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"Thanx Mr. Rorschach"

=dwk61:icondwk61: reports, 1d 18h ago
Music by the legendary Rex Illusivii (Suba) set to an extraordinary collection of suggestive artwork.

Grammar: I can haz?

~Selenedragon:iconSelenedragon: reports, 2d 11h ago
We all have grammar troubles sometime. Want some hints? Want to avoid some certain mistakes? Come and join! Class is about to start.

DENYING THE POVERTY DRAFT-THE SOLDIER AS A SYMBOL

=whitetrashpalace:iconwhitetrashpalace: reports, 2d 13h ago
The Poverty Draft, Politics, Symbols, and the inconvenience of being human.

Even in times of war, the Soldier as an individual is of no consequence. The Soldier is a symbol, a simple pawn in a culture war. The Soldier is either a villain, or a Hero. The Soldier always serves for the honor of his country, not his paycheck. The Soldier is faithful, as there are 'no atheists in the trenches'. The Soldier is Combat Arms. The Soldier is male, he married a young white girl, and he has a baby on the way, whom he has never met.

The Soldier is a romantic ideal.

deviantARTtimes July 5th, 2009

=deviantARTtimes:icondeviantARTtimes: reports, July 5
Providing you with Community News, Deviant News and more: read about what's going on on deviantART, find links to important contests and happenings, or simply be entertained. We are the deviantARTtimes - dA's leading news source.

To cheeseburger or not to cheeseburger

*Halohid:iconHalohid: reports, July 3
Body types in the world of internet modeling and how to respond with respect and compassion.

All Deaths are Tragedies

*Silvaz:iconSilvaz: reports, July 1
All deaths are important, not just pop stars.

A Feminist Perspective on Questionable Images

~sick-snowangel:iconsick-snowangel: reports, July 1
Sex and sexuality in art are some of my favorite things, and certainly sometimes arousal is part of this, but more importantly, it is FAR MORE than about simple arousal, as porn is. One of my deviantart friends, :iconcypherthepanicartist: , said that art of a sexual nature can “ provoke thoughts about our dreams, fears, desires, and place in the world"...yes! Well done art that deals with sex exposes the soul of the subject or act in question, not just the naughty bits. I feel that any kind of work on this site that looks at sexuality in a thoughtful or artistic or critical or celebratory, etc. way is certainly appropriate content for an art site, because, of course, this work is actually ART.

So You Want (to) Critique.

=KneelingGlory:iconKneelingGlory: reports, July 2
Here is a two-fold guide for deviants wishing to receive critique as well as deviants who want to give constructive critiques.

Hate Mary Sues? Don't we all! (Part Two)

=dantesgirl:icondantesgirl: reports, June 29
A continuation of my unexpectedly-popular guide on Mary Sue prevention. In this Part, I will be critiquing a notoriously bad fanfiction - My Immortal. Thank you all for your current support!

deviantARTtimes June 28th, 2009

=deviantARTtimes:icondeviantARTtimes: reports, June 28
Providing you with Community News, Deviant News and more: read about what's going on on deviantART, find links to important contests and happenings, or simply be entertained. We are the deviantARTtimes - dA's leading news source.
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deviantARTtimes July 5th, 2009

=deviantARTtimes:icondeviantARTtimes: reports, July 5
Providing you with Community News, Deviant News and more: read about what's going on on deviantART, find links to important contests and happenings, or simply be entertained. We are the deviantARTtimes - dA's leading news source.

Grammar: I can haz?

~Selenedragon:iconSelenedragon: reports, 2d 11h ago
We all have grammar troubles sometime. Want some hints? Want to avoid some certain mistakes? Come and join! Class is about to start.

DENYING THE POVERTY DRAFT-THE SOLDIER AS A SYMBOL

=whitetrashpalace:iconwhitetrashpalace: reports, 2d 13h ago
The Poverty Draft, Politics, Symbols, and the inconvenience of being human.

