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Badgetization

I was at the Northern Star Council’s annual meeting today. The PR firm that produced the annual report constructed a Scout’s photo entirely of merit badges. They also produced a Facebook app that converts one’s own photo into a merit badge mosaic:

Rick's photo in a merit badge mosaic

Originally I thought they’d done their photo the same way, but I was wrong. They “borrowed” a few thousand merit badges and constructed it by hand. Here’s the video:

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