Take Me Down To The Stapler City Where The Grass Is Pencil Shavings & The Girls Are Paperclips, Oh Won't You Please Take Me Home

This is a little city built by Peter Root entirely out of staples. Over 100,000 of them -- that's a tenth of a billion! Some would argue it's only a tenth of a million, but those people are wrong and wouldn't know math if it divided their ass in two.

Hit the jump for a bunch of close-ups and a video of Peter playing the poor man's Sim-City.

Peter Root - City Made Out of Staples [whatthecool]

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