The Alphabet That Was Printed With Bird Poop

The old is new again.

A Spanish artist by the name of Fabrizio Lamoncha created a project that uses live birds to produce letters of the Latin alphabet. Not that the figures are created with birds in figurative arrangement. Rather, a unique device called the Pooprinter was utilized in a study of the behavior of non-breeding birds. The Pooprinter is an analog printer that used a group of dedicated male zebra finches to generate typography in the form of excrement. Yes, in this day and age, even bird poop can be art.

Here’s how Lamoncha described the project theoretically:

And here's his description of the printer's physical specs:

Check out time-lapse video of the project above.

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[via Designboom]

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