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Drones
Foreword
by $techgnotic
Choose any media or medium and there is no question that Drones have become the white hot center of debate for a multitude of deeply consequential concerns for the entire Earth Sphere. No matter the digital end point or theatre of conversation, whether it be politics, war, privacy, pop culture, or the rise of machines – Drones or UAV's (unmanned aerial vehicles) are the current catalyst du jour in any number of flashpoint discussions. From the front page headlines of news outlets around the world, to op-ed pages debating national security vs. non-juridical “just
Beauty as a Force of EnergyApr 18, 2013More Like This
by $techgnotic
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FilmmakerLouie Schwartzberg
Louie Schwartzberg has made it his life’s mission to use his cinematic artistry to raise the alarm for public awareness of the dire situation we are facing in the possible collapse of our taken-for-granted natural resources. The “colony collapse disorder” currently decimating our honeybees was the prompt for Louie’s new movie, Wings of Life, which at it's essence, is a love story that feeds the earth.
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Legacy of The LensMar 22, 2013by $techgnoticMore Like This
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A study in artistic diversity, Bernardo Medina embodies the renaissance spirit of the consummate artist, always inspired and inspiring artists around him to create and capture the rhythms of life and beauty in a
The Rise Of The Artist, You Are The FutureFebruary 27, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
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You Are The Future
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Picasso seeing a seven as an upside down nose?
Right brain warriors in the new age will be the coveted candidates ordained to lead and guide us; lifting the torch to light the way forward into a brave new beautiful world.
Artists have always feared that they are unappreciated and that the march of progress comes only from business, science and their machines. 1984 was imagined by an artist projecting these exact fears. Our guest essayist suggests the computer will never be our master, but only the super high speed counting machine it was meant to be leaving humans with only one pure task— being creative.
The Right Brain Revolutionby
The Lonely PathFebruary 13, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
“
I have never found a companion who was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
I always thought Thoreau’s comment was simply a word game— ultimately not of much value and false at its core. A Valentines Day in solitude should mean being all alone and alone means being unhappy, pure and simple. Still, it will turn out in life that the most alone we can feel is ironically in the crush of family and friends and even in the embrace of one’s Valentines Day companion— but lost and unfulfilled in one’s dreams and visions.
Spring feelings
by ~pamukcuceveyediprens
empty poem
by ~the-psycrothic
The New Street Photographer's ManifestoFebruary 7, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
Street photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson called it the “decisive moment”— the captured instant when all the photograph’s elements come together to tell a story in a way a text narrative of thousands of words could never begin to. It is what hooks people, both practitioners and advocate-devotees, on the art form. It is uniquely completely immersive in life— step out into the streets— in which the moment of artistic epiphany can never be guessed at until it suddenly happens. When it is properly mastered, it is as pure as the dawn of each new day, as true as the living organism of a teeming street scene catching a breath as one.
It's no easy task to pull a book together for publication and "The New Street Pho
Dessert Of Your DreamsMore Like This
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
Dante's Inferno, What's the Worst that Can Happen?More Like This
Dante Alighieri
by ~anakalivas
Oct 17, 2012 by $techgnotic
Sometimes in youth we play crazy mind games. One gruesome game was trying to think of the worst way to die. Or even better, the "which would you choose" version of the same conceit. Another was what would be the worst torture to endure. If there is one international touchstone that best captures youthful fears and wonders in speculation of what lies beyond the veil of death and awaits as possible punishment for our sins, it must be - to the few who have actually read it to the millions who "know" it – "Dante's Inferno." Who does not shiver at the thought of being lost somewhere in the "Nine
Witch Sorceress EnchantressMore Like This
:icontechgnotic:
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
Have You Met Zee Captain?More Like This
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Sep 19, 2012 by $techgnotic
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
Lady Gaga, Reduced to Ashes, A Phoenix to AriseMore Like This
Reduced to AshesA Phoenix to Arise
By $techgnotic|May 6, 2013
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it.
Charles Bukowski
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Today, Lady Gaga’s throne as a reigning pop diva is a 24 carat gold wheelchair, emergency hip surgery forcing the cancellation of her latest tour – a betrayal more devastating for her than for the typical performer, given her relationship with her fans. Her body has finally broken in sacrifice to the needs of her monsters for constant contact and reassurance. The question now is whether this brutal brush with her own mortality will result in the pop goddess pulling
Beauty as a Force of EnergyApr 18, 2013More Like This
by $techgnotic
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FilmmakerLouie Schwartzberg
Louie Schwartzberg has made it his life’s mission to use his cinematic artistry to raise the alarm for public awareness of the dire situation we are facing in the possible collapse of our taken-for-granted natural resources. The “colony collapse disorder” currently decimating our honeybees was the prompt for Louie’s new movie, Wings of Life, which at it's essence, is a love story that feeds the earth.
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DronesApr 10, 2013by $techgnoticMore Like This
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Drones
Foreword
by $techgnotic
Choose any media or medium and there is no question that Drones have become the white hot center of debate for a multitude of deeply consequential concerns for the entire Earth Sphere. No matter the digital end point or theatre of conversation, whether it be politics, war, privacy, pop culture, or the rise of machines – Drones or UAV's (unmanned aerial vehicles) are the current catalyst du jour in any number of flashpoint discussions. From the front page headlines of news outlets around the world, to op-ed pages debating national security vs. non-juridical “just
Introducing Madefire Motion Books to deviantARTApr 2, 2013by +spyedMore Like This
Visit #Madefire on deviantART
I am very excited to announce a strategic partnership between deviantART and Madefire, the leading Motion Book application in Apple’s App Store. (iPhone & iPad)
Together with Madefire, we are releasing the Madefire Web Reader on deviantART in a new category on our front-page called "Motion Books.” You will immediately find a dozen Madefire Motion Books there, with more books released each Wednesday.
Browse Motion BooksTM
Try it out!
