_t_)(\`. ,' (_!_) `. |( _ (_) _ )| | ,-,(_),-, | | ,-,(_),-, | |( _ (_) _ )| | ,-,(_),-, | |(qb) (pd)| |(>o<) (>o<)| |(\O/) (\O/)| |(>o<) (>o<)| |(qb) (pd)| \ '-'/"\'-' / \ '-'/"\'-' / \ '-'/"\'-' / \ '-'/"\'-' / \ '-'/"\'-' / `-,,-'`-''-'`;,_ _,;'`-,,-'`-''-' \ HHHHH /\-#####-/\-HHHHH-/\-HHnHn-/\ ##### / '-----''-----''-----''-----''-----' DiadelosMuertosldb MIST1018 artpack contributors: 8bit_poet comes by his small-scale pixelart virtuosity by genuinely oldschool means, in a former life (the late '90s) designing Macintosh program icons as Doc Halpern of Mad Science Laboratories. He is a co-founder of the Dead Pixel Society. instagram.com/8bit_poet / thedeadpixelsociety.net -- 192.168.10.13 occupies a rarefied echelon of glitch production, like a tree that drops apparently effortless scrambled fruit at peak ripeness. Also along for the ride, a handful of their explicitly dark works shared through the alter ego of The Pixelmancer. 1013.wtf -- apam is the author of the Magicka BBS software and a bunch of open-source BBS doors, and if he has to draw the ANSI art himself to sell you on them, he's game. github.com/apamment / magickabbs.com -- Artist, gamer, scientist... not necessarily in that order, Bhaal_Spawn is principally a graphite pencil artist, drawing for employers and smaller clients, but outside of the day job, has a love of science, sci-fi, fantasy and computer games. When relaxing, like most people they want to avoid work, but... still have a love of art. As for the particular mechanics of the #gamerhaikus series: "I write the haiku as a note, then take a screen shot, turning it into a picture. I crop it. Then you can draw on the picture with the markup tool in the iPhone pictures app! You get about 8 colours and 3 pen sizes and poke away... " etsy.com/uk/shop/YavinPaints / twitter.com/Bhaal_Spawn -- Brad "Bonemouse" Morris has clearly kept his pen sharp in the many long years since contributing to Dream Factory and Cthulu's high school newspaper, as he demonstrates with this reel of incredible #inktober b-sides. instagram.com/bonemouse -- After setting Twitter on fire with their procedurally generated @PETSCIIbots, we accidentally cast the gauntlet to follow it up with Facemaker PETSCII Jack- 'o-lanterns. I don't know if that algorithm has yet been perfected, but Cal Skuthorpe managed to generate at least a page full of winners for your enjoyment! twitter.com/buzz_clik / petscii.tumblr.com -- Cat "Catbones" Spenser was making canvases of bodies well before setting ACiD on fire, synthesizing lowbrow tattoo flash with Photoshop's ability to scan natural textures and simulate an airbrush. Then, the scene settling into dormancy, he resumed his quiet craft with the needle (and occasional animated Android wallpaper.) bloodbrothersink.com/mobile/cat_gallery.html / www.deviantart.com/catbones -- Periodically we enounter someone who is not only a specialist in a given medium,medium, but who also focuses on a specific theme to the exclusion of all others. Chuppixel is the world's preeminent Tiny Towers-style pixelart movie cast group shot specialist.  instagram.com/chuppixel_ / chuppixel.tumblr.com -- A genuine professional teletext illustrator two decades hence, Steve "Horsenburger" Horsley has recently returned to the game for love of the art: "It's kind of frustrating to discover you are good at something only to realise it's pointless in today's world, but I just really like doing it so I am going to carry on." We feel your pain, Steve! At his website you can commission original teletext creations from him, so don't delay to get your own piece of textmode art history! horsenburger.com -- Wolf spirit Involtino draws pixelart on a 100x100 scale when not studying architecture in Genoa. instagram.com/involtinopixel -- Kazunari "Kalcha" Naito represents the tip of an iceberg we know little of and understand still less of -- Japan's Shift_JIS parallel textmode art scene. His works are informed by his interests in '70s prog rock, jazz, and fine art. -- Lego_Colin uses a plethora of programs to prepare images for physical incarnation in the ultimate pixelart composition: assembled using Lego bricks. instagram.com/lego48x48 -- Part of a feral tribe of uncontacted textmode artists at the 8bitMUSH at ANSIART.COM, LDA returns from a family pixel art concern to grace us once again with the imagery of his people. -- ldb (Laura Brown) is a rare bird, perhaps the last practitioner standing of good old UseNet-style ASCII art, with a masterful command over economy of slashes, parentheses and asterisks. asciiartist.com -- It was quite intimidating to approach Toren "MacBin" Atkinson with a misspelled Lovecraftian nickname, as he fronts the world's greatest tribute band to that particular brand of eldritch cosmic horror -- The Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets. thickets.net / torenatkinson.com / patreon.com/torenatkinson -- Manuel Vio fell in love with Commodore computers when he was 8... 