The main event at my high school is a basketball tournament we host every year known as LIT. It is the highlight of the year and was especially for me this year as I am a starter on the team this year! Anyways the relevance to the Giant Bomb community is that every year the tournament has a theme, and this year's theme was video games. A big part of the preparation for the tournament is decorating the gym to fit both the theme and basketball, and this is primarily done with huge painted panels that are put on the walls. I always look forward to the panels because often the chosen theme and basketball are combined in really great ways. The talent level on display is crazy and keep in mind when looking at the photos that all the art was designed and painted by high school students with very minimal teacher assistance. Plus my school is pretty small (400 ish students) and to put on a tournament at the high level of LIT each and every year is truly remarkable.
But without further preamble, here are some pictures of the decorations put up in the gym for the tournament that I think the GB folks will get a kick out of. (just to help make sense of some aspects, the tournament is known as LIT, it is the 59th annual, an my school is commonly abbreviated to LCHS or just LC, so if you see any of those in the art that is why.)
Well that's all I wanted to share. I have tons more pictures from the tournament of art, basketball, whatever, but these are the only ones that are relevant to the site. I hope you enjoyed them they can be seen in higher resolution on my profile.
*Note I did not paint any of these, but I did take the pictures myself.
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The main event at my high school is a basketball tournament we host every year known as LIT. It is the highlight of the year and was especially for me this year as I am a starter on the team this year! Anyways the relevance to the Giant Bomb community is that every year the tournament has a theme, and this year's theme was video games. A big part of the preparation for the tournament is decorating the gym to fit both the theme and basketball, and this is primarily done with huge painted panels that are put on the walls. I always look forward to the panels because often the chosen theme and basketball are combined in really great ways. The talent level on display is crazy and keep in mind when looking at the photos that all the art was designed and painted by high school students with very minimal teacher assistance. Plus my school is pretty small (400 ish students) and to put on a tournament at the high level of LIT each and every year is truly remarkable.
But without further preamble, here are some pictures of the decorations put up in the gym for the tournament that I think the GB folks will get a kick out of. (just to help make sense of some aspects, the tournament is known as LIT, it is the 59th annual, an my school is commonly abbreviated to LCHS or just LC, so if you see any of those in the art that is why.)
Well that's all I wanted to share. I have tons more pictures from the tournament of art, basketball, whatever, but these are the only ones that are relevant to the site. I hope you enjoyed them they can be seen in higher resolution on my profile.
*Note I did not paint any of these, but I did take the pictures myself.
thats really awesome stuff there. it must have taken a while to do all of those. i didn't know that nintendo copy righted "it's on like donkey kong". i thought somebody just made that up.
Awesome work by everyone involved. Also, I'd like to point out that the pipe obscuring the Mario one may be a little disappointing, but wholly appropriate.
Holy shit. I wish I could have went to your high school! The fact that there are this many people actually into games, and willing to represent that to the whole school through these pieces is awesome.
All that video game stuff all over your school! Are you kids crazy? Everyone in the place will be too busy raping and killing one another to even watch a dam basket ball game! I need to warn fox news about this to make sure they have cameras at the ready.
What an amazing collection of art for a high school project. Thanks for sharing it with us - there's some tremendously good effort going into all of that!
Those were all awesome and really good! The Paper Mario hopping on the doors was cute and the Sonic one may be a bit too believable, lol. Makes me wonder what some of the past themes been.
Dude, those are awesome! And the sheer, raw talent displayed is remarkable, especially for a school that small - I went to a high school about the same size, so I understand. Mad props to your entire school. Clever and skillfully done.
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