Thank you! I’ve never really dealt with computing power like this, or don’t have a use case. For a little while in 2016 I hired a guy to do some high quality 3D scans of some art objects, but that was for fun and looking for a reason to try it out haha
I’m just curious how powerful this thing is? 😂
I don’t have an answer to your question, but I just wanted to say that you made a beautiful choice for the font!
In a more modern context, I see this happen all the time to video game developers butting heads with their parent companies.
Imagine going through all this trouble and expenses and then the patron hates the finished piece 😂 There’s certainly a risk of that happening, but I think the risk is minimized when you ask the artist to do whatever they think is right, and accept their decisions.
Thank you very much for doing that!
Done, thanks for the reminder!
Time to watch (aiming to close the gap to 20M views in a month):
Me neither! I think it worked in my favor to be critical about who to work with purely on aesthetics and to have an outsider’s point of view.
I made this video slowly panning over the entire work at the stage when it was 99% finished, from another photo by Yury. The dimensions are 4’ x 6’, or 122 x 183 cm:
It’s a very delicate thing, because you have to let the artist do exactly what they want to do, but you also have to choose the right person for the job.
This is a photo that the artist Yury Yarin sent me of him working on the Pantocrator mosaic that I commissioned around 5 years ago. This was one of those projects that literally seemed impossible but we made it happen anyways: 
I’ve been following Jack Kruse’s line of thinking on this, which is that a heavy seafood/seaweed diet combined with sunlight has a lot to do with it.