Just when we thought we were tired of seeing videos of people playing the Super Mario Bros. theme with wacky, nontraditional instruments (including bottles!), here comes this brilliant piece of video to completely change our worldview. We cannot even imagine the time and effort required to arrange every bottle at just the right distance, with just the right amount of liquid, to accurately reproduce the Super Mario Bros. theme when hit in sequence by a passing RC car.
It must have been a lot less jovial in there for the guys doing this than it looked, and a lot more tense. Each note was another opportunity for the car to veer off course a bit and set off a domino-style chain reaction. Or even just to knock one bottle over and force the musicians to refill it to just the right level. The end result is transcendant enough to be worth it.
[Via Boing Boing]
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4-15-2008 @ 2:24PM
Nushio (NDF - Blue) said...
Wow, awesome video and idea. I loved it.
I wonder how many tries and how much time it took to actually record *that*.
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4-15-2008 @ 2:59PM
vegi-saurus said...
Awesome. Love the guard`s expression at the end. XD
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4-15-2008 @ 9:22PM
Eleniel said...
That's dedication. Wow.
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4-16-2008 @ 1:38PM
hvnlysoldr said...
Cool
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4-18-2008 @ 1:39PM
dreamparacite said...
Must have taken forever...I wish they filmed how many takes it took, must have been like that Christmas special for Mythbusters...
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