MOO Mini-Cards!
Yay, the MOO mini-cards I ordered a few weeks ago arrived yesterday. MOO seems to be a printing branch of the Flickr photograph people and they sell hundred packs of what are essentially mini photo business cards. You can put whatever typed information you like on the back and then use photography of your own for the front. They have a program that allows you to easily drop as many photographs as you like into your order and they make an even number of each photo that you choose. Since ordering the package was an experiment I chose one hundred different photos so they would send me one of each. They also allow you to highlight the sliver of the photo you like best to be printed onto the skinny rectangular cards. I used mostly photos from our hiking trips.
Though I saw the product for the first time on-line back in the summer, I got to take a look at them for real at OVFF back in October because
artbeco had ordered a set of them. I still have one of her MOO cards in my camera case. ohiblather has taken a recent interest in them, too, and she's making a cool art set to print on her cards.
Being that I rarely, if ever, use business cards, I'm not sure what mine will get used for, but they're fun and they turned out very nicely and it's fun to see your own photography in another mode. I notice over on the Flickr site that there are several groups for trading MOO cards and that they have inspired a lot of community over there. Don't know if I'm ambitious enough to do that right now, though.
Last night I just kept sifting through them on my couch and sorting them in different ways and cackling, "Hee hee hee, MOO cards!". John did think I was plenty strange.
A MOO set of sunset photos.
The MOO cards arrive in a cute little white plastic box with a white plastic box-type lid.
Assorted landscape MOO cards.
ALL of my MOO cards!
Though I saw the product for the first time on-line back in the summer, I got to take a look at them for real at OVFF back in October because
artbeco had ordered a set of them. I still have one of her MOO cards in my camera case. ohiblather has taken a recent interest in them, too, and she's making a cool art set to print on her cards.Being that I rarely, if ever, use business cards, I'm not sure what mine will get used for, but they're fun and they turned out very nicely and it's fun to see your own photography in another mode. I notice over on the Flickr site that there are several groups for trading MOO cards and that they have inspired a lot of community over there. Don't know if I'm ambitious enough to do that right now, though.
Last night I just kept sifting through them on my couch and sorting them in different ways and cackling, "Hee hee hee, MOO cards!". John did think I was plenty strange.
A MOO set of sunset photos.
The MOO cards arrive in a cute little white plastic box with a white plastic box-type lid.
Assorted landscape MOO cards.
ALL of my MOO cards!