The .Mecca Girl
(Posted 03.09.06)



This is a picture I created for a digital media organization I was planning called "dotMecca." (Due to the lack of free time during my senior year of college, the plan for this web community never came to fruition. Although legend has it that three years later there are still fellow nerds using ".mecca" as their workgroup on the school network.)

At first glance, this picture appears to be very simple pixelation of a photo and you're probably wondering why I even bothered to put it on my site. The trick is that you are not seeing an image file at all. It is an html table. I composed the entire "picture" using html tags and hexadecimal values. Check the page source, yo.

Once you view the source, you'll probably wonder why I bothered to do this. I could give you some deep-sounding bull about how I wanted to push the boundaries of the digital frontier by exploring new methods of art creation and maybe throw the prefix "meta" in there somewhere, but really I just thought it'd be kinda cool. And I was bored.