It's either a stop-motion film or a really good fake.
(Credit: Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET)
It's good to have hobbies. Some people just have more unusual hobbies than others. Michael Birken says he spent 11 months playing with Post-it notes. He wasn't writing memos or reminders, he was sticking them on the wall to create an elaborate stop-motion video tribute to his favorite classic games. He calls it Post-it Note Arcade.
The video includes footage of both Ms. Pac-Man and Mario. Birken says he recorded actual gameplay footage and then printed the images out, one frame at a time, to replicate on the walls around his office. He spent holidays and weekends posting the little pieces of paper up and filming the results. It's probably just as well his co-workers didn't have to witness this madness.
The resulting video looks good. The vintage video game music is all there and it's all just the right amount of crazy-obsessive. All told, Birken says it took 5,722 still images created out of 4,800 Post-it notes to make the video. He notes that changing background scenery was masked out and replaced with a consistent frame throughout the animation. At the end of the video, Birken confesses to having too much time on his hands.
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