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“A minor accident had forced me down in the Rio de Oro region, in Spanish Africa. Landing on one of those table-lands of the Sahara which fall away steeply at the sides, I found myself on the flat top of the frustum of a cone, an isolated vestige of a plateau that had crumbled round the edges. In this part of the Sahara such truncated cones are visible from the air every hundred miles or so, their smooth surfaces always at about the same altitude above the desert and their geologic substance always identical. The surface sand is composed of minute and distinct shells; but progressively as you dig along a vertical section, the shells become more fragmentary, tend to cohere, and at the base of the cone form a pure calcareous deposit. Without question, I was the first human being ever to wander over this…this iceberg: its sides were remarkably steep, no Arab could have climbed them, and no European had as yet ventured into this wild region.” Wind Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“A minor accident had forced me down in the Rio de Oro region, in Spanish Africa. Landing on one of those table-lands of the Sahara which fall away steeply at the sides, I found myself on the flat top of the frustum of a cone, an isolated vestige of a plateau that had crumbled round the edges. In this part of the Sahara such truncated cones are visible from the air every hundred miles or so, their smooth surfaces always at about the same altitude above the desert and their geologic substance always identical. The surface sand is composed of minute and distinct shells; but progressively as you dig along a vertical section, the shells become more fragmentary, tend to cohere, and at the base of the cone form a pure calcareous deposit.

Without question, I was the first human being ever to wander over this…this iceberg: its sides were remarkably steep, no Arab could have climbed them, and no European had as yet ventured into this wild region.”

Wind Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Sidewalk Mario Bros by Surfap. A speedrun of the original Super Mario Bros. played on what looks like a graffiti-covered concrete barrier! This doesn’t really start until the 00:15 mark, but it’s worth waiting to see this neat production, which I presume was made possible through some “match moving” trickery in Adobe After Effects.

You can see an older, less ambitious match moving video from Surfap below. It’s The Legend of Zelda’s first dungeon, played on a tile floor with some German voiceover.

Buy: Super Mario Galaxy 2

See also: “Mario at the Flower Shop”