The metaphor is made incarnate. Nick Denton has always credited himself with starting Julia Allison's career through Gawker's constant coverage of her every professional and personal move. Of course he can argue that the young media personality makes herself a target by writing forty blog posts a day, mostly with photos of herself, or photos of herself holding photos of herself. Conversely, the more Allison rises to fame, the more Denton's profile rises as a star-maker. All of which is perfectly expressed in this photomosaic, in which commenter Heather Watson combined 625 Julia-pixels to make one big portrait of Nick. Watson provides a poster-sized version for your bedroom wall.
The Nick Denton Julia Allison Photomosaic
3:58 PM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Nick Douglas
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Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you go and do something like this... and totally redeem yourself!
Still, I'm going to keep harping on last evening's nastiness.
Yay. Thanks for posting this, Douglas. Emily and Michelle were wrong about you.
So, instead of tshirts you are now selling posters?
Oh my god! Hez, can you make me out of vaginas?
it's a thing of beauty hez. well done!!
It's mesmerizing. Can I get it on a shower curtain?
She has not "risen to fame." Simply stating that does not make it so.
Sure she was on the cover of Time Out New York — that's the same magazine she used to work for as a dating columnist (and still works for as a "contributor," according to the masthead).
You could post 10 items about my cat on Gawker every week for six months, and my cat would be more famous than Julia Allison is by now.
And here's the kicker — I don't own a cat.
So freaking inspired, Hez. Excellent, excellent work.
Awesome work, Hez! In true Van tradition, I hope the manufacturing was ecologically/environmentally-friendly, blah blah blah!
Funny. If I allow my eyes to unfocus a bit, I see 626 monsters. And a pirate ship.
I'd like to order one like this of Eli Manning please.
Wouldn't the metaphor be more apt if it was a giant photo of JA made up by 625 photos of Nick Denton?
@TheHonJudgeSmails: Take the testicles out of your mouth before you comment next time.
Meta-stupid?
Oh, and congrats, Hez! Pic is way cool.
@MisterHippity: catbag?
@Conbon: the triumphant return continues...
@collegecallgirl: Yes, I can. I'll Eff something in your Bee later.
So someone gets famous for making a collage of a person who has gotten more famous for blogging about someone who blogs about famous people. And herself. YAY FOR AMERICA!
Finding the one picture where she's not posing with pursed lips and her head turned to the left is this generation's Where's Waldo.
@bittergreen: I would have, but sourcing that many images was a lot easier with you-know-who. I can't imagine why.
@Hez: dang Hez! What substance(s) were you under the influence of when this occurred to you? Whatever it was, share some will ya!
Very creative and artistic-y.
@hypocriteoath: I'm way more sophisticated now, don't you think?
@Conbon: Resurrections tend to do that to you... maybe you should be called Lazarus as well!
@Bentpost: @Hez: Did you hear that, Hez? You're FAMOUS!
@Conbon: I'm so sorry. Nick Douglas is still on close watch. I just want to give praise where it is due, and not be a completely arbitrary dick (like some recently executed commenters I know).
@Bentpost: And Canada, which is where this little grain of a fameball resides.
@Conbon: Is that a way of saying gayer? If so, then yes.
@Bentpost: um, hez is canadian
DAYUM GIRL!!! Next project: Make a mosaic using commenters' avatars to be featured as an "Open Caption" photo that Richard Lawson would have to write an LOLcaption for. It'll be like a giant meta circlejerk!
OS X Leopard does indeed have some exciting new features.
@Chaim Gnadelstein: You can make these with a computer????
@TheHonJudgeSmails: (Conbon sobs hysterically, exits stage left, to Hell)
Hez, you're such a fox. I forgive you in advance for any migraines I may get from that insane thing.
@TheHonJudgeSmails: Look what you did!
@Hez:
The year 2000 is upon us!
ooh ooh hez? can I get one of balk made out of my avatar???
@Conbon: Articulate even!
Bah, this isn't a real photomosaic, this is just a bunch of JA pictures with a picture of Nick Denton overlayed on top (Photoshop, layer style set to 'overlay'). Cheating!
@the supergoddess: Let me see if I have enough glue stick and construction paper.
Email me a pic if you want. My blog name at gmail dot com.
how you did that??11?!!
Love. It.
Symbolism is teh alsome.
@Hez: [gawker.com]
@TheHonJudgeSmails: was there a recent[er] commenter cull than Conbon's?
@Conbon: sophisticated like a fox. or phoenix. or fonix. yeah, fonix. crafty and reinvented. like a gay dumbledore.
amazing, not a Lodwick to be seen.
Guys, do you think Julia's ok? Because that link to her blog shows it hasn't been updated since 5:22 this morning! And her last post said she feels like dying...
Quick, someone call Diana Wolozin so she can call MK to call security to call 911!
@Hez: All hail!
@collegecallgirl: Check your mailbox.
@Hez: Aw. Can you post it somewhere? I have to see this. Nice work, btw.
@Denton:
"I deal in dreamers
and telephone-screamers
lately I wonder what I do it for
if I had my way
I'd just go out those doors and wander
down the Champs Elysees
going cafe to cabaret
thinking how'd I feel when I find
that very good friend of mine ...
I was a free man in Paris
I felt unfettered and alive
Nobody was calling me up for favors
and no one's future to decide
you know I'd go back there tomorrow
but for all the work I've taken on
stroking the star-maker machinery behind the popular song ..."
@Bentpost: ohhh, that made my head hurt.
@fiveinchtaint: It's up to CCG if she wants to share the link with anyone. I'm just the creative talent here.
My favorite is the yellow picture of JA below his left eye. it's like he has a julia zit.
@Hez: Yeah, I didn't really think through the privacy issues there. Duh. I just really want to see how such a thing would turn out.
This is going to be PERFECT for the new office...
@blakeley: For display purposes, the official title is:
Nick Allison: a photoconstructive criticism
By Heather Watson
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I thank you, and Creative Commons thanks you.
[creativecommons.org]
Belated YAAAAAAAAAAA