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**checking first if my girlfriend is not around**Nope.
Man, this ass turns me on!
Seriously, great pics. I know someone that is into this kinda sexy fantasy art too, but more morbid style. Robotic woman and things, with whips and all. But I’m more into this to be honest.
He may throw in a couple of ideas along the way, throw in his own designs, but he can’t win. That was how it was in the old comps.[/quote:18gr788a]
And that’s how it will be in the newest ones also. manilla and me can’t compete. But I’m pretty sure I will give it try!
Are the above features optional or are all required?
I think given the artwork that could potentially come out of this, the prize should be awesome and the duration should be quite long. 1.5 – 2 months?[/quote:2ccv86i7]
All required, if it was to me. Just my idea. manillascissor decides. And yes, make it 2, maybe 3 months I guess.I think when SPfreaks.com is giving away some good shit, we definately have to expect something back.
Design Contest: The Ultimate Smashing Pumpkins Live Experience
-concertposter 600 x 900 pixels
-setlist of 20 songs
-flyer 100 x 200 pixels
-written newspaper & music magazine ad to promote the gig
-t-shirt or hoodie max 600 pixels wide
-3 badgesI’m willing to throw in a pretty rare Smashing Pumpkins single, think Rocket Spanish promo or Thirty-Three UK HUTCDJ78 promo or the likes. Am I right that those are going on eBay for like 50-100 US$ each?
Something different. Almost worthwhile having its own topic.
I talked to my bro on the phone, and told him I want to change to Linux.
When I just returned to my pc, it gave me this.
Also, what ‘tricks’ are these you mentioned, Arthur?[/quote:2bxs6n25]
Using several search engines, not only Google, and using different word combinations. Not really special, but you always get the obvious places when you type "my chemical romance like phantoms forever". Trying "chemical romance ep 2002 sale" for example might bring up unexpected results. But it didn’t so far.Thanks bullet, for bringing this up. I had an email about this in my inbox from 1 of my Media Contacts, unfortunately I was not able to read it sooner to have this news \"first\".
Anyway, I wrote a little article on the homepage of SPfreaks.com about it. It’s interesting news. You guys might find it also interesting, because the whole case can be read in the lawyer’s papers. HipstersUnited has a link to those papers also, by the way, but we have a copy in our Collection now also.
I heard this is Lisa’s side-project, and Billy and Jimmy are shareholders in her business, that’s why the name.
I bet I don’t even WANT that in my collection though.
I have no idea who she is.[/quote:1yqyymkr]
I too get annoyed when I want to take a nice picture of the landscape, and someone silly steps in the camera. Nice pics though. Except for that silly girl. Ah well. She’s funny though. She might read the boards here you know.
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well I like this place because of the no BS in my face nonsense. If you have to charge by all means do, but with that 60 bucks every 5 years-piece of cake
shit I’ll donate just give me a charity receipt to claim on my taxes[/quote:mmk8y3qh]
Seriously, it’s not only that. There’s a ⬠35 fee per month for a somewhat dedicated line too. But it’s used for a few other websites too, and for other personal use of RedWolf the developer. Also there is the hardware part (server, backup equipment, Microsoft database & other software license fees). The most costly thing however, that was never billed, was the development hours. Since 2002 Redwolf spent hundreds and hundreds of hours of development on the actual website and things (Collection website, Forum website, Chat website, webmaster tools, webmaster reports, and coming soon the My Collection feature inside the Collection website).
If we had this done with a commercial party, it would have cost us something like 30,000 – 40,000 US$. He always says he loves doing it when he has some free times, as a hobby. But I feel guilty sometimes, and pay off my guilty feelings with a little piece of hardware every now and then.
Maybe we should just do some fundraising for this guy alone?
The one feature this site will soon host is the My Collection. A truly awesome way to chronicle and organize and track your own personal collection.
Maybe a nominal fee could be associated with having to store people’s input. This would also deter fake My Collections submissions. Who would pay to have a fake collection archived? Anyway, I think this feature is worth a nominal fee. I don’t know any other site that hosts this kind of service.[/quote:3mayjp33]
Didn’t think of that, great idea however!-The EIL & Amazon way. They implement a little skin around the SPfreaks.com website, and every item will be linked to the same item on their website. Every click or item sold will give a few cents to SPfreaks.com. [/quote:2xrnu7pf]
do you have an exsample of this?[/quote:2xrnu7pf]
Yeah for example on SPFC. Little arrow links to Amazon to buy the highlighted item.As long as I’m around, you’ll never have to outsource for finances, Arthur.[/quote:2xz9g65m]
That’s another option yeah, a smaller or bit bigger yearly fee for members…Not from 1 person I guess. But thanks anyway, manilla. You’re an awesome guy. Where’s that kissing smiley? I want to use it. Because I’m really glad you’re on my side.
Manilla and me, together with 2 or 3 other SP collectors, and we will put shame to Elvis’ Graceland.
This brings up a question from my side actually… As far as I can see, almost all the bigger and active Smashing Pumpkins places are in 1 way or the other \"commercial\". ThePumpkins.net, Blamo, Netphoria, SPFC… HipstersUnited and SPfreaks.com are the only places I know that are not commercial. But, with all respects to HU, they are \"only\" a blog website, without too many extra features. Not that costly I presume. Correct me if I’m wrong. The rest is using banners, pop ups, ads, commercial links, everything.
I truly disgust doing that with this place. I mean, we have our costs too, but they are not that high. We don’t have to pay the provider anything, we have quite some GB room on the server for free, the domain name SPfreaks.com is only 60 US$ fee per 5 years (just paid the next 5 next years, so we will be around for a while more…
) and even the programmer RedWolf is not being paid for updates, new features and maintenance. Of course I give him a present here and there, like a new harddrive, an external backup disc, and things. But we are extremely lucky, so far, on the money side. Other places aren’t I’m sure, and sometimes they have to pay hundreds of dollars a month to pay for a cozy place like this on da net. So I can understand they turn commercial in a way. We might have to do that in the end also, because really, I love doing this for a hobby, but not at any cost. I guess you understand that, right? Let’s say, IF we ever have to go commercial in a way, what way would that be? What would be a balanced mixture of going commercial & still be a nice place to be? Let me give you a few options.
-The Netphoria way. Out of the question if you ask me, I’m amazed that people can stand it like that. Or you have to pay them a fee for getting rid of the most annoying bullshit I have ever seen on a website.
-The Blamo & ThePumpkins.net way. Mixture of several banners and ads. More friendly, but who will click on links going to ringtone providers?
-The EIL & Amazon way. They implement a little skin around the SPfreaks.com website, and every item will be linked to the same item on their website. Every click or item sold will give a few cents to SPfreaks.com.
-The Google ads way. Can be seen on Netphoria too, if I’m right.
-Selling more SPfreaks.com merch. Unique items, but very small market, as we have found out with the shirts. 5 sold in 9 months… I wonder if other products will be more successful.
Maybe there are other ways too, I don’t know. Just curious about your thoughts and opinions.
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It got deleted when I tried to prune the forum once… 
