Gautam Rao » codes http://www.gautamrao.net Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:00:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 CAPTCHA Paintings http://www.gautamrao.net/captcha-paintings/ http://www.gautamrao.net/captcha-paintings/#comments Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:19:00 +0000 Gautam http://www.gautamrao.net/captcha-paintings/ Human Error (7″x6″)

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CAPTCHA Painting 1 (7″x6″)

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CAPTCHA Painting 2 (7″x6″)

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I started this series after encountering CAPTCHAS on several major sites including Blogger, Yahoo and MSN. These codes are used to prove that the site’s users are human, and not a spam bot. The whole thing seems very “Blade Runner.” It was fun to take this computerized humanity test and paint them in oils, an all-too human process. To read more about CAPTCHAS visit the Wikipedia entry and to see a CAPTCHA in action, try entering a comment.

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