Comments on: E Pluribus Bardot

E Pluribus Bardot

breezeway — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:54:01 -0800

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.

By: schyler523

schyler523 — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:21:42 -0800

I'm particularly Fonda the Barbarella picture.

By: carter

carter — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:27:22 -0800

Those space-themed Xmas and New Year cards are cool ...

By: caffeineslinger

caffeineslinger — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:49:30 -0800

Alternative...AndreaMosaic.

By: Mwongozi

Mwongozi — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:01:19 -0800

Mac people can do this with MacOSaiX, which has the killer feature of being able to suck pictures from Google Images searches.

By: toochumpy

toochumpy — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:39:21 -0800

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.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:56:52 -0800

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.

By: schyler523

schyler523 — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:10:13 -0800

BlackLeotardFront: Isn't that just a photo of Michael?

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:26:15 -0800

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.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:58:18 -0800

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.

By: breezeway

breezeway — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:02:40 -0800

Yeah, I love that Michael Jackson album cover.

By: obloquy

obloquy — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:04:29 -0800

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.

By: Wet Spot

Wet Spot — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:42:32 -0800

My favorite mosaic. This closeup NSFW.