4000 : 1,196,014

[thoreau]

poodler posted this this morning:



It is a mosaic of the 4000 American Soldiers dead in Iraq.
Click the image to see it full sized.

and Kevin posted a statistical post entitled Expatriates in the land of the dead

Comments

[bigfundrew.livejournal.com]

the corresponding pictures to this article made me teary eyed

Six of the fallen, in words they sent home.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/us/25dead.web.html

[grizzlyzone.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's not a big thing. One of the skills I have is pattern recognition, and I noticed that one of the soldiers was duplicated. Then, I noticed another. Which made me wonder just how many pictures are used in the mosaic, and, if that number was off, wouldn't that be just a little bit disingenuous.

So, I counted. I counted 60 rows and 80 columns for a total of 4,800 pictures.

Now, the pictures are tiny and my count may be a bit off, so I'll let the difference of 800 images slide.

[zbear20.livejournal.com]

Good eye, the original story had the caveat:"(Note: Since some photos of fallen U.S. soldiers are unavailable, there are duplicates.)"

[surewood31.livejournal.com]

My, that is spectacular.

[budmassey.livejournal.com]

That is so Chuck Close. Did he create that image? It's very moving.

299 Days.

[nudewoody.livejournal.com]

. . . and ONE MILLION Iraqi dead, which always seems to be left out. Did you see Frontline story Bush's War? It is really quite obvious they bungled this from the start (aside from the fact that it was unnecessary and illegal). So much infighting going on within the administration, testosterone loaded judgements being made and pure arrogance. The blow-back on this is going to be truly horrific.