What do you get when Family Guy and Nintendo conceive a child at Spinal Tap orgy? The Hit Squad! If you are always on Twitter, and you have people in your circles who love the 80s and everything that goes with it – especially 8-bit stuff, then you might have gotten wind of the world’s [...]
The Hit Squad: World’s First Pixellated Feature Film
Posted on May 17, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
Pixel Heroes
Posted on January 9, 2012 Written by 1 Comment
The eighty superheroes on this art print may be tiny, but don’t let those itty-bitty pixels fool you. They could still take you down.
Handmade Mario and Princess Peach Bras. Get Your DIY Kit Out
Posted on June 25, 2011 Written by 1 Comment
Almost every day something new and geeky finds its way to an Etsy store and often it’s difficult to keep up with all new awesome items on Etsy – or we think they’re cool but just not cool enough. This time though, user SceeneShoes caught my attention with a serious of handmade bras aimed at [...]
8-Bit Terrariums Inspired by Videogames
Posted on February 22, 2011 Written by Leave a Comment
Last year November I wrote about Jude Buffum’s pixel art; Yoshi: Tastes Like Chicken. These pixel arts showed characters form Super Mario as consumable meats. Yoshi and Koopa amongst other where dissected with information on what and how to eat their parts. This year for Game Over IV an upcoming show at Giant Robot San [...]
Are You Ready for the Moss Invaders?
Posted on February 18, 2011 Written by Leave a Comment
All sorts of theories about alien beings invading the earth have been concocted over the years, and I am pretty sure that there has been at least one story written with moss as the invading life form. What Kimi Spencer and Marko Manriquez have created is not meant to cause fright and paranoia about aliens [...]
Yoshi: Tastes Like Chicken
Posted on November 9, 2010 Written by 1 Comment
For the upcoming show, “Pixel Pushers: An Exploration of 8‐Bit Digital Media”, curated by Giant Robot, artist Jude Buffum came with the idea to create pixel illustrations inspired by meat diagrams. These illustrations are not just any meat diagram, they are diagrams of 8-bit video game characters like our beloved Yoshi and the always present [...]
Muse in 8-Bit
Posted on September 30, 2010 Written by 2 Comments
I know the 8-bit craze is nothing new, but I just discovered several videos of Muse’s songs that have been converted into this format. Needless to say, I have been watching/listening the videos a lot since yesterday. (I am sure you know how much fun it can be to play around with music.) Muse may [...]