2009 Calendars
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^ Having seen firsthand the effort that goes into putting one of those together, and knowing how well they sold, I can understand why they were discontinued. Unfortunate, since I was a fan of them, but I get it.
What if I wanted to make one, or pay someone to make one, and sell it. If I was using quotes and pictures, I imagine I need to get some legal approval. I could spend a few weeks putting together 365 classic moments in Trek history.
Then you would lose money. If it were profitable, Pocket would be doing it.
... build your own? I miss the day-to-day ones too... there is probably a legal way/program for personal use... (personally, I'm lazy).
But then you wouldn't have their fancy pictures, or in the case of the big ones- fancy giant pictures!! Hmmm... 12 laminated months of Jem'Hadar...
But then you wouldn't have their fancy pictures, or in the case of the big ones- fancy giant pictures!! Hmmm... 12 laminated months of Jem'Hadar...
There are companies out there that make custom calendars. Theoretically, you could send them the images you want in there and, as long as it isn't for resale, I don't think it would be a copyright violation.
Of course, the downside of that is that you would already be intimately familiar with the calendar from having designed it yourself, and I don't see the point in novelty calenders if there's no discovery in them.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Of course, the downside of that is that you would already be intimately familiar with the calendar from having designed it yourself, and I don't see the point in novelty calenders if there's no discovery in them.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Just because one person or one company didn't have luckwith something doesn't mean someone else couldnt.
2 years ago I bought a company that was breaking even for 5 years in a row. Now it had turned 5 quarters of profit.
Maybe pocket was over paying for the creation? Maybe they were not marketing correctly? Who knows.
When I talked to the creators of Woot.com, they told me that everyone they met told them their idea of marketing, being rude and funny and only selling 1 product a day, would never work; now they are profitable and have a cult like following.
I just don't think the above is a reason not to give it a whirl.
I agree with this assessment. Me creating one for myself would be lame-o. If I had the OK to create one and sell it, I think I could. One company we own is Documation LLC located in Wisconsin. They are a publication/printing company that does all of our current manuals and brochures.
Pocket had luck with ST calendars for many years. It still has luck with TOS calendars and Ships of the Line calendars. So it's illogical to conclude that the commercial failure of other types of ST calendars in recent years is due to an endemic flaw in the whole calendar creation process. There just isn't as much of a Star Trek audience as there used to be, so only the most popular lines are still profitable. Maybe that will change with the new movie.
It is. You're supposed to own the copyright, or have permission, for any photos sent to a commercial copying outlet, even if only for personal use.
That seems a little unviable-- I'm sure that a large number of people who buy the calendars don't buy the books.
But I wouldn't object to a couple novelverse ships.
Siwilliams
Fleet Captain
But most of the ships seen in the books are of classes seen in the shows and films. And a number of SotL images have shown conjectural ships never seen onscreen (the intermediate "NCC-1000" design, the Gabriel Koerner Constitution-Class redesign, the Altair prototype, the experimental slipstream ship) while plenty have shown scenes never depicted onscreen (the crashed Columbia, the Enterprise with a separated saucer, the Farragut shuttlecraft, the docking of Picard's yacht, etc.). So the calendars already go beyond what's been seen onscreen; what difference does it make whether the images are wholly original or based on the books?
Of course, now that I think about it, it would probably never happen. What makes SotL viable is that these top Hollywood artists are willing to devote their time and effort to it because they have total creative freedom to generate whatever images they want. If they were asked to duplicate scenes from the books, they might not find that as engaging. But then again, if it's only been described in print, there'd still be a lot of room for creativity.
I didn't mean sending it in to be printed, I was thinking more of, I'm not sure this exists, but if you had a bunch of images on your computer, there must be a calendar program you could set to randomly pick a picture for it. I think it'd be a waste of ink to print them at home, and waste of paper to print them professionally for a day-2-day calender.
It seems like to buy an official one, they use recycled paper (from what I've noticed)... and have copy rights from the company.
But if you had that many pictures, say of your fav. series, and had them come up daily at random with the date, then you'd be surprised to an extent, and get your day to day calender on your desktop- potentially with better rez. Those day-2-day pictures were small...
^^So basically what you're talking about is a sort of desktop slideshow for your personal computer, but one that changes images only once a day.
... Yes... with the date somewhere... lol.
I guess maybe I'm on my computer more than is healthy, so as much as I miss the paper calendars that were day-to-day, if they weren't making money, and since I'm not going to volunteer to make them to be sold to cut costs, I'll have to buy whats actually printed that I'm interested in, and just... if I needed a daily calendar fix... I guess thats what I do... senseless as its starting to seem.
I guess maybe I'm on my computer more than is healthy, so as much as I miss the paper calendars that were day-to-day, if they weren't making money, and since I'm not going to volunteer to make them to be sold to cut costs, I'll have to buy whats actually printed that I'm interested in, and just... if I needed a daily calendar fix... I guess thats what I do... senseless as its starting to seem.
We got a TOS calendar for my mother-in-law, as we do many years, but I haven't gotten one for myself since the "Women of Star Trek" calendar. It was a unique size and shape, and covered characters from TOS up through Voyager. I just felt it spoke to women who enjoy the idea of women participating equally in future space adventures, and of course it would provide nice eye candy for the men. Didn't sell well enough to repeat, unfortunately.
Siwilliams
Fleet Captain
Isn't is really dark? I mean all the pictures including the front cover seem really dark
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