Wonder Woman - Comic Cover Postage Stamp from Zazzle.com. No, it's not my design ("then God created the woman"). I am just showing you the possibilities at Zazzle

Wonder Woman Comic Cover Postage Stamp from Zazzle.com

In case that your vision is obscured by too much hair, 

let me tell you: 

it says "Wonder Woman", behind her.

The initials DC do NOT refer to my name.

For y'all non-anglophones out there: COMIC does not mean here that it's FUNNY.

Don't you laugh!

It means that it's about a COMIC(S) BOOK.

Drawings, with text.

If anybody wants to buy this, it can be customized, or bought as is.

You could add text, like...

"Yeah, but can she cook?"

or "My girlfriend is even better!" [oh, really?]

or "My wife has shoes...just as red!"

or "Our housemaid does wonders, in-house."

or "That's my Tinkerbell on steroids!"

or "Her knee kick will give you a...knee-jerk reaction?"

or...whatever.

More gifts from Wonder Woman store at Zazzle:
http://www.zazzle.com/wonderwoman?rf=238693463283865848

Why The Facebook-Microsoft Alliance Should Worry Google | Fast Company. Also, I show you a non-Mozart WOLFGANG - dorincard from USA, made with a folded card

Why The Facebook-Microsoft Alliance Should Worry Google | Fast Company

A gang of four?

A gang is never fixed or reliable, except short-term.

Alliances and rivalries are always changing.

Just look how many foes of USA were once "friendlies", or "independent contractors" of CIA, etc.

Saddam, Gaddafi, OBL...

Conversely, many old foes are now (for how long?) rather "friendly".

UK, Japan, Germany...

"Among wolves, you howl like them."

WOLF GANG...no, it's not Mozart. It's WOLPACK.

Yes, that's my own design of zazzle customized postage (personalized stamp).

Why is the postmark upside-down?

"Iron know, iron care...I just work here, at the post office." - was that the line of thinking? :)

Anyway, now it's an EFO ("errors, freaks and oddities"), right? :)

Mark Zuckerberg, Nonplussed By Google, Sets Facebook's New Course | Fast Company. Also, I show you a maxicard from Romania, with what YOU should NEVER become!

Mark Zuckerberg, Nonplussed By Google, Sets Facebook's New Course | Fast Company

Everybody should do his or her best to adapt, to change course as necessary.

You DON'T want to become a dinosaur of your environment...about 65 million years ago. 

Extinct.

BBC News - Yellowstone National Park grizzly bear 'kills hiker'. Also, I show you maximum cards from USA (Alaska) and Romania with The Grizzly Bear. Guess what animal is NOT afraid to attack a Grizzly Bear?

Read and be careful while trespassing wildlife habitats: BBC News - Yellowstone National Park grizzly bear 'kills hiker'

Grizzly Bear in Yellowstone National Park (Ursus arctos horribilis)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grizzly_Bear_Yellowstone.jpg

"The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), also known as the silvertip bear, the grizzly, or the North American brown bear, is a subspecies of brown bear (Ursus arctos) that generally lives in the uplands of western North America. 

This subspecies is thought to descend from Ussuri brown bears which crossed to Alaska from eastern Russia 100,000 years ago, though they did not move south until 13,000 years ago.^[1]

Grizzlies are normally solitary, active animals, but in coastal areas, the grizzly congregates alongside streams, lakes, rivers, and ponds during the salmon spawn. 

Every other year, females (sows) produce one to four young (commonly two) which are small and weigh only about 500 grams (1 lb). 

A sow is protective of her offspring and will attack if she thinks she or her cubs are threatened."

Name one ferocious animal species who has the nerve/guts/balls to attack/harass a powerful and grisly grizzly bear.

?

?

?

"Coyotes, foxes, and wolverines are generally regarded as pests to the grizzlies rather than competition, though coyotes and wolverines may compete for smaller prey, such as rabbits and deer. 

All three will try to scavenge whatever they can from the bears. Wolverines are aggressive enough to occasionally persist until the bear finishes eating, leaving more than normal scraps for the smaller animal."

                                                                                         Wolverine on rocky terrain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wolverine_on_rock.jpg

"Conflicts with humans

Grizzlies are considered by some experts to be the most aggressive bears^{[citation needed]} even by the standards of brown bears.^[28]Aggressive behavior in grizzly bears is favored by numerous selection variables. Unlike the smaller black bears, adult grizzlies are too large to escape danger by climbing trees, so they respond to danger by standing their ground and warding off their attackers. Increased aggressiveness also assists female grizzlies in better ensuring the survival of their young to reproductive age.^[29] Mothers defending cubs are the most prone to attacking, being responsible for 70% of fatal injuries to humans.^[30] Historically, bears have competed with other large predators for food, which also favors increased aggression.

