Dino Drac’s Patchwork Project!
Over the course of two days, more than 130 Dino Drac readers sent in weird and wonderful “patches” of art, to be included in a ridiculous virtual quilt. I cannot thank the participants enough. I think we’ve created something beautiful together. Strange, but beautiful. Here’s the finished product!
This is amazing. This is amazing times a thousand.
One hundred and thirty two individual pieces of art, assembled into a virtual quilt. An oddly thin virtual quilt, but a virtual quilt nonetheless. How big is it? Over seventy three inches long. Were you to print this out, it would be over six feet tall.
I could not love it more. Every square means something. Some are gags, some are serious, and some can only be understood by the people who created them. There’s no sense in picking a favorite, because that’s not the point. We’ve built something that’s worth more than the sum of its parts.
Some may think that I’m overstating things. That these are just 132 images that happen to be the same size, all huddled together. Oh, how I pity those who cannot see the forest for the trees.
Pouring over our quilt, I lost track of time. Completely and totally lost track of time. Every square just seems to mean something. Somehow, together, they all mean so much more.
Thanks to all who joined in. Our wacky work of art will live forever, or at least until I get a job in politics and scrub all traces of me from the Internet.
(I still capitalize “internet.” I’m old school.)
Some notes, for info and posterity:
1. Each image is precisely 160×160 pixels.
2. I had to leave out a few submissions because they were too far from the correct dimensions to work. Sorry! If you don’t see yours but believe you were within the guidelines, please e-mail me!
3. For those who are seeing this way late, the original “quilt” only featured my submission (the first patch) and a long series of Super Mario Question Blocks. (Image at right for reference.) Slowly but surely, everyone took over those Question Blocks, adding more and more rows. We ended up with what you see above!
4. In general, the patches were added in the order that they were received.
Dino Drac’s Patchwork Project is now over. March 2013 has begun well!
This is pure awesome! I don’t know why but seeing this completed quilt has instantly put me in a good mood.
Matt do you sleep? I didn’t expect this up so quick. Was there any thought to the placement or just added them as they came in?
I vote for this to be an annual thing.
Lots of funny, interesting, awesome, and downright weird images. I love them all. The one that got to me the most, though, was the Chewbacca figure with a “Planet of Apes” tag stuck to it; I died laughing when I saw that.
Jushin Thunder Lyger offering me french fries? I’d weep with happiness if my brain could still process things correctly.
The titles are ordered pretty much in the order that they were received. I only had to move a couple around if they looked odd in their original placements.
Wow, this turned out to be pure awesomeness. My contribution is the Chthulhusaurus. ;D Every square rocks hard. I’m having a blast absorbing it all in.
I literally made mine in the last 20 seconds of my work day but I am so proud to be a part of this. Keep the reader-generated stuff coming! We have such a great little community here.
Glorious.
Wow, I don’t come on for a couple of days and I missed… this? D:
Aww man, I missed another great thing!
It’s really awesome, though.
This quilt is absolutely and utterly beautiful. Awesome, plain and simple. Today has been extraordinarily shitty for me so far, but this, THIS has raised my spirits in a way I never expected. So, so cool.
So many random but awesome images! Thanks for doing this Matt.
My submission was Squints from The Sandlot.
Wow, this is incredible! The talent of some of these squares is off the charts! I have to say even though it’s total coincidence that I am more than just a bit proud to have my submission next to a portrait of Modulok. That just made my freaking year.
The more I look at this the happier I am. I think I’ll be putting in a few hours squinting at the laptop trying to eek out every detail contained in each square. Matt, you are are correct I don’t think I could ever pick a favorite there’s just too many great things here.
This is wonderful! I adore the pop art girl breaking up with x-e with Dino Drac lookin on! My Pikachu tattoo looks so happy next to Cthulu. I’m glad he’s with people who understand him!
Soupy Sales? Maybe there is some hope left…
I miss 3D Doritos too.
This is amazing! It makes me so happy. I love the vampiric Dinosar Dracula, and the comic art reference to X-E. There are so many beautiful patches! I’m glad I was a part of something so awesome.
The Sandsnake from “Beetlejuice” is my drawing.
This quilt is absolutely fantastic! I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read there was over 130 blocks instead of the original 60 amount I counted when submissions were still being sent. Yay for unexpected expansion!
Finally I’m part of something important.
A Flumph with a Pokeball!
And that is a lovely sandworm Shantel.
Yes! Good has been done here!
This turned out so awesome. So many of you are such good artists that I’m ashamed that I used a picture of myself that I altered with a Buffalo Wild Wings Halloween thing a couple of years ago…yep, that’s Teddy Ray as a werewolf under the Rat King’s lair. I’m not an artist…I thought a werewolf would fit in nicely. I hope I was right.
