Ten Thousand Cents, A Mechanical Turk Art

Ten Thousand Cents by Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (previously on Neatorama), where thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of a bill without knowing what the overall project is all about.

Then the duo captured the painting process and put all 10,000 being drawn simultaneously into one video clip.

Link - via swissmiss

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April 13, 2008 at 4:15 pm by Alex
Category: Art & Craft, Money & Finance

9 Comments to "Ten Thousand Cents, A Mechanical Turk Art"

Thespian24601
April 13th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
That is really neat. I love the ones on the outside edges with smiley faces and such. I really wish that you could control the speed on the painting though. Great idea.
Hedgecore
April 13th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
If you look at the little white spot under his nose, someone drew a little stick man.
CheeseDuck
April 13th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Hahah, Hedgecore! You’re right XD
just a guy
April 13th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
I love how some people really try to match it, but some just really put no effort at all. haha
Alannah
April 13th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Those little white spots….are those the guys who didn’t turn in their work?
jessleigh
April 13th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
I wish they would have chosen a better picture.
empty-minded
April 14th, 2008 at 8:43 am
What I find fascinating is the method the different people employed to form the individual rectangles. Some people seemed to really waste a lot of time in getting to the picture.
Thomas
April 14th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Ahh, the collective work of 10,000 unknowing counterfeiters.

Neat idea though.
TheSuperunknown
April 14th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
There seems to have been one guy in particular (or maybe several) who specialised in just doodling whatever he wanted…

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