#mist1116

Mistigram: This is a #teletext portrait of the animated British secret agent #DangerMouse, drawn by @Horsenburger. This screen was included in the MIST1116 artpack collection released six years ago this month.

A young man is painting with the typewriter EXHIBITION: A Museum in Limbach-Oberfrohna shows unusual pictures The Esche-Museum in Limbach-Oberfrohna has recently been presenting an exhibition on the history of the traditional Saxon "Erika" typewriter. Don't forget to visit the back of the showroom as there is also something special and unusual to see there: the "Typewriter Art" of Robert Doerfler. The young Chemnitz man produces drawings with mechanical typewriters. You can see some of his unique works, made using alphanumeric symbols and punctuation marks. "This is how we are bringing the Erika brand into the present day," explained Gabriele Pabstmann, the museum director. Doerfler is happy about the opportunity: "I've been working intensively on art since school days"; typewriter art "has fascinated me for years, and I've really brought my focus to this strange medium starting around 2014." He emphasizes the challenge of not being able to get rid of what is there once the mark is made on the page. In general, he is of the opinion that buildings and architecture can be most easily represented in this art style. Doerfler began his typewriter art career with a view of the town of Dresden. While you may not have previously seen art made using this technique, people have been drawing with typewriters here and abroad ever since the machine's heyday in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The left roller is moved and tapped with the right hand, and the "%" character is especially used a lot. The Chemnitz artist Doerfler was recommended to the exhibition through the main lender Reinhold Schubert, to whom most of the "Erikas" belonged. abu Robert Doerfler shows his "Typewriting Art" in the museum. Photo: A.Buechner

Today on Instagram, @Starstew provided us with this science fiction fever dream from MIST1116, tessellating a pixelart portrait of a spaceman (with several more "a"s) mutating through every possible permutation like some Prometheus petri dish. In its original animated form this must have been wild! http://ift.tt/2jrkGlL

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: this #ANSIart logo for the #Armbian distribution of Linux, for ARM devices, was drawn by j33p33 and included in the MIST1116 artpack collection released seven years ago this month!

Mistigram: in this #teletext screen from our MIST1116 artpack collection, #Raphael is about to unload a world of hurt on the evil #Shredder. This screen was drawn by @Horsenburger, who lives where these green heroes are known as #TeenageMutantHeroTurtles instead of #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles.

Mistigram: two years ago, our MIST1116 call for submissions among creative friends yielded literally dozens and dozens of kaleidoscopic still images from Daniel Wickert. Impressive as they were individually, we felt, flipping through them, that they managed to be both more impressive still AND truer to their kaleidoscopic essence taken as a set, lightly curated for suggested motion. Strap yourselves in!

Today on Mistigram, a striking architectural photograph by @dubaiwalla of... well, you can guess the #Berlin location. It was released in our MIST1116 22nd anniversary artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2pTfAD3