Reblogged
Uncredited art that accompanied the "menu" table of contents for the French-language Micro-Mag, May 1989.
A response to Jack Haeger's "Four-byte burger"?
Source: archive.org
Mistigram: last year the "Blender" improvised computer art competition took place on 4/20 and that will be taking place again this weekend, starting on the 19th. Here's Darkman Almighty's #ANSIart illustration of its thematic topics, DRAGON / HOT YOGA / GROW-OP, part of a crowded tie for second place. To take part this time around, check out #BLENDER on the EFNet IRC or stay tuned for the announcement of the topics. General rules are up at https://mistigris.org/blender/blend.html
Mistigram: one of the funniest screens we ever released outside our intermittent Fool's Packs, this #teletext portrait of red and blue sportsmen -- a screen you can hear! -- was drawn by @jellica and included in the MIST0620 artpack collection released five years ago.
Mistigram: ChatGPT users are paying money to generate degraded #StudioGhibli imagery while our skilled craftsmen are manually adapting the real McCoy and giving it away for free. You can't beat this @horsenburger #teletext portrait of #Totoro waiting at a rainy bus stop! This piece was included in the film-themed MIST0920 artpack collection released five years ago.
Mistigram: #StudioGhibli subjects are impossible for an AI to improve on, a source of endless delight when celebrated and reinterpreted by fan artists. Here's the aquatic #Ponyo swimming around a glass teapot, drawn in #pixelart by @pinkiemme. This piece was included in the film-themed MIST0920 artpack collection released five years ago.
Mistigram: Photographer Diane Smithers never really understood what we were up to with artpacks (not the only one, I'm sure), framing our project as a species of 'visual art database' (well, she wasn't wrong!), but when I put out a call for submissions to my extensive community of colleagues from decades organizing real-world art events, she didn't let that bafflement stop her from throwing her hat in the ring and sharing some of her art photos with our online audiences. Her involvement with us doesn't rate even a footnote in her CV of incredible arts photography, but as everyone in Vancouver's live music and dance performance communities is taking a moment to process her sudden and unexpected departure, we also must acknowledge our brief time spent working with her. This photograph was included in the MIST1116 artpack collection released nine years ago.
Mistigram: before he mastered #ASCIIart, another niche field in which @littlebitspace had steeped was the world of #tea infusion and service. This piece from his back catalogue represents an overlap of both worlds, yet despite its relative vintage (only four years old!) it is still relatively fresh relatively to the materials from the '90s which it was served up alongside in the time capsule of the new IMBIBE01 electronic magazine about food and drink.
Mistigram: the Barenaked Ladies weren't the only ones to sing the praises of that uniquely Canadian culinary phenomenon, the prepackaged preparation of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese they presumed to brand #KraftDinner. This poem honouring the neon orange dish was written way back in the '90s by The Judge about his student days at BCIT, when he basically lived on the stuff, and was included in the new food-themed IMBIBE01 electronic magazine -- basically a time capsule of how the chronically online were eating 30 years ago.