Campers are warned to hang food, garbage, and toiletries out of reach of bears, or to use a secure bear cache.

Grizzly bears normally avoid contact with people. In spite of their obvious physical advantages and many opportunities, they almost never view humans as prey; bears rarely actively hunt humans.^[31] Most grizzly bear attacks result from a bear that has been surprised at very close range, especially if it has a supply of food to protect, or female grizzlies protecting their offspring. In such situations, property may be damaged and the bear may physically harm the person.^[32]

Exacerbating this is the fact that intensive human use of grizzly habitat coincides with the seasonal movement of grizzly bears.^[32] An example of this spatiotemporal intersection occurs during the fall season: grizzly bears congregate near streams to feed on salmon when anglers are also intensively using the river. Some grizzly bears appear to have learned to home in on the sound of hunters' gunshots in late fall as a source of potential food, and inattentive hunters have been attacked by bears trying to appropriate their kills.^{[citation needed]}

Increased human-bear interaction has created "problem bears", which are bears that have become adapted to human activities or habitat.^[33] Aversive conditioning, a method involving using deterrents such as rubber bullets, foul-tasting chemicals or acoustic devices to teach bears to associate humans with negative experiences, is ineffectual when bears have already learned to positively associate humans with food.^[34] Such bears are translocated or killed because they pose a threat to humans. The B.C. government kills approximately 50 problem bears each year^[34]and overall spends more than one million dollars annually to address bear complaints, relocate bears and kill them.^[34]

For back-country campers, hanging food between trees at a height unreachable to bears is a common procedure, although some grizzlies can climb and reach hanging food in other ways. An alternative to hanging food is to use a bear canister.^[35]

Traveling in groups of six or more can significantly reduce the chance of bear-related injuries while hiking in bear country.^[36]"

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_bear}

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Look at the maxicard from Romania, above.

Do you see a heart-shaped stone, between the front paws?

No, that doesn't mean that somebody has a stone-cold heart...:)

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Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -
A place to share YOUR hearts!

Yes, now it's Year of the Hare, but why don't you make every year to be Year of the Rare? YOU are RARE! Or, "you are unique, like everybody else [get it? :) ]. YOU have a rare/unique set of qualities (and defects, I might specify) - why shouldn't YOU express yourself by designing FREE OF CHARGE? Look at my tiger stamps. You, too, can do something like that, or better! :)

Year of the Hare ( more correct than Year of the Rabbit, they say)

Why don't you make every year to be Year of the RARE creator/designer (that's YOU!)?

"Tu, soltanto tu..."

:)

Designing such personalized stamps is a lot of fun!

I also put them for sale (minimum quantity is a sheet of 20 stamps, per Zazzle policy) in my Public Gallery at Zazzle (they ship only to US addresses).

I also put them for sale individually, not in sheets of 20, at http://www.delcampe.net/stores/dorinco.

Today I am shipping ("Dude, where's my SHIP?") 9 of the above tiger personalized stamps to a collector in Germany. 

He paid at delcampe $5 apiece, plus a combined $5 for shipping, delcampe fees and PayPal fees. Total $50.

A week ago, I have shipped a set of ALL 11 different tiger personalized stamps to a collector/dealer in the Russian Federation. 

Total 11x$5 +$5= $60. Plus $12 Registered Mail fee, per USPS. Final amount = $72.

DID YOU KNOW that there are more US$ billionaires in Moscow than in any other city in the world?

Billionaires from around the world, bored out of your mind...you're welcome to splurge on my stupid little stamp designs...:) :)

What's in it for you, if you are a regular Joe or Jane, working your ass off at the daily grind, living your life of quiet desperation? [Welcome to the Club!]

As I said, ANYBODY in the world can design in 200+ lines of products at Zazzle, not just stamps.

FREE.

Then put them for sale.

Then, if anything sells, you'll get a modest royalty.

But it may add up, if you're wildly successful [lasciate ogni speranza...but you never know, until you try :) ]

I have occasionally created other items, besides stamps.

Take a look, if you don't believe me :) ( see the Dubya T-shirt, the giant panda poster, etc.):

See my store at Zazzle

http://www.delcampe.net/stores/dorinco

I'll say it again, to make it clear for everybody:

I spoke on the phone 1-888-8ZAZZLE (1-888-892-9953)with Jillina @zazzle, and she checked with her supervisor.

Zazzle stamps can ONLY be shipped to an US address!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The best procedure is this:

1) you can design zazzle personalized stamps by registering at zazzle.com (the main US website of Zazzle), regardless of where in the world you reside.

Put them in the Public Gallery so you can receive royalty payments (thru PayPal or check) from Zazzle, should your products find buyers!

2) you can order zazzle stamps ONLY from zazzle.com (not the regional zazzle portals!), regardless of where in the world is your billing address associated with your credit card.

