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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."
Let's do something like this with the side of a building. I'm tired of playing tetris on commercial skyscrapers. Time for some side-scrolling action!
Is the Princess in another office?
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When will people learn that copying other people's copyrighted works is against the law.
I reall wish i was still in University and had this much free time .nice work
as a long time mario addict i salute you
also heres a nyud link incase it gets slashdoted
http://www.yikes.com.nyud.net:8090/~pengo/8bit/
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The falling barrels were quite real.
Where is the mushroom for that?
Oh those darned "eningeers"...
I wonder if they could use the smaller post-its for "hi-res" effect? Maybe it would be fun to do a pin-up next time :)
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
Original 8-bit glory, not the 16-bit sweetness...
Dan
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..
air and light and time and space
Which lucky lady inspired them engineers to do this?
Looks like their server has already been pixelated as well.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the light cone.
In other news, 3M stock up four points...
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http://mirrordot.org/stories/61c200ee37d14d6d1eb01 fabbc0fd57a/index.html
its a mirrordot.org mirror.... funky eh!
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It wasn't directly inspired by the Strong Bad Email, but rather inspired by a post-it mural in turn inspired by SB. Here's the Post-it Trogdor!
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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I believe the pipes don't freeze because the water is warm. And the ice is a big insulating layer between that and the deep-below-freezing Alaskan air. There's a moist cavity at the top where the stuff sprays out.
. . . moist cavity. They could've used another phrase, but no.
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There's no such thing as pointless art.
You apparently have never been to an art musem.
Original post says these draings are out of SNES Mario, Yet those are definately 8 bit sprites.
Laziness is a virtue, anyone who bothers to tell you otherwise, is clearly lacking it.
OfficeMax stickynotes are cheaper but they don't stick! Buy Post-it® brand stickynotes for a good stick everytime!
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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.
Probably not, but being twice as tall would probably have helped...
How old is your son? If he's a teenager (or older), there's really nothing to worry about. If he's younger than that, there's really nothing worse than you'd find in a saturday morning cartoon, but I doubt he really understands some of the jokes. As for "moderately bad language"... I don't ever recall any of the characters cursing, but feel free to show me an instance of such. Not that it makes any difference to me, but I'm curious where you got the idea they they are foul mouthed.
no obvious means of generating revenue
Link to their online store
They make a ton of money off of t-shirt sales. In fact, they make enough to pay for bandwidth and support themselves so they don't have to get a real job.
I've been to the site and it just looks like a bunch of crap in Flash.
It's comedy goodness. Just because it's Flash doesn't mean it's crap. I bet you're the type that judges anime as "child stuff" because it's animated. Since you didn't notice the store page, I really wonder how much time you spent at the site. The most popular part of the site are the Strongbad emails. There's a link directly to them at the bottom of the page labled "SB Emails". There are over 100 of them and are produced once a week. If you really want to get an idea of what they're like, I recommend just starting at the first one (at the bottom) and working your way up.
They're also fond of making flash games that are similar to and somewhat make fun of old 8-bit games from the 80s and early 90s. They're surprisingly fun and always have humor to them.
It's basically just some guys (and one girl) who are quite creative and funny (to a lot of people, though as for humor there's never any accounting for taste) and having a good time.
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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.
I've seen dark purple postits distributed with those silver-ink pens. The effect is pretty neat if you're a teenage girl or an office worker (not too much difference there beyond age)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
That's funny, but...
There are no barrels in this pic. There are no
falling barrels in the game from which this
pic is taken. You're thinking of Donky Kong,
which was the first game Mario appeared in.
This scene is from the origional Super Mario
Bros. I'm a very long time fan/addict of SMB.
I don't remember any SMB game with falling
barrels anywhere in it.
The falling object in this scene is a
Sharpea. Sharpea is a little fella that
hits the ground and walks back and
forth until you kill him, he kills you,
or he falls off a cliff. Sharpea is a small
creature with a spiked shell. Please don't
insult Sharpea by calling him a barrel.
The guy (some say turtle, but I'm not so sure)
that flies back and forth throwing Sharpeas
at you is called Lakipea. Damnit, I forgot my
informative tag and my nit-pick tag.
Still, your post was funny and I'd mod it as
such had I mod points.
If you can't just be yourself, then be more like me, ok?
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
Finally, art that matters... (and yes, I would call it art.)
Greetings from eighty-column display land! ( Btw, the spiny throwing guy is "Lakitu", if I remember correctly. )
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I stand corrected. Lakipea does in fact throw sharpeas like I said, but this picture was actually a Lakitu like you said. Actually though, Lakitu's throw Spiny Eggs, not Spineys. Spiny Eggs turn into Spinys when they hit the ground, but they're just eggs when Lakitu throws them. Lakipea on the other hand throws Sharpeas, not Sharpea Eggs. There are no Sharpea Eggs AFAIK. Anyway, you were correct that the pic in question is in fact a Lakitu, not a Lakipea.
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I just bought 2100 Post-It Notes(r) from Costco, I think it was about $11.
They used "~3800" for this artwork... Even if it were 5x the cost isn't that only $100.
Define "expensive"? Maybe it was a joke, but divide the expenses among the "12 people" involved and I hardly find it "expensive".
Now, if they get caught and charged with some sort of criminal littering offense, that's expensive! (And wasn't there some sort of law passed against "destroying art?" - hmm, maybe this needs to stay up...)
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Which was actually released later in japan as Super Mario Brothers USA, and was quite popular.
I wouldn't consider SMB2 to be crappy. The whole pick-up-and-throw mechanic was quite original. It's the only non-party Super Mario Brothers game where you can play as Mario, Luigi, Toad, or the Princess. Throwing bombs, riding projectiles across pits before picking them up and throwing them at bosses, the dark universe... The game was pretty darned good. If people didn't have expectations for what being a Super Mario Brothers game meant, the game would probably have been extremely well liked. Especially considering the time frame that the game was released in.
Nintendo recognized an underselling gem, and gave it a major boost. Good for them. The Doki Doki Panic guys deserved it.
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Of course it isn't pointless. It's a site advocating excessive use of Post-It notes. Note that other notes won't do; they HAVE to be Post-Its.
What a good idea! Now everyone will make Post-It murals, and they'll only buy genuine Post-It notes.
If there isn't some 3M money in this somewhere, I'll be extrememly surprised.