*writeaway, the new group for all you budding poets and wannabe novelists, pronounces a guide to giving and receiving critique on writing, written by ~Vampiress22.
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Let's keep our perspective
`davincipoppalag
reports, 1d 11h ago
reports, 1d 11h agoMy friend posted this in his journal and I think it's important enough that the whole world should take a moment to reflect on it. Yes..the world lost a talented performer and artist in Michael Jackson..but there are many more tragic deaths occurring daily all over the world that go unnoticed. Please give these heroes your prayers and thanks too.
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The Etsy Wars-CNN examines Etsy
^kkart
reports, July 14
reports, July 14CNN Money examines in depth the art site Etsy.com and the struggle it is currently facing to keep it's user base, fellow artist's like us on deviantART. It is a very interesting read, to say the least, and will surely raise a few eyebrows.
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Gangs:No Peace Until There Is Peace In Our Streets
*DAPoliticalForum
reports, July 12
reports, July 12
Gangs in the United States are not a new or recent phenomenon. Their history has been traced back to the post Revolutionary War days and originally they formed as a means of self-protection and as social clubs.26
Skills to Survive Life: Part One
=druideye
reports, July 11
reports, July 11Are 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.
This might help. Give it a read, it might change your life. It changed mine.
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deviantARTtimes Sunday July 12, 2009
=deviantARTtimes
reports, July 12
reports, July 12Providing 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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"Thanx Mr. Rorschach"
=dwk61
reports, July 10
reports, July 10Music by the legendary Rex Illusivii (Suba) set to an extraordinary collection of suggestive artwork.
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Grammar: I can haz?
~Selenedragon
reports, July 9
reports, July 9We all have grammar troubles sometime. Want some hints? Want to avoid some certain mistakes? Come and join! Class is about to start.
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DENYING THE POVERTY DRAFT-THE SOLDIER AS A SYMBOL
=whitetrashpalace
reports, July 9
reports, July 9The 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.
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.
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deviantARTtimes Sunday July 12, 2009
=deviantARTtimes reports, July 12
reports, July 12Providing 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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Let's keep our perspective
`davincipoppalag reports, 1d 11h ago
reports, 1d 11h agoMy friend posted this in his journal and I think it's important enough that the whole world should take a moment to reflect on it. Yes..the world lost a talented performer and artist in Michael Jackson..but there are many more tragic deaths occurring daily all over the world that go unnoticed. Please give these heroes your prayers and thanks too.
26
Skills to Survive Life: Part One
=druideye reports, July 11
reports, July 11Are 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.
This might help. Give it a read, it might change your life. It changed mine.
25
The Etsy Wars-CNN examines Etsy
^kkart reports, July 14
reports, July 14CNN Money examines in depth the art site Etsy.com and the struggle it is currently facing to keep it's user base, fellow artist's like us on deviantART. It is a very interesting read, to say the least, and will surely raise a few eyebrows.
20
Gangs:No Peace Until There Is Peace In Our Streets
*DAPoliticalForum reports, July 12
reports, July 12 Gangs in the United States are not a new or recent phenomenon. Their history has been traced back to the post Revolutionary War days and originally they formed as a means of self-protection and as social clubs.16
The Give And Take: A Guide To Critique
*writeaway
reports, 2d 9h ago
reports, 2d 9h ago*writeaway, the new group for all you budding poets and wannabe novelists, pronounces a guide to giving and receiving critique on writing, written by ~Vampiress22.
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ELL-OH-VEE-EE is the Movement
*PianoxLullaby
reports, July 12
reports, July 12This is an article that holds the intent to bring awareness to pain, depression, and a lack of loving arms. Everyone has moments of grief, but not everyone can find the help they need to make everything okay again. It is important that we can bring awareness to these issues, and show the peoples suffering from these that there is still hope.
Who loved it?
~NemoStar *RoninFox =I-m-Ember ~Eyoeyo ~Tupipak =nxxos =uberspect `frozenpandaman ~Annachuu ~brkx ~Danni-cj =SLPdomain ~Kaanaa ~Midnight-chaos ~Kikyo1239 ~sarla ~flohri ~lilgir01 =sirenlovesyou =Saysamia ~Sephira-san !toph-blind-love ~grygon ~Lysa ~Dakata ~Blade-Buster-Cloud ~Porcelain-Postmortem ~DP-Lover ~ReneeMueller *positively =Kar-ma ~sammywalkers ~Curucar ~deadmorgkitten ~BishiexBishie ~imroy ~Albur ~FiberFiend ~Akuwizard ~Zaichick ~eXctrik *VeronicaIsabel =confused-equine
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Deviation vs. Scrap
=confused-equine
reports, November 23, 2006
reports, November 23, 2006I'll just state the obvious - deviantART is an art community.
