#mist1016

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Today on Mistigram, @daniellonglegs made this kaleidoscopic image of sea anemones as part of a batch of hundreds (!) of similar images, a subset of which were animated together in MIST1116 - due to a certain Lovecraftian quality to this one, however, with its inhuman angles and non-Euclidian geometries, it was folded early into the MIST1016 collection of eerie Halloween art. http://ift.tt/2j9Qubl

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While the version of the art included in our recent MIST1016 artpack was a static image, we all agreed that this was an optimal presentation for Ed "Starstew" Statsny's Pixkeletal ... somewhat akin to how it might be cranked out of a tractor feed dot matrix printer. I remembered how "back in the day" the old graphics viewing program CSHOW would present images that way, after performing some very processor-intensive calculations, no doubt! But CSHOW is unhappy performing in DOSBox today, and I had to go through a lot of MS-DOS graphics applications before I found one that could deliver the effect -- that of underpowered limping -- that I was searching for. Art isn't always supposed to be easy! Even computer art. (ESPECIALLY computer art!)

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Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 1, 2016 at 1:51pm UTC

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Starting off today's offerings from the recent MIST1016 Hallowe'en artpack, here's an ASCII art Gojira (Godzilla) from the desk of ldb, colourized by myself and used at the end of our infofile. I know he's supposed to be flattening Tokyo, but isn't he cute?

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Trick or Treat! Our Hallowe'en-styled 22nd anniversary (!) artpack (you may recall its awesome teaser trailer from a couple of weeks back) is officially released, and is now available for local download at http://bit.ly/mist1016 ... there is some ANSI and ASCII art, by old hands and a few new names to boot, plus our ongoing investigations into other genres of textmode art (PETSCII, Shift-JIS, and a ton of teletext!) Also lots of #inktober sketches, drawings and paintings, plenty o' varied hirez, even music... and of course it wouldn't be a Mist pack without some lit!

Mar 10 I passed a man. He wasn't human.

Like a rapidly-decaying Jack O' Lantern (yep, got one of those too!), don't let it get past optimal seasonal freshness -- grab the whole pack today and get your Hallowe'en started right!

(Featured in this post: FILE_ID.DIZ by Nail, Ambush by Raqel Meyers as ACIDT*, Happy Helloween by reNM8R, Albina by Elin Jonsson, Hellboy teletext by Horsenburger, Strange Weather by the Mythical Man, Haunted House #inktober sketch by Bonemouse, Click or Treat Shift-JIS by Kalcha, Just Because You Are Afraid Of Me Does Not Mean I Am Dangerous #inktober sketch by Theresa Oborn, Castlevania by Whazzit. (Oh yes, and the poem is by Crowkeeper.) But everything in this collection is Hallowe'eny, this is just a sampling to demonstrate its incredible diversity!)

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Get your loot bags ready because we've got homemade goodies to share, mostly razorblade-free! In the lead-up to our annual anniversary artpack release, due to the season we always see a certain quantity of spooky art submitted. Last year it was a significant portion of the artpack -- this year we elected to simply split it off into a more thematically-coherent collection all on its own.

So the creepy MIST1016 artpack is headed your way in one week -- descending upon an unprepared populace on Hallowe'en -- and to get you warmed up for it, we present a sampling of its eerie contents (but not 33rie contents, he has no time for that stuff anymore) in the form of this multimedia slideshow preview! (The annual anniversary artpack will follow in November, so fear not... by which I mean, only fear this extremely terrifying Hallowe'en computer art!)

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I have embedded it at the bottom of the initial call for submissions, but in case you don't see it go by again, you should know that today I spiced up the plain dry bread call for submissions with a classic loader-style annoucement of our upcoming artpack, complete with scrolly bars and music from the recent Tracker Fix competition. Hope it scratches a retro itch!