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Bruce-ENG

Words from more than four hundred Bruce Springsteen lyrics. This time the word size is proportional to the number of times the word appears in his songs.

The list: just 733, well 720, night 667, baby 650, come 650, got 621, love 604, now 582, like 516, man 484, little 467, girl 419, oh 417, know 414, get 402, go 383, one 353, can 347, day 345, ain’t 331…

The original image is the cover from one of their latest albums.

Download PDF version (354kB).

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Paris-ENG

Same approach as the NYC image.

The image and the words from this Wikipedia article. Benh Lieu Song is the autor of this great shot.

This is a HUGE image with more than 300.000 words, so be careful with your computer resources.

Download PDF version (6.9MB).

Starry Night Quote

VanGogh-ENG

A beautiful Van Gogh painting with the words of  his famous quote: “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day”.

Download PDF VanGogh-EN (957kB)

Lisbeth gaze

Millenium ENG

Download (English) millenium-eng.pdf (215kB).
Download (Spanish) millenium-esp.pdf (235kB).

Based in the Stieg Larsson Bestseller. All the words from the Millenium trilogy.

In this case the problem was the huge step between the first words. Take a look at the word list:

blomkvist 2521, salander 2376, police 879, vanger 878, berger 703, zalachenko 589, murder 584, lisbeth 526, investigation 475, apartment 468, harriet 453, bjurman 448, bublanski 405, mikael 396, armansky 379, millennium 356, security 345, coffee 322, martin 319, computer 309, wennerström 307, ekström 302, svensson 300, henrik 288, niedermann 287, spent 286, taken 284, giannini 270, photograph 268, desk 267.

In only 30 words we have tenth of the initial size. The words becomes like ants quickly.

So I decided to insert a kind of ‘brake’ in the algorithm that makes the steps between words shorter. Yes, we lose accurate proportionality but still retain importance degree between words.

Images free for personal use only.

The spanish version uses the spanish books. No google translation.

Imagine

Imagine ENGDownload imagine-eng.pdf (415kB)

Here is my version of the usual “Imagine by John Lennon” art. An irresistible temptation took me to make my own version of this really nice (and better than mine) image .

In this case the words just spread without a fixed height. There is more than 20.000 words so I estimate that it show all the words of the song about fifty times.

Images are free only for personal use.

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