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Street Photography: The Capture vs. The PoseWhen a subject poses to have his or her photograph taken, the subject tries to project a message about himself or herself by how he or she “poses”, by the attitude of his or her body language or facial expression.
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The Capture vs. The Pose
portrait of a WW2 vet...
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Wed Jan 25, 2011, 7:00 PM
When a subject poses to have his or her photograph taken, the subject tries to project a message about himself or
herself by how he or she “poses”, by the attitude of his or her body language or facial expression.
If the subject is posed by the photographer, the body pulled

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Reduced to AshesA Phoenix to Arise
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If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it.
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Introducing Madefire Motion Books to deviantARTApr 2, 2013by +spyed
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Have You Met Zee Captain?

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The chaptered comic strip, has been collected into a 100-page graphic novel – and to the still-uninitiated:
It is not quite like anything you’ve probably ever seen before. The story follows “Zee Captain” and his sidekicks as they amble through a post-apocalyptic landscape. And while that hardly seems new and different, it’s the unusually superlative graphic quality of the comic cells and the Monty Pythonesque dialogues and leaps of logic that can become quite mesmerizing. Zee Captain, his face hidden by a gas mask that gives him a Darth Vaderish look, wears what looks like a Soviet Red Army uniform from WWII, and the strip does have nourish WWII feel. It’s as if the nuclear holocaust on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had never ended and spread to every major city on Eart More Like This

Poe's Death List:icontechgnotic:
Foreword by $techgnotic
Fri Oct 21, 2011, 8:23 PM
As Halloween approaches, what better way to celebrate the season when the spectral
boundaries of the Kingdom of the Spirits of the Dead touch briefly with the mystical
edges of the Domain of We the Living than to invoke the battered and hellishly bedeviled
soul of Edgar Allan Poe to guide us in communication between (his) ghostly and (our)
ghastly planes of existence.
Poe invented the “detective” story and was an early father of “sci-fi”, and he was also an
extraordinary poet, but he is best known for his Gothic tales of mystery and abject horror –
nearly all of them anchored in the apprehension of an impending cruel and unnatural death.

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Good Nudes vs. Bad Nudes?:icontechgnotic:
Foreword by $techgnotic
Tue Nov 1, 2011, 3:23 PM
Contours in Context
The argument for the nude in art:
Our visual perception of the human face and then the human body has set the basis since the beginning of
human history for our sense of what is beautiful and what initiates all our seminal ineffable sublime feelings
about the nature of love, life, desire, destiny, eternity, ad infinitum. The curvatures and symmetries of the
human body even lay the geometric basis for the artistic structures of all our art forms, not only for the visual
arts but also for literature and architecture. Given the primacy of the body as the beginning of all that we are
in life, and given the eye as the primary receiver for the collection of all information in our lives, how could
the artistic nude not be a massively represented art form on a global arts forum like deviantART? And besides,
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As Enduring (and as fleeting) As the Gods:icontechgnotic:
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Fri Jul 8, 2011, 7:59 PM
Lucifer - The Fallen by *RainerKalwitz
Marble, Granite, Bronze, Silver, Gold!
Early statuary depicted one’s god’s, and since the medium is
as much the message as the visual message itself – the medium had
to proclaim: This god is as forever lasting as this stone that His
rendering is hewn out of! But all that is solid eventually melts
away into the air, even the most powerful ancient gods and kings –
As the poet Shelley so poignantly noted in Ozymandias.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
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Odyssey Into 2012 Visit our Official Chatroom and Group.

Odyssey Into 2012

Preface

She has awakened before a gate she has no memory of opening. She has no name, and
no memory of how she came to be here, at the first station of a fateful quest she
does not understand but knows she must continue.

Who is she?

Only you will bring her to life.Only you will tell her story in your words and your art.
How can I contribute to the story?

How can I contribute to the story?

Only you will bring her to life and guide her on her quest.
Only you will tell her story with your own words and your own illustrations.
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The Traditional Through a Cracked PrismCreating art for those who feel a real resonance with traditional anchoring fairy tales, ~cidaq also draws in those who enjoy darker tales of mystery and films noir. As a storyteller who can create narratives in both words and watercolors, she often comes up with short stories to accompany her art.
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*cidaq’s paintings are unique and instantly identifiable as hers —
Even though at first glance one might think them antique illustrations preserved from century-old
products advertisements or children’s books. But one is drawn to look closer and see that a very
modern, very mischievous intelligence is obviously at play. The media of pencil, inks and watercolors
as well as the skilled technique and composition are solidly anchored in the traditional, but the
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Art in Contemplation of Its Own BecomingDuchamp finds a discarded urinal. He alters it (by signing a name to it not even his own, but obviously “the artist’s”) and names it “The Fountain”. The most mundane, even off-putting, of objects is transformed by Duchamp into art. He submits it for exhibition and it is rejected. You might say the judges “pissed on” his idea. But the idea was born and persisted. Duchamp insisted the object was art because he as an artist presented it as such. “Conceptual Art” was born.

