A War with Post-Its|便利贴大战

by Brian Foden

French office workers are going to war with small pieces of paper.

Who would have thought that those small, sticky Post-it notes could be used so creatively? In what's being called Post-it wars, office workers in Paris have been trying to _(1)_ each other in coming up with the biggest and the best Post-it artwork.

The first shot in this raging war was in the spring of 2011, _(2)_ employees at French video game company Ubisoft stuck a small space invader, an alien creature from a popular video game from the late 1970s, on its windows. Employees at a bank that faced the video company responded by creating a much larger, more elaborate Post-it creation. Ubisoft countered with another even more epic Post-it window _(3)_ , and the battle was on. Soon, workers at other companies across Paris decided to get in on the fun. Post-it fever has _(4)_ spread to other French cities and even other countries.

The subjects of all these artistic Post-it creations are _(5)_ and can be anything from celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson, to iconic video game figures, including Pac-Man and Super Mario. The more intricate creations are a few stories high and _(6)_ of thousands and thousands of colorful pieces of paper. A website showing photos of many of the pixelated images was created by a French digital communications agency. You can _(7)_ at www.postitwar.com. The site is in French, but the pictures are worth a thousand words in any language.

1.  (A) ignore  (B) outdo   (C) remove  (D) distort

2.  (A) what    (B) which   (C) when    (D) where

3.  (A) content (B) display (C) process (D) review

4.  (A) after   (B) still   (C) once    (D) since

5.  (A) diverse (B) generous    (C) limited (D) promising

6.  (A) insist  (B) resist  (C) consist (D) persist

7.  (A) put them out    (B) take them out   (C) let them out    (D) check them out

便利贴大战

法国上班族上演便利贴大车拼。

　　谁能想到那些又小又黏的便利贴可以被运用得这么有创意？在这场『便利贴大战』中，巴黎上班族试图构想出最壮观最棒的便利贴艺术品来胜过对手。

　　这场猛烈战役的第一枪始于 2011 年春天，当时法国游戏开发商 Ubisoft 的员工在玻璃窗上，贴出 1970年代末著名电玩游戏中迷你版的太空侵略者这只外星生物。游戏公司对面的银行员工看到后，便贴起更大更精致的便利贴创作以示回应。Ubisoft则不甘示弱地在窗户上贴出更巨大的便利贴图案，战火于是开始燃烧。没多久，整个巴黎的其他公司员工决定加入『便利贴大战』的行列。自此以后，便利贴的战火蔓延至法国其他城市，甚至延烧到其他国家。

　　便利贴艺术创作的主题五花八门，从玛丽莲‧梦露和麦克‧杰克森等名人，到小精灵和超级玛利等代表性电玩人物都包括在内。其中较复杂的创作由成千上万的彩色便利贴所组成，规模有数层楼之高。法国一家数字通讯社架设了一个网站，站内张贴了许多这些位图般的图案。你可以上 www.postitwar.com 瞧一瞧这些作品。虽然那是个法语网站，不过这些图像就足以取代任何语言的千言万语。

答案：1. (B)2. (C)3. (B)4. (D)5. (A)

6. (C)7. (D)

台北艺术大学学生刘邦耀等人用了 6 千张便利贴变化构图，拍摄 1 支动画短片，短短 2 周内就累积破百万的点阅率。这段动画短片，描述靠着便利贴提醒自己工作的期限，最后却被便利贴压死死的现代人通病。拍摄 1 千多张照片串成的动画，并搭配真人演出，不但有好莱坞影星留言推荐，连 CNN 及微软也都想借重他的创意来高薪挖角，几乎可称为『台湾创意之光』。