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Mon. 04/04 - The Artwork Made By Six Million People and Counting

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Six million people and counting are creating a piece of artwork together right now in a reminder that sometimes we can have nice things on the internet. Plus, birds are laying their eggs almost a whole month earlier than they used to. And some sounds from Ukraine’s musical resistance to Russia. Sponsors: Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Novo, Sign up for a free business checking account and get access to over $5,000 in perks and discounts at novo.co/kottke Links: Internet communities are battling over pixels (Washington Post) Reddit's r/Place art experiment has already devolved into beautiful chaos (Input) 2017 final canvas (r/Place) Cool time lapse of the first day of r/place (ethorodison, Twitter) place  If Blink 182 Wrote 'Never Gonna Give You Up' (Alex Melton, YouTube) Birds are laying their eggs a month earlier than normal (Washington Post) Birds nesting, laying eggs earlier, Field Museum study by John Bates finds, reflecting climate change (Chicago Sun-Times) Stopping Climate Change Is Doable, but Time Is Short, UN Panel Warns (NY Times) Zelensky makes surprise Grammys appearance to urge support for Ukraine (Washington Post) Ukraine Has Written a Folk Song About Its Drone (Vice) Coca-Cola Byte: Coke's New Drink Is 'Pixel' Flavored. What to Know (CNET) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:01.0

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0:34.9

It's Monday, April 4th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Six million people and counting are creating a piece of artwork together right now in a reminder that sometimes we can still have nice things on the internet. Plus, birds are laying their eggs almost a whole month earlier than they used to, and some sounds from Ukraine's musical resistance to Russia.

1:01.3

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:06.5

By the time you hear this, it will probably be over, or almost over, but it's such a beautiful thing that I have to talk about it anyways.

1:16.1

So many years before Josh Wardle became famous as the guy who invented Wordle, back when he worked at Reddit,

1:22.8

he created something else that brought people all over the internet together.

1:27.1

It was called simply place, or in Reddit vernacular, usually called R place because it lives

1:33.3

at the R slash place subreddit.

1:35.9

Our place is a 1,000 by 1,000 pixel digital canvas made by anyone who wants to participate.

1:43.6

The catch is that a person can only add one pixel

1:47.0

every five minutes. So if you want to actually create a cohesive artwork or some sort of

1:52.2

recognizable symbol, you pretty much have to team up with people and collaborate, because the

1:56.7

project is too fast-moving and popular for you as one person to make something by just

2:01.2

adding one pixel every five minutes.

2:03.1

You would absolutely get taken over by other users.

2:06.3

And when our place ran for the first time in 2017, it was said that over a million

2:11.1

Redditors placed around 16 million tiles on the canvas.

2:15.6

And you can see what that final iteration of it looked like at the link

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