Video Game User Art Takes Over Washingon, D.C. Offices

Video Game User Art Takes Over Washingon, D.C. Offices

July 10, 2008

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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Re: Video Game User Art Takes Over Washingon, D.C. Offices

VERY nice. Good way to cure office boredom

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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

Re: Video Game User Art Takes Over Washingon, D.C. Offices

Needs more pictures. Why no gallery, WaPo?

Re: Video Game User Art Takes Over Washingon, D.C. Offices

Cool stuff!

More pics would be nice though.

Re: Video Game User Art Takes Over Washingon, D.C. Offices

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.

Re: Video Game User Art Takes Over Washingon, D.C. Offices

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.

Re: Video Game User Art Takes Over Washingon, D.C. Offices

Someone get to DC and start snapping photos STAT.

Re: Video Game User Art Takes Over Washingon, D.C. Offices

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)

 

Re: Video Game User Art Takes Over Washingon, D.C. Offices

The White House?

bush probably only plays madden

Re: Video Game User Art Takes Over Washingon, D.C. Offices

Is there something I am missing or is that a typo in the title?

Re: Video Game User Art Takes Over Washingon, D.C. Offices

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".

PHOTOS!
Are here:

Searched flickr for "vermont pacman"

The set:

http://flickr.com/photos/21809371@N08/sets/72157606111475063/

Enjoy!

Re: Video Game User Art Takes Over Washingon, D.C. Offices

So, how long beofre someone mistakes them for bombs?

Re: Video Game User Art Takes Over Washingon, D.C. Offices

Thats absolutely awesome and stirs genuine happiness inside me.

 

Also, needs more pix, seriously, pix or it didnt happen.

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