This Kickstarter aims to make Nic Cage's face the world's largest photo mosaic

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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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Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.