#newschool ASCII

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Mistigram: Hmmm... here's some food for thought! This contemplative #ASCIIart adaptation of #TheThinker, the crowning element in #AugusteRodin's #GatesOfHell, was made by @littlebitspace and included in the new fine art-themed MIST0424 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: this newschool #ASCIIart screen of a trio of skeletons navigating the darkest time of year together was drawn by @littlebitspace in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

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Wouldn't you know it, we have to go and change the sign that currently reads: "It has been [33] days since a Mistigris release" back to zero… introducing the MIST0624 unthemed computer art collection, featuring over a hundred pieces of #textmode and texty-adjacent vintage computer imagery! We'll be sharing highlights here on social media, but if you'd like to take a big bite of it all in one go, you can download the artpack for local enjoyment via our homepage or browse it from the @sixteencolors artpack gallery.

Many thanks to Abstrakt of Fire Graphics for the guest submission of this striking #ASCIIart illustration used as its FILE_ID.DIZ!

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Mistigram: this rather abstract green newschool #ASCIIart logo for Savage Exile BBS was drawn by Plastic as part of our Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel in the FOS-0197 artpack collection released 27 years ago this month. (If you like it, he drew a dozen more that look exactly the same!)

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Mistigram: this pointy #ASCIIart logo by @atonalosprey reads #Leviathan, indicating the Biblical sea monster. Looks like it might describe a badass metal band, but actually the design comes from a 2012 documentary of the same name about the fishing industry. Hardcore! This piece was included in the creepy new MIST1023 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: this newschool #ASCIIart logo for Geekboy's BBS "Stupidmop" was drawn by Dead Soul in the style of his Mist ASCII colleague Weird, and was released in the MIST0897 artpack collection released 26 years ago this month.

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Mistigram: this newschool #ASCIIart screen for Acolyte's BBS "Flatscan" was drawn by Frgnfruz and included in the MIST0797 artpack collection released 26 years ago this month.

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Mistigram: this stylish newschool #ASCIIart logo for "Purge" was drawn by Dead Soul and included in the MIST0897 artpack collection released 26 years ago this month.

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Mistigram: this pointy newschool #ASCIIart logo for #DoveNet was one of several pieces of textmode iconography drawn by CodeFenix of @ConChaosBBS in the new MIST0223 artpack collection on that topic, the Dove-Net QWK messaging network for enthusiasts of SynchroNet BBS systems.

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Mistigram: yes, we have fond memories of playing Nibbles, too! This squiggly newschool #ASCIIart logo celebrating our own fine selves was drawn by Publius Emeritus II and included in the MIST0220 artpack collection released three years ago this month.

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Mistigram: our guest Amy of #Pizzatoe keeps things Halloweeny with this spooky outsider #ASCIIart tableau featuring a couple of Jack o' Lanterns grinning in a blasted graveyard while bats flitter across the swollen orange harvest moon and Ghostface gets his witch's hat blown off by a stiff breeze. This piece was included in the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: is it #teletext? Is it #ASCIIart? Yes. I'll tell you what it is: #vanitas. This #skull (in the sand, as the screen's title helpfully reminds us) is the handiwork of @atonalosprey (what did he do with the rest of the guy? You don't wanna know!), and was included in the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: this is the only part of a larger suite of somewhat hostile #teletext #ASCIIart typographical works by @atonalosprey that we managed to include in the recent unthemed MIST0624 artpack collection, but under some circumstances it remains excellent advice. #deleteyouraccount

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Mistigram: you might assume that this monochrome newschool #ASCIIart logo by Weird was extolling the virtues of random number generation, but in fact it was intended for use in promotion of the Raging Hype's project (a BBS?) Ruins of Neon Genesis. This piece was included in the M-9801 artpack collection released 26 years ago this month.

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Mistigram: Wishbringer, SysOp of Juice BBS, was a local #ASCIIart practitioner who passed through our ranks between stints in the perennial "#3" artscene crew at CiA, ("Creators of Intense Art"). This newschool logo celebrating them marked the beginning of his official association with our Mist crew, by way of our Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel in January of 1997, 27 years ago this month.

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Mistigram: our early revival flagbearer @Freddy43 cooked up an idea for an #ASCIIart logo printer we needed to prototype. Unable to scrape together new imagery for the demonstration, we cannibalized a '90s piece by our own Dead Soul and included this animation in the MIST1117 artpack collection released six years ago this month.