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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 13h

Mistigram: #LeonardoDaVinci, the original Renaissance man, who created the Mona Lisa and invented the helicopter, is here drawn in newschool #ASCIIart by @axb.bsky.social . This portrait was included in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

An old man's face, framed in long, sweeping hair and beard, looks out of the darkness into the distance and sees the future.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mistigram: if you haven't yet enjoyed today's dose of ＣＯＮＴＥＮＴover social media, @atonalosprey is here to remedy this lack with his #teletext dispensation, now conveniently packaged in capsule form! This screen was included in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

A jaundiced person brazenly displays on their tongue the capsule of content they are about to ingest.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mistigram: in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack, Cthulu was explicitly looking to adapt imagery suggestive of Mist's origins in area code 604 (aka #Vancouver) and one place his search brought him was artist-author #DouglasCoupland's 2009 sculpture #DigitalOrca, installed in #CoalHarbour.

A pixelated sculpture of a killer whale seems to leap into mid-air, while the sunset lights of North Vancovuer reflect in the water behind it.

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Dan Farrimond @illarterate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It was also sent to the edge of space, though this particular artwork wasn't shown in the final video of that (probably because it's too much of a pasty-che)!

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mistigram: Nitron visited area code 604, traditional stomping grounds of Mistigris, over the summer, and was moved to draw this view of Downtown Vancouver's West End (and the North Shore mountains behind it) across False Creek from Kits Beach on a forest fire smoky day.

Beachside apartment blocks are seen from across the water, with green mountains and a hazy sky behind them.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mistigram: this screen may not look that intrinsically political to you, but @illarterate.bsky.social has here illustrated one of the planks of #CountBinface's recent campaign against Nigel Farage in Clacton, capping the temperature and price at which croissants are served and sold.

This diagram depicts a hot, flaky croissant served at the correct temperature and price.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mistigram: I'm not exactly sure what this #ANSIart screen by @Mavenmob depicts, but I know that his works are often informed by music, so ... this just might be Mother Love Bone caught in the act of inventing grunge! This piece was included in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

In the gray darkness of the womb, a fetus reaches out to touch a heart, emitting red rays of love

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mistigram: if you've ever felt a little confused by the mixed weather during the turn of the seasons, @pixelblip.bsky.social has you covered with this #BBCMicro hirez screen of a #rainbow struggling to emerge through the murky moist miasma pervading a park.

In a foggy park green, someone sits on a damp bench while watching another person attracting attention from an airborne flock of birds. Above them, through layers of mist, a rainbow is dimly visible.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

monkey, ascii art (2010) aa.mozz.us/utf8art/asci...

ascii art of a crouching, kinda angry monkey, puffing smoke, holding up a hand with a smoke between their fingers.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

computer art (1991) archive.org/details/Mond...

a pixelized skull and cross bones overlaid across a barcode. computerized font above: ha! ha! ha!
computerized font below: your fax machine has been infected by a virus
(a small line of colour inverted skull and cross bones)

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mistigram: Rick has been running one BBS or another for 40 years now, a milestone celebrated by fellow SysOp Darkman Almighty in this #ANSIart screen of a desktop computer that might well have been there at the start of his spree.

An early IBM PC model sits in a wood-panelled room, displaying WELCOME TO RICK'S in green on its monitor.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mistigram: some minimalist artforms are primarily concerned with outlines, others with the use of negative space. Somewhere in between is this monochrome approach, in the vein of the #BitmapBrothers ' memorable logo, drawn in #teletext by @atonalosprey.

A forearm and hand textured with alternating black and white horizontal lines differentiate themselves starkly from a background composed entirely of alternating white and black horizontal lines.

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Jellica @jellicajake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I tried to make some old fashioned rave bleep bloopers. Disk Music is out now on @raymanta.bsky.social datadoor label :) #c64 jellica.bandcamp.com/album/disk-m...

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Disk Music, by Jellica

5 track album

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mistigram: this #blockASCII logo for the recursively radical 'Diskmags Are Rad' diskmag was drawn by @darokin and included in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

Graffiti-style letters, a little drippy at the corners, read DAR in grey against black, leaving a little shadow beneath them as if they were spraypainted on a pane of glass a few inches in front of a wall.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mistigram: #CountBinface, since making the revival of Ceefax one of his campaign pledges, has been beloved of the #teletext community, and they were prepared to endorse him this summer as he ran as the protest candidate against Nigel Farage in the parliamentary constituency of Clacton.

