All Things Considered

Every Little Helps

Published on 15/04/08
by Kolja

It took a while for me to understand how this painting of a $100 bill came into existence, and it still fascinates me. Two artists hired micro jobbers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for one cent a job. They had 10,000 jobs to be done, one job coming at the cost of $0.01. The job was to paint tiny fractions, pixels you could say, of a picture of a $100 bill.

Did the math? Now they sell the prints for $100 each.

Full documentation is here.

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