Martin Luther King wasn’t the only one who had a dream: artist Peter Fecteau had a dream one night while working with the design company Spout.com (now Pomegranite Studios) about making an gigantic image out of Rubik’s Cubes. Bringing his dream into reality, he created a mosaic consisting of 4,242 “rented” Rubik’s Cubes (from You Can Do The Cube), weighing about 1000 pounds, in which not a single colored sticker out of 38,178 were tampered with or moved. The project involved a donation of $9,000, $8,000 just to rent the cubes. A personal donation of $4,000 was made as well as fundraisers and events with the help of Kickstarter.com.
With his piece, titled “Dream Big,” he entered the 2010 ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he placed 50th out of over 1,700 entries. Would Fecteau have received closer to 1st place if it weren’t for an error in the contests text-message driven voting? I think so. The huge wall hanging was left on display at ArtPrize for the month of October and later disassembled to be shipped back to You Can Do The Cube. The ultimate beauty of this project’s temporal nature: though Fecteau’s dream came true for just a moment, like Martin Luther King’s speech “I Have A Dream,” the memories of the masterpiece continues to inspire us to turn our ideas into reality.
Via: koikoikoi.com, freshpics.blogspot.com, uthinkmedia.blogspot.com
Just curious- where does one rent 4,242 ‘cubes?
this is jut my opinion and just mine. (haters gonna hate)
But… is a shame that people who use a famous character + “”computer skills”" get noticed by other people and real pixel artists with HUGE talent and creativity don’t even get noticed by other people. This kind of stuff make me sad, because of the lack of talent and creativity, such as not using their own imagination to create an image or even a photo of himself (in this case “the artist”), for not saying than is just a 2/3 step filtering/leveling of a picture downloaded from internet and processing them in whatever program. The same thing happend with the guy called himself “space invader”. Is this ART?, or my concept of art is wrong?, and i’m the one here who is wrong by saying that?
(forgiven my english)
1-Get a image from internet
2-Pixelate it use a program
3-Use a pallete reducer effect and change it to 6 colours
4-Change each one of those 6 colours to a colour from rubick cube.
5-Now do the job with rubic cube.