Pinup model Bettie Page died this week. I don’t think I ever posted images of the insane push pin mosaic I made in 2006, but since it used an early photo of her as source material, this seems like…
'Mosaics' Archive
Z: i just scoffed about a band being called CSS yesterday A: yep A: same band Z: but not a design reference A: you’d think they were portland webdesigners commenting on how the structure of indie rock is the same…
About a year ago, I built a small portfolio site for the three large-scale mosaics I’ve made (Legos, Bottle Caps, and Thumbtacks). I then promptly forgot to link to it.
Geoff sent me a link to this Music Video / Mosaic, directed by a guy named Thomas Hughes. The site describes it as: “A video mosaic constructed from the puzzling elements of a girl named Mandy.” It’s worth…
In December 2004, I was forwarded the following article about a fellow bottlecap mosaicist. I’ve pasted the relevant bits of the now-unavailable-online article below. The fulltext of the article, which was published in North Carolina this past November, is preserved…
One of the great features of Flickr is that you can subscribe to be notified via RSS whenever someone posts a photo tagged with a search term of your choosing. One of the tags I subscribe to is…
Marvel comics have released a series of edible mosaics, called “Snerdles.” Anyone who knows me knows four things:
- I love mosaics.
- I love candy.
- I love comic books.
- I love the shit out of combinations of things I like.
Based on these facts, it…
My bottlecap mosaic is mentioned in the Fall 2004 issue of Venus Magazine (Le Tigre on the cover). The mention is on page 73, in an article discussing craftster.org. Site originator Leah Kramer…
More Caps
Chris, who wrote to me about his own bottlecap mosaic in progress after I posted the writeup on mine, has finished his.
”Hey man, it’s more or less done, still looking to put a protective coating on
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A few items of interest spawned by my bottlecap mosaic post:
An article in Readymade several months back pointed me in the direction of canstruction. A brief description:
“Canstruction combines
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When I was in high school, one of my art teachers showed us a video detailing the creative process of painter Chuck Close, and I was completely blown away by the way he dissected and reassembled images on a large-scale.…