A dread space emperor wearing a garbage can as a sinister helmet poses nobly in two-tone Shepard Fairey propaganda style.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mistigram: #ANSIart and #bonsai, both aesthetically beholden to severe constraints, might have more in common than you expected! @conchaos.synchro.net drew this ANSI illusrtation of a tiny tree and included it in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

A tiny bonsai plant, presenting the appearanced of an aged, full-grown tree, slowly sprouts from a small rectangular blue container.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mistigram: it's always a good moment for a little textmode #surrealism! This monochrome screen, "Under the Spell", was drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social & won 3rd place in in the Flashparty #PETSCII compo, almost a year ago. It was also just included in the unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

Beneath a starry night sky complete with a crescent moon, two vague human figures with obscured arms huddle side by side in the grass beneath a levitating parasol. (Paralun, I guess.)

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mistigram: this pseudoreflective logo was submitted as monochrome #pixelart by @nouscentric, but Cthulu thought it could be easily adapted to textmode and given a #LiteBrite colour treatment for extra punch, so we ran it like this in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mistigram: like the groundhog emerging from his storied hole, everyone is excited to once again catch a rare glimpse of #MitchMcConnell's profoundly furrowed neck, here illustrated in #teletext by @atonalosprey for reasons that can only be chalked up to the stark randomness of the Muse.

A close-up on a wretched old man's undulating untoned throat flesh

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Mistigram: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... This #blockASCII (uncoloured #ANSIart) illustration of #shark #jaws was drawn by @axb.bsky.social and included in last month's new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

Open wide and say ahh... cleanly removed from the rest of its body, the sharp, tooth-filled maw of a shark reveals its pearly whites.

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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 11/09/2026

If you're super into "heritage is duty", reminder that modern computing was invented by a gay guy to fight fascism and the phone and probably the computer you're using is powered by a processor first designed by a trans woman.

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CommodoreBlog @commodoreblog.uk · 11/09/2026

Eject the floppy.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Mistigram: this monochrome #ASCIIart adaptation of #MarkMaggiori's 2025 painting "Arizona Cannonball" was drawn by @ascii.mozz.us and included in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

A cowboy rides a horse at high speed through scrubland around Arizona's Vermilion Cliffs.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mistigram: for this year's 24th edition of the #TotalDOSCollection, VileR drew an #ANSIart scroller entirely concerned with time, as explored in classic computer games. This is a small excerpt of it, adapting #EricChahi's introductory graphics work in Delphine Software's 1989 #FutureWars.

Above a series of dark clockwork cogs, a man washes skyscraper windows on a gantry platform. The windows reflect a yellow-skied urban cityscape behind him, except for one which is opened, from which the washer is being addressed by someone inside the building.

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meatsock.bsky.social @meatsock.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

acmsiggraph knocking it out of the park with some antiques m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aia8...

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1985 Calculated Movements by Larry Cuba

YouTube video by ACMSIGGRAPH

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Mistigram: this @pixelblip.bsky.social #BBCMicro hirez graphics landscape (GIF animated where supported!), titled 'September', depicts the leaves of autumn trees doing that which gives the season its alternate name. It was included in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

A grown tree slowly sheds leaves seasonally.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Mistigram: this #ANSIart portrait of Studio Ghibli’s #PrincessMononoke was drawn by @zeusii.bsky.social and included in a colly of similar small works (presumably for use on the anime-themed Shurato’s Heavenly Sphere BBS) in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

A fierce young woman in a primitive, animalistic costume of furs, a teeth necklace, and a mask, grimaces at the viewer with her war face.

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SanderFocus @sanderfocus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🏴‍☠️

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Mistigram: this is batty #pixelart cover artwork for a chiptune single by @thegreenherring.art , who sends a lot of art our way and is now boldly blazing a trail into the realm of computer music, also!

A trio of humanoid bats dressed for a night out at the club are destroying a dancefloor filled with robots like the protagonists of a beat-'em-up.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Mistigram: @AtonalOsprey drew this 'Instagram girl' (more of a type, I suspect, than an actual anonymised subject) in the newschool #ASCIIart style within the #teletext medium. This screen was included in our new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

A woman's made-up face, heavy on the lipstick, looks past a carefully coiffed hairdo, all entirely composed of letters, numbers and punctuation marks.

