who's getting moo cards?

elven

www.moo.com

If you can't be bothered going to the link -it's a flickr associated thing - those familiar with Rymus' blog will have seen them already.

It's a set of ickle dinky thin business card sized prints of your pictures from your flickr stream, on thick card, with something of your choice written on the back. They were giving away packs of 10 for free, but they got snapped up pretty quickly, so I've just ordered a pack of 100 for $20 with free shipping which I thought was pretty good.

There's also a flickr group with pictures of the moo cards that people have already ordered which is quite interesting.

I wish I'd managed to get them in time for People's Photography though. Ideal if you're a street photographer and want to give people your contact details, or you shoot the public at an event or something. Waaay better than loads of copies of the same picture on ordinary business cards, I think.

Hmm... I know it sounds like an advert, but that's just because I'm still excitable after ordering them. Just a quick warning about the cropping page though - if the previews don't load, just click the 'reset picture' link and they should appear. Generally a painless process, apart from that.

Now I just have to wait for them to arrive

Roen

I got a 100 with my lady bird on them
Only cos it's cute and I can give them to drunk hot chicks

elven

I love that pic. Good job I'm not drunk, not too hot, and married

Did you get them delivered already?

440Hz

ohhhhhhhhh looks great! I want some but Id never be able to pick what shot to use from my stream any helpful suggestions?

mikeanywhere

Great concept, will be doing mine tomorrow!!

elven

You get to choose as many pictures as you like! If you choose 50, it gives you two of each, or if you choose 2, it gives you 50 of each... give it a try, the cropping experience is great fun.

Ruu_Old

Thanks for the linky, I think I'll give it a go also. What a great idea. Leave feedback anyone who gets them delivered.

Roen

elven wrote:

I love that pic. Good job I'm not drunk, not too hot, and married

Did you get them delivered already?

Bah, browser crash
No I only ordered them after you posted the link and I checked the Flickr Moo group.
I'll let you know if I pull via a card as soon as I get em

unklerosco

Cheers for that.. Just ordered 100, great alternative to business cards..

Roen

440Hz wrote:

ohhhhhhhhh looks great! I want some but Id never be able to pick what shot to use from my stream any helpful suggestions?

You've got 600 pics up!
Hmmmm, how about this one? http://www.flickr.com/photos/click_click/115940904/

Dimy

Cool, I just ordered mine

Carrigman

Thanks for the link. Great idea. Just ordered my cards.

rymus

Got my free 10 pack today, 100 pack on the way in the next few days. They look excellent and have a lovely finish on them. Text on the back is crystal clear and again has a lovely finish. Go free stuff!

Fenster

I won't get them for reasons of being cheap and/or not wanting a credit card, so I get to miss out

elven

Cool, looks like they are pretty popular then

Fenster, I feel your pain with the credit card thing, I'm currently lamenting/ranting/getting generally pretty upset about the fact that nobody online takes Laser and there's no Visa debit here in Ireland. It's only by chance that we have one from the UK to use for this stuff...

But anyway. Good to see they look the part Rymus, thanks for posting the pic

440Hz

Making mine right now... just cant decide what text I want on the back! There's always something isnt there

Valentia

Thanks for the link Elven.

I have sent away for 100 for my musician friend Gerry. I'm using one of the high contrast B&Ws () that I showed here recently.

It will be interesting to see how they deal with it.

unklerosco

Fenster wrote:

I won't get them for reasons of being cheap and/or not wanting a credit card, so I get to miss out

Get a www.3v.ie card.... Works a bloody treat

rymus

do they work outside Ireland though?

unklerosco

Well ive used them within europe n they work fine... Dont know about the states.. Said to work anywhere that takes Visa(apart from online gambling)

rymus

Ah ok, was just wondering if its possible to top them up without having an Irish mobile phone/being in Ireland.

Maybe first post was badly worded. What I meant was, if youre living in the US, can they still be used? I would hope that anyone living in Ireland would be able to use the vouchers anywhere that accepts VISA.

monkeyfudge

There was a girl handing these out as her business cards at BarCamp last week and I just had to get myself some.

They were posted from Moo today... how long delivery take for you Rymus?

unklerosco

U need an Irish mobile no to register... U can only but them in Ireland.. Therey have them in the states too tho.. There's a few different types over there

rymus

monkeyfudge wrote:

They were posted from Moo today... how long delivery take for you Rymus?

Bloody ages! Ah no not really though. The bones of a week I'd say.

monkeyfudge

rymus wrote:

Bloody ages! Ah no not really though. The bones of a week I'd say.

Oh but I want them now!!!

I have exactly 100 photos on flickr so I just put them all into the moo cards... some will have monkeys on them... it's going to be hard to give these guys away.

jlang

They do look pretty cool, but they are far from being cheap business cards when you think that 6x4's are cheaper per print when you order 100 online or that you'd get even a small run of 500 business cards for less. But they do look cool.
I wonder if they'll start doing actual business card size ones as well once they're over the initial hype, because that actually would be really really cool.

unklerosco

jlang wrote:

that you'd get even a small run of 500 business cards for less.

