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MIST1225
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All right, so we got our third annual ANSI art Advent calendar together in
November and it was ready to roll for December 1st, meaning that we could pat
ourselves on the back and congratulate each other on having another year in
the bag, right? Thats crazy talk, doing that would squander what could
otherwise be a very productive month! We had a scheme to cook up a bonus
artpack between Xmas and New Years, but these aspirations were brought back
down to earth by Melodia inquiring whether we would be doing a Christmas
artpack anytime soon, not just an Advent calendar executable, because for the
past couple of years shed been hard at work composing seasonal music whose
MP3s couldnt play in the Advent executable, and had no outlet for it. Well,
we could zip them up and ... well no, that wouldnt be an artpack but a music
disk. But if we had more seasonal art with which to thicken the melange...
and as it so happens, members of our creative community have for the past
couple of years been moonlighting drawing teletext screens for a different
Advent calendar airing nationally on Finlands Yle service incidentally
reaching vastly wider audiences there than any artpack ever will, and those
images, though not exactly unreleased, have never yet been seen in an artpack
context. Granted, you dont see a great many teletext screens in artpack
contexts outside of Mist packs, but no one could dispute that they are
absolutely in our wheelhouse, and so we have collected them here.
Thats right. Most of this frozen, wintery art came... from a slush pile.
Even the ANSI artists, who you might expect had gotten their fill of making
seasonal ANSI screens after putting their heads together and drawing over two
dozen of them last month, had some further wintery works of various shapes
and sizes to share that didnt fit within the narrow confines of the 80x25
single screens that the ADVENT25 Advent Calendar was composed of. But it all
deserves to be shared and seen, and making MIST1225 -- basically our second
Christmas project two months in a row -- is our way of ensuring that all of
it reaches our festive public.
Melodia graces us with five songs, which is enough to enjoy one daily all the
way through Christmas Day! It yields a half-hour of Christmas music overall,
and the most interesting piece is a dump of a recently-recovered audiocassette
recording of some of the composers earliest Atari ST music experiments,
original files long since lost, made all the way back in 1992 -- 33 years ago!
We bring you yesterdays digital archaeology, here, today!
There isnt much more for me to say about the work in this collection its
Christmas art, shared in a Christmas context... case closed! -- not that
thats ever stopped me before -- but thanks to all the creators who have
chosen to work with us this year, and thanks also to you, the readers, who
have kept up with us on this interminable creative journey. Undoubtedly
there will be more of it coming up next year, so enjoy the holidays with your
friends and loved ones and well see you again in 2026!