You know I love staying on top of the coolest new trends in art and tech. Whether it’s a robot that can draw my picture or a huge photo mosaic on a jumbotron, if it’s creative, I’m all in! But nothing has grabbed my attention (and imagination) like the recent boom in generative Ai.

This year’s PBX was so much fun! There were many new and exciting products debuted. I was very excited to visit the Picture Mosaics Booth to see their new products and the changes they have made to their SketchBot. SketchBot is ‘The AI Robotic Sketch Artist’ that uses the latest mesh of A.I. and machine learning to draw guests’ portraits. I also noticed there was another company has tried to release a similar product. So in this post I will review Sketchbot vs the “other” solution.

Imagine: you get a photo taken of yourself, and in less than a minute a robot sketches it into a perfect portrait and added into a photo mosaic. Sounds like something out of a futuristic movie, but the technology is not just something of the future. It’s here and I got to experience it at Exhibitor Live 2022 – an event that my company, an experiential marketing firm, recently sent me to.

I tend too get excited when I see a photo mosaic in everyday life. So, of course when I came across “The One” on Netflix, I was excited to see that they were using a mosaic as the main image. The show is about a DNA researcher who creates a new matchmaking service that matches people based on their DNA. I think the use of a mosaic for this poster image works great, as they are collecting a database of people and mosaics are, in many cases, a collection of people.

As you may know, I’ve been using the Online Mosaic Tool by Picture Mosaics to create photo mosaics for quite a while now, and they’ve recently rolled out some exciting new features!

Check out this embeddable zoomable mosaic I created to extend thanks to essential workers around the world:

I was scrolling through Twitter the other day and saw many people tweeting about an online photo mosaic sponsored by SpaceX and NASA! With so many students not being able to celebrate graduation this year, SpaceX is creating a mosaic of graduates to send to space! How cool is that?!

If you’re familiar with my site, then you know that I have a page dedicated to Live Event Mosaics detailing all of the amazing features for the state of the art photo mosaic activation. So naturally, I want to share a Live Event Mosaic that took place recently at the X Games!

Knowing about my obsession with all things photo mosaic related, a friend recently sent me to the Instagram account of a 25-year-old Italian artist who creates uncanny Rubik’s Cube Mosaics of celebrities! These Rubik’s Cube Mosaics are made up of 6 colors and hundreds of the twistable little cubes!

I was scrolling Reddit and came across this unbelievable photo mosaic made out of 13,000 dice! This impressive homemade project was made by hand, by one person on his living room floor!

When I stumbled upon artist Fabien Barrau on Bored Panda, I had to google the word “pareidolia” which is what inspires his photo manipulation art. But, once I understood the definition I was captivated by his work!