Words

Pictures drawn with their own words. The text runs through the grid in reading order and only each character's colours are matched, so the picture shows through the words. Text makes the lettering selectable.

Douglas Coupland's Digital Orca at Coal Harbour, Vancouver. Photograph by Kristina D.C. Hoeppner.
Digital Orca, 2009

Edge, 2010 The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

Life After God Technology does not always equal progress.

Microserfs Language is such a technology.

Douglas Coupland's Digital Orca at Coal Harbour, Vancouver. Photograph by Kristina D.C. Hoeppner. Text: Douglas Coupland, from Wikiquote. Photo: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Malala Yousafzai at the Girl Summit, London, July 2014. Photograph by Russell Watkins, Department for International Development.
Malala Yousafzai, 2014

Dear sisters and brothers, we realise the importance of light when we see darkness. We realise the importance of our voice when we are silenced. So let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism, let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.

Malala Yousafzai at the Girl Summit, London, July 2014. Photograph by Russell Watkins, Department for International Development. Text: her speech to the UN Youth Assembly, 12 July 2013 (Wikiquote). Photo: CC BY 2.0.

A cat in the sun. Photograph by Alicja Koczaska.
I Am a Cat, 1905

Sōseki Wagahai wa neko de aru. Namae wa mada nai.

In English I am a cat. As yet I have no name.

A cat in the sun. Photograph by Alicja Koczaska. Text: the opening of Natsume Sōseki's I Am a Cat (Wagahai wa neko de aru, 1905), with our translation. Photo: CC0.

Buzz Aldrin at Tranquility Base, 21 July 1969. Photograph by Neil Armstrong, NASA.
Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, 1969

Armstrong Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Houston Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.

Aldrin Beautiful view!

Armstrong Isn't that something! Magnificent sight out here.

Aldrin Magnificent desolation.

Buzz Aldrin at Tranquility Base, 21 July 1969. Photograph by Neil Armstrong, NASA. Text: The Apollo 11 air-to-ground transcript: the landing, then Aldrin stepping onto the surface (Apollo Lunar Surface Journal). Photo: public domain.

Films

A Star Is Born: Esther Blodgett at the microphone, the last line of the film
A Star Is Born, 1937

Announcer This microphone is on an international hookup throughout the world. Your fans are hoping that you say a few words.

Esther Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine.

Esther Blodgett at the microphone, the last line of the film. Public domain in the US; still and lines from the Internet Archive's copy.

Night of the Living Dead: Johnny teases Barbara at their father's grave, 8 minutes in
Night of the Living Dead, 1968

Johnny Remember that, right over there? Well, you used to really be scared here.

Barbara Johnny.

Johnny You're still afraid.

Barbara Stop it now. I mean it.

Johnny They're coming to get you, Barbara.

Barbara Stop it. You're ignorant.

Johnny They're coming for you, Barbara.

Barbara Stop it. You're acting like a child.

Johnny Look, they're coming for you. Look, there comes one of them now.

Johnny teases Barbara at their father's grave, 8 minutes in. Public domain in the US; still and lines from the Internet Archive's copy.

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Earthrise, taken by William Anders from lunar orbit on 24 December 1968, and the Apollo 8 crew's broadcast that evening (Genesis 1:1-10). NASA, public domain.