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Louie Schwartzberg: Witness to Nature’s Winged Struggle for Our Survival
Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi word meaning “life out of balance.” It was also an amazing documentary
film utilizing slow-motion and time-lapse photography of cityscapes and landscapes across America to
beautifully, although disturbingly, depict our modern society’s growing unbalance.
View *louieschwartzberg second video, “Wings of Life” on YouTube
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Witch Sorceress Enchantress

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Oct 3, 2012 by $techgnotic
The Witchas Multifaceted Icon
Throughout history artists of every discipline have been fascinated, inspired and transfixed at every historical stage of the shifting perceptions of the “Witch” in any given time or society. The seams within every page of every chapter written against or in defense of the witch have been alternatively filled with oppressive sexism, blind eyed religious bigotry, occult doctrine, fevered and forbidden lustful sexuality, misplaced fear, and reams of wide eyed superstition.
Consequently, the colors, and lines within every stroke upon every canvas and visceral depiction, carry all the burdensome weight of the long intricacies of this subject. With respect to this much maligned, religiously and politically repurposed, perpetually misunde More Like This

Mythical Cartography, The Artistry of Maps

:icontechgnotic: Aug 15, 2012 by $techgnotic

"Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground."—Prof. Albus Dumbledore
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The Age of Discernment

:icontechgnotic: Aug 1, 2012 by $techgnotic
With great access comes the great responsibility of discernment.
→ This article was inspired by the conversation in the comments generated from last week’s Suggestivism article.
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The Fairy Tale, A Lifelong ResonanceA thousand years tradition of scaring children at bedtime continues for children of all ages. News of the discovery of 500 “new” fairy tales collected over 150 years ago [link] in Germany and locked away in a forgotten archive has me thinking about the enduring importance of these narrative treasures in the lives of human societies worldwide. My worry, have fairy tales been marginalized by modernism?

:icontechgnotic: May 30, 2012 by $techgnotic
A Thousand Years Tradition of Scaring Children at Bedtime
Continues for Children of All Ages
News of the discovery of 500 “new” fairy tales collected over 150 years ago in Germany and locked away in a forgotten archive has me thinking about the enduring importance of these narrative treasures in t More Like This

The Muse AbidesAsk any artist about “emptiness” and they’ll tell you about the constant recurring nightmarish emptiness they must face down almost every day as a part of their vocation: the blank space that they must fill. Whether he’s a painter facing a blank canvas or she’s a poet facing a blank computer screen, the blank space awaiting transformation at the hand of the artist can be the loneliest and cruelest place on earth.

:icontechgnotic: May 23, 2012 by $techgnotic
Ask any artist about “emptiness” and they’ll tell you about the constant recurring nightmarish emptiness they must face down almost every day as a part of their vocation: the blank space that they must fill. Whether he’s a painter facing a blank canvas or she’s a poet facing a blank computer screen, the blank space awaiting transformation at the hand of the artist can be More Like This

The Future of Storytelling Has ArrivedThe Future of Storytelling Has Arrived
Ninja Turtles by ~lukekeith
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Mon Apr 3, 2012, 01:00 AM
The recently announced changes to the core mythos of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the backlash
from fans over the ending to Mass Effect 3 have ignited an incredible discussion about the rapidly evolving
“collaborative” relationship between producers and consumers of videogames, movies, and similar “products.”
Now it’s exploded beyond the secure borders of top news publications, gaming and entertainment websites.
Looks like this long-bubbling cauldron of traditional ways and means, modern tech, web economics, core beliefs
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Should you listen to your audience?
The Con More Like This

Alice X. Z. - Living Rainbow Taking FlightThe vibrant digital paintings of `alicexz are fiery, emotional, and incredibly memorable. The colors of her creations (mostly portraits of popular TV and Film characters) are unusually vibrant, which is remarkable considering how layered they appear to be. It’s sort of like what manga characters might look like if painted by one of the Dutch Masters. And this artist exhibits just the right amount of quirkiness to leave us wanting to know more: she has a penchant for painting redheads. But, then of course, there’s a lot of red and golden fire burning through most her artworks.

Living Rainbow Taking Flight
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Cthulhu is Still CallingThe Enemy at the Gates, the “Other”, forever lurking in the darkness and plotting an invasion most evil and an enslavement most hideous, is probably the original seminal “narrative” that was born when humans first acquired self-awareness and began trying to explain themselves to themselves as they sat round their fires built at the mouths of their caves.

Cthulhu
is Still Calling
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Wed Feb 29, 2012, 7:00 PM
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Street Magician: The Photography of Chris WeeksIt was only after many long frustrating hours of trying to describe what’s so special about the photographs of Chris Weeks that I finally realized I was trying to describe something that wasn’t there. I finally realized that the magical something that sets Weeks’ works apart from others is that his camera disappears.
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The Street Photography of Chris Weeks
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Wed Feb 22, 2012, 6:20 PM
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That I finally realized I was trying to describe something that wasn’t there.
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Mayan DoomsdayDecember 19, 2012by $techgnotic

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December 21st Marks the End of Civilization
Muerte Aztecaby ~Zerj19
Who would you invite to your final deviantMEET or dinner party on that fateful day?
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e are facing yet another grave prediction that we are in the More Like This

Infinity Seven Takes On the Coming Zerg InvasionStarCraft II is the hot tournament videogame that just may breakthrough as the harbinger of the esports phenomenon and one of the great cultural game-changers of all time. Midnight in Anaheim. Caffeinated casters boom rapid fire commentary rattling the packed hall. Elite StarCraft players from around the globe execute complex strats that would have made Rommel the Desert Fox himself proud. 15,000 are in attendance, on the edge of their seats, and cheering as loudly as any soccer match as they watch the 30-foot screens hanging from the rafters. Another few hundred thousand are watching the streams live. The feeling is that of an NCAA Final Four game, set in a European soccer stadium, somehow shoehorned into a casino showroom in Las Vegas. It’s all of the skill, the fan devotion and the spectacle anyone could possibly ask for.