Legacy of The LensMar 22, 2013by $techgnoticMore Like This
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A study in artistic diversity, Bernardo Medina embodies the renaissance spirit of the consummate artist, always inspired and inspiring artists around him to create and capture the rhythms of life and beauty in a
The Rise Of The Artist, You Are The FutureFebruary 27, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
Watch #depthRADIUS →
You Are The Future
Forward by $techgnotic
Picasso seeing a seven as an upside down nose?
Right brain warriors in the new age will be the coveted candidates ordained to lead and guide us; lifting the torch to light the way forward into a brave new beautiful world.
Artists have always feared that they are unappreciated and that the march of progress comes only from business, science and their machines. 1984 was imagined by an artist projecting these exact fears. Our guest essayist suggests the computer will never be our master, but only the super high speed counting machine it was meant to be leaving humans with only one pure task— being creative.
The Right Brain Revolutionby
The New Street Photographer's ManifestoFebruary 7, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
Street photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson called it the “decisive moment”— the captured instant when all the photograph’s elements come together to tell a story in a way a text narrative of thousands of words could never begin to. It is what hooks people, both practitioners and advocate-devotees, on the art form. It is uniquely completely immersive in life— step out into the streets— in which the moment of artistic epiphany can never be guessed at until it suddenly happens. When it is properly mastered, it is as pure as the dawn of each new day, as true as the living organism of a teeming street scene catching a breath as one.
It's no easy task to pull a book together for publication and "The New Street Pho
The Enduring Enigma of CollageFebruary 21, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
Collage is one of those art forms that immediately sets off heated debate about our most fundamental ideas and visceral feelings about the very essence of art itself.
Turn of the century troublemakers Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso began enhancing their paintings with glued on bits of cut out fabric and other materials, thus neatly blurring the line between the art categories of painting and sculpture. They shifted the emphasis or “meaning” of their painted images beyond an attempted interpretation of the painted “text” to thinking about the artists’ “process” – something wholly separate from the paintings themselves.
And with that a whole new Rubic’s Cube of basic questions about art was opened up:
Is an assemblage of “found” junk
The Lonely PathFebruary 13, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
“
I have never found a companion who was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
I always thought Thoreau’s comment was simply a word game— ultimately not of much value and false at its core. A Valentines Day in solitude should mean being all alone and alone means being unhappy, pure and simple. Still, it will turn out in life that the most alone we can feel is ironically in the crush of family and friends and even in the embrace of one’s Valentines Day companion— but lost and unfulfilled in one’s dreams and visions.
Spring feelings
by ~pamukcuceveyediprens
empty poem
by ~the-psycrothic
Dedication to a New YearMore Like This
December 31, 2012by $techgnotic
Nuances of an Annual Ritual
Which brings us to each year’s communal celebration of the passing of our lifetimes:
New Year’s Eve
So what did you “actually get done” in the past year? How closer are you to a grand goal in life? An assessment is made and then the inevitable Step 2 of the yearly process is engaged, which is often a word for word repeat of last year’s Step 2:
The New Year’s Resolution
There seem to be two main strategies that emerge at this point of facing the New Year, a “brand new morning.” The lone wolf quietly acknowledges goals not yet reached, and is even more secretive in the “new plan.” “I’ll show them,” becomes the new privat
Beauty as a Force of EnergyApr 18, 2013More Like This
by $techgnotic
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FilmmakerLouie Schwartzberg
Louie Schwartzberg has made it his life’s mission to use his cinematic artistry to raise the alarm for public awareness of the dire situation we are facing in the possible collapse of our taken-for-granted natural resources. The “colony collapse disorder” currently decimating our honeybees was the prompt for Louie’s new movie, Wings of Life, which at it's essence, is a love story that feeds the earth.
D
The Lonely PathFebruary 13, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
“
I have never found a companion who was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
I always thought Thoreau’s comment was simply a word game— ultimately not of much value and false at its core. A Valentines Day in solitude should mean being all alone and alone means being unhappy, pure and simple. Still, it will turn out in life that the most alone we can feel is ironically in the crush of family and friends and even in the embrace of one’s Valentines Day companion— but lost and unfulfilled in one’s dreams and visions.
Spring feelings
by ~pamukcuceveyediprens
empty poem
by ~the-psycrothic
The New Street Photographer's ManifestoFebruary 7, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
Street photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson called it the “decisive moment”— the captured instant when all the photograph’s elements come together to tell a story in a way a text narrative of thousands of words could never begin to. It is what hooks people, both practitioners and advocate-devotees, on the art form. It is uniquely completely immersive in life— step out into the streets— in which the moment of artistic epiphany can never be guessed at until it suddenly happens. When it is properly mastered, it is as pure as the dawn of each new day, as true as the living organism of a teeming street scene catching a breath as one.
It's no easy task to pull a book together for publication and "The New Street Pho
Legacy of The LensMar 22, 2013by $techgnoticMore Like This
depthRADIUS
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A study in artistic diversity, Bernardo Medina embodies the renaissance spirit of the consummate artist, always inspired and inspiring artists around him to create and capture the rhythms of life and beauty in a
Realm of Fantasy, The Anatomy of a GroupDecember 7, 2012by $techgnotic#Realm-of-Fantasy →More Like This
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
Dante's Inferno, What's the Worst that Can Happen?More Like This
Dante Alighieri
by ~anakalivas
Oct 17, 2012 by $techgnotic
Sometimes in youth we play crazy mind games. One gruesome game was trying to think of the worst way to die. Or even better, the "which would you choose" version of the same conceit. Another was what would be the worst torture to endure. If there is one international touchstone that best captures youthful fears and wonders in speculation of what lies beyond the veil of death and awaits as possible punishment for our sins, it must be - to the few who have actually read it to the millions who "know" it – "Dante's Inferno." Who does not shiver at the thought of being lost somewhere in the "Nine
Witch Sorceress EnchantressMore Like This
:icontechgnotic:
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
Fan Art LawMore Like This
Fan Art Law
Mon Sep 10, 2012 by $techgnotic
I
t seems there’s nothing quite as dear to the hearts of many of our deviants as their production of fan art, and at the same time, there is nothing so knotted with legal and ethical headaches. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but in the form of fan art it has also become one of the most frustratingly complicated. At some point, the sheer volume of fan art around a single property may become so large that the issue rises to another level of scrutiny by the creators of the original work.
