9 September 2010


WWW.PICTURESWITHOUTWORDS.ORG is a mirror of WWW.WORDSWITHOUTPICTURES.ORG.

A mirrored website is an exact copy of an existing site copied onto another server with a different URL. Thousands of websites are currently mirrored, redundantly offering information in order to balance server-loads of active websites, circumvent censorship issues, allow faster downloads or provide digital copies of no-longer existing contents. In this case, the mirrored site's form is also shifted in the translation.

PICTURESWITHOUTWORDS reflects every word on WORDSWITHOUTPICTURES, transposing its contents to produce an image from the original information. O-R-G has re-encoded the source contents through a custom automatic software based on total word quantity and frequency. The content of the two sites is then precisely the same although represented in different forms.

Further, the abstract image should, as much as posssible, picture the software process that created it. (As a photogram could be said to depict the photographic process.) Therefore, as the essay on WORDSWITHOUTPICTURES changes each month, PICTURESWITHOUTWORDS will also change, introducing a new image translation of its mirror site's contents.

Go to WWW.PICTURESWITHOUTWORDS.ORG


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