Images of people en masse spelling things with their bodies?

January 16, 2007 9:48 PM

Desperately looking for images of people en masse, spelling something with their bodies. Or in stadiums, when they make a picture by having everyone hold up a colored card.

I've tried the search terms I could think of and run them through the usual suspects... but if you know of such a picture (or a group of pictures) like this, I'd be metagrateful.

posted by cloudscratcher to media & arts (18 comments total)

http://orientation.jhu.edu/
posted by roomwithaview at 9:51 PM on January 16, 2007

Sorry. Should have made that a clickable link. Here's another one to make up for it.
posted by roomwithaview at 9:53 PM on January 16, 2007

And also: this.
posted by roomwithaview at 9:55 PM on January 16, 2007

My contribution
posted by ThirstyEar2 at 9:55 PM on January 16, 2007

North Korea
posted by milkrate at 10:00 PM on January 16, 2007

Mass Games will get you a bunch of pictures of stadium card art, but they'll be almost all from North Korea.
posted by zamboni at 10:01 PM on January 16, 2007

I could tell you to do a google image search for nude peace protest. Now if you did that what you ended up seeing would be your problem but among them you will indeed get some pictures of people spelling stuff out with their bodies. Naked people.
posted by nanojath at 10:02 PM on January 16, 2007

Beach Impeach
posted by otherwordlyglow at 10:03 PM on January 16, 2007

More from Google image search.
posted by zamboni at 10:09 PM on January 16, 2007

It's not a great (or even a color) image, but I still can't believe no one's linked the Great Rose Bowl Hoax of '61.
posted by Cricket at 10:43 PM on January 16, 2007 [1 favorite]

"Tifo" is the search term for cards and other displays at a football match.
posted by fire&wings at 11:16 PM on January 16, 2007

Here are some pretty amazing ones from North Korea, theoretically not postcard reproductions but photos an American took on a trip.
posted by louigi at 12:49 AM on January 17, 2007

Harvard sucks
posted by caddis at 7:08 AM on January 17, 2007

This may not be exactly what you're after, but zefrank's letters may be of interest. Doesn't seem to work in Safari, but does in Firefox.
posted by avoision at 8:03 AM on January 17, 2007

Naked peaceniks.
posted by tula at 9:19 AM on January 17, 2007

How about the music video for Mad World by Michael Andrews?
posted by mbrubeck at 10:57 AM on January 17, 2007

Not sure if it fits the bill, but there are some cool videos of commercials with people moving in all different shapes at You Tube..... here and here.

Cool to watch anyway. :)
posted by NoraCharles at 1:29 PM on January 17, 2007

this is my first post here. "long time reader, first time poster."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tPQIpNb41A

not too sure how to turn the link into a "here" or a "press here", but as soon as i saw this, i thought of this advert.

have a top day.
posted by dent8101 at 10:14 PM on January 17, 2007