As mentioned at the end of Ep. 3…

At the end of Episode 3 of vgconvos.com the podcast (or whatever it’s called), I quickly mentioned that I had given Mike a gift before the recording. I had, in fact, printed out a photomosaic of one of Mike’s Top 10 favorite games.

This image, if you can’t tell, is the opening screen to Pokemon: Fire Red Version done in photo-mosaic style. It was done using a program called MacOSaiX which is Mac OS X only and was something I discovered with one of my trainees. It’s a phenomenal program where I can not only set whatever size and image I want to use, but I can choose what source the images come from–not just a folder on my hard drive of images or my iPhoto library, but Google image search results and flickr search results. So, this image is comprised of every image Google and flickr found when I put “Pokemon” in the search.

In short, it’s awesome, I printed it out on an 8×10 for Mike, and hopefully he has framed it and placed it comfortably across the toilet and copies of EGM in his bathroom.