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Cool Uses for Post it Notes

The origin of Post-it Notes came from the merger of two ideas in 1974: Dr. Spencer Silver, a 3M chemist, invented a pressure-sensitive adhesive; and Art Fry, a colleague of Silver, used this adhesive as a way to hold his bookmarks in his hymn book. After some development, 3M eventually evolved this idea into the yellow pads of sticky paper seen almost everywhere today. Since then, people have been coming up with new and creative uses for the standard Post-it Note.

Art
- With the wide array of colors available for Post-it Notes, it's not surprising that someone figured out how to use them as an art palette like paint. The detail in some of these works of art denotes a great level of talent and patience.
  
  From something as simple as an 8-bit version of Super Mario to an Andy Warhol-inspired Elvis Presley rendering to an exquisite and intricate depiction of the Mona Lisa made of 12,000 sticky notes, this cool use of Post-it Notes is only limited by the artist's imagination.
Pranks
- Some of the pranks pulled with the use of Post-it Notes are funny yet time-consuming to the prankster. Most of these pranks involve covering something with an inordinate number of Post-it Notes.
  
  One popular viral prank from 2008 involved a faction of 12 people who spent two hours covering a coworker's Jaguar with 14,000 Post-it Notes of varying colors. This prank caught the attention of 3M, which copied the idea in an advertising campaign.
Waterfall
- Creating a waterfall is very simple with the invention of zig-zag sticky notes, which alternate position of the adhesive from top to bottom. Zig-zag notes are developed specifically for pop-up sticky note dispensers. When these notes are pushed over the side, they create a waterfall effect with Slinky-like characteristics.
  
  The guys from eepybird.com created a three-minute video involving numerous Post-it waterfalls made of over 280,000 notes. This video won them a YouTube Webby Award in 2009.
Stop Motion Movies
- Many of today's movies use CGI and 3D technology to make effects look more realistic. Yet, simpler animation techniques, such as stop-motion, survive because there is still a place for them.
  
  Post-it Notes have been used to make short stop-motion movies that can be both thoughtful and silly.
  
  One popular example is a short called "Deadline" about a man trying to work on some unnamed project on his laptop while a Post-it wall in front of him recreates his mental state during the course of the video.

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