Link Exchange

We want to let the readers know that we have decided to start a link exchange on Famesource. A few friends of ours put up FS on their own websites, and we felt that it would only be fair to return the favor.

After starting we had good responses from other site owners/promoters that wanted to simply swap links. So why is this a blog entry? 1. It's been an uneventful week.(kidding) Seriously though because of how well its gone we wanted to let people know that if you want to trade links, we are more than open to it, and if you wanna go further than simply a link trade, send us an email and we will work something out.

Here is the page... http://famesource.com/links.aspx

Be sure to give HollyScoop a look she helped us out on day 1!

Our Youngest User!

We always go through our database to check certain things, one of them so happens to be age, we like to know the average age of our users, what area they are from, etc..

However when we saw this we could not help but laugh. Joshua is officially the youngest Famesource-er alive...alough his parents may be to blame for that hahah. We just want to welcome him, and let our users know that we have donated a few Famebucks to help in his modeling career. Best of luck Josh...and thank you parents for uploading...be sure to tell Josh's friends!

http://www.famesource.com/profile.aspx?u=JoshuaTK

Hit the streets.

The title here is not abstract or theoretical folks. We literally hit the streets. After a long weekend of sitting in front of monitors, Allen and I decided that it was time to get out there and do some face to face promoting for Famesource. We threw on some matching Famesource "Claim Your Fame"(tm, by the way) T-shirts, grabbed a handful of fliers, filled our pockets with cards, and hopped in Allens car with nothing but hopes, dreams...ummm and a list of talent related businesses from Google...LA is a big place guys, we needed to know where we were headed.

After a few welcoming smiles, it's fair to say that we ran into a few people that were not so excited to see us. But after we explained exactly what Famesource was, their sneers turned into cheers, and they posted up our fliers in their businesses. All in all, at the end of the day we felt like we had accomplished a lot. If any of you reading this live in LA be sure to drop us a line and tell us where you saw our flier.

Parallel Cut

Famesource was invited to attend the official launch party for Parallel Cut, an independent film directed and produced by two Famesource members, Edgar Metro and Eddie DeLeon. The short film is based on a true story about how John Gotti's son was accidentally killed by their neighbor.

The event was held at Falcon, a very appropriate venue on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood. The "Gotti" theme was evident immediately upon entering the building, where we were greeted by a person who offered us a small bag of "cocaine" (powdered sugar of course) which could be redeemed later for a gift bag. All the tables had 12 x 12 mirrors with "parallel cuts" of powdered sugar on them which accented the coffin in the middle of the room (which was also full of bags of powdered sugar and housed the gift bags we would receive later.)

It was really awesome celebrating this accomplishment with Edgar and Eddie. I am confident that these two have a very bright future ahead.

We're so Mashable!

Let me start of by saying...THIS WAS EXCITING!

So we woke up one Sunday morning and realized we had a HUGE spike in our traffic...we were but 3 days old at that point and had only told friends and family...literally scared of our server crashing.

It seems that an email Allen had sent to the editor of Mashable, asking him to simply check out the site ended up in a review of Famesource on their front page! This sparked a whole series of bloggers talking about us all around the world, from blogs in Arabic to German. We were really excited. Every few minutes another blog would pop up.

Allen: "What language is that one in?"
Anthony: "I think Chinese!!"

Here is a pic of Famesource that was on Mashable.

Leggo my Logo

So Allen and I thought we could design. We couldn't. Well, we were good at Stick-figures, and I mean good. But besides that we needed help. After consulting a few designers, we decided to post up a competition to get more entries so that we would have a broader spectrum to choose from.

The contest started out kind of slow...but really pick up with some great entries. As soon as we saw a version of our current logo, we knew we had it.

This one was kinda cool.


we really liked this...but didn't know if it would work on a website.



Two more that we liked.





In the end we had a lot of great entries, but settled on the final design, a similar version give or take one or two hundred position and color changes we made. This gave us what you see now.

Plus we added a beta.

Who is Famesource?

Hi everyone I'm Allen Vartazarian (above right), and I'm his partner Anthony Zanontian (above left)...together, we are Famesource! We decided to start this blog to give people some history on how Famesource.com was founded, the start-up process, and the future of Famesource.

First lets begin with some background info. We both graduated from the University of California system (Berkeley and San Diego), yes, we are quite fond of UC's (please write articles about us Daily Cal, Guardian, and Daily Bruin, and other UC based papers...ummm, we need the exposure) After graduation, we both took those normal 9 to 5 jobs, but realized they weren't meant for us.

It was fate you might say that we began to talk, or the fact that our girlfriends were cousins. Yeah, that may have had something to do with it. It's pretty much history from there. After more than a few brainstorms, famesource was born. We still reminisce about other ideas we had, some too ridiculous to mention and some still highly secret(they are in a lockbox underneath Allen's bed). We really want to try and capture what we went through and whats about to come, so stay tuned for more.