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Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes (2007)

56 points by metadat 4y ago

metadat 4y ago
If the images are broken for you, check out the archive.org snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20110419231940/http://alumni.soe.ucsc.edu/~inio/dk/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110419231940/http://alumni.soe...
- jeffhuys 4y ago
  Thanks, went to the comments out of laziness. Hug o' death, or just old?
  - jjulius 4y ago
    The images are hosted on a different subdomain - I'd guess that subdomain, or at least some of the content on it, is gone now.
  - eequah9L 4y ago
    For me, all the image URL's end up in a slash. Open in new tab, cut the slash, the image loads.
- deleted 4y ago
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- ShadowBanThis01 4y ago
  Thanks. I only saw the time-lapse video, which doesn't look good because it's low-res and at night. This still is much better.
anonymouskimmer 4y ago
Huh. It used about 1/10th the number of post-its as arcade games sold. About 1 ten-millionth the number of people who ever played Donkey Kong (conservative guess :) ). And about 1 100-millionth to 1-billionth the hours those people spent playing it. (also a guess)
EngManagerIsMe 4y ago
There's a part of me that loves this and there's a part of me that finds this sorta sad. Not pejoratively, just, evocatively for me there's a sense of sadness in the ephemeral nature of this installation. I have a really complicated relationship with nostalgia -- on the one hand I love it and seek it out but on the other hand I love seeing people create new things.
- sgtnoodle 4y ago
  The Japanese aesthetic known as wabi-sabi is all about accepting transience and imperfection. Have you ever thought about the ephemeral nature of art installations from that point of view? I recently spent a day killing time by walking around Stanford medical center. There is a rather grand atrium, circular and several stories high, with most of the center taken up by an abstract art installation. All the walls are a combination of rough and polished stone. Hundreds of tech companies' and individuals names are etched into the walls. While all very impressive, the permanent opulence of it all evoked a similarly negative emotion in me.
- syntheweave 4y ago
  I was around to see the actual installation when it was present. The thing is, it didn't just exist on its own, but was part of, or maybe the initiator of, a trend to make post-it art. I still see it in office windows, sometimes in videos of distant foreign countries. So if you wanted to make it known again...go get some Post-Its and have at it.
joering2 4y ago
> Images not loading? Reload for a different mirror. Unless I miss something, didn't authors hear about CDN ?
- inconceivable 4y ago
  you're missing that this page was made 15 years ago.
exabrial 4y ago
Man, the internet used to be a awesome place with all of these old websites and custom hosts.

56 points by metadat 4y ago

If the images are broken for you, check out the archive.org snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20110419231940/http://alumni.soe.ucsc.edu/~inio/dk/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110419231940/http://alumni.soe...

jeffhuys 4y ago
Thanks, went to the comments out of laziness. Hug o' death, or just old?
- jjulius 4y ago
  The images are hosted on a different subdomain - I'd guess that subdomain, or at least some of the content on it, is gone now.
- eequah9L 4y ago
  For me, all the image URL's end up in a slash. Open in new tab, cut the slash, the image loads.
deleted 4y ago
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ShadowBanThis01 4y ago
Thanks. I only saw the time-lapse video, which doesn't look good because it's low-res and at night. This still is much better.

anonymouskimmer 4y ago

Huh. It used about 1/10th the number of post-its as arcade games sold. About 1 ten-millionth the number of people who ever played Donkey Kong (conservative guess :) ). And about 1 100-millionth to 1-billionth the hours those people spent playing it. (also a guess)

EngManagerIsMe 4y ago

There's a part of me that loves this and there's a part of me that finds this sorta sad. Not pejoratively, just, evocatively for me there's a sense of sadness in the ephemeral nature of this installation. I have a really complicated relationship with nostalgia -- on the one hand I love it and seek it out but on the other hand I love seeing people create new things.

sgtnoodle 4y ago
The Japanese aesthetic known as wabi-sabi is all about accepting transience and imperfection. Have you ever thought about the ephemeral nature of art installations from that point of view? I recently spent a day killing time by walking around Stanford medical center. There is a rather grand atrium, circular and several stories high, with most of the center taken up by an abstract art installation. All the walls are a combination of rough and polished stone. Hundreds of tech companies' and individuals names are etched into the walls. While all very impressive, the permanent opulence of it all evoked a similarly negative emotion in me.
syntheweave 4y ago
I was around to see the actual installation when it was present. The thing is, it didn't just exist on its own, but was part of, or maybe the initiator of, a trend to make post-it art. I still see it in office windows, sometimes in videos of distant foreign countries. So if you wanted to make it known again...go get some Post-Its and have at it.

joering2 4y ago

> Images not loading? Reload for a different mirror. Unless I miss something, didn't authors hear about CDN ?

inconceivable 4y ago
you're missing that this page was made 15 years ago.

exabrial 4y ago

Man, the internet used to be a awesome place with all of these old websites and custom hosts.