White House Flickr Photostream Remixing Contest

President Barack Obama meets with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in the Oval Office 3/25/09. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

Get ready to fire up Photoshop and create some wonderful remixes. Von Glitschka, an awesome illustrator who I’ve been a fan of for a long time, posted tonight about the White House’s official flickr photostream*. I took a look at the 293 images on there (and there are some really amazing ones) and noticed they all have a Creative Commons license that allows us to remix the images. Which is where the “White House Flickr Photostream Remixing Contest” comes in.

If we get enough submissions that are awesome, I’ll work to secure some gallery space in Denver and we’ll have a show!

White House Flickr Photostream Remixing Contest

Your task:

• Take any photo from the White House flickr photostream.
• Remix it with one or more flickr photos that have a similar Creative Commons license (search Flickr’s Creative Commons images, any one of those but the “NoDerivs” ).
• Produce one composite image.
• Post it to flickr, and embed the photo in the comments section of this blog entry.
• For your image to be considered for the show, it will need to be 300DPI, printable in a high-resolution format.

The Rules:

• You must provide links to all photos in the description of your uploaded image.
• All entries must be received by Noon on Monday, May 18, 2009.
• I reserve the right to disqualify anything I deem inappropriate (well, we can talk about that means if you or I bring up a suspect image).
• We will all then vote on the winning submission. I will give that person a prize of some sort, TBD (anyone out there willing to sponsor a gift?).

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden practice their putting on the White House putting green April 24, 2009. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

* I also think that it’s really hilarious that the photostream has this title in it: The Official White House Photostream’s photostream.