With this dynamic in mind, we thought the following panel that Josh Wattles, our Advisor In Chief here at deviantART, and a mystery guest named Harold Smith, gave at Comic Con this year might be of immense help in understanding the ever evolving elements of fan art
4 Artists and Their JourneysMore Like This
Sept. 5, 2012 by $techgnotic
“When I left high school, I had all my plans to go to college, but I had no money. And I decided then, the best thing for me to do is not worry about getting money to go to college — I will educate myself. I walked down the street, I walked into a library, I would go to the library three days a week for ten years and I would educate myself. It’s all FREE, that’s the great thing about libraries! Most of you can afford to go to college, but if you wanna educate yourself completely, go to the library and educate yourself. When I was 28 years old, I graduated from Library.”
— Ray Bradbury
So spoke the recently departed Ray Bradbury, a seminal (possibly the seminal) American fantasy & science fiction writer. Today, aspiring sci-fi and fantasy writers study his novels and short stories as their core ed
Mythical Cartography, The Artistry of MapsMore Like This
: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
Early life becomes an exploration of invisible parameters, circles beyond circles, as one pushes out to test the boundaries of safety. There is one’s bedroom, one’s home, neighborhood, school and town, state and nation. Early on, maps become important documents – declarations of being and rights and privileges. In the art world, throughout history, maps have been a constant measure of human progress, from the Phoenecians recording their trade routes over 2000 years ago, or pre-Columbian t
Lady Gaga, Reduced to Ashes, A Phoenix to AriseMore Like This
Reduced to AshesA Phoenix to Arise
By $techgnotic|May 6, 2013
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it.
Charles Bukowski
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Today, Lady Gaga’s throne as a reigning pop diva is a 24 carat gold wheelchair, emergency hip surgery forcing the cancellation of her latest tour – a betrayal more devastating for her than for the typical performer, given her relationship with her fans. Her body has finally broken in sacrifice to the needs of her monsters for constant contact and reassurance. The question now is whether this brutal brush with her own mortality will result in the pop goddess pulling
Artists on Writers - No. 1More Like This
Apr 26, 2013•Issue No. 1 By $techgnotic•Watch #depthRADIUS
About Artists on Writers
Writers will always find inspiration in the visions of artists, always feeling compelled to tell the stories behind the moments captured in artists’ unforgettable images,
Just as,
Artists will always find inspiration in the words of writers, always feeling compelled to lend visual reality and habitat to the characters described in the scribe’s haunting words.
•••
I was inspired to create this series by =naikki while looking through her gallery of diverse artwork and reading through her journals which are focused on her favorite inspiring writers and thinkers. I felt certain there must be beautiful artwork in the form of portraits and tributes to these writers and their stories. I found most of =naikki's choices of quot
Beauty as a Force of EnergyApr 18, 2013More Like This
by $techgnotic
depthRADIUS
Watch #depthRADIUS
FilmmakerLouie Schwartzberg
Louie Schwartzberg has made it his life’s mission to use his cinematic artistry to raise the alarm for public awareness of the dire situation we are facing in the possible collapse of our taken-for-granted natural resources. The “colony collapse disorder” currently decimating our honeybees was the prompt for Louie’s new movie, Wings of Life, which at it's essence, is a love story that feeds the earth.
D
DronesApr 10, 2013by $techgnoticMore Like This
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Drones
Foreword
by $techgnotic
Choose any media or medium and there is no question that Drones have become the white hot center of debate for a multitude of deeply consequential concerns for the entire Earth Sphere. No matter the digital end point or theatre of conversation, whether it be politics, war, privacy, pop culture, or the rise of machines – Drones or UAV's (unmanned aerial vehicles) are the current catalyst du jour in any number of flashpoint discussions. From the front page headlines of news outlets around the world, to op-ed pages debating national security vs. non-juridical “just
Legacy of The LensMar 22, 2013by $techgnoticMore Like This
depthRADIUS
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A study in artistic diversity, Bernardo Medina embodies the renaissance spirit of the consummate artist, always inspired and inspiring artists around him to create and capture the rhythms of life and beauty in a
The Rise Of The Artist, You Are The FutureFebruary 27, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
Watch #depthRADIUS →
You Are The Future
Forward by $techgnotic
Picasso seeing a seven as an upside down nose?
Right brain warriors in the new age will be the coveted candidates ordained to lead and guide us; lifting the torch to light the way forward into a brave new beautiful world.
Artists have always feared that they are unappreciated and that the march of progress comes only from business, science and their machines. 1984 was imagined by an artist projecting these exact fears. Our guest essayist suggests the computer will never be our master, but only the super high speed counting machine it was meant to be leaving humans with only one pure task— being creative.
The Right Brain Revolutionby
The Enduring Enigma of CollageFebruary 21, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
Collage is one of those art forms that immediately sets off heated debate about our most fundamental ideas and visceral feelings about the very essence of art itself.
Turn of the century troublemakers Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso began enhancing their paintings with glued on bits of cut out fabric and other materials, thus neatly blurring the line between the art categories of painting and sculpture. They shifted the emphasis or “meaning” of their painted images beyond an attempted interpretation of the painted “text” to thinking about the artists’ “process” – something wholly separate from the paintings themselves.
And with that a whole new Rubic’s Cube of basic questions about art was opened up:
Is an assemblage of “found” junk
The Lonely PathFebruary 13, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
“
I have never found a companion who was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
I always thought Thoreau’s comment was simply a word game— ultimately not of much value and false at its core. A Valentines Day in solitude should mean being all alone and alone means being unhappy, pure and simple. Still, it will turn out in life that the most alone we can feel is ironically in the crush of family and friends and even in the embrace of one’s Valentines Day companion— but lost and unfulfilled in one’s dreams and visions.
