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Thanks to a talented Javascript hacker who wanted to learn how the Flickr API worked, you can now view your Flickr photo albums through the eyes of B.J. Blazkowicz from the original Wolfenstein 3D.

Just enter your Flickr username and let the app scurry off and search through your photos. It wiill then map them on to the walls of a 3D maze that has been made to look a dead ringer for Castle Wolfenstein. Its a great idea, although it can have trouble with very high resolution pics.

Now, somebody do a Facebook/Thrill Kill mashup..

[WolfenFlickr]

Into the Pixel is a juried art exhibition that selects sixteen works of video game art to be displayed both digitally and in actual exhibits, like the one currently at E3. The exhibit is an opportunity for video and computer game artists to showcase their work and receive critical feedback from both digital and fine art experts; it also showcases the actual visual art of games in creative and unique ways. The pieces range from playful to serious, and utilize a variety of visual styles to convey their subjects. Now in its fifth year, the selected entries are usually quite impressive, and this year was no exception.

The exhibition hall was quiet compared to the chaos both above and below it — a few people wandered through, but it was otherwise silent. The exhibition included some of the winners from the 2007 competition (including my personal favorite, "Defeated Dragon" by Daniel Dociu (Guild Wars)), and it was nice to see the art in large format. Four of the sixteen entries were takes on Guild Wars (I was particularly fond of the one entitled "Four Knights" by Richard Anderson); also covered were games like flOw, Fallout 3, and Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, and untitled DS game (seen at the top; "Puzzle World Twilight" by Jay Epperson).

The exhibition will be headed to E for All in October, but you can all see the winning entries over at the Into the Pixel website, which also includes archives of art and commentary from previous years. A few selections from the silent gallery hall are below.

Graffiti welcomes Nintendo street art with open arms [The Tanooki]

The Hypersapiens have posted a massive gallery of some amazing cosplay pictures on their Flickr site. I'm a big fan of cosplay although I don't really participate in it. (That will change however come Comic-Con, so if you're there look for me in my best Dean Venture with my buddy as Hank.) I am very critical when it comes to costuming though, either do it right or don't do it at all is my motto. No half assing. If you're going to pay the money and take the time to make a killer costume, then pay the extra fifty bucks for a damn wig. No one wants to see a Cloud Strife with greasy black hair. But, I digress..

Definitely check out this gallery, it's got some of the most impeccable costuming I've seen in many a convention. Flynn De Marco

The Secret Lives of Otaku [Flickr]
[via The Tanooki]

With all the excitement of the new Beautiful Katamari coming out as well as all the new artwork from the game, it's nice to know that one smart Flickr member had the brains to download the wallpapers from the original Katamari Damacy site so we can enjoy them before the real frenzy begins.

Kraftaku ways to use the wallpapers? Upload the images on your cellphone (therefore breaking it when you realize you should have downsized the file), use them as wrapping paper, laminate the larger sizes for use as place mats, and, of course, make 1,000 paper cranes out them so you can wish that Beautiful Katamari would come out sooner. Kim Phu

llshibata's Flickr [Flickr via Game Set Watch]

"There he is, shoot!"
"I can't!"
"Why not?"
"Because, he's...just...so...cute..."
"...like Gerber but with *tear* guns..."
"...and we lost."
"Dude, I think I want a son of my own on day."
"Not this again. You know you're sterile..." Mark Wilson

Flickr Gallery [via xbox360 fanboy]

Unfortunately they are using sponges to fill out the mold due to lack of chocolate, but those sponges could easily be replaced with raspberry cream of some sort. Mmmm. In the end, it's just more proof that everything is better is you fill it with molten chocolate.

Chocolate Wii Controller [flickr - Thanks Tinkergirl!]

More photos of this lovely project can be seen right here on Flickr. Michael McWhertor

Super Mario Quilt Block and Super Mario Quilt Corners [DIYnamite]

Wii players stand proud. Wii players are confident in their choice of dress. Wii players rise above taunting, or fashion dictats. Wii players like bunny slippers.

Dude, whoever you are - you rock. Alice Taylor

"Gaming In Bunny Slippers" on Flickr.

