Inside Out Project Posts Your Pictures in Times Square New York

by Joshua Gulick — Friday, April 26, 2013, 04:05 PM EDT

For the next couple of weeks, an artist in Times Square is giving you the chance to put a giant image of your face on the ground. What--you’re not booking a flight to N.Y.C. right now? Then you might miss out on the fun, because people different artistic sensibilities than yours are lining up every day to get their selfies onto the sidewalk.

The Inside Out Project plastering selfies to the sidewalk in New York City's Times Square.
Image credit: Inside Out Project

The Inside Out Project, created by artist JR, and a winner of the California TED Conference in 2011, is global art project in which truck that serves as a rolling photo studio shows up and its crew offer passersby the chance to have their pictures taken. The truck is equipped to print the massive poster of your mug, which is then plastered on the ground, alongside the rest. And, it’s all free. Isn’t this better than leaving your own self-portraits stuck in your iPhone?

As you might guess, the project is drawing huge crowds, especially at the Times Square location in New York. If you can’t make it, you can watch a documentary about the art project on HBO in May. If you do try this, be sure to grab your portrait (and browse the others) at the NYC Inside Out page.

Tags: Online, art, Digital Photos, Selfies

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.