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Mostly Atari-related projects, and other ramblings. Home of the Artie the Atari comic strip.

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Homebrew Art, part 6 - Warring Worms: The Worm (re)turns

Warring Worms: The Worm (Re)turns (2005) Warring Worms: The Worm (Re)turns was my first non-contest label. I was asked by Billy Eno to create the label for his update to his earlier game Warring Worms. WW:TWR is sort of like Surround but the players have weapons and the game variations number into the thousands. I don't recall if it was Billy or myself who thought of the concept, but basically it was a riff on a line from Austin Powers about sharks with "frickin' laser beams attached to thei
Nathan Strum

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The Imitation Game - Review-free review

The Imitation Game is…   Wait a second.   It just occurred to me that writing these reviews is an awful lot like writing book reports back in high school.     I hated writing book reports.   The Imitation Game gets an 8/10.
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Big Hero 6 - Spoiler-free review

I went to see Big Hero 6 well over a month ago during the Thanksgiving weekend, so this review is a bit late. In fact it's really late, because I saw the movie a couple of weeks before that, and still hadn't written a review.   I first saw it at work, when co-director Don Hall screened it for our students, and did a Q&A afterwards. This was a great chance for the student to see the film and hear Don talk about it, but I was stuck halfway behind a pillar in the back corner of the room durin
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Post Clone Wars

No no no... Post Clone Wars is not a breakfast cereal. But that would be kind of awesome - a breakfast cereal where all of the pieces looked exactly the same! No odd-shaped ones or broken bits in the bottom of the box, because, you know... they'd be clones.   Ummm... right.   Where was I?   Oh right, Star Wars: The Clone Wars.   So, I used to blog about the show while it was on the air. Then Disney pulled the plug after season 5 without wrapping up the series properly - mainly because Cl
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Nathan Strum

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Homebrew Art, part 7 - Go Fish! contest entries

Go Fish! (2005) This was the sixth label contest I'd entered, and with it my three-contest winning streak came to an end. But it was a good run while it lasted. Go Fish! is Bob Montgomery's take on games similar to Intellivision's Shark! Shark! I started with sketches in Painter. Each element was drawn on a separate layer so I could move them around as needed. Note in the first sketch there's a giant shark head looming in the background. I'd eventually move this into my second contest entry
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Nathan Strum

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Homebrew Art, part 2 - Backfire contest entry

Backfire (2003) Backfire was the second contest I entered (and lost). At the time, since I was still just getting back into drawing, I opted to make the label using 3D software (the long-defunct Infini-D) instead of illustrating it. The different elements were rendered out separately, then combined in Photoshop so I could tweak transparency and position, and add effects. What I was trying to go for was something reminiscent of the Imagic labels - where they kitbashed models and photographed t
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Nathan Strum

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Comic Strips

Artie the Atari - The Lost Episodes

Okay... these aren't so much "lost" as "procrastinated".   I had written and nearly completed these strips almost two years ago, as the conclusion to the "100th episode spectacular" storyline.   To recap: consoles began mysteriously disappearing. It turned out that Evil Artie was responsible, having assembled a massive army of zombie E.T. cartridges from the Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill. What was Evil Artie's plan? Where was he taking his army? What happened to all of the
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New old music - parts 6 & 7

Hey, hey - it's two-fer-one!   I've admitted before to being a fan of The Monkees. After Davy Jones' passing, the three remaining ex-Monkees got together and did a concert tour. Now, I didn't go and see them, since I had a hard time justifying the expense. Good tickets were crazy-expensive, and frankly, reunion concerts more often than not leave something to be desired. I'm more interested in new work, than hearing old work endlessly trotted out.   To that end, Michael Nesmith has had an ext
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Nathan Strum

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Monsters University - Spoiler-free Review

Well, I'll admit I wasn't expecting much from Monsters University. I thought the original Monsters Inc. was a pretty-good movie, but not among Pixar's best. Since I'd first heard about Monsters U, it always struck me as being the sequel (or prequel) nobody asked for.   Also, it's been pretty frustrating watching Pixar deteriorate into a sequel machine. Toy Story 3, Cars 2, Monsters U... 3 of their last 4 films were sequels. 4 out of 5 if you count Planes (which was actually made by Disney Toon
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