There's a blog called The Big Picture (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/index.xml) that might have something - most of them might just be current events or topical stuff, but there are some that might work. The main one for June 12 was kinda cool. There were some nifty ones in this bunch (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/human_landscapes_from_above.html), but I don't know if they'll work quite right.
Ooh! Here's the link I was looking for: Running the Numbers: An American Self Portrait (http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php). The artist says he "looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something...This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs." The one with Prison Uniforms gives an awesome idea of the scale of the completed works.
A lot of them are just nifty designs made from all the small pics, but with some, the final "big picture" is part of the argument. You'd obviously have to give them the full set of pics for each one (ie, the zooms) and the stats. Really good ones for this specific exercise might be Energizer, Building Blocks, Constitution, Pain Killers, Denali Denial, Skull with Cigarette, Barbie Dolls, and maybe Toothpicks and Ben Franklin. At least, those are the ones that I think I could write about, given the basics of the assignment.
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Date: 2009-07-01 03:22 am (UTC)Ooh! Here's the link I was looking for: Running the Numbers: An American Self Portrait (http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php). The artist says he "looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something...This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs." The one with Prison Uniforms gives an awesome idea of the scale of the completed works.
A lot of them are just nifty designs made from all the small pics, but with some, the final "big picture" is part of the argument. You'd obviously have to give them the full set of pics for each one (ie, the zooms) and the stats. Really good ones for this specific exercise might be Energizer, Building Blocks, Constitution, Pain Killers, Denali Denial, Skull with Cigarette, Barbie Dolls, and maybe Toothpicks and Ben Franklin. At least, those are the ones that I think I could write about, given the basics of the assignment.