Spring feelings
by ~pamukcuceveyediprens
empty poem
by ~the-psycrothic
Odyssey Propulsion 7More Like This
Odyssey Propulsion 7
He who birthed the strange tale into our world with a spurt of kaleidoscopic intergalactic vomit has now decided its end. *CliveBarker has chosen his favorite Chapter Eight to bring the multi-imagined Hydra-headed beast of a story to the end. All that remains is Chapter Eight illustration submissions remaining open for the next two weeks. And with the perfect visual, Odyssey II: Propulsion will become another hallmark in deviantART history.
So many writers and artists from around the world contributed amazing gifts of their wildest imaginations, collaborating with each other and offering suggestions and encouragement to
The New Street Photographer's ManifestoFebruary 7, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
Street photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson called it the “decisive moment”— the captured instant when all the photograph’s elements come together to tell a story in a way a text narrative of thousands of words could never begin to. It is what hooks people, both practitioners and advocate-devotees, on the art form. It is uniquely completely immersive in life— step out into the streets— in which the moment of artistic epiphany can never be guessed at until it suddenly happens. When it is properly mastered, it is as pure as the dawn of each new day, as true as the living organism of a teeming street scene catching a breath as one.
It's no easy task to pull a book together for publication and "The New Street Pho
Artists on Writers - No. 1More Like This
Apr 26, 2013•Issue No. 1 By $techgnotic•Watch #depthRADIUS
About Artists on Writers
Writers will always find inspiration in the visions of artists, always feeling compelled to tell the stories behind the moments captured in artists’ unforgettable images,
Just as,
Artists will always find inspiration in the words of writers, always feeling compelled to lend visual reality and habitat to the characters described in the scribe’s haunting words.
•••
I was inspired to create this series by =naikki while looking through her gallery of diverse artwork and reading through her journals which are focused on her favorite inspiring writers and thinkers. I felt certain there must be beautiful artwork in the form of portraits and tributes to these writers and their stories. I found most of =naikki's choices of quot
The New Street Photographer's ManifestoFebruary 7, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
Street photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson called it the “decisive moment”— the captured instant when all the photograph’s elements come together to tell a story in a way a text narrative of thousands of words could never begin to. It is what hooks people, both practitioners and advocate-devotees, on the art form. It is uniquely completely immersive in life— step out into the streets— in which the moment of artistic epiphany can never be guessed at until it suddenly happens. When it is properly mastered, it is as pure as the dawn of each new day, as true as the living organism of a teeming street scene catching a breath as one.
It's no easy task to pull a book together for publication and "The New Street Pho
Dante's Inferno, What's the Worst that Can Happen?More Like This
Dante Alighieri
by ~anakalivas
Oct 17, 2012 by $techgnotic
Sometimes in youth we play crazy mind games. One gruesome game was trying to think of the worst way to die. Or even better, the "which would you choose" version of the same conceit. Another was what would be the worst torture to endure. If there is one international touchstone that best captures youthful fears and wonders in speculation of what lies beyond the veil of death and awaits as possible punishment for our sins, it must be - to the few who have actually read it to the millions who "know" it – "Dante's Inferno." Who does not shiver at the thought of being lost somewhere in the "Nine
Plz? Icons as emoticons.Lets make a plz! A plz is an inactive deviantart account used solely for its icon. They came about via the wish to further customise deviantart emoticons. Plz accounts usually end in the word plz, but not always.More Like This
To use a plz, type :icon, then the name of the account, then :
So the full script looks like :iconACCOUNTNAME : (Without the space.
Plz's cover almost every emotion!
:iconimhappyplz: :iconimsarcasticplz: :iconbutbutplz: :iconimthinkingplz: :iconblankstareplz: :iconimshockedplz: :iconnotimpressedplz: :iconimhorrifiedplz: :iconimgrinningplz: :iconurnothappyplz: :iconimnothappyplz: :iconimmadplz: :iconexcitedflirtplz: :iconomgwhutplz: :iconidontthinksobetchplz: :iconsomethingstinksplz: :iconflirtplz: :iconcrosswalledplz: :iconimhighplz: :iconurhighplz: :iconhappyhitlerplz: :iconhitlershighplz: :iconiloveitplz: :iconwooooplz: :iconimnerdplz: :iconretardthinkingplz: :iconimpervyplz: :iconwthplz: :iconimskepticalplz: :iconimblushingplz: :iconvictoryplz: :ico
Possessional DemonologyMore Like This
Dante Alighieri
by *TLishman
Oct 30, 2012 by $techgnotic
Opening the Darkest Door
I have recently come across a most disturbing phenomenon in my studies of the Diabolic Infestation of the Soul. It seems there is a most frightening psychological conundrum when considering the concept of demonic possession even the most remote possibility of reality upon our earthly plane is the notion that just believing it may be true could very likely be the spark needed for the Demon to discover, seek out, and ultimately inhabit its next vessel of evil: You.
From the Exorcist through Paranormal Activity, generation after generation of “believer
Faux Propaganda ArtFaux Propaganda ArtMore Like This
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
Realm of Fantasy, The Anatomy of a GroupDecember 7, 2012by $techgnotic#Realm-of-Fantasy →More Like This
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
Click it, don't be afraidhttp://dig4bugs.deviantart.com/art/The-Glass-Is-362433239?q=favby%3Adig4bugs%2F47222393&qo=214More Like This
Comment on what glass you like...
{{ History }} HistoryMore Like This
10 years ago
It was a long long time ago in the Underworld. The kingdom of the Paladins’ was a place of peace and tranquillity for all the Culions. The Culions were the dominant species, they were large in numbers and power, all the other creatures of the underworld feared these great cats. The Culions were a very intelligent species, having many different vocal commands and a full functioning city which they called Underworld City. The Culions were a cocky race, thinking that they could do and take whatever they wanted and that they would not face any consequences what so ever. They stole precious land from the Bird-Monsters and Hell Hounds, leaving them homeless and starving. The Culions lived like kings and they ruled the Underworld, giving no other creature the chance to over throw their reign of power. These were the good days for the Culions, however soon, things started to change. The arrival of strange new creatures would lead to th
Among the sleep is now on KICKSTARTER!!More Like Thishttp://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krillbite/among-the-sleep
Weeee <3 8D be sure to check it out!
