Little Big World

[[Image:Three Million Grains]]
Just found this impressive count: [http://skinflaps.multiply.com/journal/item/231/Counting_Sand these folks] put 13,000 hours of work into counting out these 3.2 million grains of sand.  Just about a cup[http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/A4277_0_3_0_C/].  Turns out that this is about how many communities (villages, towns, cities) exist on earth[http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_cities_are_in_the_whole_world][http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080702095842AAyrZcR].  Visualizing each grain as a community turns this project (whose goal was a little different) into a simple, powerful expression of the vastness of the presence of (merely human) life on earth.  Pretty!