ÜÜ ÜܲßÜÛßÞß°ÜÞ²ßÝÜÜßÝßÛÜÜ ÜßÜ±ß þÜÞܲ ßß ±ÜÝÜþ ß°ÜÜ ÜÝÜÛß þÜÜÜ ßßßß ÜÜÜþ ßܱ±Ü  ÞÜÛ²²ß °° Üßݱ²ÜÛß ßßÛܲßÞßÜ °° ß±²²ÜÝ  ß²ßÞÞÜ ÞÝÝ²Þ²Ý °° ÞÛݲ°ÞÝ ÜÝÜß²ß  °ÞÞÞÞþß Þ ÞÛß°² °° ÞÛÛßÛÝ°Ý ßþßÝÝÝ°  °ÞÞ± ±± ÞÞÝÞ²Ý ÞÛݲÞÛ °±± ±±ÝÝ°  °ÞÞ±Þ °°° Þ²²Ý Þ² ÞÛÛ Þ²²Ý °°° ²±ÝÝ°  °ÞÞ±Þ °°° Þ²² ÞÛÝ ÞÛÝ Þ²²Û °°° ݲÝÝ  ÞÞÞÞ °° ÞÝÛÝ ÜÜÛÛÜܲÛÜ ÞÛÞÝ °° ÝÝÝÝ  ÞÞÞÞ °° ÞÞÛÝ Ü ÞÛÝÞÛÝÜÜ ÞÛÝÛ °° ÝÝÝÝ°  °ÞÞ²Þ ° ÞÝÞ²°ÞÜÜÛ²ÛÛÛÛÜÜÝ°²ÝÞÝ ° ÝÛÝÝ°  ° ÞÞÞ Þ°Þ² ß²²ß ßÛÛß ÞÛÝ°Û ÝÝÝÝ  °ÞÞÞ ßÜÝ°°²ÝÞ²°°ÞÜß ÝÝÝ  ÞÞÞÜþ ßÜ°±Û 8:19 ÞÛ°°Üß þÜ ÝÝ°  ÞÜß²²°° ßß²Üܲ ß °°ßÝßÜÝ ß²Ü ±±°°ÜÜÜ ÜÜÜ°°±± Ü²ß ß±Ü ²² ÞÜßþß±ÝÞ²ßþßÜÝ °° ÜÜ±ß ß°°ÜÜ ßßܲßÜÜßÛÜ ß ÜÜ°ßß ßß²±±ÜÜ Þ±²Ý ÜÜÜ°Ûßß ak67 ßßß ßß ßßß Greetings, everyone! Here we are again, continuing to plumb uncharted territory. As we've already asserted, Mist Classic was never as active as we are now, as regularly, for so long, so we really can no longer justify simply pantomiming the old familiar motions of our youth, but must go off and ... do our own thing! Well, OK. Since it's all new territory, we're always breaking milestones these days, but some milestones are more impressive than others, and can be represented by long strings of nice, round numbers. This month's milestone celebrates having released over ten thousand individual artworks! Granted, a thousand-odd of those are Horsenburger teletext screens, and another thousand are Crowkeeper Tweets, but the other 529 of us have managed to come up with the remaining eight thousand bits of connective tissue appearing in nearly 25 years' worth of Mistigris artpacks. (OK, that's only 15 pieces each, each of us making only just over half an artwork annually since our establishment. Perhaps I am scrutinizing the statistical side a little too closely? It's misleading, because nearly half of those contributors only made one or two submissions ever in the whole period. Please, allow me to elaborate... hey, why are you closing my spreadsheet?) The point is, the big odometer has ticked over to five digits (took from 1094 to 0296 to break four digits), which, regardless of "but how much of it was worth releasing?" judgments into the realm of quality, is still a formidable feat of quantity! Best of all, ten thousand looks pretty neat in Roman numerals. LDA, it's your cue! ÜÜßßßßþÜÜÜÜßßßßþÜÜßß²þÜÜþßßßßÜÜÜÜþßßßßÜÜ ²°ßÞݲßßÞÝ°ÞÞÝßß²ÞÝß°² Þ±±Þ±±ÞÞ±±Ý±±Ý Þ°°Þ°±±²±°Ý°°Ý  ÛÜÜÝÛÛÜÜÝÞÞÞÜÜÛÛÞÜÜÛ  ßßßÜÜÜþßßßßßÜÜÜþßßþÛÛÜßßþÜÜÜßßßßßþÜÜÜßßß There's actually a few ways they used to write that one out, none satisfyingly possible in standard ASCII characters. OK, one final piece of spreadsheet trivia: since reviving, Mistigris has released nearly twice as much artwork as Mist Classic ever managed to get out, and in fewer artpacks. (All that with a considerably more moribund community overall! I suppose that just speaks to supreme performance on behalf of the curator, right?) All right, enough rolling around in numbers (do it enough and you pick up their smell, how better to covertly traverse computer realms? ... but I digress) and let's tell you a little something about this artpack beyond the specific proportions of the wall that its brick fits neatly into. This collection is unthemed! We swung that way back in June, and before then not since last November and August. Time was that every artpack was unthemed! This approach gives us an opportunity to vent artwork that for whatever reason doesn't quite click with the other themes we engage -- making this the mixed grab-bag collection of loose ends and miscellany. Sometimes you just want to share something because it looks nice and your artist friends have made it recently, you know? Theme isn't everything -- I mean, it is, but not all the time. Does that make sense? No? OK, then let's move on. (That's a good sign -- if I start making sense, you're in deep trouble.) I said "miscellany" above and, by gum, I meant it! Where else will you get ZXGuesser's collection of teletext screens celebrating train cars of the UK railway? Do please note Axl's PETSCII line of "Masters of the Universe"- -inspired original action figures, profitably budded off of last month's TV- themed artpack! Blippypixel takes a break from the mind-blowing SF imagery in favour of some illustrations deriving from the natural world, while poor upper.case has been reduced by lack of inspiration to extrapolating pixelart illustrations from random scribbles! And... OK, there's not actually all that much to report, as most of the creations do not feature any kind of unifying theme, as befits this collection's official unthemed status! Are you sure you don't want me to mine more insight out of the spreadsheet? No? Really? Okay, moving