| Mumia Abu-Jamal is a journalist and political prisoner that was convicted of murdering a police officer in 1982. For my bar code portrait I appropriated Mumia's face from the Internet, collected all of the ISBN numbers from online bookstores, and created the bar codes using a free generator. I copied the bar codes from books and CDs that Mumia has made in prision as well as books written about him by other authors. I also built the final mosaic with four different grid sizes that change according to detail. |
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Full Size JPEG 26.1 MB |
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| Date Created |
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February 2, 2003 |
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| Image Dimensions |
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54 x 54"
(137.16 x 137.16 cm) |
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| Pixel Dimensions |
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11200 x 11200 |
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| Pixels Per Inch |
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207.407 ppi |
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| File Size |
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62.7 Megabytes |
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| Color Mode |
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Grayscale |
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| File Format |
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Photoshop Flattened |
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Individual Bar Code
Image Dimensions |
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Large. - 3.38 x 1.93 in
(8.57 x 4.90 cm)
Medium - 1.69 x 0.96 in
(4.29 x 2.45 cm)
Small. - 0.84 x 0.48 in
(2.14 x 1.22 cm) |
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Individual Bar Code
Pixel Dimensions |
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Jumbo. - 1400 x 800
Large. -. 700 x 400
Medium -. 350 x 200
Small. -. 175 x 100 |
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| Bar Codes Generated |
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18 |
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| Number of Bar Codes Wide |
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16, 32, 64 |
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| Number of Bar Codes High |
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28, 56, 112 |
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Total Bar Codes
in Final Image |
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??? |
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| Hardware |
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Power Macintosh G3
300 MHz with 192 MB RAM
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| Software |
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Mac OS 9.2
Adobe Photoshop 6.01
Adobe Illustrator 8
Internet Explorer 5 |
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ISBN/Mumia/Books |
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