One Million Giraffes (English)

June 2009 Ola Helland from Stavanger, Norway was out drinking a beer with his best friend Jørgen, when they started a discussion about the Internet and all it's possibilities. Ola claimed that he could easily obtain one million handdrawn giraffes before 2011 using the Internet. They made a bet, which resulted in www.onemilliongiraffes.com. Now, one year later, the website holds 840.000 giraffes send in from over 100 countries.

With a group of well known drawers from the website, Martin Platenkamp, Heleen21, her family and Miss Overijssel-finalist Scarlett Basoeki we travelled to the Zoo in Emmen to draw actual giraffes...


Searchnames:

Scarlett (Scarlett Basoeki)
Heleen21 (Heleen de Vaan)
Armin (Armin de Vaan)
Mansour (Mansour de Vaan)
Niloufar (Niloufar de Vaan)
Martin Platenkamp (Martin Platenkamp)
Pim (Pim Razenberg)


This item was made for the RTV Oost tv-program "Tijd voor Theater" by Peter Schoof.

Item by: Pim Razenberg
Broadcast Date: Juni 3rd, 2010
Item: No. #28

www.rtvoost.nl
www.ppjr-productions.webs.com
www.onemilliongiraffes.com

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