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Authentic CitizenshipOnce Again, The Room Fell Away. The prodigious artistic and cultural exchange that we have all committed ourselves to building, to participating in and to sharing with each other every day at deviantART often occurs in RL on the decks of HQ as well. One of the best aspects of being in my position here at deviantART is the privilege to curate salons with artists of every medium and success level imaginable, art appreciators, writers, and educators from all points of light within the deviantART community inviting them to make the trek to HQ for what always manifests as an inspiring, thoughtful, educative, and enlightening dialogue. But sometimes, sometimes, things rise to a whole other level. You suddenly find yourself magically reaching that special deviantART "destination" that is a connection point of art, life, community and communication that has no specific Office # designation. The room falls away… More Like This

Odyssey Into 2012: Engage Wonderment Update!Attention all Odyssey "Tokyo Zephyr" Participants! Your opportunity to be a published artist as a part of "Tokyo Zephyr" is here. "Tokyo Zephyr" (yes, that will be the "Odyssey" book's name!) is coming closer and closer to publication! (The chosen charity for all proceeds to rain upon will be UNICEF.)

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 7:30 PM
Engage Wonderment: Update!
Attention all Odyssey “Tokyo Zephyr” Participants!
Your opportunity to be a published artist as a part of “Tokyo Zephyr” is here. “Tokyo Zephyr” (yes, that will be the “Odyssey” book’s name!) is coming closer and closer to publication! (The chosen charity for all proceeds to rain upon will be UNICEF.)
We are now encouraging submissions for:
Illustrations for Chapter 7 & Chapter 8 covers;
Three (3) poem More Like This

NEw ANime God dammit, i cant believe spring snimThe list its just getting bigger, watching over 15 animes, thats crazyyyyyyyyyy. Missed old times, i cant believe spring anime its this good, end of the world people end of the world.
Two new series added to the list.
1.-Fate Zero, second season.
Its just as awesome as first season, the plot its well written, characters talks mroe than they fight, its incredible the dialogue, with lots of action fanservice. Music its breath taking, and they got berserker in it, character i love so much.
2.- Space Brothers
Great anime style, a story about two brothers, with the dream on going to the moon, and bigger one to get to mars, was based on an award winning manga, so the story will be awesome, solid animation, interesting characters.
3.-Kurokos Basketball
Been a fan or sports animes, this one its a good succesor from slamdunk, character shadow its really interesting, from the moment i saw the cartoon intro i was really happy, great intro song, the style of characters its awesom More Like This

Spring Anime full listOkay saw new animes i didnt watched before doing this list, and im happily surprised that they also really good.
Sorry but Medakas box its out of the list, chapter 2 was really boring to me, didnt got the gainax feeling i love, so i skipt it.
Also Nyarlko didnt made the cut either, i just couldnt stand the intro, i just wanted to kill myself, because when you became older you cant stand weird voices, anime was good solid, nice animation, really really moe, but feels strange of a 30 year old man, watching a naked kid tha looks like 14 taking a bath, i recoomend this anime for young a people new to anime. Seems to be a bit funny, but i just cant stand the voices sorry.
Ginga e kickoff, looks also good but aimed for kids, the story looking interesting, but after watching many soccer animes i will pass this one too.
Eureka seven Ao, also looks really good, solid animation and music, but im a macross forever type of dude. So i will skip this one too, first c More Like This

RIP Diana Wynne Jones.If you hadn't already heard, Diana Wynne Jones passed away last night at the age of 76.
I've been spending the day moping around, dredging up all my old fanart and spamming tumblr with it, and trying not to cry whenever I think about the fact that one of my greatest heroes is gone.
I'd like to make some attempt to put into words what this woman has meant to my life, and how her stories have inspired me, so I hope you'll bear with me.
I don't remember which of her books I read first - I think it might have been Year of the Griffin in 7th or 8th grade. I do recall that my love for her writing didn't arrive all at once, but I liked whatever book it was enough to check out another of hers, and then another and another as I discovered that every single one was just as brilliant as the next, and there were dozens of them. I'd say Witch Week (weirdly, the first of the Chrestomanci books that I read- I went all out of order) was really the one that cemented my fervent admiration, and it's stil More Like This

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Gratitude

November 21, 2012
I believe in deviantART. Which is to more accurately say I believe in the concept and the reality of the deviantART community.
When in contemplation of the eternal wellspring that is the deviantART project and how it has become the engine keeping my heart and mind on a full burn as I strive to be an upstanding member of the community as well as a helpful architect and eager participant in the conversation -- my thoughts inevitably settle upon my attempts to define my concept of Gratitude.

