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Fella Plushie Around the World Contest!

$Heidi:iconHeidi: reports, May 9
Fella is an international man of mystery and intrigue! You never know where he might turn up next. Romancing the ladies in Paris, taming wild llamas in Peru, or exploring King Tut's tomb in Egypt, Fella leads the life that most only dream of. Read on for information on how YOU can help Fella!

Four New deviantWEAR Shirts Available Now!

$Waveswinger:iconWaveswinger: reports, May 2
Team deviantWEAR is at it again! Bringing you four brand spankin? new designs for the spring season. It's the time of year for color, and colors abound in this release. We're blinding you with rays of hot pink, fields of bright yellow, and splashes of orange. If you don't like at least one of our new shirts, we'll give you a million dollhairs!

Staff Spotlight: $SGonzalez

$lolly:iconlolly: reports, March 7
Welcome to the Staff Spotlight, a new ongoing featured interview series! The purpose of this series is to not only provide an entertaining interview, but to also bring some light to some of the lesser known faces who help run things behind the scenes. As the community grows, so does the staff, and we want to let you get a chance to get to know some of these people who you may not ordinarily run into while out and about in the community!

deviantART On News.com!

$spyed:iconspyed: reports, February 18
A couple of artists featured... and stuff like that. Plus the fact that deviantART makes meeeelllliiiooonnnnsss!! heh Read now!

deviantWEAR's first ever SALE - 24 hours to go!

$Heidi:iconHeidi: reports, January 22
Exciting news!!1! Gather your coins, break open your piggy bank, or ask Mom and Dad for an advance on your allowance ... deviantWEAR is having its first ever sale! But act quickly because the sale is almost over!

Happy New Year, deviantART!

$lolly:iconlolly: reports, Dec 31, 2007
Another year winds down at deviantART and what a year it has been. The growth of the site has been nothing short of phenomenal. With 6 million deviants and nearly 50 million deviations, it’s safe to say the title for World's Largest Art Community is in all of our hands.

Fella Plushie Scuzzle Recap - Prizes Awarded!

$Heidi:iconHeidi: reports, Dec 9, 2007
deviantART's recently played scuzzle (scavengener hunt + puzzle) turned out to be a huge success! Not only was the game a fantastic way to introduce the community to deviantWEAR's recently launched Fella plushie, but the scuzzle received very positive feedback and we hope to continue scuzzling future.

deviantART Fella Plushie Now Available!

$Heidi:iconHeidi: reports, Dec 8, 2007
Made of the softest material and filled with polyester fibers and bean pellets, deviantART's Fella is now available as a plushie! No small potato, from head to toe Fella measures approximately 12 inches (30 centimeters), while his sitting height is 9.5 inches (24 centimeters). Complete with embroidered eyes and deviantART logo, this limited edition plushie comes with official deviantART tag of authenticity.

New deviantWEAR Product Scavenger Hunt and Puzzle!

$Heidi:iconHeidi: reports, Dec 3, 2007
In the coming weeks, deviantWEAR will be releasing a brand new product. Some might even call it the greatest deviantWEAR product ever released in the history of the world! In order get everyone jazzed about this special release we've created what we're calling a 'scuzzle' game. A combination of a scavenger hunt and puzzle, a scuzzle is not for the faint of heart as it involves both searching for clues and puzzling them together.

New deviantWEAR: Holiday Series Launched!

$Waveswinger:iconWaveswinger: reports, Nov 23, 2007
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Full of magic, good cheer, and all things that sparkle, deviantART is proud to present five new deviantWEAR items for the holiday season. Shirts, hoodies, track jackets, and beanies await!

deviantART Blog News This Week

Fella Plushie Around the World Contest!

$Heidi:iconHeidi: reports, May 9
Fella is an international man of mystery and intrigue! You never know where he might turn up next. Romancing the ladies in Paris, taming wild llamas in Peru, or exploring King Tut's tomb in Egypt, Fella leads the life that most only dream of. Read on for information on how YOU can help Fella!

