Friday, January 13, 2006

Black History Month book pile contest

I'm looking for book-pile photographs representing Martin Luther King Day and Black History Month. Do you have a lot of books on the topic?

I did a general book pile photo contest earlier (see winners and all submissions on Flickr). It was fun. I want themed bookpiles to become a regular thing on LibraryThing, much the way Google's logo changes for special occasions.

The rules:
  • Take a photo of a pile of books. I favor piles with easy-to-remove backgrounds and legible titles. See previous winners for what I favored.
  • Post it to Flickr tagged "librarything" and "blackhistorymonth." If you must send me files, send them to timspalding gmail.com.
  • Winner gets a free one-year gift subscription, to use or give to someone else.
  • I'd love to close it in time for MLK day, but that may be too early.
  • By participating LibraryThing gets rights to use the photo for promotional purposes, with acknowledgment.
Incidentally, if anyone wants to become LibraryThing's Dennis Hwang, coming up with holiday book piles, like Hwang's Google holiday logos, on a semi-regular basis, I'd love to hear from you. I can't really afford to pay you, but I can showcase your work and give you free memerships from time to time.

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7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great idea! But MKL Day is the day after tomorrow! Definitely a tad early.

I can't enter (I'm still a Luddite when it comes to cameras), but I enjoyed the photos from your previous contest, and I like the idea of having new ones similar to the Google logos.

1/14/2006 9:27 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'd like to work on themed piles, but I don't know if I have the books. Maybe I'll raid the library sale table sometime...

1/14/2006 9:59 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm going to try my hand at this this morning. I'm not sure how they'll turn out yet, so I may or may not be posting the results later on. :-)

1/14/2006 12:29 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ok, I posted a few. They're not exactly the best shining examples of what this sort of book pile ought to be--and I'm not a Photoshop Wizard-- but it's all I got. :-)

One pile has some books that at first glance might not seem to belong, but to me, I think they do, in one way or another.

1/14/2006 4:40 PM  
Blogger Tim said...

Those are nice! Good selection, very legible and even clipped from their surroundings!

1/14/2006 5:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you! :-)

1/14/2006 5:59 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cool! I gave it a shot, though since I had to newly sign up for flickr to add them, I'm not sure if they're showing up under the tag search yet.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/66807297@N00/

At first I worried about how beat up some of the books looked (not very professional) but decided to embrace the wabi sabi: it's a pile of read, reread, re-reread books... they should look a bit worn!

1/16/2006 1:48 PM  

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