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alicia 🍳 @acorviart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

a murder [ #art ]

Illustration of a crow on a branch, surrounded by the old windows XP ghosting error screens, all duplicating the crow's face so it looks like there's a murder of crows.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mistigram: one of the biggest surprises of the new MIST0826 artpack collection is new work by j33p33, who has been MIA, computer art-wise, for the past six years. This #ANSIart gamer girl is part of a promo scroller for Nore BBS, which you should be able to telnet to via vetromac.dyndns-ip.com:232

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 31/08/2026

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, SIMULTANEOUS COUNTER-COMPOSITION (1930) 🎨🇳🇱 🖼️ Theo van Doesburg’s geometric abstraction is associated with De Stijl, the influential movement he helped shape. See it ➡️ archive.org/details/simu... 🧵

"Welcome to the Public Domain" graphic on a blue and yellow background, featuring Theo van Doesburg's abstract painting "Simultaneous Counter-Composition" (1930), with geometric blocks of yellow, red, dark green, and blue divided by black lines. An animated yellow padlock character with white cartoon legs and black heels — its shackle open — runs across the bottom right.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The latest article in our wiki is about our time-traveling 2020-2022 teletext Turner the Worm fancomic animatic, "Turn, Turn, Turn!", and its journeys as an award-winning demoparty entry and an artpack and ... someday? a print comic book??? You can read it at github.com/NicheInteres... !

github.com

Home

The undertakings of the Mistigris computer art collective are a massive project that have wandered the wilderness of cyberspace for 30 years so far. Let's see if we can't double that! - Ni...

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mistigram: and people are always especially curious how we're holding up on the #ANSIart end of things. Well, a number of artists have drawn a lot of it, in many different styles and on widely varied subjects... Here's a sampling of what's on offer in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection!

A 3x3 grid displays pixelated thumbnail images of people and flying creatures, a plant, a desktop computer, and a floppy diskette left in the wake of fiery tire tracks.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mistigram: if you like #asciiart, from #newschoolascii to #blockASCII, you will find many several choice specimens in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection. Here are some samples!

A 3x3 grid displays colourless pixelated thumbnail images of people, teacups, a horse, a set of fish bones, and the letters DAR and nous.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mistigram: there are a lot of great #teletext screens in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection - here's a sampling of different styles used to explore different subjects by different artists!

A 3x3 grid displays pixelated thumbnail images of Muppets and jesters, cars and foodstuffs, a wolf, three contestless body parts, and a silhouette of a smooch.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mistigram: The new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection is out, containing a wide variety of different kinds of vintage computer art, including #ANSIart and #teletext, #pixelart and #ASCIIart and music (difficult to illustrate).

A 3x3 grid displays pixelated thumbnail images of cityscapes and faces (especially mouths), words, and gestures of defiance.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mistigram: introducing the new, unthemed MIST0826 artpack, full of a lot of varied computer art & music from a wide array of contributors. You can investigate it through your web browser at 16colo.rs/pack/mist0826 or download it locally via mistigris.org/packs/MIST08... FILE_ID.DIZ logo by @darokin

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Mistigram: you think you're hot, pity this #KnightTemplar crusading in the Egyptian desert circa 11-1200 AD, here drawn in #ANSIart by Darkman Almighty. This piece was included in the MIST0822 artpack collection released four years ago this month.

An armoured Frankish crusader wearing a red cross against a white background stands in the desert before pyramids in the distance.

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Eric Migicovsky @ericmigi.com · 30/08/2026

demoscene pebble apps are one of the best parts of the pebbleverse nice work teadrinker! Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3HW... PT2 App: apps.repebble.com/8e50961fc56f...

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What time is it? (Pebble Time 2 Demo)

YouTube video by teadrinker

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mozz @ascii.mozz.us · 30/08/2026

1#BBS sports section entrance screen, unknown artist. The text is about practicing Tai Chi. #ascii #asciiart #textmode #darksilk #bbs

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mozz @ascii.mozz.us · 30/08/2026

Jellyfish logout screen. The text is a poem, Farewell in the Mountains by Wang Wei. "I have seen you off among the mountains; At dusk, I close the humble wooden gate. The spring grass turns green year after year— Will you return, or will you not?" #ascii #asciiart #textmode #darksilk #bbs

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Fleshing out two subjects noted in passing in yesterday's article on Mist's 2023 The Big Dig #ANSIart joint, today we have written up Blocktronics' ACiD Trip and WTF4 scrollers from 2013/14 respectively, the largest ANSI art works ever drawn: github.com/NicheInteres... github.com/NicheInteres...

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The most recent article on our Mistfunk wiki is a writeup on our 2022-2023 giant ANSIart "core sample" scroller The Big Dig: github.com/NicheInteres...

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Mistigram: this moody #BBCMicro hirez cityscape (animated on some services!), named "Tomorrow", was drawn by @pixelblip.bsky.social and included in the MIST0823 artpack collection released three years ago this month.

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