Obama’s visit and Twitter inspires artistic vision in Wicklow businessman

Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 12:48 PM

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Obama’s visit to Ireland, and more importantly his famous visit to Ollie Hayes’s pub in Moneygall to enjoy a pint of Guinness, along with the thousands of people who tweeted about the President’s visit inspired a Wicklow businessman to create this piece of art.

Alan O’Flaherty who owns Fluffy Button, a personalizing and printing company in Wicklow, created a one off image of Obama made from approximately 1,000 Twitter avatars of users who tweeted on May 23rd.

O’Flaherty explained how he created the poster entitled “Is Féidir Linn” (“Yes We Can”). He said “It's made up of 1,000 photographs of people who tweeted about the visit on the day. I got the idea of making the image after seeing something similar done when Obama was first elected president.”

Click here to visit the “zoomable version” of the image

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abhainn | Jun 12, 2011, 03:30 AM EDT

The photographer who took the picture of Obama drinking the beer is not credited on the poster. Alan O'Flaherty of Fluffy Button ought to do the thing properly and not leech off other people's unattributed work.

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abhainn | Jun 12, 2011, 02:28 AM EDT

It would be interesting to know if Alan O'Flaherty of Fluffy Button is paying royalties to the photographer who took the picture of Obama drinking the stout.

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