If You Ever Need Someone, a new stop motion animated music video by Aaron Kaminar, was produced using over 25,000 post-it notes. No pun intended, but stick with it – It really starts doing it’s thing at around 1:20. Says Kaminar:
“We spent nearly four months creating this stop motion animation for the debut single off of The Family Bones upcoming record. We used a green screen for the live action elements and utilized a few loops and split screens to make it possible to pull this off without a label or a budget. All of the post its you see are real and were put up by hand.“
Check out the behind the scenes video for more info on how it was made. Full credits after the jump.
CREDITS
VIDEO PRODUCED BY: Aaron Kaminar & Justin Webb for Image Flux
DIRECTED BY: Aaron Kaminar
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Keith Woodhams Jr.
PROP MASTER: Mary Mitchell Williams
TALENT: Ariela Marin
LEAD ANIMATOR: Joe Silva
ANIMATORS: Elan Trujillo, Mary Mitchell Williams, Keith Woodhams, Aaron Kaminar, Justin Webb, Philip Wagner, James Webb
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*Senior pranks can be cause for trouble within the school or law. Make sure the prank is appropriate and doesn’t harm any person, property, or animal. I am not held responsible for any of the punishment, damage, or any other causes of these pranks. Trespassing, vandalism, or any other crime is not acceptable in the process of carrying out a prank.
Fulfilling the Prank
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A great idea for a senior prank is to fill an office, classroom, gym, or car full of balloons, popcorn, packing peanuts, or any other item that consumes up space. This is a hilarious prank that is pretty harmless.
Dixie Cups
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This classic prank will also create problems within the school. Buy 700-1000 Dixie cups or how many you find appropriate. Fill them up with a little bit of water, but not to much. And place them all next to each other but very close so that you cannot step between the cups without knocking them down. Make sure you start on the opposite side of the room and make your way backwards toward the exit!
Bouncy Halls?
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Order and Buy thousands of bouncy balls, most likely online. Get a good group of friends and distribute them amongst each other. Plan out a certain time in the day where everyone is spread out throughout the school and then just make it rain bouncy balls! This prank would definitely cause chaos and confusion, but would be hilarious.
Saran Wrap
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An easy prank would be to saran wrap other student’s cars. Juniors would be the primary target seeing they are the other grade that can drive. Faculty may be a risky idea, but they would be an option. This may be one of the more expensive pranks, but it deserves to be on the list.
Forking
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Forking the school yard would be another senior prank. Students would go to a store and buy hundreds of forks, and during the middle of the night they would stick them into the school’s courtyard, lobby, or football field. This prank would be a risky one seeing that it could be considered vandalism. A vulgar message may cross the line.
Just Classic
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This classic prank is known all over. I don’t think I need to explain, but I will. Buy a bunch of toilet paper rolls and just go crazy. You can never buy too much toilet paper. Throw them all over the school’s building, trees, and anything else that works.
Camping Out
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This prank involves getting as many seniors as possible and camping out for a night in the parking lot or any other good area. This would be a fun prank that seems pretty harmless if everything goes right. Grilling out, chilling, and playing some sports would make this a fun night.
School for Sale?
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This prank involves putting as many for sale signs as possible in the front lawn of your school. This would be a pretty humorous prank not to mention harmless. Another option is to put a real estate ad in the local newspaper.
Vaseline Doors
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For this prank you need to get a group of seniors, and while class is in session this group needs to run around with numerous jars of Vaseline and rub it all over door handles and lockers. This will definitely cause students to be mad and will leave a mark in your school’s history.
Better Post-It Note It
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This final prank is pretty self-explanatory. You need to get a whole group of seniors and buy a bunch of post-it note packages. Then during school sometime or after when no one is in the hallways cover everything with post-it notes. Completely yellow-out the school hallway and it will look flawless.
I have a kind of affection for Post-It Notes. I use them all the time when I’m reading–to mark a passage I especially like or don’t like, to write notes about things that work (or don’t) as I read, instead of writing in the margins. I use them sometimes when I write, too. I’m sure I’m not the only reader, or writer, who goes through a ton of these things. Right? Right? 
So on the assumption that some of you out there use Post-It Notes–the name brand or the store brand (I buy the store brand; it’s cheaper) I thought I’d show you some art or creative endeavors made from Post-It Notes. A kind of urban art, I guess you could say.
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Rebecca Murtaugh’s 2001 Post-it notes installation entitled “To Mark a Significant Space in the Bedroom #1.”
Murtaugh was quoted as saying, ““I was really mesmerized by Post-its. They come in all these colors. They are beautiful. They have a purpose, but it’s different for everyone: sometimes it’s a note, ‘I’ll be back,’ or maybe it’s a phone number. But for all these important things, the note itself is always ephemeral and temporary. Yet it’s carrying all this valuable information.”
I like her thoughts about the notes, and the way she transformed her thoughts into art.
Read more about it close to the bottom of this NY Times article.
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Photo: ih8gates @ Flickr
This one’s a mosaic of Elvis made up of Post-It Notes. It takes a certain mindset to be able to design a mosaic this way.
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Photo: Quickman @ Flickr. Quickman said “This is what my office looked like after it was covered with 1100 post-it notes for my birthday.”
Wow, what a beautiful thing to find! It looks like a creative celebration to me, with room to breathe.
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You can see more Post-It Note art and creations here and here.
And if you’re interested in trying your hand at your own mural, check out this how-to.
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