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March 21, 2005 9:54 AM   Subscribe

This dog is made from animal pictures, this one from beer labels. Here's Nicholson in The Shining, there's Fonda in Barbarella. Kittens, Grant, Santa, and Uncle Sam: all mosaics created with Mazaika. Added bonus: Soviet postcards.
posted by breezeway (12 comments total)
 
I'm particularly Fonda the Barbarella picture.
posted by schyler523 at 10:21 AM on March 21, 2005


Those space-themed Xmas and New Year cards are cool ...
posted by carter at 10:27 AM on March 21, 2005


Alternative...AndreaMosaic.
posted by caffeineslinger at 10:49 AM on March 21, 2005


Mac people can do this with MacOSaiX, which has the killer feature of being able to suck pictures from Google Images searches.
posted by Mwongozi at 11:01 AM on March 21, 2005


Am i missing something here, or does this software really NOT use flickr?

Based on all the flickr spelling posts lately, it should be a matter of hours before someone uses the flickr api and tags as the image db for one of these tools. And that, would make this even cooler.
posted by toochumpy at 11:39 AM on March 21, 2005


I don't mean to bash the post, but is anyone else tiring of these things? The fact that they are totally automated now and anyone can do them takes a lot of the power out of the images. I prefer to see something hand-crafted, like the Stranger cover of Michael Jackson.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 12:56 PM on March 21, 2005


BlackLeotardFront: Isn't that just a photo of Michael?
posted by schyler523 at 1:10 PM on March 21, 2005


That would be a mosaic of Michael made entirely from breakfast cereal. Sorry there isn't a bigger version. The current cover is also good, incidentally.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 1:26 PM on March 21, 2005


I agree with BlackLeotardFront that this schtick is getting slightly old, but find this a little interesting. I've always thought the medium of tiny-photograph-mosaics to have much more potential than it was used for; enough of the "picture of a horse made with tiny pictures of horses" crap. The picture of a dog made with Windows icons, while completely inane and absurd, is moving in the right direction. For example, there could be a picture of happy children made up of thousands of stills from horror movies, or pictures of flowers made up of images of dead bodies.
posted by koeselitz at 1:58 PM on March 21, 2005


Yeah, I love that Michael Jackson album cover.

posted by breezeway at 2:02 PM on March 21, 2005


I think the Stranger cover is by Jason Mecier. See also Mariah Carey made out of makeup and the Martha Stewart vegetable platter. I think my favorite, though, is the portrait of Jon Benet Ramsey made entirely out of children's shoes, which, like many of his works, has to be seen to be believed.
posted by obloquy at 5:04 PM on March 21, 2005


My favorite mosaic. This closeup NSFW.
posted by Wet Spot at 6:42 PM on March 21, 2005


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