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Overtime: Imaging technology oddities

gordo

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Just some miscellaneous imaging technology oddities lying around my desktop that I thought were interesting and didn't fit anywhere else.

Eugene Omar Goldbeck was a photographer who specialized in large scale group portrait, events, and scenes.
Shield made up of 30,000 troops. 1918
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Portrait of Woodrow Wilson made up of 21,000 troops. 1918
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5,000 US Marines
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Christian Faur is an artist based in Granville, Ohio, who creates pictures out of crayons by packing thousands of them together so they become like the colored pixels on a TV screen.
He starts each work by scanning a photo into a computer and breaking the image down into colored blocks He then draws a grid that shows him exactly where to place each crayon The finished artworks are packed tightly into wooden frames. He actually makes the crayons himself, hand-casting each one in a mould.

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Daniel Rozin is an artist who uses interactive art that allows the viewer to create the image. The image is made using a variety of moveable elements controlled by software and servo-motors.
These examples from 1999 uses pieces of wood, cotton balls, penquins etc. acting like digital pixels to create different tones.



Shapeways creates customizable 3D mini branding irons that click onto standard disposable lighters. You simply turn the lighter on for 30 seconds until the branding iron is hot and then brand away. They can create text or logo graphic branding irons.

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Oleksiy Pikalo's latte printer is quite sweet.



ESCP Europe is a top ranked international business school. It has campuses in five major European cities: Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin, and Turin.
This video was made by the students using bodies and clothing to create images.

 
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If you like Christian Faur's work, might I also recommend the later works of Chuck Close? Great portrait artist, but couldn't paint with conventional methods after being paralyzed in an accident so he had assistance drawing massive grids on canvases and taping a paintbrush to his wheel chair; he painted each of these pieces square by square.
 
Way back in the day, when the computer printers we used were "Impact/Belt" printers, I recall seeing a large portrait of DaVinci's The Last Supper all done with character print and over print like a large bitmap. It was awesome. I researched on the internet, but, couldn't find an example.
 
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Way back in the day, when the computer printers we used were "Impact/Belt" printers, I recall seeing a large portrait of DaVinci's The Last Supper all done with character print and over print like a large bitmap. It was awesome. I researched on the internet, but, couldn't find an example.
Remember those very well. I had a whole collection of those including Mona Lisa, Snoopy, etc. The last time I used them was in 1977 using IBM 1403N1 impact printers.
 
Yep. One of them tried to kill me once. Back in the day, anyone who had anything to do with computers (systems design, programmers, operators, field service technicians, etc) had to wear shirt and ties, As I was leaning over, changing the paper, my tie got rolled up in the sheet ribbon. Grabbed a pair of scissors that luckily was just in reach on a desk beside the printer and cut that tie just below the knot. Whew! That was close!

Since then, I interpreted the sound the printer made (they were quite loud) as an eerie challenge from the printer to come a little closer.
 

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