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“Super Google Clouds”, Djeff reinterprets iconic work by Cory Arcangel

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[GAME-INSPIRED] French artist Djeff reinterprets Cory Arcangel's "Super Mario Clouds" for the Copy Companion Club.

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Use Tetris to create 8bit images, well almost

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[GAME-INSPIRED] The algorithm created by Michael Birken uses Tetris as a printer for 8 bit images.

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“Spiral Jetty” in Minecraft, an iconic Land Art piece finds its way into the game

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[GAME-INSPIRED] The iconic Land Art piece made by Robert Smithson in 1970 on the shores of the Great Salt Lake in Utahnow has a digital counterpart in Minecraft.

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Google Street View, the game: getting lost has never been that fun

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[GAME-INSPIRED] GeoGuessr transforms Google Street View in a game! Lost somewhere in some random area captured by Google's camera, you have to guess your location

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Mesmerizing loop animations made from video games created by Nicolas Boillot

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[GAME-INSPIRED] In his series of loop animations entitled Lambeaux, Nicolas Boillot deconstructs a video to get a 24 fps loop. One of his more recent GIFs, Loops of Marvel vs Capcom, shows us this process applied to the eponymous game.

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Painting just got more fun: the installation “for(){};” is a video game projected on canvas

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[GAME-INSPIRED] A video game is projected onto three wall-mounted acrylic paintings created by Cable Griffith. A NES controller lets the audience interact with the piece.

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Pac-Man on a 3,000 square meters screen? An exhibition in Sao Paulo makes it happen!

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[GAME-INSPIRED] The facade of the FIESP building in Sao Paulo becomes the setting of "Play!" an interactive exhibition on digital art.

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A chalk drawing of Tetris comes to life in stop motion

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[GAME-INSPIRED] Tetris made in chalk art! Chris Carlson drew the game on a curved blackboard to get a better 3D rendition and animated his drawing thanks to stop motion techniques.

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Massive Tetris blocks become a sports complex in Australia

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[GAME-INSPIRED] When asked to build a sports facility in Port Hedland, a small town in Western Australia, ARM Architecture drew inspiration from its climate. The intense weather patterns of the town, such as to tropical cyclones and intense heat, were translated into the architecture of the building.

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Time for an arts & crafts session! Papercraft video game characters

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[GAME-INSPIRED] These famous video games characters from Final Fantasy, Worms or Super Marios were created in papercraft by some troubled mind. The

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The world is video game! New series by Christian Åslund

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[GAME-INSPIRED] Models shot from above become the characters of a 2D video game set in the streets of Hong Kong. The colorful road markings of the Chinese city perfectly recreate IRL the levels of a game.

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Pixelated street art takes over Toronto

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[GAME-INSPIRED] Mario, Pac-Man or Pikachu: video games characters come to life and take over the streets of Toronto in this clever street art created by Auden Glynn.

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An IRL tribute to Tetris? Michael Johansson’s piles of objects

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[GAME-INSPIRED] Piles of various objects are cleverly arranged together to perfectly fit into intricate spaces, between buildings or containers, or to become perfect squares. The installations of Michael Johansson are reminiscent of a game of Tetris IRL.

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LEGO, video games & decoration, a weird mix

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[GAME-INSPIRED] Donkey Kong, Mega Man, Mario, Luigi, Link, Pac Man, Sonic, Kirby... There are so many iconic game characters on this LEGO mural that the list could go on forever.

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Go retro: Game Boy becomes a gamepad for Android phones

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[GAME-INSPIRED] nstead of buying one of the many controllers available for smartphones, Chad Boughton invented his own gamepad to play Nintendo emulators on his phone. Since he wanted to go back to the original Nintendo experience, he chose to use a 1989 Game Boy.

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Giant NES Controller made of LEGO finally exists and it is fully functional

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[GAME-INSPIRED] This first amazing fact about this gigantic replica of the Nintendo controller is that is is entirely made of LEGO. The second thing is that it is completely functional!

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From pixel to paper, origamis of iconic video games characters

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[GAME-INSPIRED] Four iconic video games characters get the origami treatment. Yoshi, Diddy Kong, Pikachu and a Rabbid become paper-foldings. There is no more pixels, but their features are easily recognizable, even in paper.

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Dystopian concept art for an upcoming game shows us Paris in 2084

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[GAME-INSPIRED] Remember Me is an upcoming video game developed by DONTNOD Entertainment. Set in Paris in 2084, the concept art of the game imagined by Paul Chadeisson shows us a dystopian version of the City of Light.

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Cover art inspired by 8bit games could almost make the Smiths music cheerful

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[GAME-INSPIRED] The Smiths produced some of the best tracks of the 80's but their music can be a tad depressing. Butcher Billy gives it a fun twist by creating fake cover art for Morrissey & Marr's most famous songs.

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The entire history of Nintendo in 2 minutes: great motion design work by Anthony Veloso

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[GAME-INSPIRED] Watch the evolution of the infamous Japanese video game brand in two minutes or so. From the 1980 Game & Watch to the 2012 Wii U, the entire history of Nintendo unfold before our eyes in an explosion of animations.