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Here’s a Coin Box Cuckoo Missing Its Clock
Just because this … whatever it is has no practical application (yet) doesn’t mean it’s not awesome. But it does need a use. Cuckoo clock? Alarm clock? Piggy bank? YouTube user Hydraness says this was made by a friend, using bead art supplied by another friend who’s into this sort of thing. Mario and His…
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Are You a Bad Enough Dude to Listen to This with Speakers On?
This hardcore Bad Dudes rap is one of three game homages put out so far by the group Action Adventure World, all of which are chock-a-block full of filth-flarn-filth. That means I’m a-watchin’! You can check out Mario World and Castlevania II by the same act, but the same warning applies: If it’s coherent, it’s…
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Just Don’t Call This “Bling”
Though Super Mario coin boxes do make that sound, A.B. Frazier at The Koalition reminds us that hip-hop retired that term. But hip-hop producer Pharrell is very much active with this Super Mario jewelry. A.B. also boasts of a owning an “oversized diamond studded Metal Gear Solid exclamation mark,” whose existence may be theoretical but…
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Trendy Mario Bros.
Half of this seems about as hamfistedly hip as a Mentos ad, but a team of design students at a Milan university identified five top global trends – guerrilla gardening, couch-surfing, carpooling – and used Mario to illustrate them. I guess by planting trees on the sly you bring a Fiat dealership to town, turn…
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There’s a Reason Someone’s Wife Made This
It’s called, “try hitting on anyone while you’re wearing that thing.” That’s right, Harry Potter there is someone’s husband. So if this sweater makes him the world’s biggest geek, it also makes her the world’s most awesome wife. Reasoning that “knitting stitches are basically pixels, right?” The Happy Seamstress converted World 1-1 into a “ginormous…
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