Mario Bros Installation

LINK quote [Une installation d'art intitulée "Landscape" avec un étonnant et complet paysage de Super Mario Bros. Une décoration pleine de couleurs et d'éléments du célèbre jeu vidéo. Plus d'images dans la suite].
(via Fubiz)

A Rock, according to different video games

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quote [Here's a magnificent grid showing how a humble rock would be displayed by an enormous variety of video games' rendering engines].
(via Boing Boing)

WTF?! World of Warcraft parody

LINK quote [The time/space continuum of Azimuth has enfolded. A Rift Lord's unwittingly opened a portal from the earthly netherworld, and the place is crawling with infamous historical thinkers, like Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Mary Daly, each of whom is trying to enlist your help in effort to figure out WTF Azimuth is all about. And... as you might imagine, there's plenty of conflict as they attempt to make sense of the ways in which, as Mary Daly puts it, "the game naturalizes a Western militaristic heterosexist hypersexualized patriarchal capitalism, played out in relation to a spiritually infused race war - kinda"].

Super Pii Pii Brothers

LINK quote [As any good geek should know by now Japan has some of the wackiest and most unusual products anywhere. So when we were visiting Tokyo recently and saw lines of Japanese schoolgirls waiting to play an amazing new game for the Wii called Super Pii Pii Brothers we were only a little surprised].
(via Kinkerbelle)
[More about urinals and videogames at Unscathed Corpse]

The Graveyard

LINK quote [The Graveyard is a very short computer game designed by Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn. You play an old lady who visits a graveyard. You walk around, sit on a bench and listen to a song. It's more like an explorable painting than an actual game. An experiment with realtime poetry, with storytelling without words].

Space Invaders Carpet

LINK quote [Janek Simon, a Polish artist, makes these marvelous video-game inspired Oriental rugs].
(via Boing Boing)

Mr. Mothball

LINK quote [ Mr. MothBall (by Polish designer Mateusz Skutnik) is a classic piece of platforming action: using the arrow keys, roll the hero through each of 21 levels collecting as many points as possible before hitting the exit. As the game progresses, new elements such as gates, switches and push-able blocks are introduced].
(via Jay is Games)

Some Not-So-Usual Photos

quote [These are photos of one Russian online community members of which enjoy making some staged photos with creepy plot. Here we have some of their recent topics, like:
“A Cheating Wife: You need to make a photo of a man, “a lover”, hanging outside the real window. The window should be not lower than a 3rd store of a multi-stored building. “A husband” should lean out from another window with a gun, aiming at “the lover”. From yet another window “the cheating wife” should look out in despair.”
“The Waiter: A man dressed like a water should crawl out of a refuse chute in some multi-stored building, right from the disposal opening. He should hold a tray with some servings and a towel in another hand” ...]
(via English Russia)

Game Over Project

quote [GAME OVER is one of the art projects developed by the Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond. It consists of a series of collaborative animation movies which revive some of the very first video games. The pixels are replaced by a group of real human-beings that are moving from seat to seat in a theatre during about 4 to 6 hours. Each "pixel" has its own rules and decides what s/he wants to do for each picture. Once all these pictures are turned into a short animation movie, a giant human-scale video game unfolds "live". The project started with video performance of Pong. The second video was Space Invaders on June 24th 2006, followed by Pole Position on February 11th 2007, and Tetris on November 24th 2007].
(via Bibi's box)
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Celebrity Photo Hunt

LINK quote [Peel back your eyelids and search for the sexy differences in the photos we show you. We even time you!].
(via Badgirl's Hotbox)

Synapsis

LINK quote [Synapsis is a new and exquisitely detailed, 3D modeled and animated, point-and-click adventure game that was just dropped into our suggestion box by one of its authors, Rob James. Explore the mind of David Carter who is "possibly dead, possibly mad, or maybe just in an alternate reality" by visiting a series of rooms and solving puzzles within each. Synapsis manages to fold a good dose of abstract dementia into a great-looking game without pulling the experience apart at the seams].
(via Jay is Games)

Chasm Game

LINK We love Chasm. Every day older, but still good and funny.

Nintendo Mario Villain Scarf

LINK quote [I made a lovely scarf for a friend of mine. It only took me a year to make due to my laziness for making graphs and all the damn colors. I lined the back with fleece. It's super warm too. Disregard my craptacular photopasting skills].
[Previously: Crafting a Mario or even a Yoshi]

Fate by Numbers

LINK quote [Fate by Numbers is a sci-fi noir FMV adventure game. You assume the role of Alice Sanger, female private eye. She is assigned to get a briefcase, but quickly finds herself immersed in a web of corruption and shadowy motives. What follows is a mysterious journey through the layers of a future metropolis with 50's noir influences].
(via Independent Gaming)

Spooks Adventure Game

LINK quote [“Spooks” is as close to the Land of the Dead that you can get with a pulse. In this immersive Sierra-style adventure, you play as Mortia, an adorably cynical little ghoul girl. The game starts with your average visit to the Carnage-Val, a theme park where the only thing more dysfunctional than the rides is the staff].
(via Jay is Games)

Halloween Game: 5 Days a Stranger

LINK The Story [Get in, get the loot, get out... that's how it usually goes for master cat burglar Trilby. But after he breaks into the supposedly vacated country manor erstwhile of the aristocratic DeFoe family, he quickly finds that things are not that simple. Together with a group of strangers, he finds himself imprisoned by some invisible intelligence. A force prepared to do anything to keep them there. Up to and including murder... As the killings begin and suspicion threatens to tear the group apart, it's up to Trilby to unite his squabbling companions and destroy the supernatural entity that victimises them. But what exactly is it? What is the dark secret attached to DeFoe Manor? And what is the significance of the masked maniac who haunts their dreams?].
(via Jay is Games)

Escape From Octlien

LINK quote [Escape From Octlien is an escaping game. This game takes place on a spacecraft in a distant future and have quite futuristic graphics. Apparently you must in search of "plates". Good luck and have fun!].
(via Room Escape Games)

Almost-free Squirting Blood Effect

LINK quote [This instructable will show you how to make a Swiffer WetJet mop into a sweet squirting blood effect. Also included is a cheap way to make fake blood. Add on the optional circuitry, and you can get a pretty decent heartbeat effect to boot].
(via Random Good Stuff)

Crafting a Mario or even a Yoshi

LINK quote [This is fun … download, print out and just craft you own].

Video Games Hidden in 80s Albums

LINK quote [One strategy that major record companies have been employing lately to deter downloading is adding bonus computer content to new CD releases. I recently discovered that this technique is not unique to CD's, but had in fact been practiced in the vinyl era as well. That's right: there were a handful of records released in the late 70's and early 80's that contained computer programs as part of the audio. This is totally insane, and totally great].
(via Boing Boing)