mistfunk

A full moon low in the night sky is crowned with wisps of fog and cloud, reflected in a rural lake.

Mistigram: this striking nighttime #textmode art landscape (#ASCIIart? #ANSIart? There's a little Xbin character remapping going on) was drawn by Mozz and included in last year's MIST-30 artpack collection.

lower-case letters, themselves made out of text characters, spell out the words ansi art. art runs beneath ansi, and the descender from the i at the end of ansi becomes the t at the end of art. To the left of art is a tiny stylised heart.

Mistigram: from last year's MIST-30 artpack collection, celebrating 30 years since the establishment of our (now vintage) computer art community, here's a lovely #ASCIIart logo by our guest

darokin ironically celebrating #ANSIart. (Hey, we like to mix it up, too!)

A dour panda bear surveys a situation with squinty eyes and a frown before a blue background.

Mistigram: this #ANSIart portrait of the accursed #GenmaSaotome (the world's unhappiest #panda) from the #Ranma12 manga was drawn by

zeusii for use on the #anime-themed Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (SHS) BBS. It was included in last year's MIST-30 artpack collection.

A big-haired man sits back, smoking a cigarette and saying Whatever happens, happens... beneath him, a spaceship in red flies in space with planets behind it. Underneath it all, industrial white letters read Let s Jam against a red backdrop.

Mistigram: returning once more to the #anime #CowboyBebop, this suite of mini #ANSIart illustrations on the subject was drawn by ConsoleJockey and included in last year's MIST-30 artpack collection.

An angry little black piglet hunkers down before red starbursts, ready to throw down.

Mistigram: this #ANSIart portrait of #Ranma's #RyogaHibiki as #PChan the piglet was drawn by

zeusii for Martin Kazmaier's #anime-themed Shurato's Heavenly Sphere BBS. It was included in last year's MIST-30 artpack collection.

The extraordinary rings in the eyes of the pale woman with red braids in the business suit suggest that she may not be as friendly as her smile suggests.

Mistigram: this eerie #ANSIart illustration by

discgator depicts the sinister #Makima from #TatsukiFujimoto's #ChainsawMan manga and #anime. It was included in last year's MIST-30 artpack collection!

A colossal white octopus wraps its many tentacles around a cluster of skyscrapers about to have their seismic resistence sorely tested in a cloud of angry ink

Mistigram: flee for your lives! An enormous, enraged mollusk prepares to dismantle eight skyscrapers simultaneously in this screen, "Attacktopus", drawn by

polyducks for last year's #ATASCII compo. This piece was included in the MIST-30 artpack celebration.

In a gentle pink palette, a cathode ray tube monitor that has given up the ghost ascends to the heavens against a white background, leaving a glitchy trail of gossamer box-drawing characters in its wake.

Mistigram: the fondly-remembered spirit of a bygone era,

mavenmob's #ANSIart illustration 'CRT Angel' manages to enshrine a species of technological nostalgia. This screen was included in the MIST-30 artpack celebration.

On a textmode representation of a windowed computer desktop, overlapping windows are shown demonstrating ouija, star chart and tarot programs (that latter being the foreground program) being run simultaneously. Other programs are suggested by a task bar at the bottom of the screen.

Mistigram: on the top floor of the wizard's tower, when they're done pondering their orb they fire up a vintage 8-bit computer and use it to answer some e-mails. This #PETSCII-inspired concept sketch of DivineOS, running all the essential magic apps, was drawn by

littlebitspace and included in the recent MIST-30 artpack celebration.

Two youths in traditional garb, including pom-pom hats, stare in bafflement at the word mist written in red in a white void

Mistigram: shortly after making a splash with his solo XBIn collection, Hortau stopped by our Discord to make a guest appearance in our MIST-30 30th anniversary celebration, with these two lads in whimsical hats. But what perplexity were they trying to wrap their heads around? Cthulu offered up some crude graffiti for them to stroke their chins at.

Mistigram: what kinds of mechanisms operate in your head when the hamster starts running on its wheel? The Godfather drew this spooky cross-section #ANSIart screen for a project titled #GhostsInTheMachine, included in the MIST-30 celebration artpack.

Three weird characters, looking like futurist multi-layered birdman jesters whose faces have been pulled inside-out and then put back together, take turns intoning the words: SAVE / AS / DRAFT

Mistigram: OG computer artist

starstew of SITO (etc.) was a regular to Mistigris artpack releases for years following our 2014 revival, and we shared hundreds of his offbeat doodles before eventually pivoting to a more explicitly computer-y computer art orientation. Still, for our recent MIST-30 celebration, we tapped his drawing of these demonic e-mail guardians to help represent the unorthodox path we've trod together.

Mistigram: A colourful #ANSIart logo celebrating Foenix's #F256K hobbyist computer, running on the Western Design Center 65C02 microprocessor, was drawn by

zeusii for the retrocomputing-themed Jolly Roger BBS. This piece was included in the recent MIST-30 artpack celebration.

A stylish female replicant with a look patterned after Pris in Blade Runner picks up a telephone receiver and converses with a more obviously mechanical android, whose ocular sensors pop out of their sockets.

Mistigram: this monochrome scene, promoting the fictitious 0300-HOT-BOTZ chatline, was drawn by

illarterate. It placed 6th in last year's #ATASCII competition, and was included in the recent MIST-30 artpack celebration.

Mistigram: we've never released a .WAD, but in the wake of "DOOM: The Gallery Experience" perhaps we should try our hand at it. In the meantime, here's a stone cold #ASCIIart / #blockASCII Mistfunk logo drawn by

littlebitspace and used as an infofile header in the recent MIST-30 celebration artpack.

A snake, whose sinuous torso consists entirely of negative space, slithers against a backdrop of commas and apostrophes.

Mistigram: #GungHayFatChoy!

a_mouse drew this #ASCIIart python in celebration of #ChineseNewYear, which this time around is the year of the #snake! This ophidiac piece was included in the recent MIST-30 artpack collection. Hiss hiss hurray!

On all sides, ASCII art stickmen are bopping and grooving, repeating a series of two-frame dance moves... except for the laptop-shackled programmer toiling away in the middle of them all.

Mistigram: somewhere between the extreme settings of the sit/stand desk is a secret optional 'dance' function that it seems the programmer's office manager didn't spring for. This #ASCIIart animation is by

joninscii, and was included in the recent MIST-30 artpack collection.

A stone cold skull & crossbones flaunts its shades and gold chains, as if to say you are not on the list.

Mistigram: this sassy pro-piracy PSA comes straight outta the underground courtesy of MC Fresher, who drew this #textmode illustration in Unicode using #Durdraw. It was included in the recent MIST-30 artpack collection.

Like the walls of a maze, long, twisting lines spell out the word Mistfunk

Mistigram: this labyrinthine Mistfunk logo was drawn as a modified #PETSCII screen for the #C64 by our guest

goto80 of text-mode.org. It was released in the recent MIST-30 artpack collection celebrating 30 years since our first release.

A colossal letter M straddles the earth like a titan, standing up into the starry sky, while comets and meteors shower down around it.

Mistigram: for the recent MIST-30 artpack collection, while contemplating what else started in 1994,

the60ftatomicman drew an animated Mistigris #ASCIIart version of the #throbber in #NetscapeNavigator, that would cycle in the top right corner while loading your requested URL.

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