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Behind a pointy Hackercore logo, a badass kittycat poses in shades inside a darkened computer room full of glowing terminals.

The aforementioned Hackercore sticker sits on a table next to a cat-head-shaped badge reader device.

Mistigram: Happy Zero Cool day! This elite #PETSCII feline #hackercore badge art was designed by @littlebitspace.bsky.social and used at last year's #Defcon conference (this year's wraps today.) It was also included in the new cat-themed MIST0725 artpack collection.

A picture of a housecat is drawn in white against a black background using punctuation marks and slashes.

Mistigram: in unixlikes, the command 'cat' outputs the contents of a file to the screen. In this case the file was a (#PETSCII) #ASCIIart illustration of a cat, so the artist @littlebitspace.bsky.social needed to 'cat cat'. This recursive piece was included in the new cat-themed MIST0725 artpack.

Vitruvian Man

#art #ascii #asciiart #bbs #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #retro #retroart #text #textart #textmode #textpunk #onebit #onebitart #skull #skulls #cranium #dark #aesthetics #vitruvian #man #vitruvianman #davinci

framed in the darkness by small architectural elements, pieces of rooftops, walls, doorways and hedges are artfully arranged to depict what might be characterised as the skull of a town golem.

Mistigram: you may recall our sharing of @littlebitspace.bsky.social 's "Castle Kit" font a bit over a week ago. As it turns out, castles are not the only thing you can draw in #textmode with its collection of remapped #PETSCII glyphs...

Danse Macabre

I did the original graphic design for a skateboard and, thanks to P1NKY, I decided to ANSIfy it with slight modifications

#art #ascii #asciiart #ansi #ansiart #bbs #textmode #skeleton #skull #skateboarding #freestyleskateboarding #waltzskateboarding

ANSI-head

#art #ascii #asciiart #ansi #ansiart #bbs #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #retro #retroart #text #textart #textmode #pixelart #pixel #8bit #8bitart #skeleton #skull #skulls #cranium #dark #aesthetics

ASCII-head

#art #ascii #asciiart #ansi #ansiart #bbs #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #retro #retroart #text #textart #textmode #pixelart #pixel #8bit #8bitart #skeleton #skull #skulls #cranium #dark #aesthetics

Deep in the Woods

#ascii #asciiart #art #bbs #c64 #commodore64 #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #petscii #petsciiart #retro #retroart #text #textart #textmode #textpunk #8bit #8bitart #tower #silhouette #moody #storytelling #forest #moon #night #magician #tarot

Skeletext

#art #teletext #teletextart #pixelart #demoscene #textmode #textmodeart #ascii #asciiart #digitalart #computerart #8bitart #8bit #1bitart #1bit #bbs #ceefax #tekstitv #skeleton #skull #rubberhose

Arising from woodland scrub and a small farmer's plot emerges the contours of a castle's walls and towers, behind the name of the artist littlebitspace, spelled out architecturally. Behind it all the night sky twinkles with stars and glows with clouds charged with faint mystical energy.

Mistigram: "Castle Kit" is one of three remapped #PETSCII fonts created by @littlebitspace.bsky.social . As its name suggests, its 8x8px blocks are intended for use illustrating scenes of monumental medieval architecture with specialised textmode semigraphics.

Written in stylish white letters against a black background, framed by curlicue textmode ornaments above, below and in the corners is written the phrase Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

Mistigram: when most artists design a logo, they don't design every single letterform in the alphabet. Here @littlebitspace.bsky.social demonstrates a #pangram, a phrase intended to demonstrate all the letters. This piece was included in the new unthemed MIST0625 artpack collection.

Art, textmode, skeletons

Looking down from above, we see a rectangular tray supporting two teacups and other tea service paraphernalia.

Mistigram: in all the beverage discourse, we overlooked one of the all-time classics. @littlebitspace.bsky.social represents here with this bird's eye #asciiart representation of a Japanese #tea ceremony service, titled "Tea Is Eternal", from the recent food-themed IMBIBE01 electronic magazine.

Because I'm obsessed with drawing ASCII skeletons

A dainty teacup flies through the air at a jaunty angle, gently separating from its saucer, as its delicious tea begins sloshing over its edge, destined for an expensive white carpet or leather sofa.

Mistigram: there's not much hot gossip in the recent food-themed IMBIBE01 electronic magazine, but nevertheless there @littlebitspace.bsky.social was, spilling the #tea, #ASCIIart style. Truly a scene to make Arthur Dent cry.

Jouer Le Rôle

#ascii #asciiart #art #bbs #c64 #commodore64 #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #petscii #petsciiart #retro #retroart #text #textart #textmode #textpunk #8bit #8bitart #skull #mannequin #puppet #marionette

Zephyr

Custom font in the making once again. I thought I'll post this and regret later as the font will likely be totally different.

#ascii #asciiart #art #bbs #commodore64 #computer #computerart #demoscene #petsciiart #retro #retroart #textmode #typography #typedesign #design

Self Portrait

#art #ascii #asciiart #ansi #ansiart #bbs #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #text #textart #textmode #textpunk #8bit #8bitart #skeleton #skull #pixelart #pixel #selfportrait #classical #classicalart #16colors #16c #sixteencolors

Ranking doesn't have to be that linear. You could just highlight the top 10 or whatever without putting them into any order. I think the ranking criteria affects a lot what people feel about it. The top pieces should rather be the most enjoyed than "the best"

You have valid points but, on the other hand, alphabetical order always highlights the works of the same artists

We need a voting system so the page 1 can be populated with the best pieces!

Nokia Art Jam 2 was a blast! Submissions for the next one open soon. Guess who's participating

Been there done that

On a textmode representation of a windowed computer desktop, overlapping windows are shown demonstrating ouija, star chart and tarot programs (that latter being the foreground program) being run simultaneously. Other programs are suggested by a task bar at the bottom of the screen.

Mistigram: on the top floor of the wizard's tower, when they're done pondering their orb they fire up a vintage 8-bit computer and use it to answer some e-mails. This #PETSCII-inspired concept sketch of DivineOS, running all the essential magic apps, was drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social.

An angular grey Mistfunk logo hovers in the blackness above a pair of small skulls facing each other.

Mistigram: we've never released a .WAD, but in the wake of "DOOM: The Gallery Experience" perhaps we should try our hand at it. In the meantime, here's a stone cold #ASCIIart / #blockASCII Mistfunk logo drawn by @littlebitspace and used as an infofile header in the recent MIST-30 celebration artpack

Cha

#ascii #asciiart #art #bbs #c64 #commodore64 #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #petscii #petsciiart #retro #retroart #text #textart #textmode #textpunk #8bit #8bitart #fuji #tea #cha #aesthetic

Guest appearances on PETSCIIBOTS? #PETSCII #C64

You've all read Linda Harden's old '90s UseNet post 'The Physics of Santa Claus', ending in the phrase 'In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.' Well, here's picture evidence.

Mistigram: for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar, @littlebitspace.bsky.social drew a magnificent and chilling #blockASCII portrait of the late Jolly Old St. Nick, apparently reduced to nowt but bones and beard following his magical night's impossible exertions.

Extreme close-up view of snowflakes in a blizzard allows us to observe that a tiny skull sits at the precise centre of each one of them.

Mistigram: with aid of a microscope, @littlebitspace.bsky.social conducted some #blockASCII research investigating just why snowflakes are so cold in this screen from today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar. His report back: be very glad they are not warm.

The Grim Reaper moonlights one night a year for Santa Claus, and sometimes he returns the favour.

Mistigram: @littlebitspace.bsky.social drew this wickedly grim #ANSIart screen for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.