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Creating a domino-style chain reaction from candy boxes is the least efficient way we can think of to throw something in the trash, but it also has the virtue of being the most efficient way we can think of to get fired from your part-time job at a movie theater. So...partial credit? Watch and decide for yourself if it's just stupid, or so stupid it's brilliant.

The trick to building with dominoes is incredible patience. Nobody embodies this more than YouTube user FlippyCat. In this rather amazing video, FlippyCat creates and then demolishes a surprisingly accurate version of Van Gogh's famous Starry Night. With dominoes. All total, the effort took about 11 hours. Fortunately, the video is sped up and mistakes are few. The couple of times required to reset the accidental releases are painful to watch because it's impossible not to empathize. One can only imagine how frustrating it would have been had the entire thing been knocked prematurely. That's the hazards of working with a material designed to fall down. In other words, I guess that's the way the domino tumbles.

From YouTube user ShanesDominoez, we have what he calls the Nintendo Special, which is composed of 30,000 dominoes, and depicts various popular Nintendo franchises. It seems ShanesDominoez has found yet another way for Pokémon, Mario, Zelda, (and oddly Sonic, which only now appears on Nintendo consoles rather than is owned by the big N) and other Nintendo franchises to be mesmerizing. So, hit play, and begin your weekend by zoning out watching intricate domino patterns collapse into each other.