along... This month we feature creations by a couple of new contributors making their artpack debuts, the pleasant pixelart of emme_doble and the refreshingly outsider ANSI art stylings (informed, I believe, by the recently discovered MIRCart cadre) of Picrotoxin. Please give them all a warm round of applause! This collection also includes the last gasp of Webersso.n's fusion bead work, the artist in the meantime having transitioned minting their designs on the considerably quicker-and-easier-to-produce medium of pen on paper. And back from the dead, the pixel artist who fell off the map entirely just after turning our world upsidedown in December of 2017, Pixel Art For The Heart, who swooped in during late December to give us our most popular image of the entire calendar year! We've been meagerly doling out specimens from their back catalogue ever since, but bam! this month we hit you with a whole flood of new vaporwave landscapes by the master! You already saw and appreciated it -- indeed, for many, it is the only part of this infofile they will ever see! -- but regardless I need to officially draw your attention to the top of this screed, and again thank our guest Alpha King of Blocktronics for once more generously endowing us with indispensable FILE_ID.DIZ iconography -- in this case, some dope Mistigris bling. (Or... insert your own favorite "m"-word here. Macerate! Malaprop! Molybdenum! Mythopoeia! Myriad!) But I digress. Who will be the mystery guest providing the iconography surrounding next month's video game-themed artpack, or will be be "treated" to a Cthulu special? I know, we're all in suspense. The important part is that we're all very grateful when it doesn't come down to that! OK, enough internal affairs. Have our members been up to anything interesting this month out there in the world? Bogged down in dealing with a hypocritical IP troll, Horsenburger's renown has been nonetheless burgeoning, lapping us on Twitter where he just surpassed some 2500 followers. We were in on the ground floor with him, but let's be honest -- we're just slowing him down! In any case, in celebration of reaching the milestone, he's launched a contest for his fans to write a text adventure game in the Adventuron language, the grand prize of which is having your game fully teletext-illustrated by him, just like with his recent graphics work souping up a port of HAMURABI, the venerable grain-allocation game. And pertinent to Mistigris' traditions deeply entwined with the computer music culture of area code 604, we are pleased to announce that the Vancouver Chipmusic Society is presenting another instalment of their Overflow concert series later this month, running Aug 28th at the Fox Cabaret, featuring performances by Don'tBlinkOrYou'llDie and Azuria Sky from the US, Bit.Umen from Italy and local bleeper Dos Boot, plus visuals by DR!P. (And though we've been a little nominal on the musical front recently, do stay tuned for extensive offerings from 604's tracker music scene to start popping up on the ArakNet and PVM artscene audio streams!) Our apologies for our delinquency in releasing the new issue of Kithe... we've now missed 2019's Assembly demoparty, so it won't make it out quite in time for 20-year synchronicity, but we still aim to have it out by the end of this summer. We'll keep you posted! As always, we have plenty of artpacks coming up, many of which will be associated with specific themes. I already tipped my hand that one of my favorites, video games, are coming up next in September, and of course you can expect a hearty helping of the scary stuff coming up in October for Hallowe'en. As noted, we'll be celebrating our 25th anniversary (!) in November, and will be doing the predictable thing in December again. If possible, we'd love to do another ladies-only artpack coming up next March, and exploring the new possibilities revealed by that shifting of the Overton window, we would love to curate a Pride-themed artpack next summer celebrating LGBTQ+ culture and creators! Our chances of fully populating any of these collections from artists in our regular stable is ... slim, so please, if you feel you might be able to come up with something relevant that would suit one of these collections, or know someone who would, please don't hesitate to look us up at info@mistigris.org! That's all for now, but it is seemingly inevitable that we'll be meeting this way again next month! Until then, keep celebrating digital creativity! Mistigris 2019: now, back to the spreadsheet... SAUCE00MIST0819 infofile Cthulu / AK / LDA Mistigris / 67 20190810^P¥IBM VGA