It’s simply impossible for Tetris to be un-cool. I don’t think it can be done, and so this doesn’t need much explanation. All that really needs to be done is relax and marvel in it’s pure orgasm-inducing awesomness. Czech designer Martin Zampach has give the world “Tetrice”. Silicon ice-cube trays that give you Tetris-shaped ice. You drink, you play, you drink… you play.
It’s been a fruitful week in my on-going quest to dig up all things Tetris. The cultural obsession surrounding the little game that could knows no bounds. First, we had Mikontalo Tetris. Now we’ve discovered the old skool arcade glory that is Swiss artist/designer Guillaume Reymond’s Game Over Project.
The Game Over Project is a series of stop-motion video performance pieces where Reymond re-enacts classic games with real live humans as pixels. It’s almost hypnotically entertaining – much like playing Tetris itself. I also have no words to express how happy it makes me that someone (in my mind, it’s Reymond himself) physically sings the little Russian folk ditty/ Tetris song. It’s familiarity is immediate and nostalgic to the max.
It took over four hours of shooting 88 people to get the 880 shots that comprise the Tetris video. But it gets better. Earlier installations in the series include Space Invaders, Pole Position, and – get ready for it – Pong. That’s right. People Pong.
See the full four Game Over Project videos by reading on.
Via Queerty
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This is triple awesomeness: I love bright coloured lights. I love Tetris. I love Scandinavia. So it’s almost too much for me to handle when some crazy Finnish dudes design a giant real-time game of Tetris on the side of a high rise.
Mikontalo is a big student housing complex at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland. In case you’re curious, its address is Insinöörinkatu 60, 33720 Tampere, Finland. The entertainment value of Finnish spellings aside, the students that live there are behind the Mikontalolights project – whose goal is to create the “world’s largest colored graphics platform by using the windows of Mikontalo’s D-staircase as light pixels”.
Basically, Finnish tech-geeks are rigging a big ass Tetris game on the side of their dorm. How freaking cool is that?
Via one of my fave sites – Wooster Collective
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