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Post by Granny Whirlwind on Jul 8, 2009 5:06:06 GMT -5
Does anyone remember when that young guy sold pixels to make lots & lots of money for Uni or something? It got loads of national press, TV, radio etc & he made pots of money.... How about we 'borrow' the idea & adapt it slightly for the 'pound for a hound' project? The idea - we take a fantastic photo (e.g. 'ok You Two .. Whats So Funny? with permission of photographer of course... greyhoundgap.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=chat&action=display&thread=45056) and somehow super-impose a grid over it that is 100 squares by 1000 squares (does that make 100,000?? I think so), all done online - everyone who donates a quid gets to click on a square & put their initials in it or whatever - more money = more squares. Those who have already donated could get squares added.. then the photo could be displayed somewhere in the new kennels - perhaps giant sized with donors initials on the reverse.. Opinions?
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Post by spencekelliem on Jul 8, 2009 5:30:40 GMT -5
Sounds like it could be a great idea..... or you could do it that people could have a photo of their own in the collage and pay a £1 and then it could get blown up and put on the wall in the kennels to show everyone who had contributed.
i think at one point, i had even written the web code to do this ( yes i am a geek) so could manage this?
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Post by michele on Jul 8, 2009 5:30:58 GMT -5
I love the idea, think it would make a great piece of artwork when we get to the new kennels. I did a square canvas with over 1000 photos in it recently, looks great on the wall, and each image is about 3cm. Obviously with 100,000 they would be a lot smaller, but the effect would be amazing.
I'm a graphic designer, and would be happy to help with the actual artwork of it.
Michele
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Post by Granny Whirlwind on Jul 8, 2009 5:53:08 GMT -5
;D ;D love the collage idea - much better & would look great as a finished piece! How do we make this a reality? can you imagine, pictures of 100,000 hounds ... ;D ;D
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Post by Nettie on Jul 8, 2009 5:57:01 GMT -5
That's a great idea, would you, Kellie and Michele be able to work on it together? I'm not sure you'd have to go for the full 100,000 squares maybe just 50,000 as the images will probably end up being far too small but you are the experts. We would also like to have the names and location of all donators, well as many as possible, which will go into a Thank You/Appreciation Book which will be bound and on display at the kennels.
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Post by elmuervo on Jul 8, 2009 6:54:17 GMT -5
What a brilliant idea! Jo x
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Post by spencekelliem on Jul 8, 2009 6:55:23 GMT -5
i can dig up the old code and all we would need is some web hosting to keep it in and possibly a simple URL for it.
What does anyone think about one of you creative people making a hound silouhette shape that could be made up of the pictures so it looks more like artwork on the finished article?
I am not in the slightest bit creative, but am all too tecchy!
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Post by Granny Whirlwind on Jul 8, 2009 7:59:03 GMT -5
;D I am more than happy to do the admin/donor collection side of things, if the 'code' (sounds like I know what I'm talking about but haven't a clue) and the graphic design stuff can be sorted by michele & kellie. 50,000 would be a good start! Also , what do you need for the hosting? What would it cost?
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Post by muttlies6 on Jul 8, 2009 8:27:09 GMT -5
If you need help with admin I'll do my twopennorth
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Post by kizzeysmum on Jul 8, 2009 8:37:26 GMT -5
Great idea
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Post by zoec on Jul 8, 2009 12:48:37 GMT -5
I could do artwork to make sillouhette hound shape if you like. Just let me know what you want and what format etc ! Zoe
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Post by spencekelliem on Jul 8, 2009 15:02:30 GMT -5
what size final artwork do we think? perhaps we could start with 1000 squares and do a number of grids?
if we have the final artwork as1.5m by 2m - we can have each square as 5cmx 5cm giving us a total of 1200 squares for the first artwork?
would mean that the template for the dog shape would need to be made up of 5x5 squares...
Thoughts?
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Post by Curly-feet on Jul 8, 2009 15:14:00 GMT -5
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Post by Palm on Jul 8, 2009 16:37:37 GMT -5
sounds great
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Post by Granny Whirlwind on Jul 8, 2009 16:54:59 GMT -5
This all looks brilliant, and it seems to me like we have enough ideas / offers of support to get going with it... So Kellie, can you tell Michele / Zoec what you need from them in terms of outline / template in a dog shape - or can that be filled in later? What do we need to do r.e. hosting space / domain name ? Kellie, if you pm me about this I will get on to it (I am happy to cover costs as a contribution). Could we be a bit more ambitious than 1200 for our first piece or not?
By the way, possibilities for the finished artwork are also endless - postcards, christmas cards, posters, calenders etc etc....
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