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May 16, 2005

OSU Gets Firefoxed

Posted by Eric at 7:02 am. Filed under: General

Oregon State University

How we did it
It was Wednesday night when several of us were throwing around ideas as to what we could possibly do for the 50 million download contest. After thinking of a bunch of ideas, we thought of using chalk to draw a huge Firefox logo on the quad outside the Memorial Union Building at Oregon State University. The idea was pretty cool, but, being students, we couldn’t really find the time during the week. Finally, Friday arrived, and we were itching to do it. Time: 2315.

Sidewalk chalk is expensive, and for the size of our project, quite inadequate. Instead we used a mixture of corn starch, food coloring, koolaid, and water. We bought all, 19 pounds, of the bulk cornstarch at the discount grocery store in town. We thought that would be enough, so we set to work. Time: 0000.

The first step was to divide the logo into a 20x20 grid that we temporarily put on the concrete with lots of string. We then transfered the outlines from the paper to the full-scale grid using sidewalk chalk. Time: 0100.


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