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A pixelated sculpture of a killer whale seems to leap into mid-air, while the sunset lights of North Vancovuer reflect in the water behind it.
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Mistodon: in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection, Cthulu was explicitly looking to adapt imagery suggestive of Mist's origins in area code 604 (ak…

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MIST0826/US-WELCOME_TO_THE_NOUSNIVERSE Mistigram: this pseudoreflective logo was submitted as monochrome #pixelart by @nouscentric, but Cthulu thought it could …

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A floating, glowing cyan head wearing a turban carefully pronounces magic wish-giving syllables from inside a tiny kitschy shrine.
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Mistirgam: our unthemed MIST0823 artpack collection, released three years ago this month, was assembled in the immediate wake of the death of #PaulReubens aka #…

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Mastodon post by mistfunk.wordpress.com@mistfunk.wordpress.com
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MIST0526/US-GO_STICK_YOUR_HEAD_IN_A_PIG Mistigram: @zeusii drew this stone cold #ANSIart silhouette of an alien city skyline beneath a gas giant and a tear in t…

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A blue man in reflective aviator sunglasses, perspiration beaded purple on his face, presents a shadowy profile against a rainbow background.
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Mistodon: still with the books-themed MIST0426 on the brain, Cthulu recently stumbled across a copy of #BruceSterling's seminal #Mirrorshades #cyberpunk antholo…

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A grey robot with a dented head looks down at the viewer with glowing green eyes.
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Mistodon: for last month's new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection, Cthulu drew some #ANSIart in tribute to Brad Bird's 1999 animated film adapta…

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A samurai hacker stands in front of a Sumerian archway into a neon cyberscape.
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Mistodon: sometimes you get far enough into yr preliminary layout of an #ANSIart adaptation that you realise, gulp, this is going to be more small-scale than I …

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MIST0526/MIST0526.MEM Mistigram: Cthulu dutifully traced the monochrome poster art to Fritz Lang’s 1927 German expressionist film #Metropolis as #blockASCII, th…

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MIST0526 FILE_ID.DIZ Mistigram: since 2018, we have released a science fiction-themed artpack every year in the month of May. We weren’t going to make it this y…

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A tiny red silhouette of an airman, torn out of paper, leaps a merry jig against a field of blue, opposite a black aircraft.
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Mistodon: #PaulBacon's famous 'Big Book Look' cover art design to #JosephHeller's 1961 satirical anti-war novel #Catch22, featuring 'the little guy that I tore …

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Cover art to the 2001 volume of experimental poetry Eunoia. Behind the letter E is a band of white background, behind the U, green, behind the N, grey, behind the O, blue, behind the I, red, and behind the A, black, as dictated by Rimbaud's poem "Voyelles".
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Mistodon: "Awkward grammar appals a craftsman." Cthulu made an #ANSIart adaptation of the cover design to experimental writer #ChristianBök's unforgettable 2001…

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Against a red backdrop is seen a chalky white handprint, behind bold black letters proclaiming the name of the book Justine, and the author's name as though autographed, Lawrence Durrell.
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Mistodon: for the recent books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection, Cthulu made this #ANSIart adaptation of #BertholdWolpe's cover design for the 1957 novel #Jus…

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A white rhino callously trots across the front cover of a play
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Mistodon: because 'books' doesn't just mean 'fiction' and 'non-fiction', here's Cthulu's #ANSIart adaptation of #RoyKuhlman's 1960 cover design to #EugeneIonesc…

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A rotund moustached man clad in bizarre, ill-fitting garb is confronted with the unwanted attentions of a cockatoo in the streets of New Orleans
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Mistodon: #MyronGrossman and #MichaelTedesco's cover illustration to #JohnKennedyToole's postumous 1980 New Orleans novel #AConfederacyOfDunces, depicting antih…

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MIST0426/CT-THOMAS_PYNCHON-GRAVITY’S_RAINBOW Mistigram: If you haven’t had the strange pleasure of reading #ThomasPynchon’s 1973 magnum opus #GravitysRainbow, “…

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A radiant haloed godhead in white flowing robes directs a golden chariot pulled by four white horses across the heavens, traversing the signs of the zodiac as lesser beings on the ground below bask in the light of its passing.
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Mistodon: perhaps Cthulu was overcome with hubris, his tragic flaw, attempting to depict everything in the heavens and on the earth using only 80 columns, but n…

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Splash screen for the Richard Cory Interactive Adventure, whose name is spelled out in a big dotty ASCII art logo made of slashes and punctuation marks.
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Mistodon: trotting an old joke around the track once again, in last month's new books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection Cthulu made a batch file DOSbox adaptat…

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MIST0426/CT-ALLEN_GINSBERG-HOWL Mistigram: OK, we shared Burroughs and Kerouac, so let’s wrap it up and complete the Beat set. ‘I saw the best minds of my gener…

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MIST0426/CT-JACK_KEROUAC-ON_THE_ROAD Mistigram: from one celebrated ’50s typewritten manuscript to another, today we look at Cthulu’s attempt to adapt #BillEngl…

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The letters of the name of the book Naked Lunch appear in different sizes in black against a yellow backdrop, punctuated by thin blue rectangles in a postmodern nod to free jazz.
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Mistodon: yesterday we shared an image of a typewriter, and now logically we progress to #WilliamSBurroughs' 1959 #NakedLunch, whose 1991 Cronenberg film adapta…

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In and around a big friendly house shaped like the numeral 1, rockets fly, bombs drop, a football is caught, a man cooks a pizza, a dog wags its tail, mainframes whir and a man shakes the hand of a book next to an easy chair.
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Mistodon: the great thing about hitting on an artpack theme like that of books, recently explored in last month's new MIST0426, is being reminded just how many …

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Superimposed upon a maze-like diagram in three colours (green, blue and orange) are large letters reading TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES. The 2nd T in TWISTY extends down into the maze with a down-pointing arrow. The first two words are in white, the third in orange. Beneath in small text reads An Approach To Interactive Fiction, and further beneath in the maze the name of the author, Nick Montfort, is stated.
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Mistodon: looking for representation from the non-fiction field for last month's new literary MIST0426 artpack collection, Cthulu opted to make an #ANSIart adap…

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The sum of the words Blindness written against a white bacakground, superimposed against each other, eventually yields a dark mass in the centre of the page against which the word Blindness can be seen written in a contrasting white colour.
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Mistodon: one of the first #ANSIart screens Cthulu started when the idea of doing a books-themed artpack came up (and also, after quite some turbulance, the ver…

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A bald man wearing red goggles in a transparent dome helmet must be facing Batman and Batgirl, who are reflected through snowflakes in its front. Beneath a logo reads ICY, embedded in ice cubes, and Draw, with frost on top.
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Mistigram: Cthulu found this badass image, Bruce Timm's cover artwork to Dec 1994's Batman Adventures Holiday Special #1, while cruising for ADVENT25 subjects..…

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