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Mario Christmas Mural Video

Posted by timothy on from the everything's-bigger-in-texas dept.

Daniel LeBlanc writes "Just in time for the Christmas Season, I drew an NES 8-Bit styled mural on the side of my high school. The mural consists of Yoshi pulling a sled with a Santa Mario and an Elf Toad." Here are both the video of the mural coming together a full photo gallery of the mural.

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  1. Not just any graffiti, by poor_boi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not just any graffiti, 8-bit graffiti. Oh stop being such a grinch, it was a cool project.

    1. Re:Not just any graffiti, by donaggie03 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The term graffiti has very negative connotations, because most people think this means that no permission was given for the project. The website says permission was given, and in fact this mural was done by a legitimate school club. As for your assertion that the project is lame, well it is a mural of very popular video game characters, isn't it? I think that satisfies the nerd requirement here. So what is the problem here? Are you simply against a few high schoolers having a little fun?

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    2. Re:Not just any graffiti, by virgil_disgr4ce · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Seriously-- I can't help but think that the people who tag this as "wasteoftime" are the same people who sit in their basements consuming instead of creating, who convince themselves that any activity beyond console games and doritos are a waste of time. Sigh.

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    3. Re:Not just any graffiti, by rock217 · · Score: 3, Funny

      No it wasn't. It's lame graffiti. Certainly not News for Nerds.
      Shocking you would post this AC, or should I say, ES?

      Bah humbug!
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  2. Re:the colors.... by i2hsu · · Score: 3, Informative

    The whole thing was done using chalks.

  3. Good administration by emkman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Besides the cool art, I think its very cool that they can do this and not get suspended, washable chalk or not. It takes a certain kind of advanced learning on the administration's part, that you might not expect from a TX high school, or anywhere else for that matter.

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    1. Re:Good administration by bladesjester · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It is indeed impressive that the administration agreed to allow this.

      Our annual end-of-year fun project in high school was painting the freshman English teacher's truck.

      Yes, it was with his permission. He was a decent guy with an interesting sense of humor. I did a double take on the first day of classes when he got in the room without walking past me as I was sitting next to the door. He used the window to come in the room in the morning.

      I think the most impressive one we did was zebra stripes and a tail one year.

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    2. Re:Good administration by grommit · · Score: 4, Funny

      How many times have you taken freshman level English?

    3. Re:Good administration by bladesjester · · Score: 2, Funny

      twice - once in high school and once in college :P

      He was a favorite teacher of the students at my high school even long after we were out of his class. The painting of the truck was done by students in all the grades, not just the freshman class.

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    4. Re:Good administration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      A better wuestion, indeed.

  4. Music from the video is on OCRemix.org by The+boojum · · Score: 4, Informative

    The page with the video linked to the OneUps' MySpace page for the music. The download link there doesn't work, but if you'd like a decent quality MP3 of it, it was posted on OCRemix.org some time ago.

  5. I Think It's Nice. by Pantero+Blanco · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is the type of thing I like to see young people doing for fun.

    I'd love to replace all the obscene graffiti painted or carved around the University campus with lighthearted cultural references drawn in chalk.

    It may not be the most productive thing for them to do, but it has more benefits than a lot of things people waste time on (eg, porn, WoW). A group of friends enjoyed making it, and plenty of people will probably enjoy looking at it.

    Next time you're in a public restroom and there's a crudely drawn penis on the wall, erase it and draw a Mudkip. The world will be a (slightly) better place.

  6. Re:Yoshi 8-bit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'll give you Yoshi being introduced in the 16 bit world, but he still made an 8bit appearance with Yoshi's Cookie on the original NES during the time when Nintendo was still making games for the NES but switching their focus to the SNES. so, 8-bit is still accurate but slightly misleading.

  7. Re:Grafiti by Adult+film+producer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    huh? It's freaking chalk, get a clue.

  8. Re:How quaint by donaggie03 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your argument would make sense if a 30 year old made this mural, but that is not the case. The people who did this are current high schoolers, and they did it for their own amusement, not for us old timers.

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  9. Re:Yoshi 8-bit by Khakionion · · Score: 2, Informative

    True, but he later appeared on the NES in Yoshi, so he's still a valid 8-bit character.

    How's that for nit-picky? :)

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  10. Re:Not just any graffiti-Positional. by matt1553 · · Score: 2, Funny

    They call them selves the "Solid State Society", make a video of a gaming related mural, and post on /. Good luck with the sex.

  11. Re:the colors.... by Opportunist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, we did have a really ancient TV back then...

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  12. Re:Grafiti by knight24k · · Score: 3, Informative

    huh? It's freaking chalk, get a clue.
    Not only that, but considering they had permission, that removes it from the graffiti category and pushes it into the alternative art category. Then there's the fact that they had some pics showing them cleaning it up afterwards. Oh wait, that would require actually RTFA....nevermind I forgot where I was....again.