I’m excited to share the new adventure I’ve decided to take on for 2017. I signed up at my local high school to give a presentation to the art students, on photography techniques & best practices – tips on how to improve their photo skills.

What’s Black, white, and read everyday? Barcodes of course. Few artists have experimented with these simple graphic icons. But wouldn’t you have guessed it, I found an artist who turns them into mosaics! Florida based artist Scott Blake has devoted his creative passion to barcodes. From web work to paintings, Blake has dabbled in almost every field of artistic expression. Due to my love for photo mosaics, I want to focus on his digital mosaic portraits. I appreciate that these mosaics have an actual pattern to them and are not simply laid on a vertical and horizontal grid. 

*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 recently forwarded me this very cool social photo montage experience. The application was built for Intel’s new line of processors; although I am not sure how it directly relates to the processors, it makes a great impression. Nevertheless, the ending part of the on-the-fly video results in a very amazing mosaic that is built from all of your Facebook friends.

I happen to be walking through Times Square last weekend, when I stumble upon one of the most stunning mosaics I have ever seen. It was at least 70 to 80 feet tall and made up of varying sized photos (also known as multi-size-cells by the creators). The mosaic was promoting eHarmony 10th Anniversary.

I recently stumbled upon a very neat personal project where a photographer took photos of her family every day for a year. She then compiled all of these photos into one amazing photo mosaic, be sure to check it out here: http://amandakern.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/205-days-of-365-mosaic

I typically do not make direct posts about any of the services or products I have reviewed, but this was just way to cool to not make a post. If you haven’t recently visited Picture Mosaics, be sure to take take a second to a look at their homepage feature video…

I’ve already watched it over 20 times 🙂  Very impressive!