RSSAbraham Lincoln Scrabble portrait
Andrew Salomone writes:
This is a portrait I made of Abraham Lincoln's face using a Scrabble board game and following the official rules used in Scrabble tournaments in order to do it. It's also a reference to a painting by surrealist artist, Salvador Dali.
He says he's working on this piece for an upcoming show, and the idea came from the Dali painting "Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea Which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln (Homage to Rothko)."
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May 16, 2008 11:00 AM
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| Posted by: Dave Chatting on May 16, 2008 at 11:31 AM |
Very nice!
Dali was in turn using the block portrait of Lincoln created by Leon Harmon (a researcher at Bell Labs) in his 1973 Scientific American article.
Harmon did lot of interesting work on face recognition and photomosaics. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Harmon
Dave
| Posted by: Scrabble Rouser on May 16, 2008 at 12:21 PM |
ED and PA are official scrabble words? I doubt it.
| Posted by: Scrabbler on May 16, 2008 at 12:31 PM |
Actually the words are correct per the dictionary, but the two words floating in the middle of the board violate NSA rules.
| Posted by: Bernadette on May 16, 2008 at 6:26 PM |
Very nice! I was wondering about "America," so I looked it up in my Scrabble dictionary, and it is not a valid Scrabble word.
| Posted by: on May 17, 2008 at 12:05 PM |
Not only do the words floating in the middle violate the rules by not being connecting to the rest of the words, but also because the first play was not over the center square (the one with the star).
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