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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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.
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http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=47805
Mine is here: http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=47946
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!
We're still collecting submissions. So keep them coming!
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...
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...
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!
Thanks for the work this entails!!!
rated before!
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 :-)
Fabulous idea! Glad to be a part of it.
And thank you for doing this!
thank you, sir (i think)
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.
Work has a way of interfering with my OS time.