Flickr is a huge picture container of the www. The 5050box // hands project is about a huge mosaic made of many pictures. Wait a minute. Hmmm…

5050box is now on flickr too.

I got 144 hands on http://5050box.com/hands now. If you want to help me to spread the word for faster growing you can…

• send a good old EMAIL to your friends,
• use fantastic TWITTER to tell your followers,
• share awesome news with FACEBOOK,
• just DIGG it deeper into the web or
• save it as a DELICIOS bookmark.

Whatever you do to help — THANK YOU!

Just a very short post.

5050box was on siiimple — a minimalist design gallery for simple lover’s of design. Nice. And thanks! I will change the site a bit to make it clearer and more search engine-friendly. But it will stay simple… siiimple.

And:

I got 121 hands now on http://5050box.com/hands. The hands really come from all over the world already. Until now most of them are from Germany (of course) and Europe but there are also quite a few from the US, Australia, India, Venezuela, etc. I love that!

A new mosaic! Now there are 49 hands (yes, I did not write about the 36 before…) and a new feature. Webcam upload. I think it makes it much easier to upload pictures of hands on http://5050box.com/hands.

To give it a try just go to ‘webcam upload’, fill out the fields if you want and press ‘take picture’ to activate the 3 seconds self-timer.

Credits for the webcam feature go to Kevin Musselman. His code to access the webcam with Flash saved me some time… Thanks.

The mosaic is growing. The first 25 hands are online on http://5050box.com/hands. Nice!

I am not really sure but there might be a coloured version of it too…

During the last two weekends I have built another (micro-)site:
The 5050box // hands project.

It is just a fun project. On this site I want to collect 5050 hands to create a huge mosaic. As soon as 5050 pictures of hands are uploaded a limited edition of the finished mosaic will be sold. 100% of the profit will be donated to support charities.

I came up with the idea a while ago and thought it might be nice to visualize hands working together creating something big. Hand in hand. Just like I have mentioned in the video intro on 5050box that “5050box is also in your hands” it is the same with this project. I need helping hands: Your hands!

Just take a picture of your hands and upload it to http://5050box.com/hands. Thank you!

Behind the site is a tiny CMS that enables me to sort out strange pictures and create the mosaic dynamically. It is easy to handle and can be done quickly. So you can watch the mosaic grow every day!

There is also a facebook group for the 5050box // hands project so you can invite your friends to upload their hands too. For more information please visit the hands project information page.