PixelProject [Flickr, via Waxy]

This wee lad's shit-eating grin shows that he fully understands the ultimate gaming power that only the blessing of one Mr. Jesus H. Christ can grant. He's pictured touching his clamshellerific Game Boy Advance SP to the The Stone of the Anointing, "believed to be the place where Jesus' body was prepared for burial" in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, way over there in Jerusalem. Why? He's absorbing the sanctity of Our Lord into a portable gaming device, of course.

This ironically devilish photo is just one in a set of world spanning shots of this kid playing his silver GBA in front of world famous monuments and tourist attractions (eg. Stonehenge, Big Ben, Cliffs of Dover). I wish I had a GBA when my parents were carting me around to things like this. Michael McWhertor

Game Boy Around the World [via BoingBoing]

Even when our Flickr galleries routinely crap out, we like Flickr. A blurb in a recent issue of Fast Company tells us what the Wiki already knew: Flickr was originally designed to be an MMO. Founder Stewart Butterfield explains:

It was different from most other Web games. It wasn't postapocalyptic sci-fi, and it wasn't men in tights fighting dragons. We had this game where people were sharing things. What if we added the ability to share photographs?

How about if you added the ability to have less server flakiness? That, it seems, was ditched along with the Flickr MMO idea. Brian Ashcraft

Flickr, The Game [Cathode Tan]

Ramen Junkie (aren't we all, mate, aren't we all) over at Flickr had his kids' paddling pool down for the summer, and when he packed it away, lo:

Behold, the image of the Holy Virgin PacMan has been left on my lawn. Surely it is a sign from the gaming gods!

And hey! Did you know, there's a whole Flickr pool on Things That Look Like Pac-Man? It's true. It's mainly pies, but I'm really liking the Pac-Man Cappuccino, the Pac-Man Waterlily and the Pac-Man Thing In A Lake. Alice Taylor

I was in Berlin for the world cup a couple of weeks ago, and couldn't resist rolling that giant Katamari.

And there's Chris, exerting himself with Sisyphean toil against the Prince of All Cosmos' plaything. Way to go, Chris!

For the record, this ain't no Katamari, or it'd have more cows stuck to it. Berlin's full of impressive, wonderful art works like this. Walk around Berlin sometime and you'll notice 6's spray painted everywhere. It's all the act of a single man, whom I once quizzed about the significance of 6. Like most artists, he simply rambled incoherently for thirty minutes, then wandered off with a dazed look... as did I. Florian Eckhardt

Chris Rolls Katamari! [Flickr]
Previously: Katamari Sculpture Stuck in Berlin

Although Eliza and I have since smoothed out our differences with a beefy handshake and a night at the strip club, our brief conflagration in the McDonald's Interactive thread has infected Crecente and Ashcraft with rabid, Street Fighting bloodlust. Right after 'manly snuggle', this is our second favorite way of settling our arguments here at Kotaku Tower.
FLORIAN ECKHARDT

More Chalkboard Street Fighting Photos

Matt at the appropriately titled hackdiarydoesn't spend his free time socializing in MMORPG Second Life. He hacks it. With the recent release of Version 1.10, communication with the web on demand is now possible. Hence, Matt's latest project.

I've spent a few hours hacking on some toy objects with this new capability, starting with the mashup de rigeur: Flickr integration. My home in SL now sports a simple picture frame. Touch it and it looks up your avatar name to see what your favourite Flickr tag is, picks a random picture with that tag from Flickr and displays it on its surface. If it hasn't met you before, it asks you to tell it what tag to use.

Anyone interested in this can find Matt in SL as "Matt Basiat." Brian Ashcraft

More Here [hackdiary]

The improbably named Rakka Deer sent us a link to her great Flickr photoset featuring some enthusiastic and charming attempts at immortalizing classic game characters in cupcakes and pies. Not only she baked the chain of Centipede cupcakes above (or to the right, I guess... this new widescreen template is so damn unpredictable), but a Pac-Man cupcake, a Space Invaders apple pie and Tetris cookies.

Oh! And Katamari Cake! A woman who can bake and plays video games? Love of our life, fire of our loins. - Florian Eckhardt

Pac Man Egg! [Flickr]