3) you can ONLY receive those stamps at an address in USA! So you better get a partner/friend in USA! :)

Y, as in Year of the RARE "YOU"

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Dorin COJOCARIU (USA) - Postage Stamp from Zazzle.com

My new design, finally approved today, after being initially rejected because I had written in it the words "with or without the rules of FIP CfM".
No abbreviations are allowed, but I had explained in the product description screen that:
FIP = International Philatelic Federation
CfM = Commission for Maximaphily.

The Zazzle Content Review Team also said:
"Please feel free to resubmit your design. Also, please remove the phrase "with or without the rules of FIP CfM", as it may be construed as protesting a set of rules."


OK...so I changed "with or without the rules of FIP CfM" with "traditional or non-traditional".


Because I define non-traditional not as anti-traditional, but as freestyle. 
You are free to follow, or not, any rule, including those of the "traditional school of maximaphily".
There!
Everybody's happy now!
:)...



Dorin COJOCARIU (USA) Postage Stamp from Zazzle.com

The Product Description box, at zazzle.com, says:

"Dorin COJOCARIU (USA). 

World-renowned philatelist, maximaphilist. 

See, I don't pretend that I am World-class...:) .

Born and raised in Transylvania, Romania. 

Advanced designer of personalized philatelic, deltiologic, marcophilic, scrapbooking and mail-art items.

Global promoter of philately, in general, and of maximaphily (traditional and non-traditional), in particular.

Please visit my blog http://dorincard.blogspot.com.

Design by zazzle.com/dorinco*/ (that is my Public Gallery at zazzle)."

I added the above text here, for the search engines - they cannot grasp the text from the image, I guess.

I also had to answer to Zazzle that the person in the photo is me, that I own the photo, and that I am not a celebrity :) .

In my opinion, "world-renowned" (a rather quantitative statement) only means that there are friends, partners and strangers here and there, around the world, who have interacted with me in a philatelic sense. :)

I did not categorize myself as "world-class" - that's a qualitative statement.

See how much text I was able to squeeze into a stamp?

Such a design involved a few tips and tricks that I learned by myself at Zazzle.

LEARNING, by Du Ying. [get it? :) ]

Infographic Of The Day: The Alchemy Behind Facebook And YouTube | Co.Design. Also, did you know that youtube.com is the #2 search engine, behind google.com? Also, I show you the UGC in a dam project, when you leave it to beaver. Maxicard from USA

Please read: Infographic Of The Day: The Alchemy Behind Facebook And YouTube | Co.Design

Here I show you the UGC (user-generated content) in a DAM project, when you leave it to Bieber beaver. 

The user of the beaver-built dam is the beaver (and its fellows).

The content of that dam is comprised of chewed-up logs.

The beaver generates the content when he...logs in.

Maxicard from USA.

BRAZILIAN HERITAGE BY UNESCO - A WELL PRESERVED / EXPONET

Please enjoy this maximaphily exhibit from my fellow maximaphilist/blogger Rui Carvalho Dias (Portugal):

BRAZILIAN HERITAGE BY UNESCO - A WELL PRESERVED / EXPONET

Can you see the creepy, scary, weird Red-faced Uakari monkey?

Infographic Of The Day: How Twitter Exposes Google's Limits | Co.Design. Also, a symbol of YOU, as I see it at Purdue. Also, Star Wars robots maximum card (USA). Could they express themselves creatively thru social media?

Please read: Infographic Of The Day: How Twitter Exposes Google's Limits | Co.Design

Also:
http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.php/the-20-colleges-making-the-best-use-of-social-media

"Princeton University: Princeton University has a great blog presence, with star blogger Paul Krugman’s blog at the New York Times. 
Professor Melissa Harris Lacewell also keeps Princeton at the forefront of Twitter, updating her thousands of followers as she contributes on nightly news stations. 
In addition to Princeton’s social media stars, the University has a good presence on YouTube, as well as Facebook, Wikipedia, and StumbleUpon, with more traffic to the school’s website coming from social media sites than any mainstream news sites."


Don't let "The Walls of Institutions" extinguish your "Flame", your "Water Fountain", your "Show of Light"...
Express yourself, including thru social media. Meaningful, not meaningless - except when you really feel like goofing around, with a reasonable outrageousness...:)

 Express yourself, coz you're not a robot.

Russia's Evolving Leadership | STRATFOR. Every world power tries to avoid a wild goose chase, and to avoid killing the goose with the "golden eggs". Also, I show you a Romanian maxicard with The Red-breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis)

Please read: Russia's Evolving Leadership | STRATFOR

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wild-goose_chase

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kill_the_goose_that_lays_the_golden_eggs

"The Red-breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis) is a goose of the genus Branta. 

It is sometimes separated in Rufibrenta but appears close enough to the Brent Goose (Branta bernicla) to make this unnecessary, despite its distinct appearance.

