#Grymmjack

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Mistigram: this fun #textmode art illustration of the revolutionary #Apple2 home computer was drawn by @grymmjack and included in the new MIST1121 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: the feed being beamed back from this probe in the red zone is being excessively corrupted, it's in too deep and the signal is being degraded by radiation and interference. This #pixelart #glitch loop was made by @grymmjack and included in last month's science fiction-themed MIST0523 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: @Grymmjack wasn't releasing #ANSIart with us at that time, but he is now, so we claim eminent domain over this rather purple logo, reading "Latin", drawn by him and included in our Mistigris World Tour stop with the Blade Nation, BLDE9612, 26 years ago this month.

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Mistigram: @grymmjack 's monstrous #ANSIart screen seen here, long in the making, promotes a #QB64 adaptation of TSR's #Dungeon board game that he's been working on. This piece was included in the spooky new MIST1023 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: if it says "Happy Halloween" on the box, really today is the day to share it. @grymmjack has drawn for us this deliciously decaying seasonal visage! Your Jack 'o lantern is sharp and prim today but in a week this is what they will all be looking like, at which point there's nothing to do for it but get out the nutmeg. This piece was included in the spooky new MIST1023 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: this digital illustration, "After the Storm", is the handiwork of @grymmjack. It was also included in the MIST0721 artpack collection released just under two years ago this month, and boasts a rainbow of its own.

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Mistigram: this jumbled musical composition, a riotous celebration of the colour orange and all the potential of the entire audio spectrum, is the handiwork of @grymmjack. It was included in our music-themed MIST0121 artpack collection released two years ago this month.

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Mistigram: and now for something completely different -- we're not showing off art (well, thanks for this nice logo, @grymmjack!) but rather, we're requesting some of it! Our crew is celebrating its 30th anniversary at the end of this month, and we want to give everyone the opportunity to take part in the festivities and party like it's ... 1994.

If you have something specific in mind, we're very interested to see what you've got -- but if you could use a prompt to get the creative juices flowing, we have some suggestions:

1) We will be circulating an uncoloured, unadorned #Mistfunk logo outline and challenging the typographers among you to shade/colour/finish it off _in your own style_, hopefully yielding compelling variations on a fun theme.

2) There are thousands of artworks in our 30 years of back catalogues, and we would love to see some creative remixes, remasters, radical re-interpretations, skilled restorations and postmodern deconstructions of your favorite classic works from our back stacks.

3) As though you just fell through a time wormhole into 1994, draw up a promo for the same kinds of things we used to advertise in our packs -- the KiTSCHNet echomail network, Kithe e-mag, our WHQ the Screaming Tomato BBS (or its successor The Jade Monkey, if you prefer), or the PabloDraw ANSI editor (still under active development!) Or maybe you have a different cyberspace lost cause of 1994 that you'd like to give a last huzzah to -- a favorite MUD, newsgroup or GeoCities neighbourhood ... here's your chance!

4) If you care to open up the Moebius ANSI editor and join our networked server for the making of collaborative #ANSIart, in keeping with the #phreaking and #telephony roots of the underground computer artscene, we're hoping to collect a wide assortment of small ANSI vignettes of famous people, real and fictional, from TV, movies and real life, all taking part in a conference call on landlines, mobiles and cellular phones.

Please try to get your subs in not long after Nov 23rd, because we've gotta release this beast the following weekend! If you have any questions, you know where to find us!

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Mistigram: @grymmjack paid tribute to #Kraftwerk with this little #ANSIart celebration of our favorite man-machines. This piece was included in the music-themed MIST0121 artpack collection released one year ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CYmYZ2cshwL/

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Mistigram: @grymmjack had a laugh and a half arranging this zany #PETSCII scene, titled "#MonsterMash", full of cartoony movie monsters cutting a rug in the graveyard on a moonlit night. This piece was included in the new #Halloween-themed MIST1021 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CVnuBNVAQ57/

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Mistigram: @Grymmjack evokes the "mushed peas" #GameBoy palette with this #pixelart tribute to the original #Pokemon power couple, #Pikachu and #AshKetchum. This piece was included in last month's video games-themed MIST0921 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CVRlL2gDjun/

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Mistigram: @Grymmjack's extended #ANSIart logo (reading "Evolve" with elite numbers-for-vowels going on) may not be seen by ANSI art viewers as intended, with its custom palette, but we have it on good faith (as posted by the artist!) that this is the way it was intended to be seen and enjoyed. So you'd better be enjoying it! This piece was included in last month's MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CMK_-FyhhK2/

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Mistigram: as if the Smurf, the Space Invaders, and Cthulhu writing his infofile wasn't bad enough, continuing this epic #ANSIart Moebius joint's endless scroll to the right reveals further challenges ahead -- #Terraria's "Eve of Cthulhu" boss, drawn by @theoddfirecat , and a sassy beholder drawn by @grymmjack . And yet there's still more ahead! This piece was included in last month's MIST0221 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CM43evIjaDV/

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Mistigram: from out of the annals of history, @grymmjack emerges to celebrate, in minimalist #ANSIart, a titan in the field of demoscene tracker music -- the immortal #PurpleMotion of #FutureCrew. This screen was included in last month's music-themed MIST0121 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/CLNW1EwgZTp/

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Mistigram: if you are planning on travelling through hyperspace, you want to be pretty sure your equipment has undergone the proper maintenance before beginning your journey, as here illustrated by @grymmjack. (Beats being stranded in the Carboniferous waiting for some hominid to invent the Phillips head screwdriver!) This piece was included in this month's science fiction-themed MIST0522 artpack collection. https://instagr.am/p/Cdq-PIdO0TR/

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Mistigram: here's the #ANSIart-styled version of a dope Mistigris logo drawn by @Grymmjack for last month's MIST0221 artpack collection inspired by the #CGA palette! Yow! https://instagr.am/p/CNBMaj0glr4/