Artist Ashley Browning used color orders and proportions to create minimalist representations of Street Fighter characters.

This is a one-off piece, and a departure from usual Minimalism pieces of mine. This time I just wanted to go really, really basic. Initially, I felt I was creating a Bauhaus/De Stijl inspired piece, but after finishing it, I thought it also looked like the primitive graphics from Atari 2600 or Intellivision consoles.

Can you identify the characters?

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Scott Harris of moviefone compiled six comic books from the bowels of comic history that should never, ever, be made into movies. Among them is "U.S. 1" -- a trucker superhero:

Back before Facebook or Twitter, the closest thing to social media in America was a little ol' thing called the C. B. radio. So when the C. B. craze hit in the late '70s, Marvel had the perfect answer: U. S. 1, the story of a truck-drivin' do-gooder who could receive C. B. signals through a steel plate in his head which, oh yeah, also allowed him to control his big rig telepathically. If you're too young to understand what that means, just trust us: It was a weird time to be alive.

That it was.

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Jason Powers made an infographic about the history of Marvel Comics. Pictured above is one small selection from it. Did you know that the Incredible Hulk was originally gray, but was rendered green for easier printing?

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deviantART user Bergie81 created five works of Star Wars-inspired art that reflects the style of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. The image pictured above, showing Han Solo being frozen in carbonite, was inspired by the 1963 work "Drowning Girl", currently owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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Engineers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, in Tübingen, Germany took a KUKA KR 500 6-axis robot arm and used it to simulate the travel of a Ferrari F2007 F1 race car at the speedway of Monza, Italy. The purpose, Paolo Robuffo Giordano says, is not to create an awesome game, but to research how the human body responds to motion:

"A motion simulation system is a fundamental tool to understand how humans experience the sensation of motion," he says. "By running suitable experiments, one can gain better insights into the cognitive processes of the human brain."

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Psychologist Abraham Maslow described human behavior according to a pyramid of escalating needs. Cartoonist Tobias Lunchbreath has accurately assessed the robots' ultimate goal of destroying all humans. At the link, you can view other applications of Maslow's hierarchy, including girlfriends and dogs.

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deviantART user suzuran depicted 54 characters from Marvel Comics in the iconic style of the video game Mega Man. Click on the link to view the full panorama.

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Awww! How romantic! I think that I'll try something similar on my wife this evening. "Sweetie, you know how it feels when you get three consecutive headshots on Hitman? You make me feel like that."

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Custom toymaker MARXMITH created the above figure thanks to a new marketing scheme by Disney calls "VinylNation":

Disney has figured out how to make Mickey Mouse cool again. During the time that I designed for Disney, the idea of straying from the the core concept of Mickey Mouse was frowned upon. It was understandable. Mickey Mouse is an institution. Sure, he’s evolved over the years. But Mickey has always been a very safe character. Rarely was the design of Mickey Mouse embellished on. He had a few outfits, but he was always drawn according to a very strict set of guidelines.

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deviantART user Eat Toast made these hideous Pokémon out of sculpey polymer clay. Each is about 4-5 inches tall.

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For about $6,400, you can have your own Eva plug suit like those that appeared on Neon Genesis Evangelion. They're available in both red and white. More pictures at the link.

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This is simply exquisite! Matt Marchini has four selections of concept art for a Star Wars game modeled after The Oregon Trail.

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I remember this circa 2002 chart from years ago. I'd say that it's still pretty accurate, except that it's probably necessary to expand cosplay culture and add online gaming.

But yeah -- the people at the very bottom of the hierarchy need to stay down there.

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YouTube user Peatman played the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger over that of James Earl Jones in scenes from Star Wars. He makes a rather menacing Vader. Except, of course, for the dialogue from Kindergarten Cop. Warning: foul language.

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Chris Sims of Comics Alliance imagined what his favorite superheroes would look like if they were put into classic Nintendo games. Pictured above is Frank Castle, the Punisher, in the 1989 game River City Ransom.

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