The Red-breasted Goose breeds in Arctic Europe, often close to nests of large birds of prey, such as Peregrine Falcons. 

This helps to protect this small goose from predators such as the Arctic Fox. 

[MY NOTE: Interesting! The enemy of your enemy is your friend]

It winters in south eastern Europe. 

It is a rare vagrant to Great Britain and other western European areas, where it is sometimes found with Brent flocks."

"This species is unmistakable, but can be surprisingly difficult to find amongst Brent Geese due to its small size. The red also tends to look black at long distances." [MY NOTE: How does the Red Army look at long distances? Black Ops Army? :) ]

"Over 80% of the population roost during the winter at just five sites [MY NOTE: in Romania and Bulgaria], with nearby feeding areas threatened by changes in land-use."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-breasted_Goose

http://bspb-redbreasts.org/?page_id=294

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10 Things You Might Not Know About America's Independence - FoxNews.com. Also, I show you a dorincard about The White House, a symbol for all the Presidents of USA, who are supposed to listen to The People and The Honest Experts in each field, and then decide the best course of action for our nation (and the world, too, by The Butterfly Effect)

(Almost) no media news outlet today is objective enough, I think...but these historical facts are interesting:
10 Things You Might Not Know About America's Independence - FoxNews.com

Happy Fourth of July! :)

Independence Day
Displays of fireworks, such as these over theWashington Monument, take place across the United States on Independence Day.
Also called	The Fourth of July The Glorious Fourth The Fourth
Observed by	United States
Type	National
Significance	The day the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress
Date	(2011) Monday, July 4
Celebrations	Fireworks, Family reunions,Concerts, Barbecues, Picnics,Parades, Baseball games

Please read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(United_States)

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Happy Blue Monday! (meme)

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It amazes me that so many people spend so much money buying T-shirts, to wear them only a couple of times before trashing them. Or do they collect them, like stamps? Anyway, look at some bestselling, custom, (pricey), cool T-shirts from Zazzle. You, too, can design (almost) whatever you like on a T-shirt!

Browse other personalized gifts from Zazzle.

Why is it that many of your designs will be rejected on a Zazzle personalized stamp,
but NOT on a T-shirt, etc.?
Why is it OK to design all kinds of outrageous, even profane, rated-R things
 on anything BUT stamps?
Here's why: http://dorincard.blogspot.com/search?q=stringent+design

Zazzle panel with some of my most recent stamp designs; you can create your own Zazzle designs!

Shop other personalized gifts from Zazzle.

"...Tu ne me manques pas du tout, du tout!" says the weeping bunny with translucent pink ears. My Year of the Rabbit / Hare: maximum card (with a postmark not very clear), and a folded card that I show you as the companion/reference item for that type of postmark

Whenever you get a pictorial postmark, get also that postmark on a companion/reference item, with a surface more paper-like than the glossy surface of a modern postcard.

I like the highly-embossed surface of this card.

This is a folded card, a type of  "postcard support" that FIP CfM does NOT allow you to use in creating a maximum card.

What do I think?

1 -  I can cut it in half anytime, if I so desire. 

Then it really looks like a custom postcard.

But I prefer to keep it that way - maybe I'll get more items like that from the source specified on the back of the folded card. :)

2 - I can cut it in half anytime, if a future potential partner/buyer so desires.

3 - if anybody will ever get this, he or she can cut it, or keep it just like that, or send it as an "enriched" greeting card, unique in the world as it really is.

3 - for the postmarking Post Office, this was a revenue generator, without further work necessary from a delivery mailman. 

It will not require postal delivery to anybody's mailbox, per se (not as is, "naked").

All the similar items that I requested on this occasion (postcards, folded cards, covers) were delivered to me in 1 SASE that I provided in the initial cover that I sent for this postmarking event.

It's not a postcard, and not a cover - just a philatelic "page"/souvenir. 

I gladly relinquished a stamp for the privilege of obtaining that desired postmark. 

Everybody is happy, except maybe the purists. :)

4 - could things have been better?

Sure!

If (some) maximaphily purists would argue that the stamp actually depicts some stupid  fruits [:) my wording is enhanced for entertainment purposes only; no fruit or person is REALLY stupid]  [kumquats], and therefore this YOTH (Year of the Hare) symbolic stamp design DOES NOT qualify for concordance of subject in a maximum card...then I'd say: well, you DO have a point.

As I said before, it blows my mind why a hare is NOT the primary graphic element here, in this USPS stamp.

Why don't you, USPS, instruct your designers to focus primarily on the animal in the "Year of the..."?

Leave other symbols, non-specific for that year, in the background!

Are kumquats eaten ONLY during the Year of the Hare?

What do you concoct next?

Year of the Chopsticks?

:)

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