ÛßßßßßßßßßßßßßÛßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßÛ Û ÛßÛßÛ ß Ûßß Û ß Ûßß ÛßÜ ß Ûßß Û Û Û Û Û Û ßßÛ Û Û Û Û ÛÜß Û ßßÛ Û Û ß ß ß ß ßßß ß ß ßßß ß ß ß ßßß Û ßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßß . m i s t i g r i s . . n e w s . Greetings, one and all, to the latest Mistigris artpack: our eleventh monthly release in a row. Thank you, thank you, no applause needed. But if applaud you must, I'd like you to redirect your accolades to our guest piquANSI for spontaneously making us this month's Mistigris logo, used in the FILE_ID.DIZ and our infofiles, inspired by seeing the "best of modern Mistigris" floppy diskettes Cthulu prepared for the Living Closet reunion in, uh, May (about which, well, stay tuned.) August is always an exciting month for us: in 1994 it marked the release of the final Imperial artpack, a local artgroup whose conclusion precipitated the foundation of Mistigris (perhaps prior to even settling on that name) in the same month -- and consequently everything since. We didn't manage to release artpacks every month (at least, not until now!) but somehow despite enormous struggles, challenges and obstacles, we managed to never miss an August (summer holidays likely had something to do with it), releasing MIST08?? artpacks in 1995, 1996, 1997 and even 1998 -- whose August artpack overwhelmed us and effectively knocked us into an indefinite torpor for 16 years. (But it WAS eventually released, and that's the important part!) There's nothing as exciting as being born or dying going on here this month. (Apologies to those born or died this month: my point is, it didn't happen here in our artpack.) But there is always some kind of news, trivia or minutiae to dissect! For instance, this month we are proud to play host to the artscene debuts of two talented artists: Uglifruit must be one of the very few members of the neo-teletext renaissance to have thus far escaped our nets, while Bhaal_Spawn should make Crowkeeper's Tweets a little less lonely, joining him in holding down the literary side of our venture here with their illustrated #gamerhaikus series. This month we showcase a juvenile side of Horsenburger's teletext spelunking into the collective nostalgia, with a focus on characters from children's cartoons! (And as always, he slips in some timely matters -- mostly teletext memorials for the recently deceased.) Also exciting -- on our end at least -- is new art from Nick Lakowski. It's all the same to you folks on the viewing end, but we've just been working our way through his back catalogue with his blessing, doling out curious highlights, and just as we had reached the end of that particular slush pile... he unexpectedly slipped back into motion and began creating new art! You may not be able to tell to look at them, but his current pieces are informed by medical imagery -- which you must know was one of the early applications for computer graphics -- and hence they belong here now more than ever! Speaking of back catalogues, from here on for a while Spitoufs, who you may recall from last year's anniversary artpack, will be enriching our somewhat ANSI-deficient artpacks with never-artscene-released works from his own back catalogue, only ever seen by a few weirdos on telnet BBSes. Now, while they are far from fresh, they remain... if not exactly NEW, at least quite NOVEL... and so it gives us great pleasure to share them for the first time with a somewhat wider selection of weirdos. Do please keep your eyes open for appearances by Mistigris artists and some of our guests and artscene colleagues in an upcoming issue of the French publication "De L'Encre Et Des Tripes" ... once it hits the presses, you can get an eyeful (and I mean it, folks, this site is NSFW if anything is) at dledt.tumblr.com ... and of course Teletext ringleader Illarterate continues to present Alien Escape Rooms & Drop-in Art Workshops as part of his Search for Teletextual Intelligence series at Wigan STEAM on Aug 2, 19, Sept 2 and 16, plus the "Summer of Teletext" art exhibition Fri Sept 1st. Don't miss out on Overflow #002 at the Fox Cabaret Wednesday, August 30th! The Vancouver Chipmusic Society will be presenting a formidable slate of chiptune practitioners in a Pre-PAX performance featuring Mega Ran & Sammus, Together We Are Robots, Freaky DNA and Unicode, with live visuals by Vectrola and Alterus. Did I miss anything? There are always other projects bubbling away on the back burner, but probably nothing that can't sit 30 days until our next newsletter. Until then... ÛßßßßßßßßßßßßßÛßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßÛ Û ÛßÛßÛ ß Ûßß Û ß Ûßß ÛßÜ ß Ûßß Û Û Û Û Û Û ßßÛ Û Û Û Û ÛÜß Û ßßÛ Û Û ß ß ß ß ßßß ß ß ßßß ß ß ß ßßß Û ßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßß Mistigris 2017:  "There's nothing as exciting as being born or dying going on here this month." SAUCE00MIST0817 Newsletter Cthulu and piquANSI Mistigris 20170728}P]