Gary Andrew Clarke, a graphic designer from England, has designed this extremely pixelated and cool looking version of the famous "Mona Lisa" portrait by Leonardo da Vinci.
Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Mona Lisa' reduced & remixed down into 140 exact circles of colour. Makes no sense close up. Makes every sense from the other side of the room.
Signed & dated. A beautiful archival Giclee print (unframed). Professional high quality 600pdi print on 190gsm silk white paper.
http://www.someprints.com/Spots-Prints-Posters/mona-lisa-remix-print-by-graphic-nothing.html via kottke.org
the guy just took the greatest icon on earth and reduced it to pixels just by resizing it, of course you'll recognize it, it's the freaking Mona Lisa. I mean, it's not like if he handpicked the color of each pixel or anything
I'd recreated the thing and it took me less time than writing this because I don't really speak english (never took lessons)
Also, I can assure you, I'm not a graphic designer at all
don't know if I can post links but here's mine
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/221/monalisadaak.png/
here you have a very old example (almost 40 years ago) from when it was original:
http://radicalart.info/AlgorithmicArt/grid/discretization/PixelGrids/73HarmonLincoln-s.jpg
And again, I'm not trying to be rude. I'm just trying to show you, if you didn't know already, how old that idea was and how easy is to make one