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This week’s Monday Miracle: Retro Reality

June 30, 2008 at 2:19 am · Filed under Art

This week’s Monday Miracle is Retro Reality, in which 16-year old Lee Vidal cleverly superimposes game sprites atop real-world locations.

“Retro Tower: Donkey Kong,” my favorite image manipulation from the series, is below:

Retro Tower: Donkey Kong, by Lee Vidal

It’s well worth noting that the stock photographs Vidal employs as backgrounds are absolutely ghastly. Somehow, the blandness of the photos makes them perfect for reappropriation as the game sprites’ playgrounds.

1 Comment »

  1. Big G SampyNo Gravatar said,

    August 30, 2008 @ 4:37 pm

    Go Lee!

    Greatest of all your photoshops : )
    Love the smb3 desert one too

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