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[rivka]

A guy in Norway is collecting giraffes. He's trying to get people to send him a million giraffe images by Jan 1, 2011. Which sounds ridiculous, right, except that he's been at it for about a year and has already collected 850,000. He might actually make it.

It's really neat to see the diversity of images people have sent in. A stunning and subtle watercolor painting is a few clicks away from a crude giraffe sculpture constructed from office supplies. I am particularly struck by this one, which may be the most artistic thing ever constructed from an old banana peel. I love this adorable knitted one too. But there are quilted giraffes and giraffes made from guitars and giraffes made from sports equipment and mosaic giraffes and scultped giraffes and edible giraffes and drawing after drawing, from people all over the world. I love the internet.

The statistics page is also kind of fun to look at. Why so many giraffes from Lithuania? What on earth happened the day he got 30,000 giraffes?

Alex and I made contributions yesterday. (Hers, mine.) I encourage you to consider helping him out as well. The only rule is that the giraffes must be hand-created, not computer generated, mass produced, or living and photographed.

Comments

[ailbhe]

I saw that! I'd love us to do it but today any giraffes we made would have been Totoro-shaped.

[naomikritzer]

That is totally awesome. I just e-mailed the site to my father, who is a giraffe fan and actually still owns a mosaic tile giraffe that I'm pretty sure he made in a college art class. (Along with many, many, many, many other giraffe-themed works of art.)

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

I love that Alex's giraffe is looking over his shoulder. :-D

[moobabe.livejournal.com]

One of the very few things we got for Hannah in Georgia was a little carved giraffe. Sadly, I can't send a picture of it, as none of us made it, but we all have a soft spot for giraffes because of that.

Ooh! I just realized that I made her a crocheted giraffe (in the really bright yarn that she chose), so I can take a picture of THAT! Yay!

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Wow. I know what we're doing at marzipan_pig's half-birthday picnic on Sunday!

[nolly.livejournal.com]

I sent one in a while ago when this was first(?) going around. i hope he makes it!