36 years ago... and tries to keep the same wonder and passion from when he was a kid, starting to grasp the fundamentals of coding. His modern graphite portrait practice must have somehow influenced his PETSCII style, driving him to try to get the most out of every single character cell. The only software he uses is Petmate, a nice PETSCII editor. instagram.com/snakepetsken -- You won't see any of Mavrik's creative work in this archive, but there's a very good chance that the collection will have passed through his graciously-offered web hosting at mistigris.org en route to you, picking up from his historical facilitator role greasing the gears of Mist's KiTSCHNet echomail network from its home at Daemon's Gate BBS. daemonsgate.com -- Mentalpop is a Toronto-based pixelartist who works in collaboration with indie game development teams and streams their creation sessions for Patreon supporters. mentalpop.ca -- From his oldschool origins in Apathy to his eventual emergence as the single greatest hype man the artscene has never known at the 16 Colours ANSI of the Day mic (, to his inexplicable detour into AMiSH, perhaps the world's most well -realized in-joke), Misfit has a big-picture perspective into computer art that most new media grad students can only dream of. This guest spot has been a long time coming. instagram.com/misfit_blocktronics -- The man, the myth... Mythical Man handily satisfies both categories. Long known for his prowess on the euphonium, visual art is a relatively recent development to which he has applied himself ardently. euphoniousmyth.tumblr.com / instagram.com/the_mythical_man -- Onyx (previously NinjaDude, subseqently Obsidian Zero) was in a previous life one of area code 604's three '90s tracker music compulsives, dropping tunes as effortlessly as a tree sheds ripe fruit. Since then, much has changed -- perhaps most shockingly, he has switched focus to writing ebooks, but no matter... as we prove this month, we are still working our way through his backlog. www.ozero.ca -- You'll find the visual art stylings of Ordinary_Pixel at the unlikely intersection of pixel art, pop culture, and fine art, laying down colours from a simplified palette in a conspicuously painterly fashion. instagram.com/ordinary_pixel -- Lest we take our practice too seriously, Pixel_Fart is here to keep things loose and casual. instagram.com/pixel_fart -- Polyducks (Ben Jones) is an artist and web & game programmer living in greater Manchester, UK. His interests are in tile-based, PETSCII and pixel artwork using limited palettes. Often presents his bio in the third person. pixeljoint.com/p/125346.htm / polyducks.co.uk / twitter.com/polyducks -- An Amiga .MOD-tracker hero formerly of EuphoniX, having worked his way through more than a few game development studios in the meantime Redeye (at one time aka Marauder) appears in Mistigris as a cultivator of abstract themes in photography. instagram.com/redeyephoto -- Straddling the interdimensional realms of pixelart and voxelart, Brazilian game developer Scofanogd shares more of his more sedate whimsical experiments with us. instagram.com/scofanogd / scofano.com.br -- Ed "Starstew" Stastny is that rare synthesis suggested in the two-word phrase "computer artist", practicing a species of net.art at SITO continually since even prior to the establishment of Mistigris. Having mastered (and subsequently discarded) so many styles and approaches, wearing the masks of a half-dozen faux handles he could easily masquerade as an entire artgroup. (Or has he in fact been doing this... all along?) instagram.com/starstew / starstew.tumblr.com -- Stephan "Rewind" Bellin has a practice of making pixelart portraits of characters from the silver screen at their most iconic, with aspirations to include them as characters in a game taking place in a mash-up world containing all movie settings simultaneously. Following him on social media is like getting a free master class in film studies.  instagram.com/stephanrewind / twitch.com/stephanrewind -- Every time I include her in an artpack, I find myself completely rewriting Theresa Oborn's bio, as though I might somehow hew closer to the truth, like a darts player hoping to hit a bullseye. She draws and sculpts, and perhaps the work speaks for itself. theresaoborn.com -- Textmode experimenter t1po has it backwards, bringing computer art sensibilities to typewriters and typewriter sensibilities to computers. Failing to cross the streams wouldn't yield anything extraordinary, while going contrariwise both ways makes strange magic emerge from the dullest artifacts of the mundane. Nice trick! instagram.com/ty.p0 / t1po.tumblr.com --- dawdler and doodler. everyone is an artist nowadays. but Unseen Fate (aka Antti Minkkinen) is an ANSI artist. finland. iconosquare.com/minkant -- upper.case: storytelling pixelartist or pixel-illustrating storyteller? Why not both? instagram.com/upper.case -- Aurelien "Wasabim" Vaillant is a French retrogamer of the Atari ST variety who pays homage to and celebrates his beloved nostalgia by mashing up classic box and sprite art with stock photography and computer FX. If you like what he brings to the games room, please do note that he is available for projects. wasabim.com / twitter.com/wasabimgames -- From Twilight, the Legion, Avenge, Fire, Fuel and through to Blocktronics, the Swede known as Zeus II is a one-man ANSI art industry. twitter.com/Zeus_II -- MISTIGRIS DISTRIBUTION SITES: telnet://bbs.inktwo.com:23 telnet://guardian.synchro.net bbs.nz pc.textmod.es/crew/mistigris/ ? ? artpacks.org mistigris.org instagram.com/mistfunk twitter.com/mistfunk tumblr.com/mistfunk and our usual round of greetz to our colleagues at: fuel.wtf, blocktronics.org impure.nl, amish.0w.nz, galza.org, Fire Dream, Break, pungas.space, paleotronic.com, soundcloud.com/bitcouver, vanchipmusic.ca, and TABNet! Cheers to all fellow participants in @judebuffumpixels' #Blocktober2018 challenge!  /| __/_|_))( ,--''--.  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