Marma Lisa by *HenrySchreiber
No matter your medium of choice as an artist, your artistic intentions or the mystic guiding force that has led you to this community, there is one thing all constituent members have in common:
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Realm of Fantasy, The Anatomy of a GroupDecember 7, 2012by $techgnotic#Realm-of-Fantasy →
Realm of Fantasy
The Anatomy of a Group
The grey dressby *sakimichan
The special kind of dedication, spirit and discipline devoted to the assembly and construction of a successful Group within the vast technicolor ocean of artworks, artists and art appreciators that is deviantART might very well be the experiential epitome of what it is to be a part of the deviantART journey. From the very first conception, through the ten thousandth practical step, ^alltheoriginalnames and his cadre of steadfast partners in artful curation have built a virtual sanctuary of the fantastical— #Realm-of-Fantasy. Housing the largest and most significant collection of exceptional fantasy ar More Like This

Dessert Of Your Dreams

Having It
Both Ways
Is it better to possess a thing of beauty, or to experience the ultimate consummation of oneness with that beautiful thing by actually consuming it... and being left only with the memory of its beauty? Leave it up to our deviantARTists to think of a way to have it both ways – but left over as a feast for the eyes, preserved eternally on the digital planes of deviantART.

The Grinch
by ~ArteDiAmore
Craft, design, and artistry as applied to the most delicious and sinful of the culinary disciplines rises forth as we shine warming a light on this small but incredibly skilled serving of artists within the deviantART community. In an effort to taste all of the communities within deviantART, let More Like This

Stylenoir Magazine InterviewAs part of the ongoing Fashion Photography Project Educate Week I'll be doing a series of interviews with Industry Experts - people who are established within the Fashion Industry and with whom Fashion Photographers can expect to work with.
This is the first of those, an interview with James Joseph, Editor in Chief of Stylenoir Magazine.

Hi James, introduce yourself to the lovely masses of dA, and tell us a little about Stylenoir Magazine (and your role in it) for everyone unfamiliar with it!
Stylenoir is the world’s largest dark style magazine. A platform to inspire and create, but most importantly represent the macabre and gothic foundations of creativity and style.
I founded Stylenoir in 2009. Three years on I now sit as Editor In Chief with a core team of three others, over half a million users and some of the greatest companies in the world representing us, includin More Like This

Humans Becoming Robots, Robots Becoming HumanOn March 1, 2012 the Nevada DMV issued the first license for a “Google Driverless Car.” The idea behind this innovation is that one day soon new technology will drive cars safer and more skillfully than humans, thus saving lives and billions of dollars in car crashes. How well this idea catches on is a bit questionable, given the powerful “romance” of driving one’s car, but it’s certainly an indicator of things to come in the daily intersection of human and artificial intelligence and mobility. There have always been those who have dreamed of stepping into a mechanical exo-skeletal-type “suit” and letting the engineering do the work, instantly increasing limited human speed, strength, endurance and accuracy.

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But is it Art?:icontechgnotic:
by $techgnotic
Fri Jul 8, 2011, 7:59 PM
Perhaps the eternally unanswerable question.
But definitely something to chew on...
When I first saw it, I was instantly captivated.
At first thought...
...what a brilliant example of modern pointillism! Has some unknown artist taken up the long abandoned banner of Georges
Seurat and presented us with a new manifesto championing art as points of light illuminating our waking dreams?!

OK, I see now it’s not a painting at all, so my pointillism exuberance is dashed. It’s more likely one of those photo collages
with thousands of small images being arranged to create a larger picture. That’s cool. So what’s the picture?
If I stare intently long enough, will it suddenly “emerge,” like the ones they sell on the Venice Beach Boardwalk?
< More Like This

Odyssey Into 2012The "Odyssey into 2012"! What better way to celebrate all the creativity energy and "community unity" that transpired on dA in 2011 than with this one last great wave of deviations cresting with the stroke of midnight, January 1st, 2012!
I just want to be sure that all my watchers here on the $techgnotic page are aware of the "Odyssey" project that's going on right now and urge them to jump in and participate if they haven't already! There are still four more chapters of Kaylin's story – her battle against Darus for the salvation of humanity! – that need literature deviations and accompanying illustrations from dA writers and artists if the tale is to be successfully wrapped-up, and posted, at midnight on New year's Eve. The year 2012 may end in December with the End of Everything, according to the Mayans – but I'm pretty sure the year 2012 can't even begin unless Kay More Like This

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~TopazRaven

Featuring May's !RARE! Breed of the MonthInfo, Rules & Guidelines || The F A Q || The List of Targeted Breeds
The Complete Member List || RARE! BotM Features || stopBSL on FaceBook
Welcome to Our !RARE! Breed of the Month Feature!
January’s !RARE! Breed of the Month
February’s !RARE! Breed of the Month
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News, busy and wonderful big cats - PHOTOSHi pals!
I am pretty tired but busy (it is 2AM here), so just a short text:
1) Kiriban has been caught, winner will be featured next time - congrats

new kiriban is - aww - 1M!

I am so excited!

2) I am still trying to lose weight and I still use that online program. It is pretty good. I eat 5000 Kj a day and today I went for the first evening walk of this year (until today, it was too cold, even snowing) - we were walking very fast, burning 2000 Kj in just one hour. Great! I also exercise, so I hope to lose even more weight! The bad thing is that time to time, I feel dizzy and like passing out. It has never happened to me, but when the dizzy feeling comes, I immediately take a piece of high-quality chocolate. It is a great first aid

3) I got more active in a group which is questioning the temporary dolphin show in Prague. It takes few hours a day, but it is very interesting, the issue is becoming very hot here. We have news, but... well, maybe in next journal? (too tired f More Like This

Featuring March's !RARE! Breed of the MonthInfo, Rules & Guidelines || The F A Q || The List of Targeted Breeds
The Complete Member List || RARE! BotM Features || stopBSL on FaceBook
Welcome to Our !RARE! Breed of the Month Feature!
January’s !RARE! Breed of the Month
February’s !RARE! Breed of the Month
<b> More Like This

Featuring February's !RARE! Breed of the MonthInfo, Rules & Guidelines || The F A Q || The List of Targeted Breeds
The Complete Member List || RARE! BotM Features || stopBSL on FaceBook
Welcome to Our !RARE! Breed of the Month Feature!
January’s !RARE! Breed of the Month
2011 !RARE! Breed of the Month Recap
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Animals and LOVE - PhotosHi,
thank you for so many notes with Valentine cards!

