OK... I will ask: What about 2012 6GC.NET calendar? Options

[Lil-Joe101]

Lil Joe, try sending multiple smaller emails to Martin.
When I reached over 15mb I think it was, it wouldn't send.

So send a few emails with 1 or 2 images, and see if that helps.

And yeah, I wanted to see Nammers, Ricos etc.

Thanks Timmy, I think Martin figured it out. He made me a Czech email address because yahoo wouldnt send to his. He told he recieved the ones I sent thru that new address he made me. Stupid yahoo.

[malpaso]

Thanks Timmy, I think Martin figured it out. He made me a Czech email address because yahoo wouldnt send to his. He told he recieved the ones I sent thru that new address he made me. Stupid yahoo.

Yea... key was sending mail between the same domain... and he send me mails with 118MB in total . Can you imagine that? 118MB! . I will start working on that later today again.

BTW. news! What you see below is confirmed page of calendar. COTM winner Marco agree with this option so it will be used



So when I finish Lil-Joe101's page... receive pictures from Tigerwoods and confirm content for December (an it should be anyone!) we are ready for printing .

[Lil-Joe101]

Awesome job Martin!!!! Let me know when to pay up brotha!!!

[malpaso]

Awesome job Martin!!!! Let me know when to pay up brotha!!!

So here are two potions... really good pictures you send mate:





And another news... Vidma agree with his participation so this is another possible confirmed page of calendar:



Also he promised to send some pictures from his profile during upcoming weekend so the calendar page should be even better...







So in fact we are complete!!!

This post has been edited by malpaso: Oct 26, 2011 - 5:43 AM

[SwissFerdi]

[Tigawoods]

just sent my pictures in

[malpaso]

just sent my pictures in

Pictures received so I will prepare your month later today... Anyway... I have more news for today:

- I have received like 150MB of pictures from vidmav so design of his page will change. And since I prefer to use pictures from the car owner instead of mines this change is a must.
- I have received tons on great pictures from Orange so made decision to replace BASSI on February (because BASSI is now only one who has pictures from me, not send own once). So it is not about one car is better than another. It is about one person made more effort to be on calendar and I want take this into consideration.
- Since calendar is full and I have one spare (BASSI) his car will be used on the cover instead announced one. His car deserve it.

From now is calendar 100% finished!

EDIT ("later today"):

Here it is... Tigerwoods



new page for Orange:



And so far still two options for vidmav:





And finally the cover with BASSI ...



This post has been edited by malpaso: Oct 27, 2011 - 6:07 AM

[Tigawoods]

Looks great! Thanks!

just a quick note. its "Tigawoods" not Tigerwoods

This post has been edited by Tigawoods: Oct 27, 2011 - 9:27 AM

[malpaso]

Looks great! Thanks!

just a quick note. its "Tigawoods" not Tigerwoods

DAMN! damn good point... thank you for correction.

Final news: I have realized to change layout of lower part a bit. No multiple language months. Just English and Japanese from obvious reasons

[Lil-Joe101]

Orange has the sexiest 6gc ever!!!! Pure sex appeal

[malpaso]

I would like to make a small summary from making this calendar because I believe there are some "lessons learnt" worths to share

The most important is to have good pictures
I know it may sound stupid but using in calendar picture just because someone voted for it and not thinking about "printing possibilities" is not vise at all. I was so surprised COTM winners simply do not have pictures in high resolution? (and 1024x768 is really not high resolution). In the future if there is any calendar selection of pictures must have much different criteria than so far had because we need to ask question: Do we want good looking calendar or calendar with just exact cars inside and no matter how it will look printed?

More pictures on page are looking better than just one
When 2012 calendar was finished I was surprised i like more pages where are 3-4 pictures used than just 2. Maybe anyone else will have different opinion but for me it was big surprise. So maybe would be good to think about calendar in the future bit different way. I will use GT4OC.NET calendar as example... pictures for it were collected like 6months and ANYONE could participated with ANY resolution of picture. Small resolution = small picture... hight resolution = big picture. So you want your car be seen? make decent picture! That is all







As you can see there are like 12 pictures used on one page! So amount of pictures on page should be variable. it just depends on how many people will participate and how many pictures in enough.

Timing and pricing matters!
Must share with one unexpected fact. We started with this calendar sooner than in previous years (that is good because there are 6 weeks to deliver all calendars... so even members from other side of the globe will have it by the end of this year for sure). Anyway... if we were started for a month sooner it would be even better. What happened is printing company changed prices before Christmas and exchange rate of $ changed as well. Thanks to this I needed to donate every calendar with 60cents in the end. That was impact of simple fact I wanted this calendar as cheap as possible and did not counted with things like this. I do not complain! If I did not wanted to I would not do that... Anyway... next time would be good to start even sooner and add like one dollar to price for "just in case" reason.

[Grega]

I don't know for others, but I love "our" calendar, with several pistures of only one car on the page



This one for example is my favourite
And if you want that we cover your loss, I would love to help =)

This post has been edited by Grega: Nov 10, 2011 - 6:57 AM

[TRDGT4]

well done on the Calendar Malpaso

[Quidam]

Just got my Calendar.

Wow, freaking awesome. Great job to all the people who's amazing rides/pics are in the calendar and well done Malpaso for making this happen.

Thanks also to Rusty for hooking me up and doing the group buy for us Kiwi's, oh and thanks for the TRD sticker :-)

[Rusty]

no worries guys

[malpaso]

Thanks a lot. I really tried to show everyone 6gc.net calendar is not dead and start people to believe (so next year can be even much better than this one in terms of content )

[Lil-Joe101]

This calender turned out great Martin, dont put so much pressure on urself bro, u did an AWESOME job!!!!!!

[Bigblock]

This calender turned out great Martin, dont put so much pressure on urself bro, u did an AWESOME job!!!!!!

X2!!
VERY NICE!!

[Quidam]

Well I have twin GT4's now so I'd be very keen to try and get them into next years calendar!

[kurt95gt]

this year was great can't wait to ser the next one