The World’s Largest Coffee Bean Mosaic

(Video Link) Saimir Strati composes mosaics out of unusual substances, including toothpicks and nails. His message in this 270-square foot mosaic made of coffee beans is simple: “One world, one family, one coffee.” The five human figures represent five continents (sorry, Australia and Antarctica) uniting together in a caffeinated peace. -Via: The Presurfer | Via: Neatorama

Virgin Mary Mosaic Made out of Easter Eggs

Ukrainian artist Oksana Mas created an enormous mosaic of the Virgin Mary composed of 15,000 wooden Easter eggs at the Santa Sophia cathedral in Kiev. The work was unveiled yesterday.

Elaborate Easter eggs — “pysanky” — are a major artistic tradition in the Ukraine. Gallery at the link.

Link, Via: DudeCraft | Artist’s Website | Photo: Sergei Supinksy/AFP/Getty, Via: Neatorama

Incredible Modern Day Mosaics - Charis Tsevis

Charis Tsevis is a Greek artist who creates incredible modern day mosaics for everyone from Time magazine and Sports Illustrated to IKEA and Toyota. A part time professor and a regular columnist to some of the most respected design and computer magazines in Greece, Tsevis doesn't just spend his days creating art. In fact, reading through the comments on his Flickr page, you begin to see Tsevis as much more than just an artist. You get to see him as a teacher, a husband and as an inspiration... LINK

YouTube Mosaic Music Video

The video's official release date was April 21, 2009. It took the team over 1 month to privately annotate the videos before publishing it publicly!

The YouTube Mosaic Music Video is a digital piece of art that was made from 1.4 million tiles, and thousands of unique YouTube video stills. It is an original, interactive video of it's kind, and maxs out YouTube's annotation editor. LINK: Youtube

National Geographic's New Infinite Photograph

Check out the video of this new Web app from National Geographic. It's called Infinite Photograph and is live today at www.ngm.com/infinite.

The browser-based program features stunning user-submitted photography from the natural world to create a massive As Seen on Earth photo mosaic that you can navigate by clicking on color patterns to create an infinite number of photograph mosaics. LINK: Youtube

That’s the idea behind the Infinite Photograph, a giant mosaic composed of some 300,000 photos submitted to National Geographic’s My Shot program. You click on the first image, then go deeper and deeper into the mosaic, and find mosaics within mosaics. Curiouser and curiouser. LINK: Neatorama

Mural Mosaic: Fantastic Mural Created From Hundreds of Original Paintings

Mural Mosaic is a project at the Town of Cochrane, Canada, where hundreds of original paintings by artists are combined into a giant mural.

The idea for the project came from artist Lewis Lavoie, who created the first Mural Mosaic by assembling scores of his own personal paintings into the face of Michelangelo’s David (previously on Neatorama here). Since then, he has created the master image and designate panels to individual artists (with some color and shape guidelines - but the artists are free to create as they desire).

This one above is their latest, "Le Cadeau du Cheval / The Horse Gift" (2008), which is composed of individual paintings of famous horses.

Link - Via: holeinthedonut, Via: Neatorama

World’s Largest Photo Mosaic

“The Big Picture 2008… Over 112,896 photos were used to break the record for the world’s largest photo mosaic. This amazing masterwork was created by artist Helen Marshall in Birmingham, UK.” LINK

Obama Newspaper Headlines Mosaic

Remember our post about the newspaper front pages about the Obama victory? Well, here’s a collage of over 600 headlines made into a poster: Link (with a zoomable version, too!) Via: Neatorama

Openpuzzle

Openpuzzle is building a huge jigsaw puzzle of profile images from all over the world. At Openpuzzle the faces of people from around the world take center stage.

Openpuzzle is composed of people's faces and is a living mosaic of portraits. Sign up for free with your email address (verification required), fill in your personal details, add your picture, and become a part of this online art form. LINK