I wish you wonderful Valentine too and here is my series of "animals in love" photos

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Featuring January's !RARE! Breed of the MonthInfo, Rules & Guidelines || The F A Q || The List of Targeted Breeds
The Complete Member List || RARE! BotM Features || stopBSL on FaceBook
Welcome to Our !RARE! Breed of the Month Feature!
2011 !RARE! Breed of the Month Recap
2012 !RARE! Breed of the Month Recap
Featuring January’s !RARE! Breed of the Month
the More Like This

journals

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~xReissa

7 Tips To Instantly Become A Better ArtistPractice, practice, practice.  Gah.
Attend life drawing classes over the summer.  Blegh.
Take a sketchbook with you everywhere you go, and fill up ten of those bad boys at the coffee shop.  Pfft.
Let's be honest here.  We all want to become better artists, like, right frickin' now.  We don't even want to have to suffer through hour-long tutorials of some pompous snooty hack bloviating over the intricate methods of drawing eyes on YouTube.  We want progress, we want improvement, and we want it on our desk in ten minutes ago!
Fine, fine, I hear ya'.  While these aren't going to make an instant Leonardo da Vinci out of you, these might get you up to...ehh...Basquiat caliber.  Sure, I've made tutorials, but those are more about setting up Photoshop for the sake of coloring an image, and not so much building yourself artistically.  Those are more technical lessons.  Artistically More Like This

Reptilicus Infernicus: 2012, Year of the DragonAccording to the Chinese zodiac, 2012 has ushered in the year of the dragon upon the world stage. In addition to occupying an ages old position in our cultural consciousness, legend and folklore surrounding the dragon mythology has long been firing the kiln of our dreams with fright and menace.

2012: Year of the Dragon
:icontechgnotic:
by $techgnotic
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 3:00 PM
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DRAGON CASTLE by ~randis

According to the Chinese zodiac, 2012 has ushered in the year of the dragon upon the world stage.
In addi More Like This

Devious Journal History Collection

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~manga-rider86

Comic-Con: Day 3Saturday kicked off Day 3 of Comic-Con, and the crowds poured onto the convention floor to start the weekend in Geek Style.
At noon, deviantART hosted our final panel: How to Supercharge Your deviantART Profile Like the Masters. Moderated by none other than our fearless ninja, Angelo (aka +spyed), we were honored to have the following superstars share their deviantART experiences with the crowd:
- Adam Warren (*AdamWarren -- “The Dirty Pair,” “Empowered”)
- Mark Brooks (`diablo2003, from Marvel Comics)
- Jim Zubkavich (~Zubby -- Project Manager of Creative Services, Udon Entertainment)
- Dave Elliott (=DeevElliott -- “Heavy Metal Magazine”)
- Wenqing Yan (`yuumei, creator of “Knite,” “1000 W0RDS”)
- Kevin Eastman (=Kevineastman -- co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Chris Sanders (`alohalilo creator of “Lilo & Stitch”)
It was truly a remark More Like This

We're Sponsoring Artists' Alley at Comic-Con!Parisian deviants! We're headed for the beautiful City of Light, and we want to see you!

Posted on June 25, 2012 at 7:15:03 PM

We're sponsoring Artists' Alley 2012!

We're headed to Comic-Con International:
San Diego to sponsor Artists' Alley!
We Love Artists' Alley

We're back at Comic-Con!
Last year, our sponsorship of Artists' Alley was a huge success. We were able to provide a more comfortable environment for the artists, display their art on huge screens over the Alley, and let people attending the convention draw with deviantART muro on fantastic digital screens. We plan to do this and more in 2012 as we take on the great pleasure of sponsoring Artists' Alley at San Diego Comic-C More Like This

Comics Are ArtComic-Con Journey to the Heart of The New Summer Vacation
Americans have a long summer vacation tradition of visiting the foreign capitals of the world and being sure to spend at least one day in each nation’s most iconic art museum. In Paris, we visit the Louvre. In Madrid, the Prado. In Rome, the Borghese. We feel far more comfortable in identifying the different peoples of our planet through examples of their greatest art works than we do about identifying ourselves as being represented by any one iconic “American” art museum or artist. Maybe the country is just too big for one musuem and so it has always fallen to our pop arts to carry the true visual narrative of what’s going on in the hearts and minds of the masses.

Comic-Con has become the new arts and culture go-to in domestic summer vacation destin More Like This

Join us for a deviantMEET in London, England! More Like This

Karin's Pic's SnippetAfter Sasuke's disappearance, Madara has not haved good times.

