Nicolas Cage has an Oscar. He has millions of dollars. He has fame, both in the traditional sense and on the Internet. But there's one thing Nic Cage doesn't have: A world record-shattering mosaic of his face plastered across Canada.
That could change if an enterprising Canadian artist, Thom Malone, raises 52,000 Canadian dollars (roughly $41,350) through Kickstarter to print and install the largest photo mosaic ever. Malone's plan is to gather 180,000 photos from donors and then arrange them into a massive installation of the actor's face. (The current record-holding image included 176,750 photos.) Though it sounds far fetched, Malone insisted in an interview with the CBC his campaign is real and that he truly considers Cage a national treasure who is "in on the joke of Nicolas Cage."
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