A photomosaic portrait of Madonna.
The source image is an original blend of six iconic Madonna photos.
The tile images are photos showing the geometric nature of architecture. The layout of the mosaic is a jumbled photo pile.
Portrait of Tori Amos with short dark hair, a diagonal mosaic of various thatched tiles.
A large (but still reasonably sized) version can be seen by clicking on this image:
I loved the music video for Bad Romance: the futuristic revision of a Russian Mafia auction in which Gaga is drugged by a group of supermodels and sold to the metal-jawed underworld lord who fancies her.
Even as she does her drugged-up seductress dance for him, she gives him fair warning. ("I'm a free bitch, baby!") During the bidding, she stands in her twelve inch Alexander McQueen heels as a shower of diamonds, frozen in time surrounds her.
After the auction, we see her slowly approaching a beautiful bed, on which the criminal who purchased her is waiting, She is wearing a fur wrap with a cape/train made from an entire polar bear. He seems pleased, but there is something unsettling about the emotionless pageantry of her approach.
When she drops the fur wrap and exposes the beauty of her body in exquisite lingerie, he and his bed spontaneously ignite, and she poses, back arched and head held high at the foot of the bed until it is reduced to smoldering ashes.
The shock value of the final image - showing how she responds to this situation - is both disturbing and delightfully ironic and funny.
The first time I saw this video, I knew I'd be a Lady Gaga fan for some time. Like David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes, the Eurythmics Sweet Dreams, A-Ha's Take On Me, Peter Gabriel's Big Time, Michael (and Janet) Jackson's Scream, Madonna's Like a Prayer, and Tori Amos's Silent All These Years, this groundbreaking video stands out even amongst the best of show.
Here is a small version of the mosaic you can use to download a copy for yourself:
And here is the fully zoomable version:
A "pre-release" of my forthcoming photomosaic for Lady Gaga's "Born This Way."
The source image for this mosaic is the first promotional photo Gaga leaked for her latest song - she's all sweeping blonde hair, black leather jacket, and barely covered backside.
Anatomy of Change
Since the video for "Born This Way" has yet to be released, I made this mosaic out of stills from her new "Anatomy of Change" video, featuring imagery inspired by the "Day of the Dead" ("Día de los Muertos"). It's an interesting video, you might want to check it out if you haven't already.
I used still shots from this video for the pre-release version of the "Born This Way" mosaic - the black-and-white video was perfect to recreate the "Born This Way" promotional photo, and the imagery lurking in every corner of the mosaic is haunting and provocative.
Full-Size Version
It's definitely worth taking a look at the full-size version, which you can find here:
Here's a small detail taken from the full-size version:
As one reviewer put it, the result is to make the mosaic "a virtual gallery of memento mori."
Lyrical Text Cloud
Finally, just as I was finishing this mosaic, Lady Gaga pre-released the lyrics to "Born This Way." So, I ran them through a frequency analyzer and created three "lyrical tag clouds" which I blended together and then into the image. Here are the blended lyrical tag clouds before I added them into the final mosaic:
Another reviewer commented that the effect on the mosaic was reminiscent "of a mashup of the human anatomy married with the human vocabulary."
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Lady Gaga Alejandro Mosaic - A mosaic portrait of Lady Gaga from her Alejandro video, using stills of different sizes as the tiles of the mosaic.
A belated gesture for the birthday of my friend Sean.
Lady Gaga - a new blended mosaic portrait.
"A sideways glance at the world of pop art, video, and pop music."
The source image is from the Telephone video when she turns to Beyonce and says, "You know what they say: Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger."
Top Pop Diva, Throwback to Glam Rock, Lady Gaga and her image team, the Haus of Gaga, continue the tradition of shocking images and catchy tunes inspired by David Bowie, Queen, Annie Lennox, and Madonna.
I created this new photomontage out of thousands of screen shots taken from Lady Gaga's pop hit videos Bad Romance and Telephone (featuring Beyonce). Here is a close up:
There are larger versions available on Flickr here: Lady Gaga Mosaic
DJ Earworm has exceeded all expectations with his mashup of the Billboard Top 25 Hit Songs of 2009.
DJ Earworm - a Visual Mashup by QThomasBower
United State of Pop 2009 - "Blame It On The Pop" - DJ Earworm
You can see the video DJ Earworm created to accompany his amazing mashup here:
Having received over 16 million views so far, his new year-end mashup topped the online music video charts for much of the beginning of this year. You can read more in this great article from CNN here:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/25/dj.earworm/index.html
Another fun review to watch from ABC News Video:
And for a high quality download of the audio, check out his website at:
If you enjoyed the lyrics I posted to his Annie Lennox Mashup earlier, you'll love the color-coded lyrics that Earworm posted on his website, showing not only the remarkably rate at which he switches from song to song, from singer to singer, but also the amazing coherence his final lyric has. You can find these lyrics here:
http://djearworm.com/united-state-of-pop-2009-blame-it-on-the-pop-lyrics.htm
For fun, here's a lyric cloud I made for this song. Actually, it's one of several, but DJ Earworm liked this the best:
