Carpalware
Installation · 2005

Mario, Post-it notes on glass

Four floors of UC Santa Cruz’s Engineering 2 building, put up overnight as a prank.
Twelve people, 3,800 notes.

The finished installation at night: four floors of windows filled with Post-it sprites, and a figure with arms raised on the third floor

Construction

The crew walking along the rooftop ledge at night
The crew assembling sprites on the floor indoors
Putting up notes on the glass
A floor-to-ceiling coin made of Post-it notes

The plan

Note-by-note plan for the 1st floor
Note-by-note plan for the 2nd floor
Note-by-note plan for the 3rd floor
Note-by-note plan for the 4th floor
Inside the first floor: a giant coin, a spiny and a column of notes
1st floor
Inside the second floor: a Hammer Bro above a row of bricks
2nd floor
Inside the third floor: a question block, a fire flower and Mario
3rd floor
Inside the fourth floor: Lakitu on his cloud
4th floor

One night

The building at night as the installation goes up, frame 1 of 12

The night of February 21, 2005: twelve frames from the same spot, 9:51 to 11:26 PM. Drag to watch it go up.

9:51 PM

Crew & press

Most of the crew, faces covered by sprites
The crew
FHM magazine page titled Paper Mario: The Mushroom Kingdom gets a Post-it Note makeover
FHM, July 2005