#Nick Lakowski

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Mistigram: Nick Lakowski created this beautiful painting of the spectacular and very expensive lights show #SpaceX sponsored over the Caribbean in January and March of this year. This piece was included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0525 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: The oil paintings of Nick Lakowski played a big role in our revival over the past decade, playfully demonstrating that if the subject is a good fit, you can make incredible computer art without benefit of computers. Case in point: this still from a 1988/89 advertisement for Vendex's #HeadStart computers, starring pro wrestler #KingKongBundy. This piece was included in the MIST1121 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: Yee-haw, buckaroo! How many megabytes of RAM does this little unit pack, partner? This painting by @niklkovfska, "Texas Instruments", was included in the recent MIST1121 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: KnowYourMeme.com tells us that the #ChubbyBubblesGirl image macro has been with us since debuting on 4chan back in 2009 -- a veritable epoch in Internet time -- but though she has run from many a dire Photoshop scenario, I don't know if she's ever before fled from an unruly glob of paint. (That said, it was only a matter of time before she spoiled some painter's canvas! @niklkovfska simply had the honour of being among the first to capture her feverish little footprints running across his palette.) This painting was included in the recent MIST1121 artpack collection on themes of technology and internet culture.

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Mistigram: this painting of intrepid space explorers (simulated, in training, or otherwise) was made by @niklkovfska and included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0523 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: this painting -- partly abstract, partly representative... but still very difficult to describe! -- titled "Cloud Pyre", was made by @niklkovfska (who you can see is still painting up a storm!) and included in the MIST0117 artpack collection released six years ago this month.

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Today on Mistigram, the painting "Bowel Spectre" by @niklikovfska from the recent MIST0817 artpack collection, wearing its inspiration of medical imagery plainly in its title. http://ift.tt/2wgVR35

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Today on Mistigram, the painting "Redactophoria" by @niklikovfska, released in the recent MIST0617 artpack collection. Looks almost how Basquiat would have painted a screen full of random ANSI blocks! http://ift.tt/2tdoexL

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Today on Mistigram, a painting from MIST0317 by @niklikovfska entitled South Fraser Perimeter Road Blockade, commemorating resistance circa 2011 against the Deltaport Gateway freeway construction through farmland and First Nations archeological sites and near the environmentally threatened Burns Bog site. http://ift.tt/2nenD8o

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Today on Mistigram, the painting 'Island 2" by @niklikovfska , released in the recent MIST0317 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2mXq1RA

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Today on Mistigram, "Mimic Murmuring", painted by @niklikovfska and released in the recent MIST0217 artpack collection - a colourful image for another drab snow day. http://ift.tt/2lOAxcF

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Mistigris 2017 Holiday Gift Guide

Mistigris does not maintain an online storefront. Setting one up might be a good idea, but what with releasing artpacks on a monthly basis it leaves us very little extra time for virtually any extracurricular activities.

That said, several of our contributing artists DO maintain estores and are open for business this holiday season! I don't know if these goods will be guaranteed to arrive by Christmas Eve if they ship today, but I do know that there are readers out there who REGARDLESS still have presents to order that may well be arriving belatedly, and so ... please allow us to present the 2017 installment of the Mistigris 2017 Holiday Gift Guide:

Just about everything you've seen by Awesome Angela in a Mist pack (and quite a bit more besides!) is for sale -- selling these pieces is the main reason she makes them. But because e-commerce is not a solved problem for a small business, your best bet is to catch her tabling at a con or craft fair. That said, if you reach her at her Facebook group she will be only too happy to make arrangements to sell and ship you one of her fusion bead creations!

bryface has lived up to our pledge last December, taking on the chipmusic evangelist mantle with great gusto and aplomb; I don't know that he has any /new/ recordings for sale, or indeed any physical recordings at all at the moment (he's been known to vend SD cards stuffed with his tunes) but his work with the Vancouver Chipmusic Society is so important, I urge you to encourage him any way you can, even if it's just by gifting a digital download of his compositions to a friend and blowing their mind.

