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:

Click here for the mind-boggling full-size version of this Lady Gaga 'Born This Way' Mosaic on Flickr.

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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There are larger versions available on Flickr here:  Lady Gaga Mosaic