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Connect Globally...Groove Locally

$lolly:iconlolly: reports, Oct 3, 2006
The Global Community

It most likely does not need to be said, but deviantART is a global art community. Inclusive of people from all geographic locations that this complex series of tubes known as the Internet can reach and filled with people from all walks of life from those locations. deviantART is populated by artistic styles that span the map from the traditional painter to the manga artist, poet, graphic designer and beyond.

So now that we have spread this far as an all inclusive virtual artist community, what is the next step?


Global Connectivity

With a geolocation software available for a small fee, it is not too difficult to locate the general region where someone is living based off of their IP address. Your IP address is transmitted by your computer every time you access anything on the Internet from your computer. It’s very similar to telephone area codes and country codes. When you know a phone number you could probably run a google search and figure out that 001 is the international country code for the United States. While the following digits, 323, are the national code for one portion of Los Angeles. The rest of the 7 digits in a US phone number don’t reveal any more specific information about your location. And IP addresses with geolocation software work much the same way.

In short, exact addresses are not revealed just a rough idea of what city or region of a particular country a person lives in.


So we’ve been thinking…

What if we used this information for something much cooler than that? A set of features within deviantART where you could connect with the living community of deviants who are in your general area. Localized art events, deviant meets, and Browse art work by location? Connect globally, groove locally.


So What Is All This Talk About?

So you’re probably aware by now that we’re planning some features in this arena. Before this type of feature is made available to the community you will be prompted about participating in this type of functionality, and for new users there will be an opt-in box during the sign up process.

As it pertains to the existing deviantART staff, we already have access to this type of technology and we do intend to continue using it to help (privately) target deviantART Events and information to you that is geo-specific. For now, we’ll be doing this in the form of Hot Topics targeted to you when a geo-event is in your area.

As we head in this general direction we will absolutely be protecting your privacy and taking all the necessary precautions to “not be evil.” This won’t result in the creation of Sky Net, we assure you ;)

We just wanted to make you aware so you weren’t freaked out by our awesome targeting abilities!

Art began in the physical world, then evolved into the digital world in recent history, so now what better thing to do than bring it full circle!

Devious Comments


`dedredhed:icondedredhed: Oct 3, 2006, 3:37:01 PM
Damn. I like teh cyborgs :(

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^Obsidian-Fox:iconObsidian-Fox: Oct 3, 2006, 3:39:02 PM
not sky net, maybe super spyed tho.. attached to a mechanical mechanism tied into DA.. or is he already!! :faint:

oh dear god! mech spyed will kill us all!!

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`junoknight:iconjunoknight: Oct 3, 2006, 3:41:45 PM
:boogie: WOO! :#1:

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=hazelnutx:iconhazelnutx: Oct 3, 2006, 3:44:20 PM
I rather like this idea... I was actually thinking of asking someone what the odds would be if I were to host a devmeet here in Junction City Kansas... a place that's damned near not even on the map... unless you have heard of Ft. Riley Kansas...

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@mykel:iconmykel: Oct 3, 2006, 3:44:42 PM Mood: Horror
Sounds creepy :fear:

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=hazelnutx:iconhazelnutx: Oct 3, 2006, 3:45:18 PM
I rather like this idea... I was actually thinking of asking someone what the odds would be if I were to host a devmeet here in Junction City Kansas... a place that's damned near not even on the map... unless you have heard of Ft. Riley Kansas...

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It's Not My Job To Blow Sunshine Up Your Ass...
=DryBones90:iconDryBones90: Oct 3, 2006, 3:45:33 PM
:w00t:

Will this mean we can find people near us that haven't put in their latitude/longitude information and therefore aren't listed in 'nearby deviants'? Will the 'nearby deviants' feature be affected by this?

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=hazelnutx:iconhazelnutx: Oct 3, 2006, 3:46:14 PM
Ok, I am officially pissed off at my computer! I had to click send 7 times before it would post my last message... and I ended up with a damned double post!

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~deirdre-a:icondeirdre-a: Oct 3, 2006, 3:46:30 PM
i like the idea. :)

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