Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called
True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa
constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal.
In the book it said: Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without
chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the
six months that they need for digestion.
I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some
work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing
Number One. It looked like this.
MIST0526 list of contributors
AdeptApril Monoceros runs Storm BBS and occasionally draws vast quantities
of simple ANSI art screens on strange whims and fancies.
april.tech / bbs.stormbbs.com
Atonalospreys 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
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.
pixelblip.bsky.social
/arkman /lmighty 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
Taking inspiration from the basic medium of ASCII art, Joni nscii Caparas
treats the characters as design elements on a black canvas, in a fashion
similar to, but fundamentally different from, artscene ASCII practice.
Basically, from their base in Berlin theyve reinvented the artform from
first principles.
instagram.com/joninscii / jonicaparas.com
Part of a feral tribe of uncontacted textmode artists at the 8bitMUSH at
ANSIART.COM, LDA emerges from a family textmode art concern to grace us with
the imagery of his people.
You wont see any of Mavriks creative work in our recent archives, 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
Because DurDraw was the only program that installed successfully and
painlessly under Linux on the first try upon Googling ANSI editors, MC Fresher
makes Unicode text art.
instagram.com/mc.fresher
Moth aka Midnight is a dabbler with ANSI and ASCII art, pixelart and NES / Game
Boy / Sega Saturn programming. They have an amateur radio license, enjoy bugs
and think that Zampanio is a very fun game.
Software developer mozz is an aspiring creator and ASCII art archivist,
notably in the style as practiced in 90s usenet groups such as alt.ascii-art.
Hes 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 its going out of fashion -- 25 years too late!
instagram.com/n1tr0n / holdfastbbs.ca
Claire Nouscentric Groulx is a multi-disciplinary thing-doer, using dance,
fire, voice for play in creative communities, and makes a living in the
games industry as a 3D artist.
madamegarou.ca / claireroberts.net
There are many roads to textmode artwork IRC channels are as legitimately
valid an avenue as any. Emerging from the MIRCart realm into the world of
artpacks, Picrotoxin brings a fresh perspective to a classic medium.
instagram.com/picrotoxin
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 Codename Desperado and I Will Find Her.
Next up: FC Mafioso: Football Dynasty Manager on Steam!
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
The War On Christmas is a college student, a beginner at textmode art, who
wants to get better at it. Let us get started!
thewaronchristmas.bsky.social
Warpus was long a familiar name around the underground computer art scene of
the 90s, making himself known in such crews as Function, Glue, Septic, and
especially the now-revived Lazarus... but to Mistigris fans he will always
go down primarily as the longest-standing administrator and judge of the
long-running Blender IRC compo series.
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!
zeusii.bsky.social
home base:
mistigris.org
affiliated BBSes:
conchaos.synchro.net
holdfastbbs.ca
dsbbs.ca
erb.pw/the-bbs
bbs.stormbbs.com
web galleries:
16colo.rs/group/mistigris
artpacks.org
ascii.mozz.us/textmode/tags/group/mistigris
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, Instagram, Tiktok, Tumblr, YouTube, etc.
and our usual round of greetz to our colleagues at: blocktronics.org,
fireweb.org, lazarusblocks.com, impure.nl, hermanas del perro magnetico,
the Legacy crew, galza.org, chipshit, Null e-mag, ArakNet, Bitcouver,
TABNet ... and now PizzaToe and Cyber, too!