Mario's such a cube

by Vladimir Cole { Oct 22nd 2005 at 5:15PM }

We first wrote about this art installation way back in May, before there was much to show. Now an online exhibition is up, and it's worth a look.

Rubik's Cube manipulation + pixel art + retro video game characters = fun. This is all part of the artistic movement called Rubikcubism in which the popular 80s toys are used to create art. Fragment/Defragment is actually one of our favorites in the installation, which can be viewed after the jump.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Andrew Hsieh @ Dec 18th 2005 9:05PM

My word. That must have taken some really long hours.

velcrocore @ Dec 18th 2005 9:05PM

Now are they spending hours and hours with each cube, or are they pulling off parts and stickers, and re-attaching them?

Hugh Jass @ Dec 18th 2005 9:05PM

The Rubik's Cube is easily disassembled with a quarter twist of the top layer and a screwdriver. Once it's popped open, you can reassemble it however you like -- including scrambling it to be impossible to solve, or in any pattern as above.

If you spend enough time with it, it's simple enough to "solve" it and arrange the fascia however you like.

If this were my art piece, I'd go with the disassembly method because I'm kind of a dumbass spatially ...

nick @ Dec 18th 2005 9:05PM

who gives a shit if their drawing mario with rubiks cubes. this site needs some better blogs on weekends. since 7 am this morning their have been 5 blogs. and they all sucked and were boring to read. There needs to be sumthign better. anyone agree??

dsgamer21 @ Dec 18th 2005 9:05PM

nick: don't blame joystiq, weekends are almost always slow news days

Steve @ Dec 18th 2005 9:05PM

nick, why don't you go try to do this and see how hard it is. and guess what. the people who made this don't CARE that you don't give a shit that you are so oblivious to art and culture.

Dan Choi @ Dec 18th 2005 9:05PM

Wait, so were you saying those screens of the Master Chief(tess?) from 7:21 sucked and were boring to look at, nick? Well, maybe you meant the posts after it (or not), but I thought that was a decent post to put up, if I do say so myself (er, as the post's author =). I hope we have something that more suitably strikes your fancy tomorrow....

Efren @ Dec 18th 2005 9:05PM

Wow what an incredible waste of time.

dslamngu @ Dec 18th 2005 9:05PM

Hell if I could make $1000 putting together a 12'' x 12'' tile mosaic I'd be set for life. Who bought this stuff?

Looks great, quite quirky and aesthetically pleasing, but not quite worth $1000 for 12x12 ceramic on resin. I'd rather have a 30'' HDTV for that much money and watch it while I teach little kids how to do this.

Is the originality what counts? The historical context? With art I take aesthetic pleasure first and foremost, but not if it makes me poor.

nick @ Dec 18th 2005 9:05PM

ime not saying joystiq is a bad site or anything. Its my favourite site and i read it all the time but what ime saying is that maybe they should make weekends a little bit more interesting with somehting special hapening. Like maybe they should make somthing special about one game or have a special Xbox 360 weekend or somehting like that. Just somehting to make it better because the weekends really are boaring on htis site.

james @ Dec 18th 2005 9:05PM

People pay way more than $1000 for way less than this... Art is usually sold to rich people who have more money than they know what to do with, so they use it to expensively decorate their homes/offices.

As for the weekends being boring... Joystiq, as far as I know, doesn't make up news. And companies don't usually have press-releases on the weekends... Weekends are just boring for news. So, maybe you should go out, hang out w/ your friends, see a movie or something?

Eskimo Bob @ Dec 18th 2005 9:05PM

That's cool, I guess. Sounds like something I would do in my spare time (and I have lots of it). I figure if I save up enough spare time, I can sell it on Ebay. After all, time is money!

"As for the weekends being boring... Joystiq, as far as I know, doesn't make up news. And companies don't usually have press-releases on the weekends... Weekends are just boring for news. So, maybe you should go out, hang out w/ your friends, see a movie or something?"

Blasphemy! There are millions of things you can do on the Internets that require little to no social reaction. Play video games, preferably single-player ones. Learn about the game design process. Learn about 3D modelling. Learn anything! You can check your email. You can check someone else's email (just kidding). Then, if you're feeling really outgoing, you can find a forum full of other bored people with nothing to do. If none of this sounds appealing to you, you can go on Google. Maybe you'll find something interesting, like a website where people submit their own shirt designs and other users vote on them. Then, based on ratings, comments, and personal preference the people running the site pick designs to be made into actual t-shirts, AND THE DESIGNER GETS $1000 ($750 cash, $250 credit). Wait, you don't have to look for one of those, here's my blatantly obvious referral link right here:
http://www.threadless.com/?streetteam=AssemblyLineHuman