What Are Topics?

	Explanation of the Topic. The A.Refuge Topic system is a way of linking all content on A.Refuge together. We have placed topic input fields all over the site so you can associate your work, photos, and personal likes with individualy themed topic subjects. With A.Refuge Topics, it makes finding information you want infinitely more efficient. Topics can fall into any of the following categories: Occupation, Skills, Interests, Equipment, Favorite Music, Favorite Music, Favorite Artists, Favorite Movies, Favorite Tv Shows, Works, and Photos.

	Why Topics? With topics, you get exact results instead of assumed results. This way the topics will actively link people and content together in a unique way.

How To Add Topics.

Photos, Works, & Members Are Linked Together By Topics.

Browse Members That Match Your Topics.

Using topics you can easily find your top matches based on categories found on your profile or who is overall similar to you.

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Hey hey, It would be awesome if you checked out my magazine now that we are friends. It's not just a magazine but a community for creative people and fans. If you have any suggestions about the magazine or site you can make them on the blog of this profile- support on aRefuge.com If you are out of the U.S. use the zipcode 90210 to sign up. We'll fix this soon. (we just started the site) Sincerely, gary Here's some more information about A.Refuge: ----------------------------------------------------- Press Release Aesthetic Refuge is an online magazine that highlights artistic and creative personalities through personal interviews, unique stories and snappy writing. The magazine was founded by Gary Livingston, Zach Wyckoff and Mike Retrum, who serve as editors and designers of the website, while also providing content themselves that is put up on the site. The website is designed to provide visual and intellectual stimulus, aimed to inspire artists far and wide. You will not find Hollywood gossip and tabloid drivel anywhere on the site. Instead, honest stories about regular people who’ve garnered a successful career through music, fashion, art, writing, film, you name it. Aesthetic Refuge is interested in the creative process, success stories, and original thinking without developing a reputation for being ostentatious, exemplified by the various writing styles and diverse stories featured in the magazine. The website has been designed for both the casual browser and serious artist. Readers can set up their own free account to create a personal profile, and are entered into the Aesthetic Refuge community. Once the account is established, you are free to roam anywhere throughout the site to view exclusive content, enter contests, rate stories that have been published on the website, post your own personal work, and much more. When you create your own account, you may choose from four profile types; basic, musician, artist or designer. This is the crux behind the magazine’s purpose, essentially saying, “Hey, there’s plenty of room for everybody. So don’t just get your feet wet. Jump in.” Although the website gives specific links to the published material, browsing the site you will find a vast array of articles not limited to the confines of just entertainment, music, fashion and art. You might be inspired by Eolo Perifido’s featured photography or disarmed by Neill McClung’s modesty. You might enjoy the success story of 311 or that Anna Mkhitarian used leftover scraps to create new clothes for her Barbie collection. You will find these drops of personality throughout the magazine. You will find that if you read behind the lines, there is much more to be found in the magazine. While Aesthetic Refuge is still in its genesis stage, it continues to grow at a rapid pace from the dedication of its founders, its readers and writers. -------------------------------------------------------- Recent Articles-

	Do more with your music The A.Refuge Music System provides musicians with a simple, efficient tool to present their musical talents to a community of receptive listeners. Members of the A.Refuge community can not only listen to songs on Musician Profiles, but also add these songs to their own playlists and stream songs from a personalized music player on their very own profile pages. If your music is worthy, it will quickly spread throughout the community and gain increased exposure within thousands of individualized playlists. With this system you have access to statistics informing you how your music is performing on the site including detailed demographic information on who is listening to your music. Pretty schnazzy, huh?

It'd be awesome if you checked out my magazine/community site, A.Refuge. I've spent the last three years working on it and it is finally up and running. I just need your help to make it a success. --------------------------------------------------------- We have 950 registered members sharing 3000+ works of art. Make a blog about A.Refuge and a bulletin about it on myspace if you like it. If you are out of the US, use the postal code 90210. Global codes will be up and running soon. It would really help us out. We need to keep getting more people on the site so we can afford to pay more contributors for super sweet articles. There's a LOT of articles I'm trying to get created right now, so it is important to be able to pay people =) You can go here for some fun HTML code to link to the site: promotional html codes If you want to put a list of articles in your blog and bulletin you can download this .doc file with the HTML: articlelist.doc if you do this, let me know. I wanna keep tallies on who is helping us out the most so I can repay the favor as soon as I can. Thank you! _gary -------------------------------------- Here's a list of some of the articles on A.Refuge Magazine, aRefuge.com:

Eolo Perfido

311

Thursday

Neill McClung

Reilly Stroope

Dredg

Lost Prophets
I shot the photos for this article.

Massive Attack in San Diego

Annatarian

You get the idea.

Check it out by clicking any of the articles or the logo. If you approve, please make a profile and join in on the fun.

Be sure to sign up. There are four types of profiles. Visual Artist, Fashion Designer, Musician, and the Basic fan profile.

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