There are so many squares that are so awesome, it’s definitely impossible to pick a favorite. From Sherman Hemsley and “Amen” to Galactus and “Fignuts,” there’s gold in that there quilt. I’m proud to have been a part of this collective endeavor. Thanks, Matt! Oh, and I capitalize “Internet,” too. You are not alone, brother.
Goddang it in the morning! I got so busy with work that I didn’t check in for a few days and completely missed this! Yet another DD art project missed. I swear, Matt is intentionally timing these things at the most inconvenient times possible for me.
Looks great, everybody. Guess I’ll have to shoot for the next one.
Long time X-E/DinoDrac reader, but this is the first time I’ve participated in something. I feel all warm inside. My collage (“No Hope, or, Frankenstein Condemned to Death by His Own Cleverness”) features my puppet Smott.
so glad i got my submission in on time (mine was the vector orbitz bottle), i didn’t even know about the quilt project until matt did a last call on twitter and then i just threw something together.
these are pure gold! my two favorites are the planet of the apes chewie and the roy lichtenstein breakup. i also like the yakov smirnoff patch. so random!
This rules. I figured I wasn’t going to be able to pick favorites, but then I saw Jason Week’s submission and Bill’s Clanky portrait.
Deej (and others that missed it), the official one may be complete, but now you’ve got me curious as to what you would have come up with. You could always whip one up and post it in this thread just for posterity’s sake. I always love seeing what people come up with when given some sort of limitation (like this tiny size, or using MS Paint in the past user gallery), as it tends to foster all sorts of creativity.
Oh I can’t decide which ones I like the best but so far, Chewbacca as a Planet of the Apes character has it for me.
I wish I had one. End of the month means no fun for this guy. But, it definitely would have been Summer Frankenstein.
This thing is crazy insane! I really didn’t know what to expect but needless to say this far exceeds my expectations. I would love to have this as a poster too. You could just stare at it for hours. So great. We need to do this again sometime.
“Deej (and others that missed it), the official one may be complete, but now you’ve got me curious as to what you would have come up with.”–Jugendsehnsucht
At this second, I’m looking at a Batman sketch sitting on my desk that I fired off at work the other day when things were slow. Being that it’s already about the right size and works perfectly to encompass everything that I’m about in one little square, I’d have to go with that. As soon as I get my new printer installed, I’ll scan it in. I’ve been meaning to scan in some recent sketches I’ve done anyway, so this would be the perfect excuse. I just wish I knew about all this sooner.
I’ve got an idea for another piece I’d like to do that’s very much a tribute to XE/DD, but it’s going to take much more work and will be much bigger. It was something I wanted to do for the Halloween submissions, but I didn’t have time to get it together then.
Oh, and Juge, did you do one, and if so, which one was it? If I had to guess, I’d say it was the “Show No Mercy” one w/ the Dino Drac pentagram and sword wielding DD. That one’s definitely one of my favorites and seems like it would have been your style.
I also really liked the Modulok and the Dino Drac on the 24th row down. I have no idea who did those, but great work.
Ha! See, now that’s why I knew I didn’t even need to bother signing it—who else would use this opportunity to make a dumb Slayer parody?
Although also not signed, I’m dead certain that Dino Drac on the 24th row is the work of Jason Week, designer of the awesome site header.
The colors, Duke! The colors!
@Juge: It most certainly is Jason’s!
This is truly incredible! Each one is so different, yet give me the same happy feelings. They come together to form one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen. It’s like the digital quilt version of Voltron.
I’d love to have an actual quilt with this design. I would sleep with it always, forever draped in happiness.
Thank you, Bogleech. Your monster is amazing. I wondered if you’d find out about this quilt project in time to send a submission.
The flying skeleton near the top is mine. My landlord lives on the top floor of this building and he attached a DIY skeleton to a fishing rod last October and cast it down to the sidewalk and the road below—scaring the pants off pedestrians and some drivers. In one hand was a strobe light and in the other was a digital recorder playing creepy screams. I took the picture out my front window during Hurricane Sandy which, eventually, destroyed the banshee. BTW: this collection, as “Forever” stamps, could single-handedly save the postal service.
Nuts! I had temporarily run out of Internet recently, and when I finally get a new drum of the stuff, I miss this!
I kind of want to get all of the separate ones and build them into a wallpaper instead…
Awww yeah Baja Blast! My love for Taco Bell is in a constant flux of grow/wane but I’ll always love Baja Blast. I don’t know if it just tastes better than any other soda or if its mere scarcity makes it so rewarding. For these reasons, sometimes I wish it was available in a 12-pack but then I worry, perhaps if it was, then I would no longer like it that much. My love Baja Blast is a sacred thing and I’m so glad that someone incorporated it into their patch.
All the patches are awesome and this project was a fun positive thing. Seeing my patch on the site was a highlight of my day.
(fyi my patch is the one with my face and “name” on it, hovering over my bird, because I’m super narcissistic)
I can pick a favorite.
Shark Princess.
Nuff said.
Man this looks awesome. Had I known about this earlier I would have been all over making something for it!