Even in times of war, the Soldier as an individual is of no consequence. The Soldier is a symbol, a simple pawn in a culture war. The Soldier is either a villain, or a Hero. The Soldier always serves for the honor of his country, not his paycheck. The Soldier is faithful, as there are 'no atheists in the trenches'. The Soldier is Combat Arms. The Soldier is male, he married a young white girl, and he has a baby on the way, whom he has never met.

The Soldier is a romantic ideal.

"Thanx Mr. Rorschach"

=dwk61:icondwk61: reports, 1d 18h ago
Music by the legendary Rex Illusivii (Suba) set to an extraordinary collection of suggestive artwork.

Scientology ads on DA

=realta-eireann:iconrealta-eireann: reports, July 9
DeviantART is displaying Ads for Scientology - it needs to stop!

Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 10 - Orcs

*ladyarah:iconladyarah: reports, July 7
Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 10 - Orcs
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Quotes From the DA Politics Forum

*DAPoliticalForum:iconDAPoliticalForum: reports, 18h 20m ago
[link] Official DA Political Forum

Each week the *DAPoliticalForum Club harvests a plethera of quotes we branded SKULL ChatterTM. We invite you to share in some of the humour of the DA Political Forum.

Du als führendes Licht und leuchtendes Beispiel?!

=Shadowelve:iconShadowelve: reports, 1d 23h ago
Man muss kein Gallery Moderator sein oder ein extravagantes Zeichen neben seinem Usernamen haben, um andere Artists in der Lieblingsgallerie zu fördern! Lies weiter und finde heraus, wie du deine Ecke von dA besser machen kannst...
Originalartikel von ^RockstarVanity

Skills to Survive Life: Part One

=druideye:icondruideye: reports, 8h 20m ago
Are you depressed? Do you feel like you are a failure? Do you feel empty inside? Do you sometimes end up harming yourself, or punishing yourself in some way? Do you find yourself unable to handle stress sometimes?

This might help. Give it a read, it might change your life. It changed mine.

Graffiti: Art or Vandalism?

~jjankk:iconjjankk: reports, July 7
This is an extremely old article from 2005 but I found it interesting.
It explains how some graffiti artists began to sell their art for money. There are people in the world who think that graffiti is art and not vandalism and other who feel the opposite way. I feel like graffiti is a work of art and should not be banned or should not be against the law. Even though I consider graffiti art I don't think it should be sold to galleries and to people. I think graffiti was meant for the streets and that's where it should stay. What's your opinion on this topic?

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Creativity and the infinity of the logosphere

=Talescaper:iconTalescaper: reports, September 21, 2006
When we look through a creative community as immense as DeviantArt, we cannot help being overwhelmed by the incredible amount of products being submitted daily. When we look closer at these submissions, we see that a lot of these artworks look alike. Similar themes, similar techniques. It could raise the question if a single artist will ever be able to create something that is truly unique.

Some things will always be unique in their own right. The light on a beach that is never the same, the uniqueness of a fractal based on random variables, yes, those things can be called unique in their own right. But when we look at their artistic value, they are very far from unique. Most sunsets radiate the same feelings of romantic melancholy and fractals are always inspired by chaos. True uniqueness is rare when you are able to compare your work of art with 25,815,552 others.

Perhaps we should take a look at earlier periods of art. Artists have formed collectives and groups for a long time. Like-minded spirits huddled together to break through the conventional and be the avant-garde of their time. But none of these collectives ever exceeded a hundred members or so. Only now, in this day and age where millions of people can be connected and drawn to the same place, we see the results of a true collective mind. The similarity of submissions in this collective can be caused by two reasons: Either an inside or an outside influence.

By an inside influence, I mean the power of the collective subconsciousness that compels us to understand the same values and symbols. This has often been a way to explain the similarities in cultures before the Internet and logosphere existed. Cultures had similar symbols or ideas simply because they were embedded in their mind.

