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What a cool use of Creative Commons licensing of my Obama photo… outdoor billboards!

Obama drove by this Pennsylvania billboard today, the kickoff to a national tour. He may be seeing variants of this welcome in successive markets as well.

Kudos to Adams Outdoor for pulling this off, and wow, I never imagined they could include a full flickr photo credit on a billboard.

20 responses to “Hola Obama!”

  1. Nice!!! Is this a jumbotron style TV with a Moiré pattern or is that an effect on the actual billboard?

  2. That’s really cool.
    I’m also curious about the source of Moiré pattern. Is it a beating between the periodicity of the LEDs and the spacing of the CCD elements?

  3. He may be listening but he sure isn’t saying or doing much!

  4. Wow! I think it is a Moire pattern and it’s great. So he’s making the tour again? He needs to gather up the troops support on the mainland again. He lost about 30K in the bay area last week. Of course, I still think he’s the man.

  5. Wow! Mesmerizing. Reminds one of ‘1984’. Orwellian.
    Looks like one of those "shovel ready" stimulus projects. And so begins the cult of the personality… not that there’s anything wrong with that… I think I’ll go plant another acorn. 😉

  6. Impressive. The best I have been able to do with my Flickr photos is inclusion in the "I Can Has Cheesburger" book.

  7. Cool how your name is on the billboard, too.

  8. One assumes that you got paid the proper ASMP rates for this. What’s he doing in the picture, reading a teleprompter pretending to listen?

  9. Nice photograph, but Obama is loosing me lately, I am very disappointed in his performance. (sorry about my previous remarks, not the right forum.)…

  10. JE Piper – gosh no…. All my photos are free to use with attribution. The beauty of the system is that I add no payment burden, because I would rather see what blossoms than try to make a buck off my hobby.

    In the picture, he was listening to a question at a small breakfast I had with him when he was a long shot for the primary election.

  11. That is an awesome use of a Flickr photo.

  12. He lost me a long time ago. His lack of experience is becoming more and more of a problem. His priorities are all wrong.

  13. Congratulations !!! You’re very lucky.


    Seen on your photo stream. (?)

  14. Just click that little cart at the top of the page and choose "billboard" from the Snapfish account ;^) hehehe

  15. Cool Cool Cool! Yes, also surprised they included the full credit on there, & in readable font

  16. awesome. where were you off to in the lehigh valley?

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