Remember the Afghan girl with the haunting eyes on the cover of National Geographic?

[Whoa_Nelly]

Original Cover:




And cover reproduced using 462 National Geographic covers





A little closer look:



Info:
Mosaic created by Mathew Luebke. This image was made from 462 National Geographic covers with 100x120 tiles or 12,000 total tiles. The repeat rate was set to 6 so that the same tile does not appear within 6 grid units.
http://www.mazaika.com/ugallery.html

Found about middle of page at above link

[otherlander]

1. She's a picture on her own nose

Have you ever thought about that?
It's like infinity. And then the picture of her WITH the picture on her nose.... might just be a picture on the nose of someone else!

[MrScorpio]

3. You could create an infinite loop with that

It'd be wild

[otherlander]

5. An infinite loop...

It's like the planets go around the sun, but the planets are made of atoms, which are electrons going around the nucleus in the same way, so maybe the atoms are like solar systems, and the sun and the planets and us are actually an atom that's just part of someone's hand or a tree or a gold statue or a pile of dogshit.

[jeff30997]

11. Whoa! That's deep!

And I recently heard that they discovered a pile of dogshit on Uranus.:silly:

[Archae]

2. National Geographic found her in 2002

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/afghangirl/

[otherlander]

6. I don't think the link works.

:shrug:

[Archae]

9. Did before, dammit.

[fizzgig]

12. here it is

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/afghan-girl/index.html

[otherlander]

14. Wow.

It's amazing that they were able to find her.

[MonkeyFunk]

4. That's very cool

and that was one of the greatest covers ever on NG.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Amazing girl, amazing photo.

Yes, they found her again after an exhausting search. :thumbsup:

[Connonym]

8. and if I recall correctly her eyes were still every bit as amazing

[MonkeyFunk]

10. Yes indeed

[ellisonz]

13. Sharbat Gula

I renewed my subscription last week!

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Wicked cool

[mitchum]

16. One of my favorite photos

it is sublime