[HN Gopher] Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes (2007)
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       Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes (2007)
        
       Author : metadat
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2023-04-15 22:43 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (alumni.soe.ucsc.edu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (alumni.soe.ucsc.edu)
        
       | anonymouskimmer wrote:
       | 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)
        
       | metadat wrote:
       | If the images are broken for you, check out the archive.org
       | snapshot:
       | 
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20110419231940/http://alumni.soe...
        
         | jeffhuys wrote:
         | Thanks, went to the comments out of laziness. Hug o' death, or
         | just old?
        
           | jjulius wrote:
           | 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.
        
       | EngManagerIsMe wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | joering2 wrote:
       | > Images not loading? Reload for a different mirror.
       | 
       | Unless I miss something, didn't authors hear about CDN ?
        
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