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Mario vs Donkey Kong vs Post-It Notes

xxxGriMxxx — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:05:53 MDT

And I thought mankind is trying to save the rain forests?

xxxGriMxxx

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gidgets — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:27:34 MDT

@ Spare_Change:

I worked on the mural. Just you wait. You'll get your fix.

gidgets

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gidgets — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:25:57 MDT

I worked on the Donkey Kong mural. Can I comment?

gidgets

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lols — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:34:11 MDT

proud to be a slug

lols

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NewtypeS3 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:17:59 MDT

Wonder if Boston would consider this terrorism as well...
Still, wonderful example of art immitating art. I'd love to see some of this up at WSU.

NewtypeS3

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serotoninzero — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:58:47 MDT

I love huge art projects. Especially ones having to do with video games.

serotoninzero

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dubbfoolio — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:38:53 MDT

As a former UCSC banana slug I got to say I'm feeling quite proud right about now.

dubbfoolio

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v00deux — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:04:08 MDT

this beats the crap out of that 8-bit art show stuff.

v00deux

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bcherry — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:16:41 MDT

http://www.yikes.com/~pengo/8bit/

This is the same building/windows two years ago, in response to macdeth and chronubis. Giant super mario post it mural.

bcherry

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chronubis — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:23:00 MDT

@macdeth: Ah, that's right. Thanks! :)

chronubis

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FlapDangerous — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:06:51 MDT

psssh all MIT does is put silly stuff on top of that dome on their main building. this beats the hell out of anything MIT does in terms of silly creativity.

FlapDangerous

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Niko LT — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:37:02 MDT

This puts MIT to shame.

Niko LT

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justhesh — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:29:22 MDT

How freaking obsessive compulsive do you have to be to get that so incredibly precise?!

It boggles.

justhesh

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jfbguy — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:27:39 MDT

Go BANANA SLUGS!!!

jfbguy

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joelface — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:24:53 MDT

brilliant. it looks really damn cool.

@axiomatic:

hahaha. nice!

joelface

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RiceBandit — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:17:54 MDT

@chronubis: I thought so, too, but it just occurred to me that the one I saw years ago was a Super Mario Bros. one, right here on Kotaku.

It's been a long time since you guys posted one of these, and it's a good one! Thx

RiceBandit

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axiomatic — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:54:48 MDT

I approve.

-Management.

axiomatic

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Rayzak — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:50:36 MDT

So, is this considered an act of Terrorism?

Rayzak

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Spare_Change — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:43:55 MDT

Very Cool! Would like to have seen a YouTube timelapse of the entire start-finish of this...

Spare_Change

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Goshawk — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:27:44 MDT

Heh, awesome.

Goshawk

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Pi-face — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:27:11 MDT

All of the people bashing this use of post-it notes should keep in mind that they are still usable. It's not like they're burning the whole thing. Besides, this work will probably be up there for quite a while.

Pi-face

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HiYonKrak — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:26:31 MDT

I go there and didn't even know this was up.

Kotaku...keeping me informed

HiYonKrak

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Android8675 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:11:54 MDT

UCSC is so full of hippies (go cartman, i'm joking, I grew up in santa cruz) I think one show of slightly overused paper post-its is automatically negated by the fact that it is pretty artistic in nature, and...

...that shot from the inside, how did they get up to the top level, or can I not see the walkways from that shot? I need glasses. If I don't then that had to of been physically challenging as well.

Android8675

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Kdawg — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:09:25 MDT

The most impressive part about it as they got them all to stick to take the picture! Every post-it note I use falls down or curls up after a few minutes.

Kdawg

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Adam In Texas — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:01:55 MDT

@br549:

I stand corrected.

@Witzbold:

It was Toadstool in the US version of SMB as well.

Adam In Texas

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NihonTiger90 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:57:31 MDT

Man, that's totally awesome. I wish we could do something cool like that here, but we don't have any big spaces like that.

NihonTiger90

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Witzbold — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:55:49 MDT

@br549: Princess Toadstool was the Yankee name for Princess Peach.

Witzbold

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chronubis — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:51:11 MDT

I could have sworn I've seen these photos years ago.

chronubis

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FoxHoundADAM — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:46:43 MDT

By far the coolest thing I will see this week.

FoxHoundADAM

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br549 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:41:45 MDT

@adamcole:
Princess Peach? Surely you mean Princess Toadstool.

br549

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embee — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:29:30 MDT

@doubtful: And what was to stop them from actually using the Post-Its first before wasting them on a trash generating project?

embee

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embee — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:28:37 MDT

School of Economics? Doesn't seem too economical to me.

embee

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Adam In Texas — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:26:33 MDT

It's Jumpman Vs Donkey Kong isn't it? If you're going to call him Mario and botch the whole thing up I guess you can say he is saving Princess Peach instead of Pauline too.

I'm not really this anal. It's a joke.

Adam In Texas

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doubtful — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:25:46 MDT

Wow. Guerrilla art is getting assaulted by hyperactive environmentalists now.

What's to stop them from recycling this paper when it comes down?

doubtful

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jzulli — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:23:33 MDT

I'm a student at UCSC. That building, Engineering 2, houses the newly-created (as of Fall 2006) Computer Game Design major here. I'm taking a video game design seminar there this quarter.
The funny thing is, I didn't even see this until yesterday. But it's even cooler in person.

jzulli

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Draconis — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:22:37 MDT

Damn, that is impressive.
Since the Post-Its are being used for the sake of art, I wouldn't call it a waste.

Draconis

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Witzbold — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:13:18 MDT

wow now that is a work of art.

Witzbold

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LionheartAce — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:10:29 MDT

I hate myself for not having helped in the creation of such a masterpiece.

LionheartAce

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Smokemeakipper — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:01:53 MDT

I presume they are leaving that up? What a waste if it all has to come down again. Very impressive.

Smokemeakipper

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timothymichaelclark — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:01:08 MDT

It actually says it only took 6400 post-its on their website (http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~inio/dk/?fb)

Still - awesome.

timothymichaelclark

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Paperkraft — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:00:25 MDT

I can see Treehugger wincing

Paperkraft

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Paperkraft — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:00:20 MDT

Treehugger is wincing right now

Paperkraft

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Geckosan — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:58:00 MDT

Just plain wow!

Geckosan

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Volante3192 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:52:39 MDT

Looking at the pile of post-it notes purchased, 14,000 post-its aren't really that many. You probably get that same volume of paper in junk mail each month.

Volante3192

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rumoko — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:52:35 MDT

All you paper haters -
Lets say 6 Post-It Notes is equivalent to an A4 page, that makes about 2333 pages or roughly 4 and a half reams (500 sheets) of paper - the average workplace probably goes through this in a 3 month period just so people can print out their emails and read them infront of their monitors.

Considering this took only 5 hours and didn't use any printer ink it should be seen as a productive use of the paper (ignoring the glue and the fact that people will continue to print out their emails so they can 'look busy' as they wander aimlessly around their offices).

Plenty more on reams here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_ream

rumoko