First the Kumo, Suna and Konoha forces destroyed his secret base, then a lawyer from a certain "Queen Beryl" has sued him for idea theft; a joint team from Kiri and Konoha has terminated Kisame ( because of Samehada's betrayal on the humanoid shark, after the living sword has decided to like much better Kurenai's chakra) and in the end of the week a female version of the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki and of his great grandson have attacked him, reducing him on Death's Door!

Yes, Madara was dying. But he will not die without a legacy, without someone who will have continued his work!

Using More Like This

Site Update: Sta.sh Titles, Bug FixesIn our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing Site Updates to keep members informed and to gather feedback. Below is a list of recent changes to the site, bug fixes, and feedback that was brought up by members in the last Site Update.
What's New
Sta.sh Titles Always Display
Titles on Sta.sh items will now always display. Previously, titles only displayed while hovering your cursor over the items. This simple change makes the interface clearer and makes it easier to identify your items.

Bug Fixes

General
DeviantART was invaded by FUR. After FUR's article received over 500,000 pageviews and 50,000 comments in one day, the felines More Like This

Site Update: Unread Message Counts, Sta.sh UpdatesIn our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing Site Updates to keep members informed and to gather feedback. Below is a list of recent changes to the site, bug fixes, and feedback that was brought up by members in the last Site Update.
What's New
Unread Counts in Message Center Sidebar
The sidebar in the Message Center now displays an unread count next to each type of message to allow you to easily identify and sort your messages.

File and Edit Menus in Sta.sh
A couple weeks ago, we launched the File and Edit menus in Sta.sh to Beta Testers, making it easier to manage your Sta.sh. Today, we're rolling out the feature to everyone. These menus make it easier to organize your files, and adds the ability to More Like This

A news to everyone..."GET INVOLVED. STOP AT NOTHING. THE WORLD MUST KNOW."
Stop whatever you are doing and take time to educate yourself to MAKE A DIFFERENCE in this world. This is your chance! WATCH THIS VIDEO ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc
Let's make JOSEPH KONY Famous!!
Who is JOSEPH KONY?
He is THE WORST LIVING CRIMINAL. He abducts children and makes them use guns to kill their own parents. He takes girls and forces them to be sex slaves. He calls his abducted children the Lord's Resistance Army, AKA the LRA. He has abducted over 30,000 children and forced them to be child soldiers in Central Africa. He remains at large because he is INVISIBLE to the world. FEW know his name, even FEWER know his crimes. WE ARE MAKING HIM FAMOUS! Because when he is, the world will unite against him and demand his arrest.
We can help make a change. We can make a difference.
I feel so inspired. I feel the need to help and make a difference. This has to happen in 2012. We can't let him go around and keep d More Like This

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#hq

Would You Like a Dragon with that Latte?:icontechgnotic:
Art Is Everywhere
It’s that time again. The fans are filling in their brackets. The 64 competitors are preparing for the opening head-to-head elimination matches. This year’s contest
is being billed as a “Tournament for the Ages.”
It’s the Coffee Fest Latte Art Championships being held in San Diego this weekend, June 3rd, 4th & 5th.
→ Visit Coffee Fest Latte Art
Flying Dragon Latte by ~MonkDrew
Would You Like A Dragon With That Latte?By $techgnotic
If you are unfamiliar with “Barista Art”, (which I am sure most of you are familiar) you are in for a taste treat as much for the venturesome eyes as for the discerning palate.
Barista artists mold their intr More Like This

The Art of Capturing Souls:icontechgnotic:
The human face, usually that of one’s mother, is the first visual connection a new human being has with the world. That face is the world. Psychologists tell us that the greater percentage of what we communicate with each other in any conversation is transmitted and received through our reading of each other’s facial expressions during our chat – and more often than not, we trust the truth to be what we read in another’s face, this truth being as often as not contrary to the words being spoken.
Crazy Horse had no fear of leading his warriors against Custer’s guns at the Little Big Horn, but he wouldn’t let his picture be taken on his deathbed, lest his soul be captured in the photograph. For Crazy Horse it may indeed have been more than the mere chronicling of the death of a particular moment in time that was captured. Maybe it’s because of our unique evolutionary trajectory (w More Like This

The Committed Canvas:icontechgnotic:
Tattooing has existed since the very beginnings of Neolithic human expression and has since those ancient beginnings continued to be a reliable flash indicator of personality type. There are those people who get tattoos and there those people who simply do not. Even though the social opprobrium for getting inked has greatly disappeared in recent years, and even though skin art has become almost boringly de rigueur amongst rock guitarists and other entertainers, there is still one element that separates the tattooed from the non-tattooed in terms of artistic appreciation: commitment.
Tattoos may be the first “interactive” art form. The art lover doesn’t just buy an artist’s artwork – he or she becomes one with artwork, he or she commits to becoming a living canvas for the artwork, he or she, by choosing the tattoo to be borne forever, shares authorship with the tattoo artist of the artwork. T More Like This

The Fractal Universe:icontechgnotic:
Is a photograph only a record, something created by a machine? Can photography ever truly be considered art? That question seems quaint and laughable these days, but if you do a little research you will find that once upon a time it was a raging debate. Thankfully a consensus has been reached that the agency of the photographer – his or her eye and critical mind – choosing the subject and manipulating the machine (the camera that is the art instrument) is what establishes photographs as potential works of art when created by an artist-photographer. Pretty basic common sense, huh? So why then is there now a debate as to whether FRACTAL ART is truly art – or just something produced by poking patterns into a computer? Isn't it just really random e-graffiti, a fibonacci button mash?
Here we go again… Hopefully it won’t take nearly a century again before fractal art is recog More Like This