Mist Classic visual artist Etana has her original paintings available for sale ($80-250), takes commissions, and plenty of other goodies to dress your walls, phone and sofa with. (But I still have the only Mistigris coffee mug she designed! When can we move that one into mass production?)

Due to a liquidity crisis, the teletext genius known as Horsenburger, responsible for lighting a fire under the entire past year of Mistigris artpack activity, is, after a move of house following a year unemployed on hiatus, currently a proverbial starving artist. He's given us so much, I will not rest until I manage to somehow drive some traffic to his storefronts so he won't suffer the very real possibility of a bare dinner table on Christmas Day. If he fades away in poverty and disappears in this era of unprecedented wealth we will have a very difficult time filling out Mistigris artpacks, so it is in all our interests that we give generously to keep him going.

There's a wide range of goods bearing his incredibly prolific designs on them, in addition to which you can commission original 3-bit teletext designs by him, second to none, or support him on an ongoing basis through Patreon. (Just please, after last week, no more $1 subscriptions!) I don't know if he has a Bitcoin wallet, but if you are willing to give, we will see to it he gets set up with one!

Jellica Jake, the psychedelic alt-teletext guru, has "Cosmic Moon Wolf" stickers for sale. You sure loved them on social media, so maybe you'd like one of your own? Contact them to make arrangements today!

Tireless painter Jenn Ashton has been not much seen in Mist packs as of late -- but not because she has trailed off in her art practice, but rather the opposite reason: too busy making and moving art to take part in our curious little historical re-enactment over here. That said, if her work is to your taste, as well as art books (!) she sells a wide range of both prints and originals of her pieces as well as a variety of other goods patterned after her designs:

I appreciate that Mistigris audiences have only just seen a single appearance of a single piece of work out of Leah Nilson, but I've had my eye on her design practice for over a decade and understand that her storefront belongs on this list as surely as her artwork belonged in a Mist pack! (Which is to say: to the extreme!) (insert guitar solo here) While her newest stuff is only available at Kenora-area craft fairs, she has last season's electronic storefront where you can find a sprinkling of her designs that, unlike much of this stuff, you wouldn't have to be a weirdo to have decorating your house.

The textmode art designs of our patron saint Blocktronics typography wizard Matt Matthew are available as prints and you would be exceedingly foolish to not take advantage of the opportunity to class up your house with his works on every flat surface.

Melissa Grimm is slinging jewelry and collaborative art commissions out of her website.

I can see that I'm now sadly three days late to advise you to support Melodia's "Paleotronic" magazine Kickstarter, but I bet you still might find some way of cutting a deal to get your hands on some of the perks.

It didn’t ever really occur to the Mythical Man that anyone would want to buy his paintings… but he was delighted when someone inquired, and is happy to sell his original pieces. Just ask him about the one you’d like! (And check out this commission…)

A selection of the colourful original paintings of Nick Lakowski (with the most delightful names!) are for sale at prices ranging from $360-1150.

Longtime artscene fellow traveler Pinguino has been turning up more prominently in Mistigris artpacks this past year and should also be unleashing a new round of stickers Real Soon Now.

Starstew has a veritably Protean art practice; at present you can purchase the new annual edition of his recent sketchbook.

Theresa Oborn's feverish brain has also been launching volleys of hot, unfettered creativity in more directions than last year; her prints are very charming and her sculptures unreasonably affordable, so I hope that you each take home eight or nine.

This list has been abridged from the original 2016 posting (where you can find a lot of most righteous music), truncated on this occasion to only include artists who appeared in our artpack releases over the past calendar year (and mattmatthew, who despite not being around much these days gets a free ride on account of his historical helpfulness and general excellence, artistic and otherwise.) If I've missed someone, please let me know and I will update the master list!