ÜÜÜÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÜÜ  ÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛß°  ²ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ°°ÛÛÝÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝ °ßßÛÛÛßÛÛÛÛÛÛß °ßßÜÛÛßÜÛÛÛÝ  ßß±ÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÜß ÞÛßßÜÛÛÛÜÜ°  °ßß²²²ÜÛÛßßß°ÛÛÛÛÛÛ² ßÛÛÜÛÛÛÛÛß °Ý ßÜ°ÛÛÛÛÛÛ±±Û °ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÜܲßß ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛ±±±Ý ÞÛÛ°°ÛßÛÜß Ü° ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ±±ÛÝ ÞÛÛÛÛßß °Û²Ü ÜÛÛÛÛÛÛßß±° ßÛ±±ÛÜÜÜÛÛÛÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÜÜÛÛÛß ßßßßßÛÛÛÛÛÛÛßßßßßß We turn 24 this month, which is basically generations and generations, dynasties, well over a lifetime in cyber culture, and here we are releasing artpacks every 30 days like we're 15 again (only more fervently, as we could never sustain a monthly-paced refractory period when we were kids.) From where are we siphoning this strange energy? Somewhere locked up in an attic somewhere there must be the Artpack of Dorian Gray, a stained cardboard box of Jacquard power loom punch cards whose data, when programmed into the correct piece of museum equipment, produces Jack Torrance's proverb (or perhaps random garbled line noise, never ending and never repeating) spelled out across as long a bolt of fabric as you might care to weave. But I digress. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy. All It's an uneasy place, writing an October infofile, at once well-practiced and unprecedented. I wrote substantially on the occasion three times in the '90s, because our establishment happened to coincide with this month, and now four more times in the new millennium, as we followed the occasion of our founding to lead the way for our reunion-cum-revival. For two of those years, our October artpack was our main project representing an entire year's work, so there was much to report on. But since October of 2016, we've been diligently minting a release on a monthly basis, which helps to enforce a 30-day sandbox around current affairs. I may well have more weighty pontification to share with you in the infofiles of next month's artpack, as we've been fruitfully postponing anniversary festivities to November so as to allow us to usefully focus on keeping October focused and spooky... we shall see. In the meantime, there's the standard housekeeping I can attend to in a businesslike fashion! There are a couple of new names popping up in this month's collection: "Pixelmancer" is a fake-out, a stalled attempt to compartmentalize the explicitly dark glitch compositions of 192.168.10.13 beneath a new (and considerably easier to remember) label; also, we are proud to present a piece by the engineer of Twitter's glorious @PETSCIIbots, Cal Skuthorpe, who was given the idea of following up on their procedural generation by applying similar Facemaker techniques to Jack 'o Lantern faces by eavesdropping on a little public chatter with Polyducks... great ideas are easy, anyone interested in picking them up and running with them is more than welcome to! And we've long been sitting on some spooky pixelart compositions by the irreverent Pixel_Fart: at long last their hour is finally at hand. Also in this collection, above and beyond representation from our standard rogue's gallery, we've been graced with a little material by very sporadic contributors LDA (thanks for the FILE_ID! Simple but essential!), Ordinary_Pixel and Unseen Fate, plus a substantial stash of vintage spooky stuffs from Hallowe'en specialist Macbin and and guest appearances from longtime artscene colleagues Catbones and Zeus II. Bonemouse is in full effect taking on the #drawlloween daily drawing challenges yet again, while our fresh meat Manuel Vio is undertaking @judebuffumpixels' similar #blocktober2018 spooky Instagram pixelart daily drawing prompts in full PETSCII mode. (Our membership has also been cranking out a great deal of #blocktober2018 ANSI art, but you'll have to take my word for it as it's sadly the wrong kind of scary 8) And we're pleased to share with you one piece of bonafide zombie computer art, this month's token musical offering: Onyx's "Tomb of the Equinox", a tracker- music composition composed for a Sonic Equinox demogroup context back in 1995 and never used. Well... finally used! What else is there to report? Many Misty events took place over September, as you must know from reading our last artpack's infofile (I don't assume that everyone reads them, rather the opposite, but I expect that the type to read one of them probably reads them all): our digital picture frame of visual computer art on musical themes astounded, delighted, bemused and baffled patrons at the Echoes & Ripples art exhibition; Horsenburger breezed through his month-long ARDtext residency, capping it off with a victory lap through an emergency visit to the hospital (fortunately, he's been so strong an advocate for the NHS they couldn't let him down); and the single largest contingent of Mistigris members ever participating took on a demoparty through the remote submissions of Buenos Aires' Flash Party, forcing through sheer numbers a teletext category to be split off from the general "text art" compo, also taking prizes for loaders, PETSCII and ... the unbearable lightness of being Polyducks. You will be seeing most of these pieces in next month's artpack, but we couldn't wait on the timely kudos to Illarterate, Horsenburger, Jellica Jake, Manuel Vio and Polyducks. Speaking of timeliness, don't forget that the teletext Bloktoberfest Block Party is taking place at Wigan STEAM Oct 20-21st, where you can hobnob with such luminaries as Illarterate, Horsenburger, Raquel Meyers, Alistair Cree and TeletextR (with copies of his handsome new teletext coffee table book hot off the presses!) This Block Party will be hosting an art competition of its own, open to remote entries from international text artists unintimidated by the eXtReMe constraints of the teletext medium -- full details at teletextart.co.uk/bloktoberfest-2018-teletext-art-competition-now-open Our final order of business is reminding you how and where to find Mistigris artpacks. If you're reading this, presumably you figured it out, but currently nothing is clear: our favorite online artpack viewer, pc.textmod.es, has unaccountably gone silent, failing to host our August and September (and let's safely assume October, making for a whole season omitted) artpacks. SixteenColors remains lost in the wilderness, leaving artpacks.org as the last (, conspicuously least feature-rich) public web gallery left standing. Other artgroups appear to be cobbling together stopgap private web viewers to support their releases exclusively, but that's an awfully walled-garden way to be part of a scene. Even if we wanted to serve up our artpack contents in that fashion, we don't have the IT knowhow at the table presently. In the meantime, we will continue our campaign of trying to ensure that all artpack contents are available in web-friendly formats going forward by surfing around at mistigris.org/packs/ ... it's all there. (Plus of course October marks the one-year anniversary of our switching into high gear on social media, going from daily posts to sharing several pieces from current releases and our back catalogue every day... so regardless of whether or not you can figure out how to browse our artpacks online, we'll keep pushing out the art at you multiple times daily on Instagram and Twitter as @mistfunk and on our public Facebook group at facebook.com/mistigrisart ) This concludes the MIST1018 infofile. Sorry it wasn't terribly spooky, but hopefully the rest of the art in this collection will make up for it! 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