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Four-Story Pixellated Mario Mural
MasterPlaid writes "A group of anonymous cowards (eningeers) has apparently constructed a four-story mural of scenes from the NES Super Mario games. The best part is, they did the whole thing out of Post-It Notes, recreating the wondeful pixellated goodness we expect from Super Mario. The idea for this mural seems to have originated in the Strong Bad email of the same name."
If you think that's a cool giant pointless art project, then you haven't seen the Ice Tower (see the later pages, it only gets better).
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Well we didn't count on one thing, bean counters are not engineers. So even under the protective banner of engineering week, the most holy of weeks in the engineering calender, the econ department ripped down every post-it® note on their floor.
thats ridiculous.. why tear it down? ah well, the world needs people that destroy things too.. i guess..
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The idea for this mural seems to have originated in the Strong Bad email of the same name.
Um, I've seen all the SBemails, and I don't get this reference. There is no SBemail called "mural" or "Post-it". Post-its are used occasionally , and a mural was mentioned once though. There also was a "hack" at MIT involving a SBemail.
Anyone care to explain that reference?
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Yes, its from the original SMB, not the crappy sequel 'Sumper Mario Brothers 2' that according to rumors wasn't even created by nintendo (rumor has it that they just bought some game, changed the graphics and released it in Europe and USA as SMB2). So it's all good then :) Cool work.
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OfficeMax stickynotes are cheaper but they don't stick! Buy Post-it® brand stickynotes for a good stick everytime!
---Technology will liberate us if it doesn't enslave us first.
crappy sequel 'Sumper Mario Brothers 2' that according to rumors wasn't even created by nintendo (rumor has it that they just bought some game, changed the graphics and released it in Europe and USA as SMB2)
Rumors, nuthin'. It's well documented fact that Nintendo thought that the Japanese SMB2 wouldn't go over well in the US market -- the graphics were basically identical to the first game, which was by then several years old, and the sequel was more difficult, which would have been discouraging to the US market's large percentage of child gamers.
So Nintendo purchased the rights to another Japanese release, a disk-based game with a vaguely Arabian theme called Doki Doki Panic, and modified it to create the US version of SMB2. It was more than a mere graphics hack, too -- the music and some of the gameplay basics were altered as well, for example the original game did not allow the player to run faster than normal by holding down B.
If you think The Gates are giant, pointless art, then you . . . uhh . . .
. . . well, you're right. That's pretty giant and pointless. I'm gonna have to think a while to top it.
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I do respect the massive use of post-its.
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When your super cheap, and spent all your money on a ski pass you can also make mario with sludge/snow.
Mario World 3
http://www.mtu.edu/carnival/2005/statuepix/result
This picture was taken at winter canival in houghton.
There's been sort of an underground movement here at UTA where I work. The chalkings are quite good with lots of detail. From what I've heard the university hasn't been getting too annoyed 'cause there's no permanent damage.
Check these out:
Mario and Bubble Bobble
Believe it or not, a 14 story Tetris was made.
That ice tower is really cool. It's not pointless though. The people who put it up are a climbing group, they use it for their hobby. If you look at the rest of their site, they apparantly object to some of the regulations that make it impossible or very difficult to practice their hobby in the Alaskan parks.
The one thing I wonder when looking at that is what the absolute maximum temperature reached around there is? The freezing point of water changes based on pressure (obviously not just true for water). Under sufficient pressure and at the right temperature ice changes instantly back into a liquid. This is actually why ice is slippery, and how ice skates work and why ice stops being slippery and ice skates stop working when it gets cold enough. The highest height I could find on the captions was 136 feet. I'm wondering how high it would need to get before the bottom of the tower suddenly liquifies. Maybe that wouldn't be an issue. Maybe as it gets close to that point the plastic flow of the ice at the bottom would just keep it spreading out. What I'm worried would happen is that ice would liquefy along some fracture line, the whole thing would slip along that line and crumble into bits.
Really, really impressive though.