NATE NOTES

January 10, 2008 10:19 PM

"Nate Notes are crazed, obscene or blindingly profound 10x10 images that are born from blood, tears, and relentless toil. Sometimes they are funny. Please laugh at them."
posted by anarcation (27 comments total)

I liked "clam fight."
posted by ook at 10:37 PM on January 10, 2008

What's so obscene about a guy waving a cell phone in the air?
posted by PostIronyIsNotaMyth at 10:38 PM on January 10, 2008

Please laugh at them

I would prefer not to.
posted by dersins at 10:51 PM on January 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

These are great. I was skeptical at first - then "whorse" won me over. It's a strange cross between Kliban, Natalie Dee and... uhhhh.... Dan Deacon, maybe?
posted by fleetmouse at 10:52 PM on January 10, 2008

I enjoy this!
posted by mumkin at 11:03 PM on January 10, 2008

I was with him up to "Raping Situation." That seemed a bit too 4chanesque for my taste. Or maybe I'm just not getting it.

Whorse was admittedly funny, though. As was the yellow-light one, more recently.

Anyway, cool link.
posted by Kadin2048 at 11:05 PM on January 10, 2008

There's a bunch more on flickr. Some are mad funny. This one is pure Kliban.

The raping situation one made me wince. Oh well.
posted by fleetmouse at 11:10 PM on January 10, 2008

Internet morons.
posted by gottabefunky at 11:26 PM on January 10, 2008

I can see this humor being borne from a long damp dim Northwest winter.
posted by gottabefunky at 11:28 PM on January 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

In what scale are these images 10x10?
posted by RichardP at 11:39 PM on January 10, 2008

These are not funny. Maybe I need to smoke a lot of weed and be in a better mood.
posted by Henry C. Mabuse at 12:17 AM on January 11, 2008 [1 favorite]

He's right, you know. A friend of mine had a turtle. Cute little slider named Valentine. I got to thinking, hey, maybe he'd recognize me if I fed him. It went well, better than you'd think, until the day I learned a turtle's depth perception is iffy.

When there's a Red-Eared Slider with an eight-inch-wide shell hanging from your index finger by its toothless and yet surprisingly strong jaws, paddling its little turtle feet in the air, and it's all your fault, your mind goes perfectly blank from the surprise.

He let go eventually, which is good because nobody knew how to extricate me, and while he didn't break the skin I had this perfect red V-shaped mark on my finger. V for Valentine's Visually Impaired Vendetta.
posted by cmyk at 12:25 AM on January 11, 2008 [1 favorite]

I laughed at THIS one, but I'm sleep deprived and tend to go for the silly puns.
posted by heatherbeth at 12:29 AM on January 11, 2008

In what scale are these images 10x10?

Seconded, I'm wondering about that too.
posted by sidereal at 1:55 AM on January 11, 2008

They're funny, but don't they seem like they're lifting an awful lot from Natalie Dee?
posted by santojulieta at 3:26 AM on January 11, 2008

Some of these would make a mean t-shirt.

I particularly enjoy this pomegranate one. What's the deal with the pomegranate anyway? I show up to my grocery store one day and the produce section has been taken over by pomegranate displays, posters, and pomegranates.
posted by ageispolis at 5:30 AM on January 11, 2008

Pretty sophisticated for a middle schooler. Can't wait to see what he does when he matures and his art gets a lot less sucky. Until then, meh.
posted by cjorgensen at 5:43 AM on January 11, 2008

Wow. Those were...I dunno...done by a 10-year-old?
People actually laugh at these?
posted by Thorzdad at 7:33 AM on January 11, 2008 [1 favorite]

Sorry, people, could you lower your noses and your pinkie fingers? I can't see the screen.

Personally, I wish these were desktop-sized.
posted by fungible at 7:55 AM on January 11, 2008

Oh,wait. They are! Awesome.
posted by fungible at 7:56 AM on January 11, 2008

I particularly enjoy this pomegranate one. What's the deal with the pomegranate anyway?

It's full of anti-oxidants, which are supposed to fend off cancer according to the medical crowd. Its also at least in part responsible for winter, according to the ancient Greek crowd.
posted by BostonJake at 8:02 AM on January 11, 2008

I don't like joining in on snark, but I have to say I've seen a lot funnier, and a lot better drawn. But, they do have...uummm...nice bright colors?
posted by misha at 9:05 AM on January 11, 2008

I can only hope that this guy and Natalie Dee have a fight to the death over this. I'll be hard pressed to choose a side.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 9:45 AM on January 11, 2008

In what scale are these images 10x10?

Seconded, I'm wondering about that too.

"Them's some fine-grained pixels there" was my first reaction.
posted by Anything at 12:28 PM on January 11, 2008

haha.

he's funnier than you are.
posted by 3.2.3 at 1:12 PM on January 11, 2008

I can see this humor being borne from a long damp dim Northwest winter.

Hmm, I'm in the middle of one and I still don't see the magic.
posted by msalt at 11:18 PM on January 11, 2008

I won't lie; I laughed. "FAG EEL" is pretty great.

Weirdly enough, though, I can't stand Natalie Dee.
posted by Sticherbeast at 1:20 AM on January 12, 2008