On the subject of Japan and Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now", here's another curiousity: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTo-wFfIXKo" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTo-wFfIXKo</a><p>Somebody took a copy of Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo and hex-edited the levels so that instead of requiring a human player, the game's built-in physics propels Mario through the level. And, the levels were designed so that the various sound effects caused by Mario stomping on and bumping into things vaguely approximate the music to Don't Stop Me Now. AND four entirely different levels were created, each attempting to reproduce the part of some particular member of Queen. <i>AND</i> they occasionally sync up for the more spectactular parts of the song.
For those that are wondering: today (Sept. 5th) Freddy Mercury would turn 65.<p>It's also absolutely amazing, I recommend you to watch it in it's entirety.<p>(I think it's also no longer Japan only, it was on .pl and .com for me also, but YMMV.)
That is really nice mix of several genres - anime, video games, that new crazy trend to design everything like screenshot from a ZX Spectrum game, and, of course, that vocal and drive. Really nice work of a modern art. ^_^
Wow that was really beautiful. Why not on the US site? I hope they write a "making of" somewhere.<p>That's probably the most time I have ever spent on the Google front page, maybe that's a hint to advertisers.<p>At the end it auto-googles him too, isn't that a first too - Google auto-forwarding?
I saw this just after reading the Teal and Orange post (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2960235" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2960235</a>). The entire Google animation is basically teal and orange.