The Textify Quiz

I'm not sure how I wound up sitting on this entry for a month... I discovered Textify, a site that takes pictures and makes them look as if they are made up of letters. Pointillism with letters, if you will. A bizarre idea, and quite useless, but there you have it. I decided to turn it into a quiz, taking pictures of ten celebrities (and I use the word 'celebrity' in its broadest possible meaning - these people range from 'currently on the list of most-Googled' to 'I haven't thought of that person in a decade') and 'textifying' them - that is to say obscuring the original pictures by converting them to text-based pictures. In order to keep it interesting, I exploited Textify's various options to give each of them a slightly different appearance.

Oh... and in each case the letters used in the, er, 'textification' spell out a word or an acronym pertinent to the 'celebrity' in question. This is arguably a clue, or alternately the opposite: guessing the celebrity might lead you to guess what the letters spell and what their significance is.

» Answer to Textify #1 - click here «

Number one is Kim Kardashian. The letters spell "DASH", which is a shop she owns or something that I don't care about enough to Google.

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Number two is Angela Merkel. The letters spell "DE", which is the country code for Germany.

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Number three is Bill Murray. The letters spell "SNL", the acronym for Saturday Night Live, the show he started on.

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Number four is Princess Beatrice. The letters spell "FASCINATOR", the technical name for the strange thing she wore on her head at her cousin's recent wedding.

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Number five is Al Sharpton. The letters spell "REV", which is of course short for "Reverend", a title he holds.

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Number six is Janelle Monáe. The letters spell "ARCH", which is part of the name of her main album to date, The ArchAndroid (this is the most obscure of the ten, I think).

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Number seven is Tammy Faye Bakker. The letters spell "PTL", the acronym (meaning 'Praise the Lord') that she and her husband Jimmy used to defraud the gullible in the 1980s.

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Number eight is Vince Shamwow. The letters spell "SLAP", the first half of the name of Vince Shamwow's other claim to fame (I'm aware that 'Shamwow' isn't actually his surname, by the way).

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Number nine is Dom DeLuise. The letters spell "CHEF", which meant something a few weeks ago when I made the picture, but I can't care enough about Dom DeLuise to go remind myself what that was.

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Number ten is Richard Nixon. The letters spell "TRICKY", as in 'Tricky Dick', something the man was often called in the 1970s.