How I Look If I Was Made of Food
written by John Chow on July 12th, 2007
According to Life Goggles, my blog has over 240 photos of food! I know I love to eat but I didn’t know I’ve taken that many food pics. There are lots of things you can do with pictures of food. Life Googles thought it would be cool to turn all my food photo into a mosaic of me enjoying my food.
Click on the above image to see the hi-res image. The mosaic was created using Andrea Mosaic, a freeware program that lets you create your own photographic mosaics made with your own pictures.
Now watch everyone mosaic famous bloggers to get a plug. 
- Posted in Fine Dining, Ramblings, Technology
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Nice! Here’s a web-based mosaic generator that you don’t have to download…
http://imagemosaicgenerator.click42.com/
Reply to this commentThanks for the link, CW. I just downloaded the AndreaMosaic thing, it didn’t take a long time. I guess I’ll have to try both of them out.
Reply to this commentJust tried out that link you suggested. It’s great and all, but all you can do is pick the matrix and the program provides all the tiled pictures for it. With AndreaMosaic, you can use your own pictures for the tiles.
Reply to this commentThat’s the one I tried. I liked it.
Reply to this commentThanks Cool Websites
Reply to this commentlife goggle, a cool site indeed
Reply to this commentThanks!
Reply to this commentCool picture John. Did you have to find each individual picture?
Keep it up.
Reply to this commentSimon
life goggle will do it automatically
Reply to this commentThat’s pretty cool
Reply to this commenta cool app indeed
Reply to this commentHeh, in the mosaic the plate looks more like a gigantic fried egg
Reply to this comment…with a partly burnt yolk? Oohh, not that appetizing LOL.
Reply to this commentA Vogel Strauss egg
Reply to this commentan egg indeed
Reply to this commentFood … I am hungry after write this words..
Reply to this commenti’m eating now!
Reply to this commentThey had a hotdog fundraiser at my job, I am stuffed to the gills.
Reply to this commentWhere is my dinner?
Reply to this commentImpressive picture!
Reply to this commentYea, I’m getting hungry when I think what it is made of…
Reply to this commentI am amazed each time I see a mosaic picture made by other pictures
Reply to this commentthere are clever people everywhere and i’m just sad that i’m not one of them
Reply to this commentHey, don’t say that about yourself. You are rockin’ Top Contributor
Reply to this commentAnd thus John Chow the evil foodie artist is born, and the internet shall never be the same again.
Reply to this commenthe’ll eat us live
Reply to this comment… and giant pandas and baby seals shall never be safe again. A fate worse than death, I tell you. A fate WORSE THAN DEATH!
Reply to this commentOh my!
Reply to this commentHmm..are these images being processed by them at all or are the lighting raw like that? I’m just curious…
I must say that I am very impressed with their work, pretty sweet stuff.
-Swapw
Reply to this commentIs that somehow automated to make that mosaic, I dont belive that you made it yourself, it is impossible… You cant have so much free time.
Reply to this commentThere’s plenty of really nice mosaic software out there.
Reply to this commentAndreaPlanet is a pretty cool ap
Reply to this commentI read the tutorial, quite easy to follow actually. You just save all your pictures, pick a matrix or main photo, and the program analyzes everything, does all the hard work for you. It’s pretty sweet.
Reply to this commentYeah, I downloaded this a few minutes ago and had a look at it. It looks pretty straight forward.
Reply to this commentI had trouble uploading it to a post though. I think the file became too big.
Reply to this commentthe process was really fast, the program does all the work.
Reply to this commentAn evil way of gaining a link back
Reply to this commentAn evil way to gain a back link
Reply to this commentYou think so? He’s done way more evil stuff. This one almost qualifies as innocent!
Reply to this commentWow, that looks pretty cool! Tasty too…
Steve
Reply to this commenti’m an RSS reader
Reply to this commentMe too!
Reply to this commentMe Three!!!
Reply to this commentme 4!
Reply to this commentWOW! how testy it was?
Reply to this commentVery cool. Unfortunately whenever I go out to eat now… I wonder if I should take a picture of my food and post it! haha!
Reply to this commentWhat do you try to eat on this picture?
Reply to this commentJust to reply to some posts (on my brother’s behalf who made it):
Simon asked: Did you have to find each individual picture?
Yes, but it was easy with a search and then just a process of downloading them.
Swapw said: Hmm..are these images being processed by them at all or are the lighting raw like that? I’m just curious…
I’m pretty sure there’s some processing going on - tinting pictures etc by the looks of it. You can tell if you look closely as some pictures are repeated and look different.
Webmaster Money said: Is that somehow automated to make that mosaic, I dont belive that you made it yourself, it is impossible… You cant have so much free time.
Nope he doesn’t. AndreaMosaic is a great little programme but it still took a few attempts to get it looking good (even if the food does look like a big fried egg) and the more pictures the better. It took a little time to do but it was worth it and the results are impressive.
Reply to this commentThat’s impressive. I’ve seen similar things done in the past but to do it from photo’s you’ve posted yourself is outstanding. Congrats to the artist!
Reply to this commentI’m an RSS reader too…isn’t everybody?
Reply to this commentMe too
Reply to this commentme to
Reply to this commentCool Picture….
Reply to this commentYour face has probably made some people hungry…as disturbing as that sounds.
Awesome program though!
Reply to this commentcool picture !!
thanks for sharing
Reply to this commentVery nice picture! Hehe.
Reply to this commentI read John Chow with RSS.
Cool pic.
BeachBum
Reply to this commentI’m glad everyone liked it, the software is really the star (besides John of course…)
Reply to this commentHoly crap, that’s cool!
Reply to this commentThat could turn into a movement in fine arts I guess!
Reply to this commentThat’s a lot of food, alright. Speaking of food posts, I haven’t seen any since that BluFur free lunch. I kinda miss it.
Reply to this commentJon, you are made of food
Reply to this commentFood, mmmmm Today I’m going to finish off my Pizza Hut P’zone for lunch. Love those things.
Reply to this commentNot only You…
Reply to this commentHey, this is really cool. I just tried it on a picture of my son. I was having a proud Navy mom monent. I think I’ll post it today.
Reply to this commentOr not…seems the photo is too large for blogger to handle. Hmm Wordpress of Type Pad that is the question? Where shall I go next.
Reply to this commentThe pic wouldn’t load the whole way in my RSS reader, so I had to come here to check it out! Yep, looks like an egg!
Did anyone else have the same problem? Probably just my crappy connection.
Reply to this commentI definitely have to try this out. That picture of you is pretty cool looking…
Reply to this commentVery interesting, Old great Idea!
Reply to this commentyou look like mona lisa with a plate of hot dish on your hand, will you get framed up soon?
Reply to this commentJohn
Thank you for this link. I have always down by myself using photoshop and would take several days if not weeks to do it by hand!
Bryan
Reply to this commentNice! I will have to try it out. I wonder how complicated such a system is to make…
Reply to this commentNow very… With good graphics library ie. in Java it’s piece of cake
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