Mario makes his mark on campus [update 1]

by Ross Miller { Feb 26th 2007 at 7:55PM }

We've seen him as post-it notes and stage plays, but now Mario has been showcased on college campuses as a large collage of shoveled snow. Bridge nine forum poster buzz, a student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and some friends spent a night creating Raccoon Mario outside of his dorms. In his words, "when you have about 1500 feet of string, 3 hours, 4 inches of snow, and 7 kids ... and nothing better to do ... "

The design was made via gridding the image in advance, with one person overseeing the grid and coordinating where to scoop out the snow. Mad respect for buzz and his friends.

[Thanks, generica]

Gallery: Mario college prints

[Update 1: we made the incorrect implication that string was involved in anything other than gridding. Corrected description and headline.]

Tags: college, culture, mario, new jersey, NewJersey

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

MosquitoControl @ Feb 26th 2007 8:12PM

The B9 board on Joystiq?

Wacky.

Michael @ Feb 26th 2007 9:07PM

Boing Boing posted this earlier today ... it's actually just footprints in the snow, not string. Notice how they're walking heel-toe in the photos.

ShortFuse @ Feb 26th 2007 9:08PM

My friend who goes to NJIT showed me a pic. I used to attend but not anymore. I was thinking of submitting it to joystiq but then thought, "Nah, they wouldn't care."

here's a picture of how it looked in the morning
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/2056/p2260041gn1.jpg