Artist Kyle McCoy recently completed a 10-foot by 4-foot, three-dimensional model of Springfield from The Simpsons, made entirely of perler beads (featuring 130,000 individually placed pixels!). Even Comic Book Guy would agree, this is the best. perler bead constructed art piece. ever., and it's set to be unveiled on April 2nd in Forest Hills, Queens. We'll be there when it is, and will return with plenty of images... but for now, enjoy this preview. More details on how and why this was all created can be found in the video below:
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Results tagged “pixels”
The Simpsons: Now In Queens
Pixels Pouring On To Mercer Street!
Is Mercer Street in the midst of a pixelpocalypse? Is the Sanitation Department ready for it? A reader sent along these photos taken on Mercer Street recently, but pre-Blizzadgeddon—which means by now these pixels could be flooding the streets, stalling garbage pick-up, and taking up precious parking spots! (Also, pixel street art has come a long way since 2008.)
Video: Pixels Destroy NYC
Want to see your favorite 8-bit video games come to life in NYC? That's pretty much what's going on in this 2-minutes of old school awesomeness below. Too bad almost all of these characters are out to destroy us—it's like pixelgeddon!
Street Art Fun with Pixels
Seen on 9th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues: Pixel graffiti. The piece was tagged at little while later.
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