..,_ '. .   _,---/--/_/---\_.--\ _,---/ _,---/__,--/-._,-//--\__,-\__,---\   \\_______ \____/ _//_/\\____//\\___/ _//_ / / /____ \_ _/____/____ \_   _ _/ / // / _/ \/\_ \_ // / /  \\\_/ / _\____/ /____\_/_  :####/__/ _/#\_ _/#\_ _/#\_ _/#\_  _/#\_ _/\ /#####\_  _/#\_  _////##: \/  \/   \/  \/   \/  \/  \/ \/  \/Pesho1981 Awesome Angela of Sleepy Stitch does in real life what many of us do virtually: arranging mosaics of coloured picture elements into mosaics of more than the sum of their parts. An avowed "nerdy narcoleptic", her cottage industry helps to defray the cost of medical treatment not covered by insurange. instagram.com/awesomeangela13 / facebook.com/sleepystitch --- Last seen dominating MIST1016, longtime fellow traveller Brad "Bonemouse" Morris handily demonstrates that he can draw more than creepy #inktober monsters -- you also want him illustrating the portraits on your tabletop RPG character sheet! instagram.com/bonemouse --- A poet of extremes who can mean love when he says "death" and death when he says "love", our beloved ragman Crowkeeper has voluntarily toiled beneath minimalist constraints so severe that Twitter's word limit is as nothing to him. In 2015 Mistigris digitally reprinted his 1999 collection "Scarecrow Poetics", but he is even more active writing today. twitter.com/crowkeep / scarrow.deviantart.com --- A man of the world, Dubaiwalla has recently decided to begin paying closer attention to the endless buffet served up to his eyes and take up photography. instagram.com/dubaiwalla / hooloovoo.aminus3.com --- A genuine professional teletext illustrator two decades hence, Steve "Horsenburger" Horsley has recently returned to the game for love of the art: "It's kind of frustrating to discover you are good at something only to realise it's pointless in today's world, but I just really like doing it so I am going to carry on." We feel your pain, Steve! At his website you can commission original teletext creations from him, so don't delay to get your own piece of textmode art history! horsenburger.com --- If I stopped being such a dilettante and got serious about making art, I might look more like my old friend Ice Cream Emperor. His output has been sparse, but every piece of it is of unrivalled intensity. icecreamemperor.livejournal.com --- Every time we glean some of jes' leavings, it's for basically an entirely different reason. This makes him a renaissance man of sorts, and us the Tuscan rats spiriting crumbs away from his still lifes. --- Kazunari "Kalcha" Naito represents the tip of an iceberg we know little of and understand still less of -- Japan's parallel Shift_JIS textmode art scene. His works are informed by his interests in '70s prog rock, jazz, and fine art, but this month we feature a suite of adaptations of John Tenniel's illustrations of Lewis Carroll's stories. pinterest.com/kalcha55/ascii-art / kalcha.wix.com --- ldb (Laura Brown) is a rare bird, perhaps the last practitioner standing of good old UseNet-style ASCII art, with a masterful command over economy of slashes, parentheses and asterisks. asciiartist.com --- Maeve Wolf (aka Tatharina) - Historically dropping art on Mistigris when our orbits came into conjunction, the synaesthetic vanguard of our antipodean contingent has pulled off an extraordinary second act, and has continued making art ever since those salad days wound up in the compost. dashsharon.tumblr.com --- You won't see any of Mavrik's creative work in this archive, but there's 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 Mist's KiTSCHNet echomail network from its home at Daemon's Gate BBS. daemonsgate.com --- A textbook case of the parade continuing after the band stopped playing, courtesy of the bottomless music in Melodia's head she kept on keeping on -- and indeed, has never stopped. soundcloud.com/empressplay / @empressplay --- Mondo Charisma aka Christopher Rooney is an outsider poet and musician whose influences come from punk and music concrete as well as traditional folk music. His book Haiku Dante: The Inferno has just been published by ARDUS Publications. soundcloud.com/desolation-sound / mondo-charisma.tumblr.com --- The man, the myth... Mythical Man handily satisfies