The forum is called Pixelgasm, and the theme is Nerd Art. If you haven’t seen it yet, it may not seem like much, but spend a few hours on the forum and you will see some of the best amateur art in Nerd Culture. And this is just the beginning.

After just 12 days online, the forum has 54 members, 121 topics and a whopping 2,019 posts. For a twelve day old forum, those numbers are not bad at all.

After this upcoming weekend, we will have finished our first challenge: Dr. Wily for a Day, in which members create their own robot master and create a bead sprite of the boss. My entry is Pot Man (to which I must clarify, I am not a pot head - I simply liked the idea of a Mega Man boss which uses drugs as his weapon).

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I wont go into the details to any great degree, but let’s just say that a number of the Bead Sprites Forum members felt the need for a change of venue. It is for this reason that we have created Pixelgasm: Bead Sprites, Pixel Art, Cross-Stitch & more!

This forum will showcase not only Bead Sprites, but all forms of Video Game inspired pixel art, both re-creations and original pieces. If you are into any for of art inspired by video games, feel free to join up.

We are only a few members right now, but soon we will be a thriving community of VG Artists and Craftsters!

If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour… you’re gonna see some serious shit!

My newest project is a 3-D De Lorean from Back to the Future. This project was the result of suggestions from Game Music 4 All’s Anthony. Him and I chat on a regular basis about my projects and his endeavors, which generally leads to either a bunch of mindless banter, or the fruition of something very, very cool.

This time, luckily, it was the something cool.

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The recent addition of challenges to the Beadsprites Forum has really gotten attention from the members, old and new. Some are coming out of the woodwork while others just log on much more to check the progress, but any way you look at it, the challenges are a good thing. It also doesn’t hurt that everyone on the forum is nice, despite all of trash talking in the “Place to Talk Trash” thread. I even threw a few BURN! images around for the members to use, but thus far I am the only one using them…

We’ve changed the structure of the challenge a bit for two purposes. The first is to give people more time to complete a challenge and more time to vote. The second is to allow for the first change, but not extend the time between challenges, which we accomplished by begining voting for the last challenge at the start of a new challenge. The next challenge will then last for two weeks, during the first of which members will vote, and the second of which, the winner will have time to come up with the next challenge. Right now, we are in the midst of voting for Challenge 02: Kirby Buffet, and we have begun a new challenge, made by Crausse.

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