A couple of months ago, we was approached by an artist group which idea is to raise cultural awareness by putting at billboards stylized photos of (not so) famous [1] cultural and scientific persons from the history of Serbia. They wanted to incorporate their art project into Wikimedia Serbia projects and we've found that it is a great idea. The project's site is likilink.org [2][3][4].
The project has been done without money. The main company which deals with billboards in Serbia, Alma Quatro [5] is giving to us not used billboards for free. "Not used" means, for example, if some billboard campaign is lasting up to 15th of some month -- as they are renting space on monthly basis -- the rest of the month is our. So, it is not about bad locations; contrary, locations are top.
But, it was their initial idea, they will work on that, but, it is up to Wikimedians to choose who will be the next persons on billboards all over Serbia.
So, after the first couple of writers, the rest is up to them.
The first person on billboards is Radoje Domanovic [5], Serbian satirist with Orwellian motives. Those billboards are presently at ~20 places in Belgrade, including large billboards at the highway entrance to Belgrade.
The second group will be 5 persons with 30 billboards each: * Two will be Serbian writers. * One will be a female inventor from our previous, but not yet finished project ("Female inventors") in cooperation with another organization. * One will be Richard Stallman. * One will be Jimmy Wales.
Yes, Jimmy will get 30 billboards in Belgrade for one month :)
[1] - Famous, but not so as Nikola Tesla or Vuk Karadzic are. [2] - "Lik i link" means "face/figure and link". [3] - The billboards are designed as the image from the site, but with link to the project's site and [4] - Please, don't ask my why I've put just a JPEG with <map> >:| It will be fixed today or tomorrow. [5] - http://www.aqyu.com/ [6] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radoje_Domanovic
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
A couple of months ago, we was approached by an artist group which idea is to raise cultural awareness by putting at billboards stylized photos of (not so) famous [1] cultural and scientific persons from the history of Serbia. They wanted to incorporate their art project into Wikimedia Serbia projects and we've found that it is a great idea. The project's site is likilink.org [2][3][4].
The project has been done without money. The main company which deals with billboards in Serbia, Alma Quatro [5] is giving to us not used billboards for free. "Not used" means, for example, if some billboard campaign is lasting up to 15th of some month -- as they are renting space on monthly basis -- the rest of the month is our. So, it is not about bad locations; contrary, locations are top.
But, it was their initial idea, they will work on that, but, it is up to Wikimedians to choose who will be the next persons on billboards all over Serbia.
So, after the first couple of writers, the rest is up to them.
The first person on billboards is Radoje Domanovic [5], Serbian satirist with Orwellian motives. Those billboards are presently at ~20 places in Belgrade, including large billboards at the highway entrance to Belgrade.
The second group will be 5 persons with 30 billboards each:
- Two will be Serbian writers.
- One will be a female inventor from our previous, but not yet
finished project ("Female inventors") in cooperation with another organization.
- One will be Richard Stallman.
- One will be Jimmy Wales.
Yes, Jimmy will get 30 billboards in Belgrade for one month :)
[1] - Famous, but not so as Nikola Tesla or Vuk Karadzic are. [2] - "Lik i link" means "face/figure and link". [3] - The billboards are designed as the image from the site, but with link to the project's site and [4] - Please, don't ask my why I've put just a JPEG with <map> >:| It will be fixed today or tomorrow. [5] - http://www.aqyu.com/ [6] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radoje_Domanovic
Ah, and I forgot a couple of important information:
* The first campaign is ongoing: from previous Monday to next Tuesday. * The second campaign will start at Wednesday and it will last for one month.
From that point, persons on billboards will be chosen directly by
Wikimedians. I will make two projects: one on sr.wp, another on Meta. There will be possible to propose and vote for a person which would be on billboards. Let's say, 2-3 on sr.wp and 3-4 on Meta.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
A couple of months ago, we was approached by an artist group which idea is to raise cultural awareness by putting at billboards stylized photos of (not so) famous [1] cultural and scientific persons from the history of Serbia. They wanted to incorporate their art project into Wikimedia Serbia projects and we've found that it is a great idea. The project's site is likilink.org [2][3][4].
Just want to say that this is very cool and awesome. :-) The simplistic site is also very cool.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
[3] - The billboards are designed as the image from the site, but with link to the project's site and
... and Wikipedia logo. At the site, user can click on the image, which leads to the appropriate article.
Congratulations on this successful alternative use of content in a BIG SCALE way. :-)
Thanks for sharing it with us. Wonderful idea!
Sydney Poore (FloNight)
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
[3] - The billboards are designed as the image from the site, but with link to the project's site and
... and Wikipedia logo. At the site, user can click on the image, which leads to the appropriate article.
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we want photo's!
2010/6/17 Sydney Poore sydney.poore@gmail.com
Congratulations on this successful alternative use of content in a BIG SCALE way. :-)
Thanks for sharing it with us. Wonderful idea!
Sydney Poore (FloNight)
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com
wrote:
[3] - The billboards are designed as the image from the site, but with link to the project's site and
... and Wikipedia logo. At the site, user can click on the image, which leads to the appropriate article.
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On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
we want photo's!
The company is making photos of every billboard. We have a deal to get all of them under GFDL/CC-BY-SA :)
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
we want photo's!
The company is making photos of every billboard. We have a deal to get all of them under GFDL/CC-BY-SA :)
First photos (without formal approval, thus not on Commons): http://likilink.org/photos/
* The first one (500957) is at Belgrade Fair [1] and presents poet, film director etc. Mika Antic [2]. * The second one (503439) is at the highway entrance of Belgrade and presents writer Borislav Pekic [3] * The third photo (505921) is somewhat funny, Borislav Pekic again, but I don't know where it is. * For the fourth photo (505930, Mika Antic again) I don't know where it stays, too.
Those billboards are from the phase 0. All of them should be replaced by Radoje Domanovic up to yesterday or so.
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgrade_Fair [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika_Antic [3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borislav_Pekic
While waiting to get all photos made by AQ, we took our cameras: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:LikiLink
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