Ten Thousand Cents, A Mechanical Turk Art

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Money & Finance on April 13, 2008 at 4:15 pm


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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. CheeseDuck
    April 13th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    Hahah, Hedgecore! You're right XD

  4. 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

  5. Alannah
    April 13th, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    Those little white spots....are those the guys who didn't turn in their work?

  6. jessleigh
    April 13th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    I wish they would have chosen a better picture.

  7. 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.

  8. Thomas
    April 14th, 2008 at 11:39 am

    Ahh, the collective work of 10,000 unknowing counterfeiters.

    Neat idea though.

  9. 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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