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Artist Imagines Mythical History of 'Pong' Paddles, 'Tetris' Blocks

by Evan Shamoon on August 19, 2009 at 03:20 PM


One of the newer and more interesting voices in video game journalism, the French magazine Amusement makes its home somewhere in the odd, rather untested space between fashion and games.

The latest issue includes more of the publication's consistently fantastic photography, including a very special series of photographs from the magazine's Made of Myth feature. In creating the series, photographer Marc Da Cunha Lopes imagined video game subjects and their components, taking up actual, physical space. From there, he wondered: if those fantastical objects were real, where would they be constructed? Answering that question with imaginatively built sets, Lopes then took pictures of Arkanoid's specialized bouncy bricks, Pong's paddles and numbers, and Mario Bros.' infamous 1-UP mushroom in its unfinished state.

Amazing stuff. And not that it matters, particularly, but we're just stuck wondering: what's real and what's Photoshop? [From: Amusement]

Tags: amusement magazine, AmusementMagazine, art, photography, tech art, TechArt, video games, VideoGames

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