17 Gigapixel Photo Wow!! [HD]

This is the coolest pic ever. LINK: Youtube

Orca Pixel Sculpture

"QUOTE" Douglas Coupland made this pixelated sculpture of an orca. It’s located at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Coupland is also a novelist and playwright, and we’ve previously featured his innovative trailer for a book.

Link, Via: Make | Artist’s Website | Photo: Douglas Coupland, Via: Neatorama

Video: A Brief History of the Modern Pixel

Simon Cottee -- the artist behind Rule, the recently noted animation created entirely inside Sleep Is Death -- has put together this thoughtful musing on the power of the pixel, talking with SiD creator Jason Rohrer, chiptune artist Dot.AY, and Studio Joho (the same behind semi-controversial pixel vid Dan the Man).

PIXEL - A pixel art documentary [Simon Cottee]. LINK: Boingboing, Via: Youtube

Small Worlds

The award-winning game Small Worlds looks simple with its pixel graphics, but start exploring and the world becomes bigger. Link -Via: reddit, Via: Neatorama

Geico Pothole Commercial

Version (Not Pixelated) of this commercial. LINK: Youtube

Paint Chip Art

Nite Kongtahworn created this pixeled artwork using Benjamin Moore paint samples. Squint your eyes if you don’t immediately recognize the famous face. Link, Via: Buzzfeed, Via: Neatorama

The Celebration Of Pixel Art

Pixel art is a form of digital art, created through the use of raster graphics software, where images are edited on the pixel level. Graphics in most old computer and video games, graphing calculator games, and many mobile phone games are mostly pixel art.

Smashing Magazine presents over 50 excellent pixel art designs - illustrations, paintings and posters. Some of the works presented have an extremely high level of detail which is why you can observe pixel art for hours and still miss some details it contains. LINK

Gallery of 50 excellent pixel art designs

You’ll find a gallery of 50 excellent pixel art designs at Smashing Magazine. Pictured: “City Glow” by Chiho Aoshima. LINK