update: updated and refreshed whole page, back then I thought it was only hand drawn, however they seem to have changed it. You can now make any kind that has to look like a giraffe, except computer made. Also, you can post as many different giraffes as you like. added the chart aswell

My brother linked this friend of his that is doing this crazy idea by trying to gather one million hand drawn giraffes by 2011.

Here is one news about it:
http://theridiculant.metro.co.uk/2009/09/giraffes-giraffes-one-million-of-them-to-be-precise.html

Giraffes? Giraffes! One million of them, to be precise...How many giraffes do you, personally, have? For most of our readers, we're going to guess that the answer to that probably lies between zero giraffes and, maybe, five giraffes. In any case, we're fairly sure that you won't have as many giraffes as Ola Helland.

That's because Helland, a web designer from Norway, is well on his way to completing his ambitious One Million Giraffes project - a website dedicated to getting readers to send him images of giraffes they have made, in the hope of hitting a million by 2011. At the time of writing, he's made it to 209,395 giraffes. (sept 9th)

The site was inspired, as all the best things are, by a bet with a friend - Ola's friend Jørgen didn't believe Ola's claim that the internet made collecting things so easy that a person could collect a million of just about anything., Ola insisted you could... and so the hunt was on for giraffes.

The only rules are that the giraffe images can't be created on a computer, they can't be giraffes purchased from a store, and photos of real-life giraffes don't count. So far, entries have included stick figure giraffes, paper models of giraffes, and pictures of giraffes drawn on people's feet.

You can follow the progress here:
http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com
http://twitter.com/1000000giraffes
http://www.facebook.com/onemilliongiraffes

current progress: he just passed 333333 and is 1/3 of his plan. (1 nov 09)

For those who dont understand the point, it is simply for fun and to get people invoved and participating in something creative like this. Also it is quite funny to see whole countries taking innitiave to win the charts.

In Lithuania the site got featured on a news channel, and they wanted to become the country that has most giraffes. Many schools in Lithuania submitted loads of giraffes. (cant remember the link to this news, feel free to post it if you are from Lithuania and know about this)

Current Statistics each by country, maybe TL widespread natinality could add some more numbers on the countiries with very few or none giraffes?

Giraffes by country
This list shows how many giraffes I've gotten from the 94 countries that have participated in this project
53 744giraffes from Germany
52 429giraffes from Switzerland
48 422giraffes from United Kingdom
45 579giraffes from Norway
33 513giraffes from Lithuania
26 230giraffes from Israel
17 477giraffes from USA
13 281giraffes from the Netherlands
7 620giraffes from Austria
6 042giraffes from Luxembourg
3 225giraffes from Brazil
3 218giraffes from Poland
3 175giraffes from Northern Ireland
3 119giraffes from Australia
2 757giraffes from France
2 287giraffes from Belgium
1 864giraffes from New Zealand
1 617giraffes from Sweden
1 428giraffes from Spain
1 013giraffes from Canada
1 002giraffes from Finland
916giraffes from Italy
770giraffes from Russia
636giraffes from Czech Republic
620giraffes from Denmark
409giraffes from Latvia
358giraffes from Bulgaria
268giraffes from Ireland
225giraffes from Slovenia
190giraffes from Portugal
130giraffes from Turkey
114giraffes from Serbia
102giraffes from Isle Of Man
97giraffes from China
78giraffes from Ukraine
66giraffes from Romania
62giraffes from Mexico
60giraffes from Saudi Arabia
55giraffes from Republic of Korea
53giraffes from Hong Kong
52giraffes from Hungary
47giraffes from Scotland
42giraffes from Singapore
38giraffes from Malta
36giraffes from Ecuador
28giraffes from Iceland
27giraffes from Sudan
25giraffes from Argentina
25giraffes from South Africa
23giraffes from Wales
21giraffes from India
19giraffes from Indonesia
19giraffes from Slovakia
17giraffes from Kenya
15giraffes from Bermuda
15giraffes from Chile
14giraffes from Japan
12giraffes from Greece

And these countries have sent in ten giraffes or fewer:
Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Belarus, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Iran, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mongolia, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tenerife, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Venezuela and Vietnam.

Quite many funny and many interesting giraffes if you scroll trough some of the pages
http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com

gogo!!
draw yours and post it here ;D
or if you find any funny ones, plenty to chose from.

here are couple of creative ones I've found:
http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/?id=16033
http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/?id=34502
http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/?id=18090

ghermination

United States2851 Posts

June 15 2009 23:01 GMT

Can't use a computer to draw the giraffes? Well then that makes it quite a bit harder to get 1 million, considering so few people have a scanner as opposed to people who will visit the site.

VIB

Brazil3567 Posts

June 15 2009 23:02 GMT

On June 16 2009 08:01 ghermination wrote:
Can't use a computer to draw the giraffes? Well then that makes it quite a bit harder to get 1 million, considering so few people have a scanner as opposed to people who will visit the site.

Cellphone pics of drawings works pretty well if you have tried it. Those are very common nowadays.

GHOSTCLAW

United States17042 Posts

June 15 2009 23:05 GMT

On June 16 2009 08:02 VIB wrote:

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Cellphone pics of drawings works pretty well if you have tried it. Those are very common nowadays.

They don't end up with very good quality. This feels too much like a voting thread. -_-;

ThePhan2m

Norway2751 Posts

June 15 2009 23:07 GMT

On June 16 2009 08:05 GHOSTCLAW wrote:

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They don't end up with very good quality. This feels too much like a voting thread. -_-;

actually, most phones today give decent enough quality. And you need nothing more than to be able to see the picture signed by you.

stenole

Norway869 Posts

June 15 2009 23:21 GMT

I already sent in mine before you started the thread. I made the giraffe in the UFO.

plated.rawr

Norway1676 Posts

June 16 2009 00:04 GMT

Sweet. I'm so gonna make a giraffe of my own.

Completely unrelated, I'm just waiting for that site to explode with giraffe pr0n, kinda like how all the animals that were created and distributed by the Spore comminty when the Spore Creature Creator first was launched, were all penixes of various sizes and shapes.