The Creation of Mario

Video games will never be art? Take that, Roger Ebert! Of course I really didn't need to see Mario naked, but at least he has a digitized leaf so I don't need to scrape the entirety of my brain.

Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto gives life to his Nintendo creation in TsaoShin's homage to Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam. (Link via Neatorama)

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