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

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Shut up!

Finally!   After a few very frantic weeks, I've managed to all-but wrap up a bunch of projects.   The semester at work is ending this Friday, and I taught my last class Monday. Of course, when January rolls around, I get to start it all over again.   The manuals for Space Battle, Phantom II/Pirate and the AtariVox are basically finished, and are just going through final proof-reading now.   And yes, since they're already on sale, that's probably a good thing.   The sprites for Toys
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Star Trek 3... and beyond

Since the Star Trek reboot seems intent on recycling old story elements for their films, I thought I'd help them out with a plot summary for the next one.   Okay… it starts out with a group of space hippies who steal Spock's brain.   Their society (which is based on ancient Rome) is under the control of an intelligent supercomputer named Landru (who talks like a 1930's gangster), and they need Spock's brain to build a weapon to defeat their enemies (space Nazis) on a neighboring planet. And
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Pacific Rim - Spoiler-free review

How do you write a spoiler-free review about a movie that is completely predictable and exactly what you expect it to be?   Beats me, but I'll give it a shot.   Pacific Rim is live-action anime. If you're at all familiar with anime, you'll know exactly where this movie is going at every turn. But really, that's the whole point. It's supposed to be an homage, tribute, rip-off or love letter to anime. More to the point, if you don't get anime, you probably aren't going to get this film either.
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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iBlog 3

No, I haven't already replaced my iPhone 5. Quite to the contrary, I've added another iDevice to keep it company: an iPad Mini.   I recently did some freelance stuff at work, so between that and the Apple gift card I got for recycling my iPhone 3GS, I had enough money to (mostly) cover the cost.   I hadn't really planned to buy an iPad, but the more I tried ones belonging to others, the more it appealed to me. Particularly for using it as a digital sketchbook. Several friends of mine all use
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Man of Steel - Spoiler-free review

Yep. Sitting in a theater again, waiting for a movie to start. But this is one I really have no expectations for, one way or the other. I'll admit I didn't have high hopes when I first heard they were rebooting the Superman movies, since after all - it's Superman. How much can you really do with it? Besides, DC's track record for movies is generally pretty bad. But some of the trailers looked pretty good. So in just a few minutes here, I guess I'll find out. The theater is mostly empty though, s
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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19th Nervous Breakdown

So, for the 19th year now (not in a row... but that's another story) I've put together the end-of-year shows for the CalArts Character Animation Program. Last year's blog blurb about this can be found here. And if you poke around enough, you'll find blog entries for these going back to 2008 (with a brief mention in 2006). Maybe it's a form of therapy or something. In a weird sort-of way, I kind of wish I'd been blogging about this since the first one I did. A lot of lost memories along the way.
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Star Trek Into Darkness - Spoiler-free Review

To recap the first film:   http://youtu.be/OTfBH-XFdSc   Okay, so with that out of the way, yet again I find myself sitting in a theater, waiting for a movie to start. In this case Star Trek Into Darkness, which I guess is supposed to be read as a sentence. So we're trekking, into darkness. Or something. Anyway, since I effectively "trekked" to the theater, and am sitting in relative darkness, the title seems somewhat apropos.   Unlike Iron Man 3, where we were hustled into the theater mer
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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A Handy thing to have

(Incidentally, I'm still really irritated by the forum software's inexplicable need to resize images that don't need to be resized. Also the fact that it doesn't indicate that the image has been resized, nor give the viewer any clue that you can enlarge it to full size by clicking on it.)   135 < PreviousIndexNext >
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Iron Man 3 - Spoiler-free review

When Iron Man 2 came out, for whatever reason, I just didn't have any interest in seeing it in the theater. Turns out, when I did watch it on Blu-ray, I liked it well enough to wish I'd gone and seen it on the big screen.   So with Iron Man 3, I decided to go see it in the theater. Some movies, you just gotta. Especially after The Avengers. And the trailers for Iron Man 3 looked pretty good.   I rarely go opening night to blockbusters, since the theaters are usually stupid-crazy-crowded. But
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Getting the Scoop on animation

A few weeks back, I wrote about the death of animation news/opinion site Cartoon Brew, as one of its founders - Jerry Beck - left the site.   Jerry returned to working on his own site - Cartoon Research - with several long-time contributors. Posting cool articles, oddities and rarities relating to animation history.   But news? Not so much. I really didn't want to return to the smoldering corpse of Cartoon Brew, either.   But now, Jerry & company have launched a new animation news and
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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The (almost) return of Starcade

As I'd pointed out in the comments of this blog entry (it'd be really nice if there were a way to link directly to a particular comment... ), the once-great Starcade video arcade at Disneyland had become a sad shadow of its former self. Back in the early 80's, it was an amazing arcade, jammed full of video games, spanning two floors.   When Disney released Tron: Legacy, they opened up Flynn's Arcade as part of ElecTRONica in California Adventure. I never managed to get over and see it though,
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Disney gets something right

Just to provide a balanced counterpoint to yesterday's post, there is proof Disney isn't entirely evil. (And of course, there's always Wreck-It Ralph. Now on Blu-ray!)   They're producing new Mickey Mouse shorts, and by the look of the first one... they've actually got it right.   A funny Mickey Mouse short... who'da thunk?
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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