And now for something completely different…
EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.
A triumph of corporate-sponsored art. But why did the Spectacular Sticky Note Experiment premiere during the ABC Family miniseries Samurai Girl, and why did the show’s stars participate in the antics?
“ABC Family was looking to do something innovative to promote Samurai Girl,” Grobe said via email, “and when they saw our test footage of the sticky note experiments, they liked it!” Simple enough. It’s still not clear what connection we are supposed to draw between the experiment and Samurai Girl’s tale of an adopted heiress training in martial arts to fight the Yakuza and fulfill an ancient prophecy. But Chung and Fehr’s enthusiastic aping of the traditional Eepybird post-experiment stance is delightful all the same.
Eepybird assures viewers that whatever sticky notes can be reused are, but let’s just hope the notes being used are at least 50 percent post-consumer recycled. Artists should suffer for their art, but trees shouldn’t.