1.5 remixlook at the screenshot I found, yeah you're all gonna know my awesomeness better now!More Like This
I just got the most amazing mail *w*Firstly: There's still a contest going on, do join~http://rosey-raven.deviantart.com/journal/SunTC-contest-time-361574229More Like This
Secondly:
I GOT A BOX
What a pretty box!
Box~
okay okay, so what was in the box? Let's find out 8D
Oop, something peeks out it's... it's ... *w*
:icontfathundercrackerplz::iconsaysplz: ME!
:iconssragefaceplz::iconsaysplz: HOW DARE YOU PUSH ME DOWN CLONE!
:icontfathundercrackerplz::iconsaysplz: I AM BETTER THAT YOU! I CAN DO WHAT I WANT!
:iconssragefaceplz::iconsaysplz: YOU ARE A CLONE! AND A WORTHLESS ONE AT THAT!
...seekers, seekers please, stop fighting D8
That's better~ SO~
These would be the most amazing,, awesome, cutest plushies I...jsfkjbgkjabgjfkgbajkfgjrgjfgkag LOOK AT THEM, THEY ARE ADORABLE :iconomgsocuteplz:
Made by the amazing :icon6thclone: and you should go to her page and get yourself an ADORABLE PRECIOUS seeker plushie seriously :iconchuuplz:
Oh look, tiny versions of yourselves 8D Ithinktheymightbeafraidhere...
Ah~ Our new BFFs
The Rise Of The Artist, You Are The FutureFebruary 27, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
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Picasso seeing a seven as an upside down nose?
Right brain warriors in the new age will be the coveted candidates ordained to lead and guide us; lifting the torch to light the way forward into a brave new beautiful world.
Artists have always feared that they are unappreciated and that the march of progress comes only from business, science and their machines. 1984 was imagined by an artist projecting these exact fears. Our guest essayist suggests the computer will never be our master, but only the super high speed counting machine it was meant to be leaving humans with only one pure task— being creative.
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And then I got a parrot~Well...I got her more than a week ago actually, I just never made a journal about her here, I still feel I should...idk .w.More Like This
Because srsly, she's the cutest little baby~
And when we were driving home with her she just hung completely still on the cage bars and didn't move from there until later that evening. She didn't really do much else though...
Now however she's eating and drinking and pooping everywhere and even sometimes playing with her toys so I guess she's at least used to her new home 8D
She still needs a bit longer before she's completely used to me though...and she doesn't always want to come out of her cage :c
But when she does she likes climbing onto my head and/or shoulder and it is CUTE >w
you will laughYou will laugh at this story.More Like This
So me and my friend Chris are going to publix to get some soda for a game. Chris had counted out the change exactly over a half hour to get exactly what we needed. So we get to publix, and after getting the sodas we go to pay. We needed, and thought we had $2.10, while we only had $2. She gives us a quarter, and I say we will pay her back and she saying how its not nessisary its just 25 cents. And im saying how i am a man of my word and i will not forget it. We walk out of the store, and we glance at the ash tray, and Chris points out a QUARTER. He gives it to me, and I run into publix with the quarter she stares at me looking so confused and i held my hand in the air with the coin saying "I was completely serious". I gave her the quarter, the person who was in the bagging area stared at me like i was crazy, I turned to the girl who gave me the quarter "the universe wanted you to have this" and me and Chris left. We are still laughing about it.
Legacy of The LensMar 22, 2013by $techgnoticMore Like This
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A study in artistic diversity, Bernardo Medina embodies the renaissance spirit of the consummate artist, always inspired and inspiring artists around him to create and capture the rhythms of life and beauty in a
The Rise Of The Artist, You Are The FutureFebruary 27, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
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Picasso seeing a seven as an upside down nose?
Right brain warriors in the new age will be the coveted candidates ordained to lead and guide us; lifting the torch to light the way forward into a brave new beautiful world.
Artists have always feared that they are unappreciated and that the march of progress comes only from business, science and their machines. 1984 was imagined by an artist projecting these exact fears. Our guest essayist suggests the computer will never be our master, but only the super high speed counting machine it was meant to be leaving humans with only one pure task— being creative.
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Canvas sizes - inches and dpi and pixelsThis is a sort of guide on canvas sizes, inches, dpi and pixel x pixels.More Like This
when it came to canvas sizes, I always kind of assumed that inches belonged with dpi and pixels were just pixels and that everyone knew that; but i read a whole bunch of comments on a tumblr blog where someone asked about canvas sizes, and SO MANY people were replying with things such as, "4000x4000 px at 300 dpi" or "2000x2000 px at 200dpi".
and I guess not everyone quite understands what dpi's really used for xD.
DPI = Dots per Inch. It means how many dots will be printed per inch.
DPI is actually used for printing purposes. It shows the printer how much pixels to print per inch, literally. A common printer (at home or even at a lot of printing stores) at best prints at 150dpi most of the time actually; there are some super duper great printers that can print REALLY fine that can go up to ...apparently a lot more xD; #dpi, so that's why everyone usually suggests saving your project at 300dpi; most printers are f
Respect YourselfMy friend shared this video to warn other artists about how she was taken advantage of, and I believe this is a very important message that every artist should hear.More Like This
I've lost count of how many times someone, be it a big corporation or an individual, have asked me to illustrate for them for free. It will always go something like this "You draw this for us, and we will include your name in the credits. That's good publicity for you!" as if such a pathetic offer holds any merit.
There was one specific case where a guy wanted to use my drawing as a book cover but didn't want to pay. He said he might print up to 50,000 books, so that's like an amazing offer of 50,000 views for me right? Wrong. 50,000 is nothing. We live in the information revolution. Don't forget we have places like Deviantart, tumblr, and all those social networking sites. Sharing art, like sharing any information, has never been easier. You don't have to degrade yourself for some disrespectful publisher to get you art se
No One Cares About Your StoryGOOD NEWS: This is perfectly normal!More Like This
I can't remember the source, but a few years ago I read this famous author's account of how it felt to have his first book come out, and he mentioned buying a copy himself because he was afraid no one would take an interest. Now this is a guy who managed to get not only an agency but a publisher (which is a whole pile of people who were like yesplz), and he's still afraid readers won't care. I was like, 'whoa mind blown.'
