Alodia at Herocon
One of the crowd draws at the Hanep Hataw Hero 3 anime convention was the appearance of Filipina gamer Alodia Gosiengfiao and friends. They sold signed prints of their photoportraits as a fundraiser for their Freelance Art Society.
I particularly like this shot of Alodia at the Wasabi Toys booth. Girls and Gundams, what more could you ask for?
What’s really interesting here is that these girls sold a lot of prints even though most of their photoportraits are freely available online. That’s what Hugh MacLeod does with his cartoons. Alodia and her friends are proving and learning that, when it comes to digital goods, abundance leads to value.
(Photo by Tyrone Orbase via Alodia.)
Tags: Alodia Gosiengfiao, anime, Asian, Babes, Filipina, Freelance-Art-Society, Herocon, Philippines, Photos, Tyrone-Orbase
December 4, 2007 | Filed Under Babes, Philippines, PhotosComments
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[...] girls and Gundams [...]
Missed opportunity!
Sir Mike, is Alodia there at Day 1?
I don’t know. I was tired from a week of partying, so I only went on day two.
OMG A STRIKE FREEDOM Is behind her.. SWEET ^_^
Alodia’s success at Herocon reflects a greater global trend: freely superdistributing your online media increases the value of your offline media.
Alodia just did it with photos, and now Happy Slip is doing it with videos. Pretty Filipinas seem particularly suited to this media business model.
honestly, mukha syang matrona dyan. to think she’s only 19.
She looks like Leah Dizon in that pic!!! wow cool background gunpla!
Leah Dizon, eh?
That’s interesting. She usually looks more like Sheree. In terms of endearing herself to otaku, however, she’s definitely the Filipina Shocotan.
Trent Reznor just sold out his new Creative Commons album in three days. That’s exactly what Alodia and friends did with their prints at Herocon.