both categories. Long known for his prowess on the euphonium, painting is a recent development to which he has applied himself ardently. mythical-man.deviantart.com / euphoniousmyth.tumblr.com themythicalman.livejournal.com / instagram.com/the_mythical_man --- Nick Lakowski is a Vancouver based artist. He holds a BFA in studio art from Emily Carr University (2004) and an MFA in studio art from the University of British Columbia (2012). His work is grounded in a commitment to grassroots community projects, including experience as a teacher, muralist, volunteer, board member, curator, and events facilitator for a variety of local schools, businesses, festivals, DIY art spaces, and artist-run galleries. His current work with acrylics draws anxiously and humorously from the overly deterministic discipline of neurobiology, the world of commercial painting and paint manufacturing, various indexes and orders of colour, the redactive procedure of painting itself, and a mystical hysteria towards resuscitation and intensive care medicine. nlakowski.tumblr.com / iheartlocalart.ca/artists-2/nick-lakowski --- Pesho of Remorse ASCII drew us an oldschool ASCII art logo back in the year 2000, which we discovered and decided to use while looking for a different ASCII logo by a different belated fan. You can find it at the top of this infofile. --- Phil Mainwaring has delved deep into home computing history and exhumed every major company of the first decade in order to plunder their iconography in an endless teletext slideshow. Strap yourself in, there are hundreds of images! --- Until being accidentally invoked by a recent Mistigram posting, long-lost Mistigris Classic alumnus reNM8r has been entirely out of touch with us since 1995 -- but it turns out has spent all of the time since feverishly exercising the right side of his brain playing MUX RPGs and illustrating friends' characters. postimg.org/gallery/265xil9j4/ --- Ed "Starstew" Stastny is that rare synthesis suggested in the two-word phrase "computer artist", practicing a species of net.art at SITO continually since even prior to the establishment of Mistigris. Having mastered (and subsequently discarded) so many styles and approaches, wearing the masks of a half-dozen faux handles he could easily masquerade as an entire artgroup. (Or has he in fact been doing this... all along?) instagram.com/starstew / starstew.tumblr.com / sito.org --- Carlos "TeletextR" represents Mistigris' continuing wave of introducing the other great textmode art tradition -- teletext -- to the underground computer artscene. teletextr.blogspot.com / twitter.com/that_other_Carl --- Every time I include her in an artpack, I find myself completely rewriting Theresa Oborn's bio, as though I might somehow hew closer to the truth, like a darts player hoping to hit a bullseye. She draws and sculpts, and perhaps the work speaks for itself. theresaoborn.tumblr.com / etsy.com/ca/shop/TheresaMO / theresamo.deviantart.com --- Whazzit's history with Mistigris dates back to our 1994 inception, and though our paths diverged before long, when talk of our 2014 revival came up he was right there on the front lines with the impossible -- a seemingly endless font of fresh ideas of new applications for a positively archaic artform. instagram.com/whazzit_b7 --- Zahra had a front row seat for the slowly dimming ember of Mist Classic, but somehow it has taken until now for our paths to converge again in this context. She writes poems about what she sees, minus the poems. instagram.com/breeonne --- ... and I've been Cthulu: three years of revival artpacks, zero original creative works credited to myself. I've got plenty of ideas, but I'd need to take a break from writing infofiles to realise them 8) pixelpompeii.blogspot.com / twitter.com/unwashedmass --- (Oh yes, and the "distro sites"!) pc.textmod.es sixteencolors.net artpacks.org The Guardian of Forever BBS - guardian.synchro.net ... but of course you can most regularly reach us and find out about our activities these days over social media: instagram.com/mistfunk twitter.com/mistfunk mistfunk.tumblr.com and of course mistigris.org SAUCE00MIST0117 Memberlist Cthulu, Pesho MiSTiGRiS 20161124Ø*Pð IBM VGA25G