Back to School:icontechgnotic:
They are the three words that roil the senses like no others, that stir an inner emotional stew of mixed emotions that inscribes us, for both good and bad, for a lifetime. It's the inevitable arrival of late summer and the call to the classrooms that makes us tremulously anticipate the new anxieties and challenges that are about to be sprung upon us – but also the sweet rewards of ascending to new levels in pursuit of a life goal. For visual artists on their personal missions to achieving their own unique visions of success, in art and life, it is once again time to seek out the guiding wisdom of the old masters as well as the new kids with all the new tricks of the trade.
Featured Artist, Lindsay Rapp
Linday Rapp is an aspiring artist enrolled in not one, but two universities simultaneously this fall including the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Ivy League school, UPenn both in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. So I thought she might be a good candi More Like This

Cosplay: From Fandom to IdentityThe recent explosion of Cosplay across the world has elevated “dress-up” far more into actual role-playing, with the fans not just trying to look like their favorite characters but actually “becoming” the characters for extended periods of time.

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Goddess with Black Wing by ~lady-narven
Cosplay
From Fandom To Identity
:icontechgnotic:
by $techgnotic
Wed Feb 08, 2011, 11:00 PM
The recent explosion of Cosplay across the world has elevated More Like This

When Being Human Just Isn't Enough:icontechgnotic:
The allure of Anthro Art is obvious to anyone who ever “owned” and loved a pet. (Only those who have never loved and shared lives with a pet speak of pet “ownership”!) Once a bond has been formed between a human and an animal the rigid distinctions between what is human and what is animal begin to fracture.
The definition of “being” becomes suddenly far more expansive. And soon the bonded human begins feeling spiritual affinities with the “animal” that are undeniably powerful and as “real” as any felt with other humans. The desire to leave all the lies and hypocrisies of human society behind and join in with a simpler and somehow more “honest” society of different beings in nature can become palpable and intense. “The grass is always greener…” and, oh!, to scamper across it on four liberating paws!
From M More Like This

Eye See, Therefore Eye Am:icontechgnotic:
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die."
—Roy Batty, BLADERUNNER
Every time we open our eyes in the morning as each new day breaks, two worlds flow forth, each penetrating into the other, as the celestial portal gate separating them is once again raised. One’s inner world, of mind and being, pierces the outer world of light and raw data, seeking to hunt and gather mental sustenance. The outer world floods into our minds like a data tsunami, seeking to reconfigure the secret landscape of last night’s perfectly crafted dream state. Both worlds do battle to rearrange and make sense of the other. It is the yin and yang, by which we create and recreate the world – and the world invades and recreates each one of More Like This

The Savage Beauty of Gears of War:icontechgnotic:
WARNING: Interviews subject to "interruptions" due to "disturbances"
beyond the dA video crew’s control.
Ever wonder what it’s like to be an artist working on one of the world’s hottest shooter games inside the HQ of one of the world’s most respected videogame development companies? Ever dream of imagining and creating the alien landscapes and the superheroes and monstrous creatures who inhabit them?
These exclusive interviews only from deviantART at Epic Games HQ with Gears producers Cliff Bleszinski and Rod Fergusson and Gears artists Chris Perna, Wyeth Johnson, Shane Caudle and the rest of the Gears artists gang reveal what it takes to make a team of sorcerers to conjure, capture and render pure mayhem for our videogame rapture. They deliver insight into what their journey was like from when they first realized that art was their only life path and travel More Like This

journals

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~YumiSmiles

I'm so full of hate right now...Your ignorant fingertips turn the pages of my
soul as if you deem the words they whisper as
true. The taste of your assumptions is bitter
and the spit from my mouth has turned to poison.
Black waters deep with hate and disgust seep
from these lips and the desire to drown you
in my sins is potent.
Emerald mirrors with false reflections are
tainted red with a thirst for your mortality.
This crimson gaze stained and soiled falls from
the heavens and is damned to look upon you.
Odium, abhorrence, revulsion, hatred!
Insufferable this punishment I am to carry for
what was sentenced an eternity... More Like This

Faux Propaganda ArtFaux Propaganda Art

Propaganda I by ~Yuujakumi
Nov 15, 2012 by $techgnotic
The Comfort of Mindless Obedience
When is information true and useful and when is it just “propaganda?” Why in fact is an image or phrase or animated art sequence “propaganda” rather than it simply being a “lie?” What about acceptable lies that define our society as much as they degrade it - - for example commercials that obviously hype a product with untruths or political advertisements full of unachievable platitudes.

animal farm propaganda
by ~Satansgoalie
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Devious Journal EntryHow do I explain this? I don't really want to be able to control the Earth, or have amazing powers, or be fantastically strong. I don't want the world to know I'm powerful, and I don't want to be famous everywhere. I want to be unique, and find out I can do anything if I try hard enough. I want there to be someone who can show me how to be what I know I am inside; beautiful, strong, graceful, charming, intelligent. I wish someone would be able to let me do the crazy stuff I think up on the spot, let me show everyone I am brilliant. I want to be able to walk into a room and be at home in any company. I want all the people that everyone wants to emulate, to see how shiny and plastic and tacky they all are. I want to be proud of who I am. I want someone to show me how to be like that, how to dress like someone who doesn't have thousands of pounds, but carry it off because I am powerful in my own personality. I want people to listen to me, because my ideas can be wonderful, but also be the More Like This

