Today's Washington Post reports that a wave of user-created video game art is taking over office windows in the nation's capital.
Princess Zelda, Ms. Pac-Man and Mario are just some of the game characters decorating windows along Vermont Avenue.
What's it all about? From the WaPo:
Amy Crosby and some co-workers were charmed by [Laura] Elliott's Pac-Man... Crosby put up some Pac-Man fruit with Post-its. It was a fun workday break, said Crosby..."Suddenly, it started to have a domino effect, floor to floor, building to building," Smith said. "Now it's made its way down the street."
Crosby speculates that more than 40 windows along that block of Vermont are now festooned with Pac-Man references, Marios, Space Invaders, Froggers, many putting Elliott's original design to shame. Some extend floor to ceiling and incorporate several colors.
It might be a symptom of raging urban ennui on Vermont Avenue, but there's nothing that deep about it. In fact, just the opposite: "Every now and then, even in D.C., you've got to lighten up and enjoy life a little bit," Smith says. "Maybe it'll even make it to the White House window."



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Thanks good job;
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YES.
Now I don't have to get off my ass for the important shit anymore!
Whats next, ordering pizza from Xbox live?
Wait... I think that sounds like a good idea.
But I think voting should MAKE you get off your ass, and see outside or a second while you go vote. I mean, your picking the president of the United States of America for God's Sake... least you can do is drive down there and punch out a card.
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Thats absolutely awesome and stirs genuine happiness inside me.
Also, needs more pix, seriously, pix or it didnt happen.
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So, how long beofre someone mistakes them for bombs?
PHOTOS!
Searched flickr for "vermont pacman"
The set:
http://flickr.com/photos/21809371@N08/sets/72157606111475063/
Enjoy!
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Even though this isn't some sort of coordinated politcal movement, it still ought to send a message to the politicos..."We aren't just children. We are also adults. We are voters. We are legion."
Although I think her message sums up the entire the mess better "you've got to lighten up and enjoy life a little bit".
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Is there something I am missing or is that a typo in the title?
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The White House?
bush probably only plays madden
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lol... Nice change of pace from 'wow look what JT did *now*' stories
I could get used to these, in any case. :P
(And agreed on 'more pics' :D)
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Someone get to DC and start snapping photos STAT.
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UCSC's Donkey Kong art takes the cake.
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~inio/dk/
Re: Video Game User Art Takes Over Washingon, D.C. Offices
Who knows, some in DC might match or top it.
Hunting the shadows of the troubled dreams.
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Yes, I would like photo gallery. Do we have a Senior Sticky Note Corespondant like the Daily Show has? (If the Daily Show doesn't currently have a Senior Sticky Note Corespondant, I call first dibs!) I was already thinking of doing this with florescent sticky notes in my blacklight gameroom. Unfortunately, the place I work right now is so uptight that if I tried something like this, they would probably dock my pay. Altough, you SHOULD see my macro buttons in Excel!
1UP, Mario, Super Mario (both from SMW), Mushroom, Yoshi, Link, MegaMan, Bub?, Fighter, Red Mage, White Mage, Black Mage, Samus, Energy Tank, Leonardo, Sonic, Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, and Wolverine.
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Cool stuff!
More pics would be nice though.
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Needs more pictures. Why no gallery, WaPo?
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Okay, that's cool I guess.
-If shit and bricks were candy and tits, we'd all be livin' large. For information on games and psychology, look up: Jonathan Freedman(2002)Block & Crain(2007)Grand Theft Childhood, by Harvard Medical School researchers Larry Kutner and Cheryl Olson
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VERY nice. Good way to cure office boredom