December 8, 2005 10:09 AM PST
The Web site SwarmSketch.com provides an online easel to people across the globe. It is meant to tap the Web's "collective consciousness"--any number of people can join in on a drawing, and each contributor can add only a small amount to each sketch per visit. Ideas for drawings also percolate up from the Internet; the site, begun by University of Canberra student Peter Edmunds, randomly chooses a popular search term to determine each week's artistic subject.
The "Faces of Meth" sketch, pictured here, is one of Edmunds' favorites, according to an article in the New York Times. "I have no idea how 1,200 people agreed that the face should be looking into the distance at three-quarter perspective," he told the Times.
Photo by SwarmSketch.com