Another rant : DThings that piss me off part III
Airplanes. No matter what you see in movies, airplanes are TINY as shit. But the Skymall mag is good for a laugh. (Who buys a watering fountain for their pet?)
I swear to (whatever god you worship) That if I see ANOTHER picture of a bottle or cup against a blurry photo background, on the front page, I am going to scream. OOOOHHHH you know how to use the focus on your camera. Good for you, you are a real photographer! (Seriously. Respect to the artists that can do this AS WELL as other good photography...but if that's all you do, come on.)
"Artistic nudes" Or as I like to call most of it "HOLY SHIT I GOT A GIRL TO POSE NAKED FOR ME." Seriously. Just taking a picture of a naked girl is NOT 'Artistic nude.' It's porn. I would know, I write it. If the photo has another element to it, or even some real artistic value BESIDES just tits, then yes, it's artistic nude. However, most of the shit I see on here isn't. It's porn. Which is fine, just don't call it 'A More Like This

My Pomposity Knows No BoundsNihilism is, with some exceptions, the haven for those who go just deep enough into reductionism to escape the philosophy of meaning and being and no further.
In reality, their may be a preferred point of reference in the universe-it's recently been found that sound moves through liquid in a similar fashion to light through a vacuum at close to absolute zero, which rocks the foundations of scalar fields somewhat. What that may mean, as future discoveries may find, is that the universe is not entirely relativistic, and that Einstein's theories, while primarily correct, are incomplete. This lends credence to science fiction in which there is faster-than-light travel, time travel, antigravity, this that and the other thing. It opens all new doors. But enough of the scientific shit that, let's face it, I only understand in the most tangential possible fashion.
A young nihilist, or an uneducated nihilist, is afraid of profundity. He or she reaches the notion that there can be no God and mor More Like This

Censoring the InternetA few weeks ago I made mention of feminist Anita Sarkeesian who started a kickstarter for a web series called "Tropes Vs Women" specifically centered around how women are portrayed in video games.
Despite the fact that kickstarters are payed for by people who've made the decision they want to contribute their money to the project, Anita came under attack from gamers for "scamming" audiences when her fund far exceeded the target goal. Just this past week it's come out that a 25 year old man from Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada, created a video game where the object is to punch the crap out of Anita. Wounds, bruises, and blood gush out the more you beat her up in this virtual game, and it's drawn some widespread attention.
Whether you agree with her viewpoint is not the issue, it's the fact that this retaliation is just "wrong" on so many levels. Do these people realize that what they're doing is shooting themselves in the foot? Making a video game where you beat up someone who's making More Like This

Devious Journal EntrySometimes, everything comes down to a single diamond hard point in time and you know you have to make a choice. You have to make a choice. It can be between right and wrong, but sometimes it isn't that easy. Sometimes, it has to be between two rights, two wrongs or you don't know which way round it is. But you do know that whatever it is, whatever way round, you have to do it and do it hard and never, ever look back or regret.
You have to do the job in front of you and do it hard and do it well and hope that it's the right thing. Or you can't even hope, it just needs to be done and so you will do it. No matter how afraid you are, how angry, you take it and hold it and turn it into a shield to hold the madness out, or even in, and a sword to cut through it. You have to take the strength that comes from the anger and fear of whatever is in front of you, and the anger at yourself for fearing it. When the world is listing to one side because someone is too hurt and it's n More Like This

Nothing's Stopping Me NowIf you all remember, from my previous journal, I was all sad, maybe even somewhat depressed, well I, for the most part, was. I had a terrible night filled with accusations and 'name-calling' by my parents, it was awful, it was because of a few times where I slipped up and/or made a mistake which my parents took seriously. In the end, I was a fool, not just for those foolish mistakes I made, but for letting my parents get to me.
And so, after taking some time to calm down with some LoZ (Legend of Zelda) action from 1-3am, bumping into some random funny clips online, and from receiving some replies from good pals of mine here on DA I've had some time to think about it. I've been letting small words and events control me, (metaphorically) I have kept myself grounded since I've been to afraid to fly, I've been letting my parents tie me down when I know what they say isn't always true. But after thinking it through, I've decided to break my chains and fly, be myself, live my life, and prove More Like This

The Roommate Adventures of ~THE SUNKEN SINK~While I was too busy stressing over the issues with the 1000 Words book and trying to fix the problems, I failed to mention some other, sillier, problems we've had since moving to a new apartment.
It went something like this:
Roommate: Wenqing!!! The sink fell!!!
Me: ...What?! (in my mind: Silly roommy got her English all confused. She must have meant something fell into the sink)
After going to the bathroom
Me: Holy crap! The sink fell!!!
The sinking sink, the sunken sink, the sink sank? Thinking of sinking sinks lol
And then the other roommate came home and was (in her own words) " ┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ︵ ┻━┻ "
But as the first roommate put it: "The good thing about not having a bathroom sink is that you can just reach through the counter where the sink should be to grab whatever is underneath."
Living on the bright side like a boss~
Derping on the Road
My friend ~Guavi and I were heading More Like This

some making of (Pyroman)Here you can see how the original artwork looks like:
I hope you enjoy seeing wip's and stuff :>
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