Michael Mandiberg defines itself as an "interdisciplinary artist." He loves to write, but it also happens to make a little staggered performance. The latest has been around the world and this is quite logical because it is fun to print the web's largest encyclopedia: Wikipedia .
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Or rather its English edition, which still represents more than 11.5 million entries.
Of the 7,600 volumes of the printed version of Wikipedia, 91 are content to list its contents
It took about three years to complete his project. Three years and hundreds of black ink cartridges. The result is worth seeing because besides his collection contains exactly 7,600 volumes.
In the lot, there are 91 volumes in the table of contents of the encyclopedia, and 500 for entries starting with punctuation. Know also that the last 36 volumes simply are listing names of 7.5 million people who have contributed to Wikipedia.
I do not know about you but these figures make me dizzy.
Rest assured anyway because Michael did not do everything by hand. In reality, it has developed software to retrieve and automatically format the articles of the encyclopedia. This represents a little over 11 GB of data.
Furthermore, only 106 volumes were printed at this time. They will be exhibited in New York in a few days as part of the project "Wikipedia Print" . If visitors wish, they can also print their tome on Lulu.com, for the modest sum of $ 80.
And if you want the complete collection, so you will pay no less than 500 thousand dollars. It is not cheap but the hardest ultimately it will find room for display.
Not sure it fits in your studio.
See This : Now everyone can send files to your Dropbox
Or rather its English edition, which still represents more than 11.5 million entries.
Of the 7,600 volumes of the printed version of Wikipedia, 91 are content to list its contents
It took about three years to complete his project. Three years and hundreds of black ink cartridges. The result is worth seeing because besides his collection contains exactly 7,600 volumes.
In the lot, there are 91 volumes in the table of contents of the encyclopedia, and 500 for entries starting with punctuation. Know also that the last 36 volumes simply are listing names of 7.5 million people who have contributed to Wikipedia.
I do not know about you but these figures make me dizzy.
Rest assured anyway because Michael did not do everything by hand. In reality, it has developed software to retrieve and automatically format the articles of the encyclopedia. This represents a little over 11 GB of data.
Furthermore, only 106 volumes were printed at this time. They will be exhibited in New York in a few days as part of the project "Wikipedia Print" . If visitors wish, they can also print their tome on Lulu.com, for the modest sum of $ 80.
And if you want the complete collection, so you will pay no less than 500 thousand dollars. It is not cheap but the hardest ultimately it will find room for display.
Not sure it fits in your studio.