St. Mario and the Dragon

Butt Johnson created this lovely depiction of the art icon St. George and the Dragon. It's presumably modeled after the one below, of which I can find no information. (via Ovablastic)

Super Mario Bros. Dog Costumes

Do you need to humiliate your dogs in a trendy, retro-cool style? Then etsy user Young Urban Puppy has a set of Super Mario Bros.-themed dog costumes for you. Pictured above is the Princess Peach costume.

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Super Mario Bros. Theme Played with Pens/Pencils

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YouTube user Shane Bang has created some impressive music videos using nothing but pencils and pens. He does a lot more than just tap to the rhythm. Here's his rendition of the Super Mario Bros. theme music.

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Mario Power-Up Cross Stitch

Sprite Stitch user psi 169 created this impressive 2 by 3 foot cross stitch illustrating every power-up in Super Mario Bros. The photo above is only part of the more comprehensive whole.

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Super Mario Bros. Stained Glass

Florida Artist Amy Davis made this stained glass mushroom from Super Mario Bros. She also made a Batman logo in stained glass.

The Man in Red/Man in Green

"The Man in Red" and "The Man in Green/Luigi's Revenge" are two well-written and well-performed songs about Mario and Luigi, respectively, by YouTube user SenorZorro2000. Via reddit.

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If Super Mario Bros. Had Been Made by Frank Miller

It would look something like this six-panel comic.

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Geeky Variations of "Dogs Playing Poker"

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's iconic images of dogs playing poker (or pool) have captivated audiences for more than a century. They have been oft modified and parodied, including these geeky variations:

Ewoks playing poker by deviantART user IC Kessler.

Ewoks (who fail to understand the wisdom of letting the Wookie win) playing poker by an unknown artist. (via Cool Star Wars Photos)

Cylons playing poker by Anthony J. Cox.

Slivers from Magic: The Gathering playing poker by Tom Jenkot.

Classic horror movie monsters playing poker by Fiona Staples

Modern horror movie monsters playing poker by Ray Frenden. (via SuperPunch)

Wolverines playing poker by Paolo Rivera (via SuperPunch)

Marvel Comics heroes playing poker by Andrea DiVito.

Inuyasha characters playing poker by deviantART user ladybattuosai

Classic Nintendo game characters playing poker by Mike Mitei.

Cartoon sidekick dogs (Muttley, Krypto the Superdog, Dynomutt, and one other) playing poker by Ken Cursoe (via Popped Culture).


UPDATE:

Computer dogs playing poker by deviantART user ~Smaggers. Thanks to Drew Northcott for the tip.

Nintendo's "La Pietà"

"La Pietà" is a 1499 Michelangelo sculpture of the dead Christ in the arms of his mother, currently housed in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Artist Kordian Lewandowski created this 7-foot high version featuring Mario and Princess Peach out of polystyrene foam. [via Albotas]

11 Clever Mario Creations

Via Digg, The Huffington Post has a photogallery of rather clever works of Mario-inspired art. They include this work of graffiti that ingeniously made use of street-side drainage pipes to recreate a scene from the game.

Also, again thanks to Digg, I found this picture that imagined Super Mario Bros. as a Grand Theft Auto-type game. Or possibly The Sopranos. I'm not sure, because I've never seen The Sopranos. Is it a good show?

Mario and Luigi Are Real

But apparently, they're no longer working together.

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If Video Game Characters Did Speed Dating

Mad Atoms oddly suggests that people who spend their time eating mushrooms or being chased by ghosts might have a hard time finding someone to love. Four more panels at the link.

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The Adventures of Lord Mario

Cartoonist Patrick Alexander imagines Mario as a refined British gentleman and, um, a psychopath.

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Sonic and Mario's Awkward Reunion

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Mario and Sonic were once both friends and rivals. Now Mario is a video game superstar, and Sonic is a waiter at a TGI Friday's.

Super Mario Bros. as Soviet Propaganda

This pretty amazing flash video entitled "Comrade Mario" depicts Mario as a workers' revolutionary, liberating the Mushroom Kingdom from bourgeois oppression. It's about three minutes long.

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The Super Mario 3 Conspiracy

Everything you think you know is a lie.

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Super Mario Parody of Jersey Shore

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Can it be said that both Super Mario Bros. and Jersey Shore do not depict Italian-Americans in a positive light?

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Stop-Motion Papercraft Mario

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YouTube user smartkid82504 made this video. He writes:

A stop motion animation that I created as my final project for my "Art and Alternative Media" class at Boston College. The movie is comprised of over 300 frames, and the only materials that I used were paper, colored pencils, glue, and cardboard. Using graph paper I recreated the pixel data 1:1 with the different colored pencils and then cut out each "sprite" after gluing it to cardboard for stability. The coloring and cutting out took a long time, but shooting the frames and putting together the video probably in total took about 36 hours.

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5 Alternative Careers for Mario

Artist H. Caldwell Tanner imagined five careers that would have been helpful to Mario, had he chosen not to become a plumber.

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Koopa Troopa Guitar

A friend of reddit user ak42b made an electric guitar that looks like a Koopa Troopa from Super Mario Bros.

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