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

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."

"If aliens were to ever come to earth, they would need to know who our ambassador is," Malone wrote on Kickstarter. "How best to show aliens that we want peace, but also not to mess with us than with a giant mosaic made up of a million faces to create one giant Nicolas Cage face?"

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