The Ontario Anime Society

New Logo Designs

Mark P. Tjan — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:10:55 +0000

For the past few months, the site’s pretty much remained as-is due to my other commitments (ConBravo! foremost amongst them). That said, I’ve been thinking about a small revamp, and a good starting point is a new logo. Our old one went through a few design changes, but to no real end.

That said, I’ve broken the design down into two parts. One is the type treatment, featuring “OAS – Ontario Anime Society” in some fashion, while the other is a “kamon” or group emblem. Kamon are a Japanese form of heraldry that was used (and still is) for important groups and families. It’s basically a logo.

Without further ado, here are three type treatments and five kamon. Leave a comment with your thoughts on each!

Click on a thumbnail to view each one!

New Theme Available

Mark P. Tjan — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:04:02 +0000

Hey folks, the “Sense and Sensibility” theme is now available under Dashboard > Appearance > Themes. Let me know how you guys like it. It’s nice and clean.

Our Return From G-Anime!

Mark P. Tjan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:05:42 +0000

The Brief: G-Anime is a bilingual anime convention held during February in Gatineau (Hull), Quebec, Canada. It serves the Ottawa-Gatineau community and many nearby and abroad.

The Ontario Anime Society were invited as guests to attend G-Anime, performing a brand new number to open their Saturday evening Masquerade. Our skit this year? Go West, Young Street Fighter, directed by Sydney Jones and yours truly, with writing and performances by Aesees Bakhshi, Adrian Javier, Alexandra Spridgeon, Christina Gyimesi, Eva Cherney, Larry Fan, Magda Roebuck, Sydney Jones, and myself. Special thanks goes out to Rusty Shackleford, Nickademus, Jenni St-Onge, and especially Nik Szefranek for all their help.

Video of the Performance – Special thanks to Hikari Kuragari for the video.

Our performance brought down the house (almost literally!), and to my knowledge has been a real crowd-pleaser for both our audience and the attending judges. Thanks to everyone who cheered and enjoyed the skit, we hope to see you again next year!

We’ll have a full report of the convention shortly. Watch for it!

G-Anime this Weekend!

Mark P. Tjan — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:02:42 +0000

Hey folks, come on out to G-Anime in Gatineau, Quebec this weekend for some convention fun! G-Anime serves the local residents of Ottawa and Gatineau, as well as fans from abroad, featuring a ton of events, large dealer’s room, and many colourful guests.

The OAS and DRM Studio will be there performing the opening to the Saturday Night Masquerade. Look for us first up, with our brand new act: “Go West, Young Street Fighter!”

See you all there!

A Note About Profiles

Mark P. Tjan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:12:30 +0000

When you’re building your profile, certain fields auto-link terms. Some of them don’t, like “Description” under roleplaying, or “Methods” under cosplay. If you want to link a particular term, use square brackets around the word you want to link.

Links provide members with a way to search each other’s interests.

Profile Fields Revised

Mark P. Tjan — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:48:06 +0000

Profile fields have finally been revised with a more intelligible Geekology and a few new categories for everyone to fill out. We’ve even added a fun “Roleplaying” section where you can fill in a character for yourself.

Hey, maybe we should have a group for an RP sometime?

Blog Themes

Mark P. Tjan — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:06:15 +0000

Nicola recently asked about blog themes, and I figure a few of you guys are wondering if your blog has to look the way it looks. Well, here’s some good news: No!

This week I’ll be installing a few themes which I think take advantage of BuddyPress and also look aesthetically pleasing. One of the things I just know we’ll all want are custom header images, so I’m going to look into themes which feature those as well.

That said, please also remember to delete your test comment by Mr. Wordpress. Cheers!

Blogs Work!

Mark P. Tjan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:32:49 +0000

We’re all switched over to a private server and our blogs now work! If you want to have your own blog, please create one at your leisure. I do ask however, please only create one, as there is limited space on our server for such things. That way all members will have a fair chance at blogging without our server costs going up.

Thanks!

Blogs Currently Unavailable

Mark P. Tjan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:42:42 +0000

Blogs will be unavailable until we switch over to Dreamhost P.S. Our registration is being processed, and it may take some time to transfer over. Regardless, blogs will come soon. Everything else works, however!

Also, please take note that you cannot use any of the services until you log in. Please see about doing so at your first convenience. Thank you!

BuddyPress and Theming

Mark P. Tjan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:48:00 +0000

We’ve got BuddyPress working now, but it obviously uses a default theme. We’ll be rectifying that shortly, and hopefully nothing breaks! At any rate, all the functionality of BuddyPress is now available, which means we can make forums, have discussions, friend lists, groups; all those good things.

If you’re a member and haven’t logged in yet, please do so now! Instructions are in your e-mail, so please make sure you’ve read and followed them. Thanks!