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When I dream of Razors, my mind come Straight to this Place. ;)
I'd love to pay for a paper calendar with the best pics into the Forum.
My preferred sections are:
- Shave Of The Day
- Custom Buils & Restorations
- The Forge
- The Brushmaker Alcove
Maybe not for coming New Year ... but in the future?!?!
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Just goodlooking gear I hope.
No need for a calender with a lot of undressed, overweight and overaged man staring down at me :gth
Just kidding of course.
The idea is great.
That is a pretty sweet idea. Could raise money for SRP..
I like it too!
If we get about 15 high resolution pictures that are suitable for printing (one for each month plus I think there could be few more for the covers) I can certainly set it up in the 'SRP goods' store.
I think that's the easiest because it's all handled by zazzle and printed on demand - there is no need to figure out costs inventories and such. I saw several different sizes and the $20 ballpark.
Fine, I'll put my pants back on.Quote:
Originally Posted by toonboog
My vote for a pic...so I get in early...one of the Hawksbill Swedes. A couple of members have them. They are insanely beautiful.
Interesting idea, I would be in for one to hang on my bathroom wall!
As I've mentioned my love for them in a previous post, I'd love a picture of a nice matching 7 day set.
Good idea, funds toward SRP. What about a PDF for this coming year so everyone can print their own? If it was sent to me, would get it about February, if it was coming from Canada, would get aboot April, June...No hurry...Aye?
15 best SOTD…
Best SOTD of all time, or by month in the preceding year?
What about a centerfold.
And special collectors edition with all the rare razors.
I'd definitely want one!
Will the members vote on entries to determine the month picture?
A suggestion: Since the owners of this site don't want to lose money on such a venture, they could take paid pre-orders with the understanding that unless they get X number of orders, there will be no calendar and refunds will be given.
I may regret asking this, don't think I've seen one of the rare Hawksbill Swedes, can you post a pic of one?Quote:
Originally Posted by WW243
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...psod4ovmv2.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Phrank
This one belongs to Antiquehoosier. I believe Voidmonster has a pair.
Good idea!
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It depends a lot on the person who is doing most of the legwork.Quote:
Originally Posted by gflight
Anybody interested?
Great idea. There are some very good SOTD's out there.
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Originally Posted by ischiapp
A contest for each section and more than one calendar. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by gugi
As an exercise in problem solving, I like to contemplate all aspects of any given hypothetical. Thus, a thought comes to mind. Considering that these calendars would obviously be a welcome addition to one's shave den, we must consider at least some sort of waterproofing. Bathrooms are very humid, after all. Lamination might be a bit too expensive. Would giving the calendar a glossy finish add some moisture protection? Probably depends on the material/chemicals used to make the gloss coating.
Also, I'm unfamiliar with zazzle, but I assume customization options are available. Making the glossy finish optional would help with total number of sales. For those of us budget minded enough to prefer spending money on real razors, instead of printouts :D. That is to say, some might consider such a novelty until presented with the high price of a premium, nearly indestructible calendar. "...why would I pay that much for a calendar? I'd rather have a new-to-me vintage razor... of, there is a basic version for about $20? Sure; why not? SWMBO will barely bat an eye at that cost... ;):deal:"
Just collaborating on some ideas....Quote:
Originally Posted by gugi
A thread for each month with 30 days to enter photos only. Then each member will have 30 days to vote by post number on a vote thread for that month. One person to tally each month totals. I could do a month tally...
Any calendar has to include pics from these gentlemen (in no particular order), whose SOTD pics I look forward to on a daily basis:
- Evnpar
- Celticcrusader
- Celestino
There is already the SOTD, maybe the post with the most likes per month in that thread? Would help get more members interested posting there. For the covers and back page, why not have a vote from custom builds and restorations.Quote:
Originally Posted by gflight
+ Hone of the Day thread
This seems pretty reasonable to me. I'm busy enough, though, so either get Bruno to write the script that will extract the likes per post for these posts, then sort them to get the most popular each month, or somebody else can script it from the webpages instead of the database (or for really low tech solution just go through them manually and count - to me it's a complete waste of human time but will get the job done if a skilled labor to automate it is in short supply).Quote:
Originally Posted by Grazor
Then somebody will have to contact the respective posters to obtain high-resolution versions (at 300dpi on a4/letter you want something on the order of 2500 by 3500). And if they have no such quality move to the next on the list (or make a collage of several images).
In short, it's pretty straightforward but it takes meaningful amount of work and one person to be in charge of coordination even if the work is split among several. And if that person is not a moderator somebody from the staff must be kept in the loop.
The silence is deafening.Quote:
Originally Posted by gugi
Maybe a separate calendar thread asking for pictures that meet those requirements/catagories of entries beforehand and counting the likes might make things easier?Quote:
Originally Posted by gugi
I could do grunt work emailing/uploading photos or manually counting if we have to. Would think a mod could wrangle us since they have access and know folks with abilities like coding and such.
If there is no risk with zazzle and it's a by order basis we should have a win-win on this thing and should go for it. We just need someone to run with it and I don't have the skill set or knowledge.
In my experience the more moving parts the less chance anything happening.
That's why I like using the already existing gallery threads with pictures - it's all there, already organized by date and voted on. All that it's missing other than tallying it up is the high-resolution format and that can be done with just one person.
We already have the store set up with zazzle and if I have the photos setting up few different calendars should take me no more than 2-3 hours, which I will do if we get to that point. Or somebody else can set up a different store if they want to do that work, though the one we have already has a lot more visibility and should be better.
How many years away do we intend this calendar to be? It sounds like it could be excessively complicated having 12 votes especially as SOTD is done by week not month and would therefore not be easy to divide neatly.
If zazzle is heavily customisable why not have a template calendar and a selection of say 48 pictures that people could put in in any order they want (obviously only 12 of them). Have the SRP logo on the front and whatever on the back.
Unless one of the guys putting forth the suggestions for competitions and votes etc wants to administer it (for an entire year) and organize the actual doing in a timely manner.
I just had a quick squizz at the SOTD forum and each week seems to get an average of around 175 replies (crude maths, replies ranged from 154 to 206 with most around 170 on the page I looked at). I realize that probably 50+% will be comments on pictures but even if we were very conservative and said 25% that is a shortlist of 188 pics per month, assuming that say 20 people vote each month the chances of getting a consensus are pretty slim at best I would expect maybe 2 votes for the same picture. And who is going to extract just the photos and put them in a specific voting thread which would have to be closed to comments and the poll would need to be able to accept 188 different lines. Also I think that trawling through 188 pictures (every month) would get quote tedious and probably would result in pictures from the 1st or 2nd pages getting the majority of the votes.