10^6 Giraffes

http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/

by ChrisRicca • 16 years ago

82 35 16 years ago

onemilliongiraffes.com

JacobAldridge• 16 years ago

I can't wait for RiderOfGiraffes to get wind of this project ... http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RiderOfGiraffes

RiderOfGiraffes4• 16 years ago

<grin>

Nothing to do with me, but I watch with interest. Sadly I can't send a photo of my giraffes because she's store-bought.

RiderOfGiraffes4• 16 years ago

Sorry - typo and it's too late to correct it.

s/giraffes/giraffe/

Singular. I only own one, although I have ridden several.

apgwoz• 16 years ago

Get artistic and draw a picture of your giraffe!

JeanPierre• 16 years ago

http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/stats

I was somewhat amazed by those stats: I thought Americans would have contributed the most. Is there something I should know about Germans and Giraffes that I do not know?

kwamenum86• 16 years ago

It looks like this started in Europe. A mainstream American website usually sees a 1:2 domestic to international ratio while a niche/startup website usually starts out with the opposite (actually more like 10:1 I would guess.) This follows that pattern except the U.S. is part of the international piece of the pie.

ugh2• 16 years ago

There is this one submitter of Giraffes[1], responsible for two percent of all German giraffes, or this one[2], responsible for nearly five percent. I didn’t even have to look all that hard to find them.

[1] http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/search?name=Sanne

[2] http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/search?name=Ediktonia

doodyhead• 16 years ago

[1] "I found 4 085 giraffes created by people named Sanne!"

[2] "I found 9 988 giraffes created by people named Ediktonia!"

The actual statistic is that 2% of all Germans who submitted giraffes were named Sanne and 5% were named Ediktonia. It doesn't say they were all the same person.

rudyfink• 16 years ago

There are times when I realize what all of humanity has been building towards.

Having built machines that could compute billions of cycles per second and then having connected them with networks signaling each other across the planet at fearsome rates, I have wondered what the next step for our people would be.

Now I know. Now we might all gaze upon representations of giraffes and if we are worthy, we might contribute our own representation in a symbolic joining with the whole of the great human project.

philk2• 16 years ago

...and I discover this just as I was about to launch my new startup: fivehundredthousandgiraffes.com

Oh well, back to the drawing board.

iamwil• 16 years ago

like the 7 minute abs got usurped by the 6 minute abs?

philk2• 16 years ago

My business model consists of convincing users that their giraffes are private and then, once I've got half a million, shamelessly changing my privacy policy to help advertisers.

cubicle67• 16 years ago

There's a cartoon somewhere of the 59 minute photo lab

pavlov• 16 years ago

I'm reminded of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army

"My friend, Zhang, doesn't believe I can collect one million soldiers by 209 BC. I'm gonna prove him wrong, but I need your help. (Or you'll be beheaded.) Thanks, Qin."

Our time is gentler -- the Age of the Giraffes.

RiderOfGiraffes4• 16 years ago

Exercise for the interested reader - why could he not have said:

  > ... I can collect one million soldiers by 209 BC.

mmelin• 16 years ago

What, you mean a Chinese emperor did not know the exact future date of the birth of Christ?

csytan• 16 years ago

Because he wasn't fluent in English?

scopendo• 16 years ago

Because 209 BC will in the past by the time he collects the soldiers... that is, the year after 209 BC is 208 BC.

mbrubeck• 16 years ago

Don't you have a lot of giraffes you should be riding right now?

wazoox• 16 years ago

I remember sending a giraffe a long time ago, I had forgotten about it :)

WarDekar• 16 years ago

I love it!

And I love the guessing game with the age of the submitter, I only wish the server wasn't getting slammed 'cause it takes too long to get the response.

So far I'm 6 votes in with 3.7 years avg difference so far, it's a pretty great idea, though I wonder if it selects based on users so you don't get shown consecutive (or even in the vicinity in the case of the mass posters another comment mentioned) giraffes from the same artist.

edparcell• 16 years ago

Wikipedia puts the total African giraffe population at 110,000-150,000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe. So there are more pictures of giraffes than actual giraffes.

tzury• 16 years ago

same applies on counting human photos on social site altogether (flickr, facebook, tweetpic, etc.) would be far more than 6,819,100,000 (population of the world - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population)

TallGuyShort• 16 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population <- Anyone know the reason for the UN's low and medium estimates having serious downturns in population in the next century? Is it because of lowering child-birth rates, or because of expectations of resources/diseases, etc...?

Sukotto• 16 years ago

Keep in mind that every picture on that site is hand-made. The instructions disallow photos of actual giraffes or images created on/by a computer.

How many drawings and human-shaped sculpture are there on those social sites? I doubt there's more than the 6.8 billion you quote from wikipedia.

jonp• 16 years ago

Since The Sheep Market http://www.thesheepmarket.com/ paid people on Mechanical Turk 2c each for their sheep drawings I guess this means he's got nearly $16,000 of free labour so far.

sethrq• 16 years ago

I found one more!

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eru• 16 years ago

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You intended this? Sadly, it doesn't qualify, since it's made with a computer.

10^6 Giraffes

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