An Adventure 65 Million Dominoes In The Making

October 2, 2012 4:36 PM

The Fall of the Dinosaurs (in Dominoes) [via]
posted by brundlefly (5 comments total)

Really cool. I hope when I die, I just fall apart into dominoes.
posted by hermitosis at 5:09 PM on October 2, 2012

So, pileontology, eh?
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:17 PM on October 2, 2012 [3 favorites]

It takes a special kind of masochist to layout out thousands of black dominoes merely to hold up the dominoes people will actually see...TWICE.
posted by DU at 6:12 PM on October 2, 2012

Well done!
posted by Legomancer at 5:44 AM on October 3, 2012

It takes a special kind of masochist to layout out thousands of black dominoes merely to hold up the dominoes people will actually see...TWICE.

It's a metaphor for the the oppressed worker throwing over the non-load-bearing upper blocks. The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce, naturally.
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:07 AM on October 3, 2012