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NOVEMBER 20, 2008 2:57PM

Open Call: OS Avatar Collage - version 2.0

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UPDATE: Please be sure to tag appropriately or we might miss you.  It's 'os collage' without periods or commas in the middle.  


The long awaited complete (and now authorized) version of the Open Salon Avatar Collage will be available for your viewing pleasure and purchasing possibilities shortly! But first, we need your decent resolution images.* Pulling from your profile isn't high resolution enough.

If you want to be included in this future collector's item, you must act right away!

Upload your profile picture (avatar) directly to a post and tag it "os collage." Upload pictures by clicking on the little tree icon when you start a new post. Tagging your post "os collage" constitutes permission to use any image contained in that post for a collage that will be posted publicly and used in products for sale.

To see what the fuss is about, check out the first version of the OS Avatar Collage at my post from October. With the help of Steve and Mary (DogWoman), we've been able to sort out the permissions issues and will have a higher quality product to boot.

Up to the first 400 submissions will be used on a first submitted basis. The final result will be unveiled by mid-December. Coffee mugs, t-shirts, and posters of the collage will be available for purchase at that time.

Questions? Comment below or contact DogWoman or Skeptic Turtle.

Who will be part of this historic collage? Who will be placed front and center? Who will be sandwiched between the sharp-tongued lawyers, Madam B. and L.T. Bohica? Will the Freaky Troll get over her shyness and submit her image? How many dogs are used as OS avatars anyways? And the biggest question of all: Who will get teabagged by the squirrel?

 


* Alas, we cannot use copyrighted images without permission. Cartoon and movie characters, for example, will not be used.

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Way to go, Skeptic! Get in early, or get teabagged!
You're a brave soul to want to deal with this again, Derek, but I thank you so much for doing it. :)
I did mine Derek. Thanks

http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=47716

I'll add the picture of the mug I got to that post when I get a shot of it.
Mine's up. Thanks for doing this, Skeptic and DogWoman...
Uploaded, along with a request to keep me away from The Squirrel this time. :-)
I have no problem being near the squirrel. He doesn't scare me.

(rated)
Mine is up for you presently. And Lisa is right. You are a brave soul to do this again.

http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=47805
Oh man! I had a computer crash since the picture that's above, and I lost all of my photobooth images, so the 80x80 px is the biggest I have (and I've grown kind of fond of it). No way to make that work, huh?
I'm in - or should I say Boris & Natasha are.
good work, man! thanks so much. I'm in.
This is way too much fun, by the way. And, if I were managing testing for OS, this is exactly the kind of stress test I'd design ;)
Count me in. Thanks much, Derek. You da bomb. :-D

Mine is here: http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=47946
I'm new here but I wanna play too!
Ok, for better or worse, more detail on me than you ever wanted is available. Thanks for trying again here. Good call using the search keyword as a way of offering consent—nice and simple.
I did it and was told to get my behind over here to rate, comment.. and so it has come to pass.
I came...I rated...I left.
Just did it - thank you!
I'll give it a try! I'll try anything once. Or twice. If I like it.
Done.
http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=48201

My real avatar is too teeny to do anything with, so I gave an alternative.

Hope I'm not too late!
This is what I get for not paying attention!
Just sent mine in. Thanks...I'm so loving my OS coffee mug.
Thanks for including me! (rated)
Thanks for the kind comments everyone. You should direct your kind words to DogWoman, who is helping tremendously with this effort.

We're still collecting submissions. So keep them coming!
This is very nice of you two to do. I liked all of the things you and epriddy did to the original collage.
A big thanks to you and DogWoman!
Vanity, thy name is human!
Rated - for continued attention's sake. Thanks to you andDogWoman for pursuing this. It's been fun to see the concept make the rounds.
This bit of whimsy isn't nearly worth a full post, but I thought I'd put it somewhere... Your post is the victim, Derek. New Open Salon vocabulary:

OS collage: An assemblage of pictures of Open Salon posters.

OS college: An institute of higher learning no one's ever heard of.

OS collagen: The connective tissue that keeps Open Salon coherent.

Well, that dried up quickly...
Rob, you said, “Well, that dried up quickly...”

Rub a little OS collagel on it and it'll be fine.

Rib you, I tried to do, as Yoda might say, but don't take offense. Your comments are what we here at OS call a gem...
Hi Skeptic,

I hope I made it in time! Here's the URL

http://open.salon.com/user_blog.php?uid=4998

This image is unquestionably mine, taken with my own camera in my bedroom of my cat. Consider my permission for use in the collage granted.

Great idea, by the way!
What a blast, Skeptic Turtle. Have been avatar hunting all over. Creative and fun!
Thanks for the work this entails!!!
rated before!
ST & DogWoman - THANK YOU again for this wonderful project. Don't want to get teabagged.

rob - dude, you quit way too soon...I think your bit of whimsy could certainly start a new thread...

OS colleagues
OS collusion
OS collision
OS collard greens

I'll let you work on the definitions :-)
A rare left-rear leg kick back to the front page for you!

Fabulous idea! Glad to be a part of it.
Insomnia has its uses. I will post mine shortly.
Thanks for the OS collegiality, Kent and Lisa. I just wasn't trying hard enough. It seems that an OS collaboration is all it takes...
Thanks again for making this happen - hopefully I got in under the wire!
Late as usual, but hopefully not forgotten.
How cool! Thanks, guys. I'm in. And rated. And now back to grading papers...
ok. i've been in my cave. posting now.
I'm confused, ST, by folks posting random photos of themselves and not higher-res images of their avatars. Do you think some clarification is in order?

And thank you for doing this!
no more a hold out -- up and posted
thank you, sir (i think)
Hope I'm not too late. Thanksgiving put me behind. I've rated and now commenting.
My avatar photo was meant to be temporary, but if the sunset from my back deck is immortalized on OS chotsky, I may have to keep it.
OK, my avatar is finally up. Late to the party, as usual.

Work has a way of interfering with my OS time.
I'm sorry to do this so late. I'm tired of using my kids as an excuse, but there you have it.
Ahoy! What's all this then? i'm so out of the loop, but this looks like a good idea. :)