The Composites
Vaughn, Crash, JG Ballard
I always liked Tumblr but for the last year had been out of luck in terms of coming up with a good idea for it. Then I bought a contemporary software program after my interest was piqued in vintage Ident-Kits (see below) and Police Composite Sketches of Literary Characters seemed like the perfect project for Tumblr.
I’ve asked people to contribute suggestions and have a surprising amount of descriptions already. I will get to them over the next couple of weeks, as well as some of my own that I’m still working on.
Smith & Wesson Identi-Kit, year unknown
…And Megan Garber did an excellent overview of the project at the Atlantic, here. The Guardian also has a fair assessment here and the BBC filmed me talking about the project on Living Online.
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