Ten Thousand Cents, A Mechanical Turk Art - Neatorama

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

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.

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If you look at the little white spot under his nose, someone drew a little stick man.

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Hahah, Hedgecore! You're right XD

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I love how some people really try to match it, but some just really put no effort at all. haha

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

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I wish they would have chosen a better picture.

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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.

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

Neat idea though.

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There seems to have been one guy in particular (or maybe several) who specialised in just doodling whatever he wanted...

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