. ............... _____ ___ __ _____ ____________________ . :: ____ _|_____\\ \_ ______ .______ __ ___/ ::: : ___ __/___ // _ _/: /__/ |\_ __/_____ ..| | . \_/ /_ ___ \/ / \ | |________ /_ ::| | .:::::::. : _/ \___/ \: | || // |: |_ | : : ;::: _ _// /_ __\ \__ _ _|\ .: |_. / | : : .::'. /_/______/ _________ __ __ ___ _.__________\ ______ | . :::' . : . .:::' : ... ______________ ................................. : : _\ /_ _____:.::.__________:__ _ ___ _: __ : . | _________| // \\\__ /_/__\//____ :/__/ : : | __\____ | _\/___\\ | | \ ___ : . | | || | _______ | | / \ / / m : : | | |: |/ /_ | | / \\/ / i : : | | | | _ _ \| |/ __// /____ s F : . | |_ |. | / \ | \___ _/ T u : /\| / / | |\ /\ \ | /| | n : :\ | _ / / | | \/__\ |\ / | | K : : \ /: |/________________| \/ | | : : \ / | | eR!| | : `-- \ / +-----------+ --- -- ---- - ------- +------+ -------+ /_/ MIST0624 contributing artists: -- Abstrakt took a good decade and a half off for good behavior, but it seems that newschool ASCII art may be just like riding a bicycle in at least one regard. -- Adel Faure learned in the pandemic summer of 2021 that they were not creating text art in a vacuum, as they had thought, but that there was a community of colleagues to work with and learn from. Everything since then has been a feverish frenzy of creation and getting up to speed. adelfaure.net / adelfaure.itch.io / x.com/adelfaure / mastodon.art/@adelfaure -- As his handle suggests, Alpha King has a lot to offer a textmode screen. Whether it is sublime or profane depends upon his mood. -- AtonalOsprey's credentials and qualifications for participating in an undertaking such as the commission of a computer artpack are so increasingly abundant -- now moreso than ever! -- that it would be pointless to elaborate upon at any further length. youtube.com/user/antonvanoosbree / instagram.com/atonalosprey oldbytes.space/@atonalosprey -- AXB threw down newschool ASCII art with the best -- Remorse, ACiD and Unit -- during the underground computer artscene's silver age, starting in 1996... but since none of them are around anymore, he's been reduced to slumming with us. iaxb.com/ascii.htm / universeodon.com/@axb -- 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 idiom of the BBC Micro. twitter.com/pixelblip1 -- Darkman Almighty administers the USS Excelsior BBS, and picked up a little ANSI art along the way so as to better skin his Starbase in cyberspace most appropriately. excelsiorbbs.ddns.net:2000 -- There's a word to describe how eRUPT recently explosively departed from his artscene retirement, but using it here would be a little too on the nose. Back in the game after a couple of decades away, he's changing ASCII art gears from his time in ACiD and Remorse and recalibrating them for Impure. -- Illarterate is a multimedia artist from Wigan, UK. Despite attempts to modernise, he will forever be known as 'That Guy That Does Teletext Art'. But whoever said that's a bad thing? x.com/illarterate / teletextart.tumblr.com / portfolio.illarterate.co.uk bsky.app/profile/illarterate.bsky.social / @illarterate@bitbang.social danfarrimond.co.uk -- littlebitspace has developed into a passionate practitioner of ASCII art and PETSCII experiments on esoteric and calcified themes. littlebitspace.com / mas.to/@littlebitspace / @littlebitspace.bsky.social -- Mavenmob is an interesting case, informed by equal parts of the philosophy of J. Krishnamurti and his artscene youth in Blade and Echo. mavenmob.com / instagram.com/mavenmob / oldbytes.space/@mavenmob -- You won't see any of Mavrik's creative work in our recent archives, 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 -- Software developer mozz is an aspiring creator and ASCII art archivist, notably in the style as practiced in 90's usenet groups such as alt.ascii-art. He's a relative newcomer to the art scene, having discovered it through working with gopher and adjacent small-internet projects, and has since developed a deep appreciation for the medium. His website hosts a personal gallery along with an extensive archive of ASCII art collections, tutorials, and other historical resources. mozz.us -- A '90s ANSI art acolyte recently finding his way back to the fold, Nitron has made up for lost time releasing solo artpacks and making guest appearances, putting up Hold Fast BBS, and is currently minting screens for BBS door games like it's going out of fashion -- 25 years too late! instagram.com/_n1tr0n -- Tapio is a Finnish programmer who develops retro games in QB64 with textmode graphics. His most recent release is Whispers In The Moss, but you may also be familiar with his work on Mafioso Football Manager or Codename Desperado. Next up: I Will Find Her. unculturedgames.itch.io -- Carl "TeletextR" Attrill, host of the Byte High No Limit podcast, represents Mistigris' continuing wave of introducing the great public textmode art tradition -- teletext -- to the underground computer artscene. teletextr.blogspot.com / @x.com/teletextr / @bytehigh.bsky.social -- "[vermileonhart has] been into tech since I was a little kid, I've been fiddling with computers all my life but my heart has always yearned for the arts and any means of creative expression... sadly, I've never been good at it, or couldn't find any medium that felt fulfilling. But one particular night it came to me... ASCII art. I remembered my dad and I playing in his old DOS computer, writing shit into terminals and getting drawings made with text. And it was like an epiphany: I could make art that was in my tech realm, and it would pay homage to those old days when I was a kid and everything was alright. So I became obsessed with it... I started looking for anything related to ASCII art, found out about BBSs, art packs... all of that. And that got me here." x.com/vermileonhart -- From Twilight, the Legion, Avenge, Fire, Fuel and through to Blocktronics, the Swede known as Zeus II is a one-man ANSI art industry. Also, a hell of a cook! x.com/Zeus_II -- home base: mistigris.org affiliated BBSes: excelsiorbbs.ddn.net:2000 holdfastbbs.ca bbs.inktwo.com:23 bbs.planetcaravan.org erb.pw/the-bbs bbs.stormbbs.com web galleries: artpacks.org demozoo.org/groups/22737 chat with us at: discord.gg/9R84QUN oldbytes.space/@mistfunk or find us elsewhere on social media as "mistfunk" at: BlueSky, Cohost, Instagram, Tiktok, Tumblr, YouTube, etc. and our usual round of greetz to our colleagues at: blocktronics.org, Fire Graphics, Lazarus Blocks, impure.nl, hermanas del perro magnetico, the Legacy crew, galza.org, ArakNet, Bitcouver and TABNet! SAUCE00MIST0624 memberlist eRUPT / Cthulu 20240627*PÚAmiga Topaz 2