Peter Root – Stuff Accountants Like https://www.stuffaccountantslike.com This blog is dedicated to stuff that accountants like Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:37:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 Staples City https://www.stuffaccountantslike.com/staples-city/ Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:37:12 +0000 http://www.stuffaccountantslike.com/?p=546 When an accountant (or in this case, an artist) has too much free time (typically during training) and copious amounts of office supplies, this can happen:

Artist Peter Root has created a detailed cityscape over a mirror using staples.

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From his own words,

Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic. Like a city, the staples are subject to the elements, on a micro scale. The slightest breath or vibration and the domino effect kicks in.

(Via Gizmodo)

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