Sankaku Complex used this picture to head one of their “top 10″ posts. No clue where it came from, but it’s awesomely absurd on so many levels. Mario’s hat is on fire, he’s throwing up \m/etal horns, he’s rocking a Super Star chain, and his dick is out. Oh yeah, and in case you’ve ever wondered, Mario’s dick is a veiny mushroom. On fire.
If anyone knows who made this glorious piece of deeply moving art, let me know in the comments.
This potential father-of-the-year candidate painted a 12-foot long Super Mario Bros. 3 mural on his son’s bedroom wall. Each pixel was painted over a huge grid that the father drew out across the wall. The whole project took about 2 years to complete, but the father admits he slacked for about a year and a half.
You can see lots of work-in-progress shots and a full view of the mural here.
Toy customizer Donald Kennedy aka KodyKoala made this Mario Mech out of a Merio vinyl figure, a Mario Keychain, and some parts taken from a toy mech from that Avatar movie. The dirty brushed metallic finish is awesome and the bolts are a great touch. Hopefully he does some more Nintendo mechs. Donky Kong, anyone?
About the piece, KodyKoala says:
This was something that my brother and I have been talking about for a while. We thought it would be cool to have Nintendo characters drive a mech of the themselves. This is the first of a series. I love the way this came out, and it is pretty self explanatory how it is made, except for the cockpit, which I got from and Avatar Mech Amp Suit. I am also trying a cool new background as well as better lighting, so the pictures come out crisper.
Logan Zawacki (the same dude who wrote The Excavation of Mushroom Island) sent in pics of these 4 skateboard decks that he designed for the upcoming I’M BOARD skateboard art exhibit in Jacksonville, FL being held this weekend. The games represented are Mega Man, Super Mario Bros., Street Fighter II, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
It looks like he took models from the Tony Hawk games and rendered them with the appropriate attire to fit their themes. Awesome work, indeed.
Check the gallery below to get up close and personal with the freshness of the details.
If you squint real hard at this guy’s tattoo of a piece of fecal matter, it almost looks a lot like Master Chief from Halo, only with a comically large Mario head. If this really were a tattoo of a Mario Spartan, I’d probably make fun of it for looking so terrible. Because I’m a dick. But since this is obviously a tattoo of a turd, I have no problems with this fine piece of body art.
3D technology has been getting a lot of press lately and one question that keeps coming up is when will gaming go 3D? If it were up to Nintendo, the 3D craze would have kicked off back in the 80’s when they tried to compete with Sega’s 3D goggles. Not surprisingly, both companies failed.
Maybe it’s just me, but 8-bit in 3D doesn’t seem all that immersive or exciting, even by 80’s standards. But just look at Mario in that picture. His mind is obviously blown to smithereens. Funny how game ads back then tried to trick you with realistic paintings even though everybody knew the games looked nothing like that.
Flipbook animation featuring Jesus plowing through World 1-1 with God-like speed and strength. Am I going to hell for posting this? I’d like to think Jesus thinks it’s pretty funny too.
The above photo taken by Takayuki Yoshida (aka TaktheTalk) is on a wall somewhere in Colorado. The mural features well-known gaming icons like Sonic and Mario, with some lesser-known gaming heroes like Mr. Driller and Billy Hatcher. There’s even some never gaming mascots like the Castle Crashers, Bioshock’s Big Daddy, Pipboy from Fallout 3, and even a Raving Rabbid.
Below are some more pics of the same wall, taken by Seetwist.
Here’s a shot of Big Daddy on the other side of the Alameda Video Game Wall, also known as Alameda Alley.