Creative sheep

The Mechanical Turk is an online system to have large amounts of simple tasks done by humans. This is interesting for tasks that can not be performed by computers, for example recognizing objects in a picture, transcribing podcasts, etc.

On the Amazon Web Services Blog I read about this usage of the Amazon Mechanical Turk for drawing sheep. Someone created a website where he sells 10.000 drawings of sheep, all drawn for $0.02 per sheep (apparently people get paid $0.69 an hour on average).

Take a look at The Sheep Market yourself.

Edit: The sheep are facing left because they asked people to draw them that way… I should really take some more time before posting something… Thanks Nick…