But anyway, the fact is that we are all strangers on the Internet and, by default, there is no reason for you to read my stuff or vice-versa. If you went and stood in Times Square with copies of your latest story, how many people would give you more than a passing glance? And how many of those people would get to the end of your work, and how many of those would offer critical feedback?
And, if you were one of the passersby, whom would you stop for?
Okay, I'm done scaring the shi
More Like This: A New Way To Explore deviantARTMore Like ThisMore Like This
DeviantART is proud to announce More Like This - a new way to explore deviantART. When you find a piece of artwork that you love, More Like This surfaces related artwork, artists, and Collections. With More Like This and our other new browse upgrades, deep-diving through the deviantART community's diverse collection of over 200 million deviations just got better.
DRAGON CASTLE by ~randis
We developed More Like This to make it easier to find the content you love. With over 100,000 new deviations being submitted daily, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of browsable artwork. More Like This allows you to discover corners of deviantART cate
Witch Sorceress EnchantressMore Like This
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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
Supercharge Your Profile Like the MastersMore Like This
How toSupercharge Your Profile Like the Masters
Wed Sep 26, 2012 by $techgnotic
L
ast week we published the video of Josh Wattles, $makepictures Fan Art Law panel from Comic-Con. An educative, passionate and very enlightening conversation soon followed in the comments section. You can participate in that conversation here.
This week the superstars of deviantART panel will provide unique insight and advice for artists on the rise in the deviantART community.
Being a member of the deviantART community might be the most important support system a young artists could ever hope to have. That being said, there is also the problem of finding a way to stand out when surrounde
Fan Art LawMore Like This
Fan Art Law
Mon Sep 10, 2012 by $techgnotic
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t seems there’s nothing quite as dear to the hearts of many of our deviants as their production of fan art, and at the same time, there is nothing so knotted with legal and ethical headaches. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but in the form of fan art it has also become one of the most frustratingly complicated. At some point, the sheer volume of fan art around a single property may become so large that the issue rises to another level of scrutiny by the creators of the original work.
With this dynamic in mind, we thought the following panel that Josh Wattles, our Advisor In Chief here at deviantART, and a mystery guest named Harold Smith, gave at Comic Con this year might be of immense help in understanding the ever evolving elements of fan art
Mistaking pornography and artistic nudityA.k.a. Deviantart admins FAIL again.More Like This
This is not the first time that they do.
Today I was browsing around on deviantart searching for some "shower" pictures to get ideas for a project. And I found this: http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&global=1&q=showering#/d2gysln
Anyhow I see it, it's not what the "artist" says about what it is. Soap MY ASS. There is a HUGE gap in between artistic nudity and pornographic content. THIS http://browse.deviantart.com/photography/people/nude/?order=9 is artistic nudity.
I wanted to report it but the report button said:
Case Log: Explicit Pornography
First Report: Sun Mar 28 2010 04:36
Case Closed: Wed Aug 17 2011 00:04
Status: Invalid
Comment: Thank you for your report. A member of our staff has reviewed the deviation but has found that it does not meet the current official definition for "pornography" which is in use. Please remember that while this image might meet your own personal definition for "pornography", your personal view and
Beauty as a Force of EnergyApr 18, 2013More Like This
by $techgnotic
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FilmmakerLouie Schwartzberg
Louie Schwartzberg has made it his life’s mission to use his cinematic artistry to raise the alarm for public awareness of the dire situation we are facing in the possible collapse of our taken-for-granted natural resources. The “colony collapse disorder” currently decimating our honeybees was the prompt for Louie’s new movie, Wings of Life, which at it's essence, is a love story that feeds the earth.
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Devious Journal EntrySo I've had a productive and terrifying night that is ending rather peacefullyMore Like This
I got home from school, had a good day but I was tired.
Mamas working doubles so she doesn't get home till 11 I think
So I decided that instead of making a real meal today I was going to be lazy and just make cowboy casserole since we had biscuts and its delicious. Also frozen peas! Yummeh!
Mama can suck it up.
I made that and ate it and shit and promptly fell asleep, with the oven still on, almost burning down my house.
Luckily nothing caught on fire or anything.
So then I went up stairs to get started on my homework and essay
And started to panic because of my room and my self and homework and school and problems and
Then I started writing, not my essay, mostly just whatever first came to my thoughts
Not a story, it didn't say really anything.
I like doing it.
Filled up 9 pages
Front and back
Its beautiful
Anyway so after that my night got less interesting
I finished up my Aztecs essay
and then got distrac
Smells are SmellySo I was smelling my computer.More Like This
For science.
And I realized it smelled like something but I couldn't figure out what.
And it just hit me.
Waffles.
My computer smells like Waffles.
No syrup.
Waffles.
Now I never have to leave my computer even to smell breakfast foods.
This is my favorite thing.
Devious Journal EntryTony Stark / Iron ManMore Like This
[ ] You like booze
[ ] You are the life of the party
[x] You love gadgets
[ ] You can be rather cocky
[ ] Your favorite color is red or gold
[x] You're good with computers
[x] You use sarcasm a lot
[ ] You love getting attention
[ ] You're good at mechanics
[ ] You have issues with your parents
3/10
Dr. Bruce Banner / The Hulk
[/] You're good at science
[ ] You can get very aggressive when ticked off
[x] You like to be secluded most of the time
[x] You like wearing baggy clothes
[/] You like to meditate
[x] You like doing science experiments
[x] You try to avoid getting into fights
[x] You like wearing purple things
[x] You're clever
[ ] Your favorite color is green
7/10
Thor Odinson
[ ] You're good with a hammer
[x] You like coffee
[ ] You can eat a truckload of food and still be hungry
[ ] You can be arrogant
[x] You have long hair
[x] You have an interest in astrology
[x] You can get sulky when things don't go your way
[ ] You're willing to take a fall for some
The Rise Of The Artist, You Are The FutureFebruary 27, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
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Picasso seeing a seven as an upside down nose?
