super mario brothers

You may remember my photo shoot with Jason Hite, of Hite Design and Photography, In it, I modeled in front of an insane Tesla coil at The Geek Group in Grand Rapids. Well, here is that same Tesla coil used to play Super Mario Brothers.

We don't normally talk highly of Ohio State here at WGRD, but this is too good to pass up.  The Ohio State marching band did a tribute to video games during their halftime show this weekend.  The band played video game theme songs while marching in formations that depicted the games.  Some of the games that the band featured were Zelda, Halo, Pokemon, Tetris, and Super Mario Brothers.

A  live-action re-imagination of Nintendo 8-bit hero Super Mario as an angsty, mushroom-eating, down-on-his-luck plumber was a big hit this week at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas. "Mario" is a trailer-length short which filmmaker Joe Nicolosi doesn't intend to turn into a feature film. You can check out all two minutes of the project below.