From the creator of the Sheep Market,  Aaron Koblin has produced a new crowdsourced product, this one being entitled Ten Thousand Cents.   Once again using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk as his digital labor market. 

Aaron crafted a custom drawing tool, that allowed thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another to paint a tiny section of the U.S bill without knowing that their effort was part of  an overall design piece.  Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk  and their work was then aggregated and show as a composite video piece of all 10,000 pieces being drawn simultaneously (shown below). The total labor cost to create the digital bill, $100.

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