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it’s people. tetris is made out of people!

filed under: just plain fun | retro | video games

posted: December 31st, 2007 stumble it!17 comments author: technabob

Everyone’s favorite Soviet block video game has been brought to life using a roomful of people, taking on the roll of the various colored geometric shapes from the game.

Human Tetris

The stop-motion video by Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond of NotSoNoisy creative agency is the latest in his series of video game inspired clips, which first gained popularity with Human Space Invaders and Human Pong, and more recently, Human Pole Position.

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Human Tetris was recorded during the Urbaines Festival at the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne, Switzerland. The video shoot took 88 people wearing bright Tetris colored T-shirts, and 880 carefully choreographed still images in order to complete the effect. Add one goofy human-generated audio track, and there you have it.

Too bad I just ran out of quarters.

17 comments comment

1. bottlepets.jp - ボトル&hellip | December 31st, 2007 at 9:53 pm
2. Overdrv | January 1st, 2008 at 7:01 am

Really funny: CONGRATULATIONS!
3. gigi | January 1st, 2008 at 8:50 am

i love the part when the “screen” clears. Very clever!
4. Edward Murawski | January 4th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

Very interesting. Love the Russian anthem!
5. Loupis | January 7th, 2008 at 2:30 am

If there’s one thing I hate, it’s watching other people play video games. That was entertaining to watch, though!
6. Rageaholic | January 7th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

That was cool, whoever’s playing sucks at Tetris though.
7. Skerit | January 8th, 2008 at 11:54 am

Haha, very true Rageaholic, but I believe, had he been “good” at it, the movie could have been about 10 minutes long
The “pam-pa-pa-pam” was a bit annoying, though … I prefer the real tetris sound any day
8. laura | January 11th, 2008 at 12:50 am

oh my god, i love it. i was smiling through the whole video, very clever, indeed.

love the details, too
9. nick | January 11th, 2008 at 8:27 am

lol thats weird:)
10. Mark | January 13th, 2008 at 11:34 am

Very clever. Well done to all involved.
11. Jessie | January 14th, 2008 at 2:24 am

they messed up in a few parts.
when a line clears, the lines above don’t lose their position and drop until they hit another block. they stay in the line they belonged to and move down.

other than that, this was awesome
12. Steve | January 14th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

Dude whoever was playing sucked at tetris they only got like 4 lines, i mean come on a blind person could do better than that
13. California Kango | January 15th, 2008 at 1:11 am

Leave it to those Swiss . . . inspired by those erstwhile Soviets . . .
14. Deeljehuiswerk | January 19th, 2008 at 10:52 am

One of the best video’s I’ve seen in a long time.
15. mark | February 18th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

Reminds of the sex-tetris game with different positions
16. technabob | February 18th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

I guess I’m glad I never saw that one.
17. Emrys Fitton | June 26th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

Heh, a brilliant undertaking, and it really paid off.

The person who choreographed this needs some practice though. Maybe I should lend him my old game-boy. ^^;