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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 14h

Mistigram: "Things in the Walls" is a Lovecraftian #PETSCII illustration drawn by Bema, included in the spooky MIST1021 artpack collection and also in the #Commodore64 "The Nameless PETSCII" slideshow released the following month.

A terrified man drives a car through the woods, away from an old ancestral mansion with unwholesome sounds coming from behind the walls.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 15h

Sorry, probably should have ended that with a question mark to indicate it was a suggestion rather than an imperative.

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Share more elaborate, multi-stage lore items that count as multiple items.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We'll continue sharing spooky computer art in (primarily) vintage formats all month, friends, but hopefully we'll also be dropping a new, fresh collection of ... more of the same ... in about three weeks' time. If you'd like to cook something spooky up and be part of it, please look us up!

A big cyan spider lingers menacingly on a red-and-black web, next to 3-D letters spelling MIST. Drawn by Vordreque in the MIST1015 artpack collection.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mistigram: this #BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen, "Witching Hour", was drawn by @pixelblip.bsky.social and included in the spooky MIST1020 artpack collection released six years ago this month.

On a foggy but cloudless night, a black cat with piercing bright eyes sits atop a chimney emerging from the mist, a flock of bats passing behind it across the face of the full moon.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This seasonal #ASCIIart comic strip, drawn by XTComics (now @earl.types.art), was included in the MIST1019 artpack collection released seven years ago this month.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mistigram: you might feel like a turd discovering that someone else at the costume party has the same costume as the one you thought would be very unique and original on you, but doubly so when your shared costume is literally the dookie emoji!

Two stickmen chat uneasily at a costume party, both wearing poopmoji costumes.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mistigram: these micro #pixelart portraits of Harvey Spencer Stephens as juvenile Antichrist ("It's not a child") #DamienThorn, from Richard Donner's 1976 movie #TheOmen, were drawn by @stephanrewind.bsky.social and included in the MIST1018 artpack collection released 8 years ago this month.

Front views of a haunting little boy posing in formal costume, as though he was attending a funeral at a cemetary, and also menacingly riding a tricycle in more casual wear.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mistigram: "Hey. You look like 40 miles of rough road!" This #teletext portrait of the late #BillPaxton as vampire biker #Severen from the 1987 movie #NearDark was drawn by @horsenburger.bsky.social and included in the spooky MIST1017 artpack collection released nine years ago this month.

A badass vampire in a biker jacker has been feeding on human blood and receiving copious quantities of violence, but being functionally immortal it's all just a bit of fun horseplay even if their flesh is blackened and peeling off in places.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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

Though the sculpture is located in the Downtown viewed from afar in Nitron's landscape yesterday, you will note that (coincidentally) the specific stretch of North Shore Mountains depicted in the far background is virtually identical in both works and can practically be made to overlap each other.

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

(In real life the killer whale is composed of pixelated black and white blocks, and ironically looks quite a bit more like #ANSIart in person than this rendition indicates.)

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

An inspirational example of the ways in which you're boldly exploring brave new frontiers for the sharing of computer art!

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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

This hazy scene was included in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

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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 · 27/09/2026

The last thing they see before V'ger strikes!

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

Confusing and delicious! It tied for first place (with TeletextR's recently-shared "Bindependence" screen) in the #teletext compo at Ledbury's Field-FX demoparty this past summer, and was included in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

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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

This piece was included in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

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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

(We urge the caller to find a different coaster, however! Apparently there are WinXP boxes with built-in cupholders!) This piece was included in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection. ricksbbs.synchro.net

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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

This screen was included in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

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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

my project for last month was to get more specifically Vancouver subjects enshrined in ANSI blocks:

cartoon doodle of nardwuar the human serviette

joe average's poster art for puccini's opera la boheme, with two faces kissing in front of a candle

a white card bears the writing "REPENT SINNER"

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

wildly, Nitron was in town this summer and drew a smokey landscape of the north shore that coincidentally captures the exact same slice of mountains that mine did, even though mine is at Canada Place and his is at Kits beach:

textmode art impression of downtown vancouver as seen from across false creek on a smokey day

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

ahaha, I drew the opposite view last month:

orca sculpture caught mid-leap with the north shore mountains at dusk behind it

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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

He didn't win the seat, but his 2nd place ranking with over a quarter of the votes tallied rates him as the most successful novelty candidate in UK political history. This screen, drawn by TeletextR, was included in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

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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

It was included in the recent 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 “Scary” 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

This piece was included in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

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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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