MIST0518 infofile by Cthulu / the Knight
MIST0518 infofile by Cthulu / the Knight
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Greetings everybody, and welcome to the latest in our seemingly incessant
series of computer artpacks from the Mistigris computer arts collective! I
think that by now nearly everybody has clued in that our April Fools artpack
collection was nowt but one bad joke a change of pace from our typical modus
operandi of a plethora of tiny cruel jokes. Also this past month we ran
this years Blender competition which went off like a house on fire! Now
here we are, nearly midway through the year, with yet another themed
collection: wed long since set aside a run of Horsenburger Last Jedi
teletext pieces for the month of May specifically, for May the 4th be with
you celebrations and decided to double down on the theme, making this
months artpack one big riot of science fiction, with a subset of the works
focusing on Star Wars specifically. If you peruse the artpack contents
alphabetically, you will see the SW materials first, prefixed with an
exclamation point.
Every artpack has got some kind of milestone this one actually has many.
Not only does this collection mark the first artpack appearance of Carl
Dizon, but Ill warrant its the first time pixelart made in the Microsoft
Excel spreadsheet has been shared with the digital underground ever! MS
Office: Not Very Underground. Oldschool, maybe, but it still doesnt hold a
candle to Lotus Symphony, Borland Office, or Spinnakers venerable 8-in-1.
But I digress. Another suspected first this time is the introduction of
someone well call Lego Colin, who eschews perler beads in favour of making
physical pixelart using, you guessed it, LEGO blocks. Were all just points
on the LEGO-Minecraft spectrum, ultimately.
Also making their artscene debuts in this collection are our latest round of
Instagram pixelart draft prospects: Mentalpop, OrdinaryPixel, and Stephan
Bellin, whose works speak volumes for themselves. The former and latter of
the three put in the hours sharpening their pixelart chops for game
development contexts, while OrdinaryPixel is most likely to try their hand
at conversions of paintings by old masters. Not this month, though!
The glitch maestro 192.168.10.13 technically made their first appearance last
month in the April Fools pack you may recall the exceedingly happy glitched
dog, but having escaped appearing beneath their real alias and mention in an
infofile, we felt it was worthwhile to single them out for recognition here
and now! Cranksy also emerged from retirement last month after many long
years snoozing in the Mistigris Facebook group, and you can hear him jamming
out this time around in Darth Vaders basement rumpus room.
ANSI art champion The Knight of Fuel makes a guest appearance here, giving
everyone cause for celebration by ending Cthulus spree of five consecutive
FILEID.DIZ ASCII art illustrations, denying Nail credit for ending the reign
of terror. Big data reports yes, all that talk about spreadsheets isnt
just talk! that this isnt his first time winding up in a Mistigris artpack,
but as his only prior logged appearance was 21 years ago in our 3rd
anniversary extravaganza, you might be forgiven for not immediately
remembering. I suspect it was an indirect appearance via a remix of one of
his ANSIs by Fire From Heaven, but you may want to just take my word for it.
The structure of this infofile is like MS-DOS application progress bars: a
first, a first, a first, for the first time, the end! But before we go,
weve got to make our official endorsement for Overflow 003, the latest
local music night by the Vancouver Chipmusic Society -- featuring TRASH80,
GRAZ, PONGBALL, SKYBOX, BASE64 and CHRIS SHIER, if you dont have other plans
the night of May 30th, you need to get down to the Fox Cabaret and hear just
how loud a Game Boy can get. OK, thats really it -- enjoy the artpack and
well see you in June!