justthorne

Will be poking around the anniversary and site today, in and out,

starting with this very interesting new article compiled by SRaffa.

As you all know, nothing motivates me to actually finish work like an audience.  

So I hope you'll come join me.  

www.justThorne.com

For real this time!  



This weekend, to welcome you, three new prints!

Lives at Stake - now!
Right About Everything on Saturday, and
History of Men on Sunday.  

Plus, half a dozen works there already that you may not have seen.

I am feeling the mojo again.  

And if some of you would enjoy it too, I think I might be able to keep it up!  

Hey, thanks for your response to my bad news a couple of weeks ago.  It's been hard, but the well wishes meant a lot to me.  Still do.  

Meanwhile, the promised good news - my long-overdue website overhaul! - is still a couple of weeks off.  

But some of you may recall my habit of doing new art for holidays and special occasions?  

Well, today would surely qualify.  

Congratulations, America, and all over the world.  Our horrible nightmare is finally over.  

Hi.  

Unfortunately, 2008 ended on a really sad note for me.  

But I've been thinking about you all a lot, and I'll be back with some good news in a week or so.  

In so many ways, it will be a very different year.  

Okay, so I obviously left dA in 2007.  

I saw ndifference, CageyButterfly, and surrealist-geek banned earlier in the year, not for violations, but for expressing opinions and facts that the administration didn't want to hear.  

So there's the dilemma, do you see?

I could either continue to contribute here, and allow the implication that I found those events acceptable...

Or I could speak my mind and be banned myself.  

But I want my journals to stay here.  So I backed myself up, every note and journal, and engaged the "proper removal of the delete function" a couple of hundred times, to leave in every other way.  

I can't even say any more about it, can I?  That's the dilemma.  Speak up, but risk being shut up.  Permanently.

And that's how my life at dA came to an end.  

...

Maybe I'll update you someday, if I ever get another web presence rolling.   I sure promise that my artistic motivation misses you!

But anyway, I've been thinking of you guys a lot, missing you and wanting to update you.  There's an end-of-year entry posted now on my rarely-updated blog, if you want to soak up some blather.  

It's all about the New Year's juncture, the most important to me personally in the whole year, and I wrote it largely with you in mind, so thought I would give you a head's up.

Miss you a lot, wish things had gone differently...

And of course, wish you nothing but the best for 2008!