Right brain warriors in the new age will be the coveted candidates ordained to lead and guide us; lifting the torch to light the way forward into a brave new beautiful world.
Artists have always feared that they are unappreciated and that the march of progress comes only from business, science and their machines. 1984 was imagined by an artist projecting these exact fears. Our guest essayist suggests the computer will never be our master, but only the super high speed counting machine it was meant to be leaving humans with only one pure task— being creative.
The Right Brain Revolutionby
Ranting Rampage: My Closet Is Really MessySo I have been doing the swimming unit for a week and a half now. As to be expected, I'm not really enjoying it. However I have enough people in my group to be decent during classes. And as it turns out- no one pays attention to you, because they're just as miserable as you are about the whole thing. Suck a fuck. So it's kinda great. I'm somewhat comfortable with being in the pool with a bunch of strangers.More Like This
Anyhow- let's get to the focus of the rant, otherwise I'll go off on an "insecurity" rant about bathing suits. So they split us up into fives and the groups move into the separate lanes. My group consists of three highly sexual, loud, pansexual "emo" females, not including myself (& minus one other girl). However, I myself am a pansexual "emo".
As we're waiting for someone to finish up their backstroke, I'm complimenting S's (we're gunna use the first letter of the name to keep it safe) bikini and holding her bridal style in the water. Across from me J asks if I'm bisexual. Like- wo
BothersomeHonestly people.More Like This
So I was thinking today.
When someone cries in public, or school or anywhere really,
And you look at them to make sure they are really crying.
And they try and hide their tears or turn away or something
You shouldn't walk up and demand to know whats wrong.
You shouldn't press them to talk to you.
The best thing you can do in most situations like that is sit by them.
Protect them from anyone else coming over.
Maybe hold them if they feel like they need it.
If it is obvious that they have just been crying and have tried to collect themselves,
The best thing to do is to just pretend like they don't have red puffy eyes, or if there voice breaks, just keep moving on.
But I despise when people ask you what's wrong when you are upset.
Those are not the words you want to hear.
I personally sound just awful when I cry, so talking is not something I would want to do.
And I never much feel like talking anyway.
So honestly friends and others,
If you see a friend cry in public, don
Ask me questionsMore Like This:la::eager::la::eager::la::eager::la::eager::la::eager::la::eager::la::eager::la::eager::la::eager::la::eager::la::eager::la::eager::la::eager::la::eager::la::eager::la::eager::la::eager::la::eager:
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Please read it before you ask here, most of questions are answered but some people still asking without reading them first. If you don't want to read whole thing, you can use ctrl+F to find the keyword you want to know. Many thanks for understanding :happycry:
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:bulletwhite:I usually get notes/comments to ask about drawing and of course I always happy to share my experiences with you cause I want all of us becomes better ^^ but sometimes, same answers may take a bit time therefore I will answers and post all questions of you here. It will save more my time and your time. Is it okie?
But please, I only answer question about art/drawi
New Years ResURRECTIONS :O :o :0I..More Like This
Just..
I'm kind of crazy right now okay?
Don't ask about the title okay???
But seriously though
Zombies
What
Haha
No
(look it looks like a gun the text it LOOKS LIKE A GUN!!! ^^^^^^^)
Happy New Year everyone!
It's 2013 in case you hadn't noticed and if you hadn't then you should probably get that checked out
I actually have..
re..
re..
resolutions..
But you don't get to know them because I'm stubborn.
Okay actually you get to know one because you guys should beat me (in a totally non-sexual way) if I go against this
I am not going to stop swearing, because I've tried it before and it doesn't work, but I'm limiting myself
I can only say the d-word
omg
the d
THE D
no not that d word
Damn
/Dammit
So yeah
Trust me I can do this I have faith in myself
Also I got this quiz below from nishnash4 so I'm going to do that now:
I confess that in 2012 I:
[X] Stayed single for the whole year.
[_] Kissed in the snow.
[X] Celebrated Halloween.
[_] Kissed in the rain.
[_] Had your heart broken.
Love.So hello there, haven't written one of these journal entries in a while.More Like This
I had a goo Christmas, got a record player which is pretty coolhaha
But the most exciting thing that has been going on is that I have a girlfriend <3
Considering the only people who really follow me are my friends, you all know who see is
Haha but if you don't she is really nice and smart and funny and everything about her is adorable
Just thinking about her makes me smile
Anyway my life is going pretty well right now
Nothing more to report
So have a nice day
Hug someone
Sparks & Rockects
Kylie
United States is North KoreaSo this ex pro basketball player I've never heard of goes to North Korea to visit their dear leader as a publicity stunt orchestrated by some obscure media outlet. Apparently successful, because mainstream media is stupid enough to fall for it, since I saw it on TV over dinner. Anderson Cooper is all like outraged and shit. "How can you meet with a murderer?" Death camps, human rights abuses, etc.More Like This
Well, no doubt North Korea is a humongous shit hole, but guess what? It operates on the same basic principles as the United States. Anderson mentioned a few points, and the parallels are just too obvious to miss to anyone with half a brain. But alas, they didn't have any common decency to invite somebody to troll away their "we are the good guys" and "they are the bad guys" message. Obviously, the US is way better than North Korea, but we are talking about principle, and in that respect they are no different at all.
North Korea has concentration camps where enemies of the people are he
The New Street Photographer's ManifestoFebruary 7, 2013/by $techgnoticMore Like This
Street photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson called it the “decisive moment”— the captured instant when all the photograph’s elements come together to tell a story in a way a text narrative of thousands of words could never begin to. It is what hooks people, both practitioners and advocate-devotees, on the art form. It is uniquely completely immersive in life— step out into the streets— in which the moment of artistic epiphany can never be guessed at until it suddenly happens. When it is properly mastered, it is as pure as the dawn of each new day, as true as the living organism of a teeming street scene catching a breath as one.