An outside influence would be the best way to describe the sociological dynamics of inspiration. When you see something, you'll be influenced by it. Seeing a cloud will make you think of a cloud. If then asked to draw something, you'll probably draw a cloud.

So can you break loose from the collective inspiration and create something new? Not here. You'll have to turn yourself away from what you see. Turn inwards and look there for inspiration. You may find out, when you come back into the community to show your work, that others have seen the same thing. But that is not really so bad. In fact, I am often thrilled to see when people had the same idea as me. I can talk to them, review our work and sharpen our minds on each other. That is what the community is for: no longer to create something new, but to find answers about ourselves and our works. To find understanding.

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~KinkyDoomHobbit:iconKinkyDoomHobbit: Sep 21, 2006, 10:55:58 AM
Thats a nice idea. Truely turnng away from other art, DA, for a while and looking only within yourself. It would be interesting to see what someone with no influance from other artists, just from themselves and the world around them, might produce. I suppose at least in an artistic environment outside of either workor school you can choose what you like, what you are influanced by, what you click on. So at least you're choosing for yourself what you absorb, admire, perhaps eventualy become.
... I'm pratteling on here about thoughts that just pop into my head.
And you have me thinking about stepping away from DA for a while. Just to see what happens.

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Lost The Game? What game?
=Talescaper:iconTalescaper: Sep 21, 2006, 12:52:56 PM
Well... :D I wasn't talking about leaving dA, but about the advantages and caveats of a large international art collective. As it says in the article, while shutting other influences out might produce new insights, we also need the community to discuss our work and enlarge our world. Hope that makes it a bit clearer for you...

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~KinkyDoomHobbit:iconKinkyDoomHobbit: Sep 21, 2006, 1:23:11 PM
XD oh I didn't think you meant leaving DA at all. The article just made me think about taking a break from it, as I 'stalk' so many wonderful artists, that really do influance me daily, it would be nterestng to see what kind of turn my work might take without it.

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Lost The Game? What game?
`bellchild:iconbellchild: Sep 21, 2006, 2:04:33 PM
Interesting, thoughtful article there... Mmm...

Though I'm not sure anything anyone could create could be considered fully 'unique' anyway. Art seems to be more about interpretation in many ways than creation...

Still, enough to make one think, eh! :salute: <3

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=Talescaper:iconTalescaper: Sep 21, 2006, 4:33:49 PM
Yeah, that's the point. Through the immensity of the internet, we are forced to shed the belief that our art is unique. What we get in return, is a community of artists that understand each other, who share the same goals. :D

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~vietkatthroughlense:iconvietkatthroughlense: Oct 16, 2006, 5:18:42 PM
you need to write more...this is nearly touching the surface of the question. ;) it seems like in the post-modern age people are looking back rather than looking forward...they are afraid of how advance we're going to get and the idea of such unknown entity will be explored and that is to some of us a scary thought. It's not about how technological advance we're going to get but it's about how advance our thinking process is going to get. The issue you're proposing is not new to the question of revolution. You're looking back...you're afraid of asking new questions. But then what would the new questions be asking? It seemed all of the questions that have to deal with this world or even to the unknown world are already asked. Some answered, some unanswered and some left untouched for some special reasons. I guess what i'm trying to say here is it is not a matter of looking inward or outward...it is the ability to look at both and question ourselves 'am i moving?'

haha that was a load of crap...;)

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=Talescaper:iconTalescaper: Oct 17, 2006, 10:50:24 AM Mood: Dazed
I am the walrus?

(I'm sorry... I'm not entirely sure I get what you're talking about in relation to what I wrote)

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~vietkatthroughlense:iconvietkatthroughlense: Oct 17, 2006, 11:45:43 AM
yah i don't know what i wrote neither..:o oh maybe it has to do something about you writing more on the subject...o.O

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'somebody once laid his hand on Fontenelle's heart, saying to him, "what you have there, dear sir, is another brain"'-'the gay science'- Frierich Nietzche
 

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