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Street artists invade New York City with tile-mosaic Mario art photo

I miss living in or near New York City. The culture, the people, the cheap hot dogs, and the night life are unmatched almost anywhere in the world. And now there's this

Looks like some clever street artists are at it in the City that Never Sleeps, using tile-mosaics to put tiny little Marios under street-level water hookups. Now that I'm living in Baltimore, the closest thing I get to this is finding dead rats in the street and pretending its RPG-dungeon street art. It's not. 

Do you ever see any particularly cool videogame-inspired street art in your area? No? Go make some!

[Via Boing Boing]







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pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2009 21:03
pedrovay2003
Gah, I miss living in New York. I didn't spend nearly as much time in the city as I would have liked to.
Barcode's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2009 21:10
Barcode
If only my city was cool. We're the home of the cheapest most potent heroin of the Midwest. Welcome to Dayton!
mikeyed's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2009 21:12
mikeyed
I actually just visited NYC for the first time since i was a kid. I didn't expect to be blown away by it (I live near Detroit), but while I was there I was having strange visions of the Spiderman video games. It was erie, cause there were major sections of the city I actually already recognized somewhat from Spiderman 2.
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2009 21:17
MechaMonkey
Almost makes my absurdly high rent worth it.
Loogibot's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2009 21:22
Loogibot
Well, its official, I'm never moving. Out of this city that is. Gotta love that little Mario<3!
superflossy's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2009 21:23
superflossy
nick! move you and your lovely wife back here!!! and your 3 cats! my kitty needs cats friends for play dates.
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2009 21:28
Excel-2011
Neato.
garison's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2009 21:31
garison
[i]http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/01/bubble_bobble_tileart.jpg[/img]

I would definitely like to do something like this. You know what? FUck it, I am!
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2009 21:47
Tubatic
Is it just me, or isn't this sort of thing feeling very Hot Topic trendy? I've seen the subversive arty stuff with Mario or other 8 bit characters happen before. Just kinda feels like same assignment, different students. Ya know what I mean?

Maybe if this was Mega Man, I'd be less crotchity about it...
TheBigFeel's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2009 22:06
TheBigFeel
I agree with Tubatic. In Berkeley there's ? coin boxes painted on the BART support columns. This seems like the cool copycat thing to do these days.
Paul Soth's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2009 22:09
Paul Soth
There used to be a Mario-themed tagger in the north Columbus/Dublin area:

StMcDuck's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2009 22:29
StMcDuck
Bob from Bubble Bobble at the southwest corner of Fairfax and Santa Monica in Los Angeles:

Trowble's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2009 23:24
Trowble
I'm in NYC. There's a Space Invaders baddie in Sunnyside, Queens, but I haven't seen any in Astoria, my neck of the woods.
Teta's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2009 23:54
Teta
I love those things.
TheCombatWombat's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/10/2009 00:56
TheCombatWombat
I know that there had been a series of Megaman and assorted villains around Boston for a while. A bunch have come down, but Megaman is still up.
LostSoulDX's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/10/2009 02:33
LostSoulDX
I haven't seen any video game related ones. However, all over the place are stormtrooper heads. I should really take a pic of them sometime.
Dezroy's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/10/2009 03:12
Dezroy
We've got a tagger in North Shore (Auckland, New Zealand) that's been stenciling Toads of various sizes (from as tall as the average human erect adult penis to as tall as an average human 5 year old).

He's been hitting up private property though so s/he must be a bit of a douche.
TheToiletDuck's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/10/2009 03:18
TheToiletDuck
There are a few Space Invaders around Edinburgh
Quistnix's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/10/2009 05:04
Quistnix
I noticed a couple of Space Invaders in the Netherlands and Belgium:



hoppo254's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/10/2009 06:07
hoppo254
They are excellent...try http://www.space-invaders.com/

They do some excellent stuff...the art gallery i work in are trying to get them to come to Ireland to display some of the art
Takeshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/10/2009 06:54
Takeshi




This stuff is all over Amsterdam!
Nick Chester's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/10/2009 09:14
Nick Chester
It's very obvious I should move.
Speedbag's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/10/2009 09:24
Speedbag
Super cool! I myself throw up my own brand of 8 Bit art around my city. I use vinyl cut into small pixel-esq squares.

Check it out -

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KBU3Tn-0BPU/SMbBn3A7yXI/AAAAAAAAAGM/s4IQ4E1Hszk/s200/Photo-0222.jpg
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/10/2009 14:12
Holyetheline
Man... I never see stuff like this in Billings MT. :(
Artemus's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/10/2009 19:30
Artemus
That is so cool...
=)
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