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Ten Thousand Cents
- 0xdecaff 14y agoVirus? Kaspersky flags the site as trying to load http://feedma.com/cgi-bin/v/v.cgi//v http://feedma.com/cgi-bin/v/v.cgi//v in the homepage. watch out. Wepawet seems to think its clean.. shrugs http://wepawet.iseclab.org/view.php?hash=e8b60fe27c3cfcb149de22a68721746a&t=1360329959&type=js http://wepawet.iseclab.org/view.php?hash=e8b60fe27c3cfcb149d...
- Jimmie 14y agoHere's the project description, I think it's probably safe. "Ten Thousand Cents is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using custom drawing tool, thousands individuals working in isolation from one another painted tiny part the bill without knowledge overall task. Workers were paid cent each via amazon's mechanical turk distributed labor tool. Total cost of the bill, creation, and reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as video piece with 10,000 parts drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, new uncharted combination markets, crowdsourcing, virtual economies, and reproduction."
- jacques_chester 14y agoDrive-by exploitations don't stop to read project descriptions before scanning ports or sending carefully selected strings.
- TomGullen 14y agoAwesome project! Didn't understand it at first when I was hovering until I read the about page. Really really cool art!
- JimmaDaRustla 14y agoAwesome! Laughed out loud in my cube at the white block by the tip of his nose.
- Jimmie 14y agoLook at the white block on the far right side about one-third of the way down. edit: And the white block on the top, far right a little in. <3 And just right of the left hand side black border, about halfway down. And the white block to the left of the F on the bottom right serial. And the white block in the top of his hair.
- wikwocket 14y agoThe "About" page shows a few choice selected ones at the bottom. I like the artist who expresses an opinion of the payout rate for the task set before them!
- ScotterC 14y agoThis is awesome. Also reminds me of Ai Wei Wei's Sunflower Seeds [1]. Where millions of chinese laborers hand made and painted millions of porcelain sunflower seeds. Wonderful parallels of thinking that Amazon Turk is the West's version of labor. 1. http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/ai-weiwei-unloads-millions-sunflower-seeds-new-york-winter http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/ai-weiwei-unloads-millions-...
- bruceboughton 14y ago>> The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction. How does this explore "the circumstances we live in"? I'm not knocking the project, but that is a bold, unsubstantiated claim.
- insteadof 14y agoIt's boilerplate art installation talk. The more profound sounding the higher the chances of getting someone to exhibit the work.
- dyeje 14y agoYeah, this is pretty standard stuff for artist statements. One of my favorite part about going to art shows is finding the pieces with the most pretentious descriptions.
- cafard 14y agohttp://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jan/27/users-guide-international-art-english?INTCMP=SRCH http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jan/27/users-gui...
- btucker 14y agoI could be wrong, but I think the sentence is really meant to convey: The project explores the circumstances we live in: a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction. (a colon instead of the first comma.)
- notdrunkatall 14y agoElegant, I like it.
- jpswade 14y agoI thought it looked familiar. I remember when this came out in 2008. It's a shame it's not updated...
- methehack 14y agoditto the mona lisa
- hayksaakian 14y agoThe monal Lisa did not require flash. It is forwards compatible.
- habosa 14y agoPeople in India spent an average of 11 minutes to make one cent? I must be reading those statistics incorrectly. I know work is cheap on MTurk but it's not THAT cheap.
- anandkulkarni 14y agoThis is a 2008 project; Turk's marketplace was a bit different 5 years ago. One problem with open marketplaces is that there's always someone who will do the work badly and unhappily, no matter how low you price it (usually a new or disgruntled entrant).
- uptown 14y agoReminds me a little bit of tiles.ice.org, the old collaborative drawing site from the ANSI art group iCE, where you were each provided the edges of the neighboring tiles from which to extend your own piece of artwork. The site is down now, but some of the creations that came out of there were phenomenal.
- djrogers 14y ago-- Missing Plug-in -- ugh.
- AndrewWarner 14y agoCheater: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/707fc56c-8165-45b1-a2e8-bf214cb822ec/652a7d2b3720762ba82a8ec8d215beb4 http://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/707fc56c-8165-45b1-a2e8-...
- dsl 14y agoIf you want a super high resolution scan of a hundred dollar bill, you can grab all the original tiles here: http://www.tenthousandcents.com/imagebits/ http://www.tenthousandcents.com/imagebits/
- braveheart1723 14y agoGuys this is old. It's Aaron Koblin's work. He speaks about the project on this ted talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4v4XxlfVk3o#t=237s http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v... His Johnny Cash project with Rick Rubin and Mr Doob is breathtaking.