November is American Diabetes Month and I’ve been looking for a unique way to honor my late grandmother who suffered from type 2 diabetes. What I found was that the American Diabetes Association has collaborated with Picture Mosaics to create an online photo mosaic dedicated to those effected by diabetes. As you know, I love photo mosaics, so I was immediately drawn in by this concept.

When I was very young, the first piece of art I was introduced to was Van Gogh’s Starry Night. I was truly moved by it. The sweeping, textured winds, and the enormous stars were things that I, as a child, could easily relate to. So, when I found a photo mosaic of Starry Night with actual Hubble telescope photos as the cells, I was again re-absorbed into the piece.

While on another late night web hunt for unique mosaics, I found a project that really caught my eye. Chicago artist Mary Ellen Croteau has collected enough plastic bottle caps to arrange them into an 8’x7′ mosaic self portrait. Except where the whiteboard was showing through, no paint was used during the mosaic process, nor was the source image superimposed on the backing board – we’re looking at a true mosaic here!

*UPDATED 9/3/2013*

I was catching up with a friend from Montreal recently who told me about an interesting festival that was approaching. Apparently, throughout the weekend of August 16th-18th, Canadian Living Magazine is inviting Canadians nationwide to submit their photos to an online, streaming photo mosaic for their 2013 PhotoFest! Right away, I went to the website to explore as much as I could, and to my surprise I found out that this streaming mosaic concept was provided by Picture Mosaics, whom I’ve written about in the past.

A friend of mine on Facebook shared a link on my wall of the most adorable mosaic, the 2012 First Cheerios Mosaic! It is an interactive online mosaic reaching out to parents to be a part of a photographic monument. This is an excellent way for families to celebrate together one of their toddler’s momentous “firsts”!

As a photographer and art enthusiast, I am always intrigued when I come across an innovative art form or technique. I was looking at a sketching tutorial on YouTube recently and this video came up of an artist who creates portraits in one single pen stroke. Artist, Chan Hwee Chong recreated these famous portraits by precisely drawing one single line in a swirling motion.

Has anyone seen the cover for TV Guide magazine this week? Issue: May 21-27,2012. It’s a portrait of Hugh Laurie, the actor who plays the star role in the television show House.

Recently my friend, who is a Boston RedSox fanatic, sent me a link to a website he thought I would be interested in.  It turned out he was right. His link took me to a site that was celebrating the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park using a mosaic! 

Recently being in the market for a new car, I stumbled upon these two very cool mosaics when visiting their brand’s Facebook pages. I added my photo and really felt like I was part of the brand experience. I never realized that a mosaic could offer such a unique consumer-brand building experience, but these two mosaics do just that.