Ball Busters

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The Red Rubber Ball photo contest was feeling blue, but not so its contestants, whose playful creative entries few clients would ever sign off on.

The Big Idea magazine and Acme Photo Works again sent 500 Detroit-area creatives a 12-exposure disposable camera and a deflated ball—this time a blue one—and invited them to shoot photos including the ball and return the film undeveloped for judging.

In the 127 entries, the ball appears variously as an olive in a martini glass, as a bowling ball and, of course, as underwear.



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