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Turn your dreams into an action plan and take those steps - even if you think they are small or insignificant at the time. They and you will grow into something great because of it! . . . #motivationalquotes #motivationmonday #cosplaydream #dreamcosplay #dreamquote #cosplayinfluencer #cosplayquote #bbdesign #bbdesigncosplay https://www.instagram.com/p/By1aBSMDaaP/?igshid=8ie52p9jfk1k
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Ice skating dream accomplished ( secretly pretending to be yurio)! #iceskating #icefactory #dateday #yurionice #cosplaydream (at Ice Factory of Central Florida)
But also Azura!! I can't decide who to cosplay from Fire Emblem! #fireemblemazura #azura #azuracosplay #fireemblem #fireemblemheroes #fireemblemcosplay #cosplayer #cosplay #cosplaydream
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They say that “money don’t buy taste,” but if you can afford to live at N°15 RENWICK, one would assume you’ve at least got the cash for a “style consultant” to tell you how fucking corny you are. The luxury development (whose logo is an obvious homage to CHANEL N°5) is trying what may be the lamest of all marketing angles to attract a wealthy and “creative” clientele—they’re making it steampunk. Their advertising is an utterly confusing photo-spread of classically influenced modern architecture inhabited by Victorian-ish “characters”—it can only be described as real estate cosplay… From the website: The Characters of 15 Renwick pay homage to the Victorian era in which the street’s namesake, James Renwick and his son, lived (1790-1895). Renwick was a pioneering author, engineer and professor at Columbia University while his son, James Jr., was one of the most celebrated architects of his generation. The Characters also embody the creative persona of today’s Hudson Square resident and the insider nature of the single-block Renwick Street. Look, pining for “Olde New York” is a rite of passage no matter what year you moved here, but these people are paying an insane...
So... this is interesting... would you buy a place bc of this? Here, people are trying to make money off of cosplay art and aesthetic, and just yesterday I read and article about grumbly Batman writer Pat Broderick complaining how cosplay was taking money out of his pockets. From his FB post...
todays heads up. If you're a Cosplay personality, please don't send me a friend request. If you're a convention promoter and you're building your show around cosplay events and mega multiple media guest don't invite me....You bring nothing of value to the shows, and if you're a promoter pushing cosplay as your main attraction you're not helping the industry or comics market..Thank you..
I find it hard to even begin to understand this point of view. This blog does a good job of summing up a lot of my feelings... but in general - how in the world does a whole community of people diving heart and soul into your characters not help the industry or the market?
It's lost on me.
Don't forget to enter our cosplay photo contest on CosplayDream.com. We love the community!
How Do You Determine What to Pay for Content?
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Determining what to pay for content has been a real topic for discussion around Cosplaydream. We believe art, creativity, and sexiness should be compensated - but what's the right number?
Here's how we looked at it and arrived at our first prize payout.
1. We're building a community, and that comes first. So we're investing heavily into that technolgy and getting that in place. Paying for good content is a big part of that community building - but there are other parts too.
2. We respect talent. We're not paying nothing, and we'll pay as much as we can as often as we can.
3. We're bootstrapping this project. We didn't do Kickstarter or any crowdfunding, we're not funded by some big adult site that tells us what to do or tells our user community what to do... we're just two ladies spending all our spare cash to get this thing off the ground. We love this community - it's by the people for the people.
4. We want amateurs and seflies! We're not a photography site for professionals models and photographers - we're a cosplay site for the cosplay community - with a strong NSFW vibe. So.... you don't need to pay zillions of dollars for fancy sets and professional photography to win our contests. We like selfies - and we want the models who have the biggest following - and participate most on the site - to win the contests. That's being *part* of the community. This isn't a photography contest - it's a cosplay contest. Very different stuff.
I looked around at a lot of sites to determine who was paying what for what type of content - and realized that the bar was pretty low. That's not cool, and we want to do more - and we will do more and more as we grow. Hopefully, our prize money can help our models get the next cosplay going, or help them get to the next con and have some more fun. CosplayDream is all about fun!
http://www.cosplaydream.com/model
Secrets of Social Engine: AKA Saving You Time I Will Never Get Back
CosplayDream is an adult cosplay online community, so the community platform is a vital piece of our infrastructure. That being said, we are just starting out, and we don't have a lot of money. We chose Social Engine's PHP version for our community platform, and we've been very pleased.
This post isn't a review of the product - it's more a "problems I spent a lot of time on, that had a pretty easy solution in the end" sort of post. Hopefully, this post can save you the time I will never get back. It's targeted at novice users - but not beginners. Their documentation can be a little thin - so feel free to ask me questions and I'll answer them if I can.
The Pesky Problems in Our Past
1. User profile pictures automatically show up as an album. So do forum and group pictures. This might not bother you, but it did bother us. Albums are supposed to be specifically uploaded as albums! I asked SE how to fix this and their reply was essentially "you have to get into the PHP and customize it." There is an easier way and it's no where in the documentation.
1. Go to the album and choose "Edit Settings"
2. Uncheck "Show this album in search results" and click "Save."
There you go. I've had pictures show up again from time to time, so I just go and edit the settings again - and they disappear. If, for some reason, you ever want to come back - you can go to the admins Albums->My Albums tab and change it back.
2. First and Last Name Fields show up as the Display Name in the Profile no matter what their settings. This seems like a major design flaw - because even if you set the first and last name *not* to show up, and the username *to* show up, the system still uses the first and last name as the display name in the user's profile. Watch out for this as it's a major privacy issue. Luckily - this one was documented. Here are the instructions, but you might want to check the link just in case.
You can still capture the first and last name fields using this technique, but they don't show up in the admin's view. They are in your database, so if you had to get to them, you probably could.
3. How to turn off that mobile site/mobile plug in. The mobile plug in isn't very good in Social Engine - and we bought a responsive design theme that supersedes the need for it. Make sure the theme you buy is a responsive design! We ended up wasting $85 because our first one wasn't and we had to trash it .
I asked SE how to turn off the mobile plug in so all browsers would use our shiny new responsive theme - and they told me I'd have to extend my support contract to get an answer (it's not in the documentation). Turns out, this is also very easy. Just go to: http://yoursite/install/manage, scroll down, and toggle to "disable" the Mobi plugin.
Our theme developer helped up with that one (at no extra charge). I highly recommend these folks: Social Engine Solutions.
That's it for now. I'm sure we'll have more on this topic later on.
