In the public eye, what does a meth addict look like? What is the face of Halloween? SwarmSketch.com—a Web site that resembles a Wiki for amateur artists—intends to find out.
The site, which was created about three months ago by Peter Edmunds, a student at the University of Canberra, bills itself as a "collective sketching of the collective consciousness." Every week it randomly chooses a popular search term—"Xbox 360," for example, or "Daylight Saving Time"—and asks visitors to sketch that phrase. The results can be elucidating, and surprisingly artistic: "I have no idea how 1,200 people agreed that the face should be looking into the distance at three-quarter perspective," says Mr. Edmunds of the site’s "Faces of Meth" sketch. (The New York Times)
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