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Fun article to write. I crowdsourced all those images on Mechanical Turk in about an hour. Best $2 I ever spent! :)

I actually thought this was kind of boring and wasn't going to upvote, until I read that the images were from Mechanical Turk and your instructions.

Nice one. And that's awesome. Do you have the mturk job writeup? Curious to see how the description matches the actuals.

I didn't save them. They were something along the lines of:

"Draw a man in a cave being chased by a fire-breathing dragon. He is desperately trying to remove a bunch of stones that are blocking his path. A fairy and a forklift just appeared beside him."

I can only hope that I made the turkers laugh a little bit when they saw that. :)

Cool. Yeah, my favorite part of turk is using it for more creative jobs like this, had to ask. You should make this a habit with your blog posts - I'd read every post, just to see how a turker interprets your startup experiences.

I actually am planning on doing that! I had an idea for one today that I'll probably post later next week.

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