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Awesome Angela of Sleepy Stitch does in real life what many of us do virtually:
arranging mosaics of coloured picture elements into mosaics of more than the
sum of their parts. An avowed nerdy narcoleptic, her cottage industry helps
to defray the cost of medical treatment not covered by insurange.
instagram.com/awesomeangela13 / facebook.com/sleepystitch
Last seen dominating MIST1016, longtime fellow traveller Brad Bonemouse
Morris handily demonstrates that he can draw more than creepy inktober
monsters -- you also want him illustrating the portraits on your tabletop RPG
character sheet!
instagram.com/bonemouse
A poet of extremes who can mean love when he says death and death when he
says love, our beloved ragman Crowkeeper has voluntarily toiled beneath
minimalist constraints so severe that Twitters word limit is as nothing to
him. In 2015 Mistigris digitally reprinted his 1999 collection Scarecrow
Poetics, but he is even more active writing today.
twitter.com/crowkeep / scarrow.deviantart.com
A man of the world, Dubaiwalla has recently decided to begin paying closer
attention to the endless buffet served up to his eyes and take up photography.
instagram.com/dubaiwalla / hooloovoo.aminus3.com
A genuine professional teletext illustrator two decades hence, Steve
Horsenburger Horsley has recently returned to the game for love of the art:
Its kind of frustrating to discover you are good at something only to
realise its pointless in todays 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 dont delay to get your
own piece of textmode art history!
horsenburger.com
If I stopped being such a dilettante and got serious about making art, I
might look more like my old friend Ice Cream Emperor. His output has been
sparse, but every piece of it is of unrivalled intensity.
icecreamemperor.livejournal.com
Every time we glean some of jes leavings, its for basically an entirely
different reason. This makes him a renaissance man of sorts, and us the Tuscan
rats spiriting crumbs away from his still lifes.
Kazunari Kalcha Naito represents the tip of an iceberg we know little of and
understand still less of -- Japans parallel ShiftJIS textmode art scene.
His works are informed by his interests in 70s prog rock, jazz, and fine art,
but this month we feature a suite of adaptations of John Tenniels
illustrations of Lewis Carrolls stories.
pinterest.com/kalcha55/ascii-art / kalcha.wix.com
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
Maeve Wolf aka Tatharina - Historically dropping art on Mistigris when our
orbits came into conjunction, the synaesthetic vanguard of our antipodean
contingent has pulled off an extraordinary second act, and has continued
making art ever since those salad days wound up in the compost.
dashsharon.tumblr.com
You wont see any of Mavriks creative work in this archive, but theres 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 Mists KiTSCHNet
echomail network from its home at Daemons Gate BBS.
daemonsgate.com
A textbook case of the parade continuing after the band stopped playing,
courtesy of the bottomless music in Melodias head she kept on keeping on --
and indeed, has never stopped.
soundcloud.com/empressplay / @empressplay
Mondo Charisma aka Christopher Rooney is an outsider poet and musician whose
influences come from punk and music concrete as well as traditional folk music.
His book Haiku Dante: The Inferno has just been published by ARDUS
Publications.
soundcloud.com/desolation-sound / mondo-charisma.tumblr.com
The man, the myth... Mythical Man handily satisfies both categories. Long
known for his prowess on the euphonium, painting is a recent development to
which he has applied himself ardently.
mythical-man.deviantart.com / euphoniousmyth.tumblr.com
themythicalman.livejournal.com / instagram.com/themythicalman
Nick Lakowski is a Vancouver based artist. He holds a BFA in studio art from
Emily Carr University 2004 and an MFA in studio art from the University of
British Columbia 2012. His work is grounded in a commitment to grassroots
community projects, including experience as a teacher, muralist, volunteer,
board member, curator, and events facilitator for a variety of local schools,
businesses, festivals, DIY art spaces, and artist-run galleries. His current
work with acrylics draws anxiously and humorously from the overly
deterministic discipline of neurobiology, the world of commercial painting and
paint manufacturing, various indexes and orders of colour, the redactive
procedure of painting itself, and a mystical hysteria towards resuscitation
and intensive care medicine.
nlakowski.tumblr.com / iheartlocalart.ca/artists-2/nick-lakowski
Pesho of Remorse ASCII drew us an oldschool ASCII art logo back in the year
2000, which we discovered and decided to use while looking for a different
ASCII logo by a different belated fan. You can find it at the top of this
infofile.
Phil Mainwaring has delved deep into home computing history and exhumed every
major company of the first decade in order to plunder their iconography in an
endless teletext slideshow. Strap yourself in, there are hundreds of images!
Until being accidentally invoked by a recent Mistigram posting, long-lost
Mistigris Classic alumnus reNM8r has been entirely out of touch with us since
1995 -- but it turns out has spent all of the time since feverishly exercising
the right side of his brain playing MUX RPGs and illustrating friends
characters.
postimg.org/gallery/265xil9j4/
Ed Starstew Stastny is that rare synthesis suggested in the two-word phrase
computer artist, practicing a species of net.art at SITO continually since
even prior to the establishment of Mistigris. Having mastered and
subsequently discarded so many styles and approaches, wearing the masks of a
half-dozen faux handles he could easily masquerade as an entire artgroup. Or
has he in fact been doing this... all along?
instagram.com/starstew / starstew.tumblr.com / sito.org
Carlos TeletextR represents Mistigris continuing wave of introducing the
other great textmode art tradition -- teletext -- to the underground computer
artscene.
teletextr.blogspot.com / twitter.com/thatotherCarl
Every time I include her in an artpack, I find myself completely rewriting
Theresa Oborns bio, as though I might somehow hew closer to the truth, like
a darts player hoping to hit a bullseye. She draws and sculpts, and perhaps
the work speaks for itself.
theresaoborn.tumblr.com / etsy.com/ca/shop/TheresaMO / theresamo.deviantart.com
Whazzits history with Mistigris dates back to our 1994 inception, and though
our paths diverged before long, when talk of our 2014 revival came up he was
right there on the front lines with the impossible -- a seemingly endless font
of fresh ideas of new applications for a positively archaic artform.
instagram.com/whazzitb7
Zahra had a front row seat for the slowly dimming ember of Mist Classic, but
somehow it has taken until now for our paths to converge again in this context.
She writes poems about what she sees, minus the poems.
instagram.com/breeonne
... and Ive been Cthulu: three years of revival artpacks, zero original
creative works credited to myself. Ive got plenty of ideas, but Id need to
take a break from writing infofiles to realise them 8
pixelpompeii.blogspot.com / twitter.com/unwashedmass
Oh yes, and the distro sites!
pc.textmod.es
sixteencolors.net
artpacks.org
The Guardian of Forever BBS - guardian.synchro.net
... but of course you can most regularly reach us and find out about our
activities these days over social media:
instagram.com/mistfunk
twitter.com/mistfunk
mistfunk.tumblr.com
and of course
mistigris.org