Mar 13, 2007 8:38 AM

I Am Bar Coded

Sometimes I have a hard time trying to figure out exactly where I fit in this chaotic world of ours. So I was really excited to find artist Scott Blake’s Bar Code Art Web site, where I inputted some basic information about my person and came up with this beautifully unique and totally objectifying bar […]

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Sometimes I have a hard time trying to figure out exactly where I fit in this chaotic world of ours. So I was really excited to find artist Scott Blake's Bar Code Art Web site, where I inputted some basic information about my person and came up with this beautifully unique and totally objectifying bar code. Scott writes:

All of the calculations in Barcode Yourself arebased on real world facts, gathered from the Internet. Data like theGross Domestic Product of each country. Lichtenstein is #1, USA #2, andSierra Leone is last. From the Center for Disease control, I used theBody Mass Index to figure out how healthy a person is based on heightand weight.

Scott also does all kinds of other cool, creative shit with bar codes,
like a running counter of numbers on a bar code that represents 10
billion UPC bar codes for every possible product in the world, whichtakes 10 years to complete.

Bar Code Art [Main page]

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