From where???

elven

jlang wrote:

They do look pretty cool, but they are far from being cheap business cards when you think that 6x4's are cheaper per print when you order 100 online or that you'd get even a small run of 500 business cards for less. But they do look cool.
I wonder if they'll start doing actual business card size ones as well once they're over the initial hype, because that actually would be really really cool.

Aye but the difference is, the 500 business cards would all be the same design, from what I've heard this is thicker cardstock, you can't order them in about 5 minutes, and you don't normally get them printed double sided. The flickr integration was a real brainwave. There's quite a few elements that make these better, from a fun perspective. I think the smaller format also makes them more cute, flippant, less serious, and easier to hand out like you're not trying to sell yourself, it's just a bit of fun. And it's not like you'd hand out 6x4's, either. I think the size probably makes them more tactile.

I expect they will launch a whole range of stuff, this is their first big marketing exercise obviously that will give them the strength to be able to create new products, and I can't wait to see what else they come up with. Those qoop (?) minibooks seem to be doing well, although they are more expensive. ($65 for 3 I think)

It's just nice to have something other than mouse mats or mugs to get your pictures put on.

Carrigman

440Hz wrote:

Making mine right now... just cant decide what text I want on the back! There's always something isnt there

I put:

My name and address (one line)
Mobile and landline numbers (one line)
Email address (one line)
My Flickr address (one line)

rymus

aye similar here...

Name
Mobile

Blog address
email

was considering putting "Rymus - bow down to your new God" on the back but I thought that might come off a little 'elitist' and we certainly wouldnt want that

440Hz

rymus wrote:

was considering putting "Rymus - bow down to your new God" on the back but I thought that might come off a little 'elitist' and we certainly wouldnt want that

lmao!! sure thats just implied right?

Roen

I just put the mobile phone number that doesn't exist on mine. The flickr address just didn't fit.
It's all about wans.

dan99989

Got my free 10 pack o cards on Friday morning - have to say i'm very impressed. Like others have said, the quality is spot on.

On the back i've got:

<name>
<what i do>

<web address>

I'll definitely be ordering more...

440Hz

Roen wrote:

I just put the mobile phone number that doesn't exist on mine. The flickr address just didn't fit.
It's all about wans.

Classic

Poor ladies of Waterford eh

Roen

440Hz wrote:

Classic

Lucky ladies of Waterford eh

Agreed, they're in for a right treat

Fajitas!

Not if I can get your face on a Herpes Awareness poster first...

Roen

:eek:
Then again, there's no such thing as bad publicity

rymus

Fajitas! wrote:

Not if I can get your face on a Herpes Awareness poster first...

ffs, I thought you had a copy of photoshop!?!

monkeyfudge

Mine arrived today. That didn't take long at all... They were posted on Friday.

They only have to come from London actually.

They're very nice... but the images are possibly a little duller than I thought, but that could just be my bad photography.

rymus

no, theyre not quite as sharp as the photos themselves.. I noticed that on a few of the macro ones I got.

Placebo

can u pick 100 different photos ? or is it a set thats repeated?
il get it done only to stick it on my wall.
HOW to stick it on the wall though? might just have to use glue

monkeyfudge

Placebo wrote:

can u pick 100 different photos ? or is it a set thats repeated?
il get it done only to stick it on my wall.
HOW to stick it on the wall though? might just have to use glue

Yes. You can pick a hundred different ones... and if you pick 50 different photos then you'll get two of each one.


I guess blobs of blu tack would do the job on a wall just fine.

Dimy

I'm curious how mine will turn out, I had some problems with the cropping though... maybe I'll edit some photo's later just to fit properly in this format.

elven

I did edit a few of mine specifically for the cards, and uploaded them to Flickr. Problem is, I deleted them after I made the order, and now I'm wondering if they actually store the pictures when you place the order, or they just access them in Flickr when they do the print run...? If that's the case, I'll have some lovely 'image not available' moo cards. Doh.

*finds nearest solid object to bang forehead on*

Roen

You can tell everyone that you're a conceptual artist Elven. Probably get you more attention and free wine in the long run

440Hz

lol poor elven! fingers crossed it all works out im sure it will be fine. I cant wait to see mine now

trilo

Rymus, you'll be happy to hear, your moo cards are awaiting your inspection!:)

rymus

happy days.

Roen

Mine were shipped earlier today...hope they don't take too long to arrive.

rymus

Well the verdict is in. The 100 cards look well. Some of the photos that looked crap on flickr actually look good on the minicards. Some even look a bit sharper in print on the card

Few more photos going up on the moo pool later

elven

Still waiting Rymus...

Not that I have nothing better to do, of course...

Um, anyway, those nice moo people have told me that they will send me a code to enter so that I can do my order over again, so I'm a happy bunny. It also means I can use a couple of the new pics I took at the Botanics last weekend, so there's a bonus

I definitely won't be deleting anything from my stream this time...