мммммм млллппллммллпплллм млллпплм млпплллм  млм лллллм мллллл млм  плп ллллмлллмлл ллмлллмлллл плп олллнллллллл лллллллолллн олллплллллп плллллплллн  млм лллноллл млм  плп лллMiST0119ллл плп лллммллл лллмall   мллл пллл  about  лллп пллм dat  мллп пллм bass мллп пллммллп плм млп artpack contributors: 8bitbaba is an accomplished South Asian graphic designer with a side line in minimalist pixel art, which he paints on canvases as well as screens. instagram.com/8bitbaba -- 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. 1013.wtf -- Yet another tireless participant of the UK's teletext renaissance, it seems almost inevitable that we would provide a home for Alistair "ZXGuesser" Cree's playful screens beneath our umbrella. twitter.com/zxguesser -- Mike "Blippypixel" Rose is a digital artist whose tastes veer toward the vintage in electronic music and visuals, dabbling in low-poly 3D modeling, LED pixelart, and teletext as well as work in the distinctive palette of the BBC Micro. instagram.com/blippypixel -- Bliss is another of our rotating cast of seasoned textmode artist guest-stars visiting from the alt-ANSI utopia of the 8bitMUSH at ansiart.com, handy with their screen-condensed, palette-extended variant, described as FANSI. She often is concerned with video game subjects, but her interest in fixed-width pixelart also extends into the textile realm. instagram.com/hollydollydinkleberry -- Crafter BrownPaperCowgirl is only a computer artist in an historical context, sharing with us an ASCII art type-in selection from her family Sanyo MBC-550 circa 1983. instagram.com/brownpapercowgirl -- What could deliver a more concentrated essence of computer creativity than making pixelart by arranging squares on a screen under high magnification? That's right: doing it in Microsoft Excel, using the spreadsheet cells as the picture elements. Carl Dizon is one of a very few specialists in the use of this outsider art tool. instagram.com/eduardo_calamar -- Dos Grog continues in the expansion of our Italian contingent, demonstrating a playful devotion to the pixelart medium. instagram.com/dos_grog -- Glowing Fish has been holding down the dad jokes and dank memes a couple of Fools in a row, but sometimes they are simply so seasonally appropriate or otherwise of the moment that they manifest outside their sandbox. instagram.com/glowglowmemes -- 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 -- Jamie Graham has a typewriter with a red ink ribbon, and he's not afraid to prove it. instagram.com/jamie_graham93 -- Every medium has several modes: a pre-modern approach, a clean "modern" style, and a post-modern detournement, often in the "glitch" idiom. In Jellica Jake, teletext has found its glitch m(a/on)ster! It is such a simple 3-bit medium there quite simply isn't the complexity needed for things to go really wrong, but somehow this artist, doing more with less, has found depths of texture to imply psychological profundity between the lines. twitter.com/jellicajake / instagram.com/jellica_______ / kittenrock.co.uk -- 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. -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Melodia doesn't need an artgroup, she is an artgroup. One more case of the parade continuing after the band stopped playing, courtesy of the bottomless music in her head she kept on keeping on -- and indeed, has never stopped. We are humbled by her continuing association with us, as to her, all we have to offer is drag factor! soundcloud.com/empressplay -- 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 -- Italian net.artist Nbreakfast thinks nothing of hacking a game ROM or patching in an obscenity to a breadboard to get his idea across. ngirotti.com -- 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 -- PiquANSI sporadically draws elaborate boxological mandalas in Rexpaint and it is our pleasure to periodically share them with you. @piquansi -- Pixard_Neh celebrates his pop culture favorites in a self-described self- indulgent spasm of pixelart. We're just lucky enough to be sitting by on the sidelines! instagram.com/pixard_neh -- Artscene OG Smooth has long been on the Mistigris periphery, his telnet BBS iNK§ on our distro site list almost since our revival, but this month this elder statesman, founder of TeklordZ (with which Mist Classic spent almost its entire lifespan attempting unsuccessfully to merge with), descends from the heavens (by which I mean his regular ANSI art gig at Fuel) to save us -- again -- from yet another dopey Cthulu FILE_ID.DIZ. Hats off, sir! www.inktwo.com -- Snake PETsken 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 -- 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 -- Taffi Louis has long since been one of the meme geniuses setting our April Fool's artpacks on fire (like a paper bag on a front porch?) but it turns out that the artscene has always been able to appreciate shitposting throughout the entire year. instagram.com/taffi_louis -- Carl "TeletextR" Attrill represents Mistigris' continuing wave of introducing the great public textmode art tradition -- teletext -- to the underground computer artscene. teletextr.blogspot.com / twitter.com/that_other_Carl -- Music machine JaZz got a little confused when the scene shifted (rocking the Amiga, his scene got rocked a little earlier than the PC kids'), but shaking his head he picked himself back up and has kept on keeping on. Now Jason Johannson (aka Theorica) has managed to keep his creative flame burning through his extraordinary everyday, and in this collection he offers a compelling glimpse into it. soundcloud.com/Theorica -- 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 --- First exposed to Teletex back in the late '80s spending 2 years making teletex style pages with ViewData as part of schol IT ( & reading the adventures of Turner the Worm and Bamboozle on Channel 4 teletex), apparently TitaniumDave works in the games industry -- though his interest in Teletex was re-ignited by the (sadly-missed) Feb 2017 Block Party in Cambridge. -- Communities of text art practice emerge through certain social contexts but the basic premise is such an appealing idea that it keeps getting invented and reinvented. XTComics draws comic strips using a combination of low ASCII characters and emoji. instagram.com/xtcomics -- MISTIGRIS DISTRIBUTION SITES: telnet://bbs.inktwo.com:23 telnet://guardian.synchro.net bbs.nz 16colo.rs 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! SAUCE00mist0119 list of contributors cthulu mistigris 20190116!0PL IBM VGA