So, why do so many deviants insist on submitting random pictures of two of their friends at a party with no respect to, well, anything?
Newsflash - this is not MySpace. This is not an online photo album. It's a gallery. If you want to submit random pictures of you and your friends, submit them as scraps. They are not art, and frankly, are an insult to what truly is art.
Before submitting a deviation, I suggest you question its purpose. Would you like to see this piece framed and showed in an art exhibit? If so, submit it as a deviation. We don't see sketches on notebook paper (unless it was done purposefully) framed in a gallery, do we? We don't see inartistic snapshots of ourselves and our friends, do we? No, these are the things that may be in a little frame on your desk, if they're even good enough for that - you know, pictures of your family, friends, etc. A photo album, even.
Now, I'm not claiming that every deviation should be an incredible example of art. However, I am saying that your art should exemplify your talent, the best of your work. Don't degrade yourself.
So, why do so many deviants insist on submitting random pictures of two of their friends at a party with no respect to, well, anything?
Newsflash - this is not MySpace. This is not an online photo album. It's a gallery. If you want to submit random pictures of you and your friends, submit them as scraps. They are not art, and frankly, are an insult to what truly is art.
Before submitting a deviation, I suggest you question its purpose. Would you like to see this piece framed and showed in an art exhibit? If so, submit it as a deviation. We don't see sketches on notebook paper (unless it was done purposefully) framed in a gallery, do we? We don't see inartistic snapshots of ourselves and our friends, do we? No, these are the things that may be in a little frame on your desk, if they're even good enough for that - you know, pictures of your family, friends, etc. A photo album, even.
Now, I'm not claiming that every deviation should be an incredible example of art. However, I am saying that your art should exemplify your talent, the best of your work. Don't degrade yourself.
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Devious Comments
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The pattern in the Chaos
Gonna have to go ahead and not agree with you.
Here's the unwritten rule:
Good art is creative, bad art is destructive.
and...
this seems kind of destructive.
If you don't think it's art, then don't look at it. It will only making yours look better by comparison anyway.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us,
or we find it not.
EMERSON
Good art is creative, bad art is destructive.
and...
this seems kind of destructive.
My news article was not art. In fact, it was basically arguing that very point.
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But I'm getting better at fighting the future.
Someday you'll be fine.
Yes, I'll be just fine.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us,
or we find it not.
EMERSON
Only the artist can judge what is art to him and what is not. Sometimes, his art is not appreciated by the others, but still, he likes what he does, and it is art from the simple fact that (s)he created it believing it was art.
There can be art even in a webcam shot for an ID picture (even though I never saw anything that I could call art myself through a myspace-like picture...)
However, I'll have to agree with your point, sometimes it's annoying to have all these anime fanboys and myspace whores around, but just leave them alone and ignore their art rather than attack them.
The world is large enough for everyone.
Keep what you have, and don't destroy other people's belonging just because you don't like them.
The problem is, what do you say or do? So many times I want to scream "take it to flickr or myspace!", but that would be rude. I'd love some templates for this sort of thing, like on Wikipedia. Firing off a {{notart}} would be so much simpler...
I agree with you in the point that people really should not use it as a photoalbum. There are other services for that like flickr or picasa webs.
But you can't just say:"This is not art!". Only if the people insist it themself
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greetings ~geronimo89
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
Benjamin Franklin
The fact of the matter is, the people who do whats being described here aren't submitting pictures of their highschool buddies because they feel its a fantastic piece of art. They're doing it because they can and they have no regard for the purpose of DA or quality of their gallery as a whole.
If someone submits things like this because they genuinely think its artistic (even if we don't agree), more power to them. Thats not the case with most of them, though. They do it because they can, and thats it. The argument that "you can't judge what is art" just doesn't hold up when even the artist doesn't even mean for it to be art.
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it's from people taking photos of their arse and stuff, to this.
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