Pixels

You’ll shoot your eye out, kid! The guys from 8-Bit Cinema retell the oft-quoted holiday classic as a pixelated console adventure game. They should have had a minigame where you have to glue the leg lamp back together.

A companion piece to The Verge’s profile of eBoy, arguably the world’s most popular pixel artists. Watch the Berlin-based trio talk a bit about their backgrounds, their arduous dot-by-dot process and their sources of inspiration.

Bradley Hart’s imaginative pixel portraits are created using ordinary syringes and bubble wrap; he injects each individual bubble with acrylic paint in an elaborate and time consuming process.

PIXEL is an interactive picture frame. It has 1,024 LEDs , perfect for displaying 32×32 pixel art. You can upload an image or animation using an Android app. It acts as a mirror when turned off.

A side-scroller action RPG by LarryPixel, to be released serially like a comic book, as you take on a variety of tasks to survive life on the Moon. For $40 or more, you can be immortalized in the game.

Designed by Maria Herrera Vicálvaro and Jamie Vicente, Pixel Cards are a Spanish deck of playing cards with pixelated graphics. Add this deck to your pixel art playing card collection.

Animator What Pixel You On takes the retro pixel art style and breathes new life into it by popping it into the third dimension. If our old Nintendos could have done this, we’d probably still be playing them.

Don’t know about everyone else, but Winter’s been kind of mild for us. Seems like a perfect chance to give Ted Martens’ pixelated fireplace app a go. We just wish the marshmallows were real.

Artist Laura Bifano creates these surreal portraits using blocky pixels (or technically, voxels) to represent Mother Nature’s creatures in their natural habitats. Bambi – you’re looking a little blocky.

Martin Backes’ Pixelhead mask is a humorous attempt to take back anonymity in our increasingly invasive world. They’re more like improved burglar masks to us. Contact Martin if you want to buy one.

16-bit art has seen a resurgence lately, but Andy Rash hearkens back to even earlier (video game) times with Iotacons, extremely low res portraits reminiscent of more primitive 8-bit games.

At first glance, the graphics in Ninja Moped’s animation might not seem like much, but when you realize that it was made by hand-placing coins and shot frame-by-frame, your mind will be bent.

Apparently, you have to break some eggs to make omelets, squeeze some lemons for lemonade, and slice a few Space Invaders to make Tetris on this funny tee from Eduardo San Gil for Threadless.

This awesome costume was created by Hyperbole Studios for a Toshiba commercial. It’s made from thousands of individual “pixel” blocks cut from foam and glued to a cardboard structure.