It's no easy task to pull a book together for publication and "The New Street Pho
Holiday Card Project 2012More Like This
It's back! With the goal of bringing a little cheer to patients in the hospital during the holiday season, the deviantART Holiday Card Project connects deviants from around the world and applies their tremendous artistic abilities in designing and creating uplifting holiday cards.
In past years, the Project has received more than 5,000 cards sent in by more than 1,000 deviants from 50 different countries/political regions. Cards were then divvied up and distributed in-person by deviantART members to local Los Angeles, CA hospitals, with additional cards given to various hospitals in the U.S. and abroad for hospital staff members to hand out to patients.
The idea behind the Holiday Card Project is simple: do something nice for others. However, if you're looking for even more incentive, every deviant who submits a card will be given a free one-month Premium Membership to deviantA
Fatties and SkinniesI am obviously extremely thin, and I get a LOT of commentary about that, both positive and negative. So, here's what I have to say...More Like This
First of all, I don't care if you are skinny, fat, or in-between. As long as you are HEALTHY and LOVE YOURSELF, you can be attractive at any size. If you are underweight because you starve yourself, or if you are overweight because you eat crap and don't exercise, I find that very unattractive.
I am NATURALLY this thin. I eat raw food, do yoga, live a physically active life, and make an effort to eat extra calories in order to maintain a healthy weight.
To all the skinny girls out there, love who you are. I am 5'9" and barely 100 lbs. My body mass index is EXTREMELY low. Most people would pretty much die if they had my BMI. This is just the way I am, and it does not make you inadequate if you're not just as thin. I am not "thinspiration", and I am not "pro-ana". If you are looking at my pictures to motivate yourself to starve, please get help!
To all the
Sherlock Holmes: The Ever Evolving IconWhat is it about a fictional character first introduced to the public in Great Britain in 1887 that has kept him being reincarnated, with generationally-correct upgrades, over and over again in film and on television? Who is this literary hero whose portrayal over the past century by such past masters as Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett to today’s vanguard talents Robert Downey, Jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch has inspired such a continuing outpouring of fan appreciation?More Like This
Sherlock Holmes
The Ever Evolving Icon
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by $techgnotic
Wed Mar 14, 2012, 7:20 PM
What is it about a fictional character first introduced to the public in Great Britain in 1887 that has kept him being reincarnated, with generationally-correct upgrades, over and over again in film and on television? Who is this literary hero whose portrayal
Philadelphia?How many fans of :iconcaptainfanclub: are from Philadelphia?More Like This
I'm pondering of coming there for Wizard World Comicon (June 1-3), but what I require is jolly booth assistants!
Let me know if you'd be interested in cosplaying as :iconcaptainfanclub: or :iconsnippyfanclub: if you're from Philadelphia!
Realm of Fantasy, The Anatomy of a GroupDecember 7, 2012by $techgnotic#Realm-of-Fantasy →More Like This
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
Dessert Of Your DreamsMore Like This
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
GratitudeMore Like This
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:
A first step into this world consisted of a simple return to the practice of
Faux Propaganda ArtFaux Propaganda ArtMore Like This
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
Supercharge Your Profile Like the MastersMore Like This
How toSupercharge Your Profile Like the Masters
Wed Sep 26, 2012 by $techgnotic
L
ast week we published the video of Josh Wattles, $makepictures Fan Art Law panel from Comic-Con. An educative, passionate and very enlightening conversation soon followed in the comments section. You can participate in that conversation here.
This week the superstars of deviantART panel will provide unique insight and advice for artists on the rise in the deviantART community.
Being a member of the deviantART community might be the most important support system a young artists could ever hope to have. That being said, there is also the problem of finding a way to stand out when surrounde
Have You Met Zee Captain?More Like This
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Sep 19, 2012 by $techgnotic
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
The Magic Dust of Child ArtistsMore Like This
:icontechgnotic: Sep 12, 2012 by $techgnotic
When recently asked how his political candidate would explain certain positions taken during the
nomination process with contrary positions to be taken during the general election, the campaign chief
replied that stated political positions were “like an Etch A Sketch,” -- meaning they could simply be
flipped over, erased and begun over from scratch.
Were it that adult life were as simple as a happy Etch A Sketch memory from childhood.
(The campaign chief took heavy heat for his flippant, if truthful, statement.) The incident made
me wonder how many of us had early experiences as “sketch artists” with that incredible red toy that
has become almost standard issue for so many children still to this day.
For those unfamiliar w
Mythical Cartography, The Artistry of MapsMore Like This
: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
Early life becomes an exploration of invisible parameters, circles beyond circles, as one pushes out to test the boundaries of safety. There is one’s bedroom, one’s home, neighborhood, school and town, state and nation. Early on, maps become important documents – declarations of being and rights and privileges. In the art world, throughout history, maps have been a constant measure of human progress, from the Phoenecians recording their trade routes over 2000 years ago, or pre-Columbian t
SuggestivismSuggestivismMore Like This
Birth of a New Category or Beginning of the End of Categories?
:icontechgnotic: Jul 26, 2012 by $techgnotic
Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be another “ism” on the art world horizon, what with the growing accessibility of all
art technique and technology rendering all the “schools of art” equally available and doable and therefore making impossible the dominance
or even existence of any current art “movement” … comes “suggestivism,” the “ism” best summing up what art is in our lives today, defined
more by what it is not, rather than what it is.
"Suggestivist" a
The Tree as Beautiful MachineWhile searching deviantART for images for the Earth Day article, I became intrigued with how trees have become not only such a central focus of our current environmental concerns, but also how they play such a central role in our art, whether as background or actual subject matter. There are so many Enchanted Forests on deviantART that it made me wonder if trees, so mundane and taken for granted yet at the same time so vital to life on earth and so steeped in myth, have always been the revered subjects of the world’s artists.More Like This
:icontechgnotic:by $techgnotic
May 2, 2012
While searching deviantART for images for the Earth Day article, I became intrigued with how trees have become not only such a central f
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