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=eating-dust:iconeating-dust: reports, 1d 15h ago
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Hint: There is no difference!
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Tips for Tipping in a Restaurant

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Concerning The spiritual in Art: A Review

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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the
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produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. Efforts
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art that is still-born. It is impossible for us to live and feel,
as did the ancient Greeks. In the same way those who strive to
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of form, the work remaining soulless for all time. Such imitation
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Las convicciones de *noticias

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The Down and Dirty of BJDs Pt2 – Buyer's Guide

=eating-dust:iconeating-dust: reports, 1d 15h ago
Just getting into BJD, but have no idea where to start shopping? A vetran and tired of telling 1000 people that you got your hydrangea from 4D? Here's a little linksource to cure your woes. Not every company/wig manufacturer/eye manufacturer is listed here, but it's a good place to start.
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DeviantArt Tabs: A Critical Review

*Cyberworld-Arts:iconCyberworld-Arts: reports, July 22, 2007
This is just something that occured to me the other day and i figured why not share it with the world?

Many Deviants around the community tend to have more than one accounts. This results in a bit of a confusion and frustration on behalf of their friends and for the deviants themselves becomes a bit of an economical burden cause subs do cost.

The fact and my critical point is that nowadays we got three types of art in my opinion:
a. Display Art: Under this falls any type of creative art from painting to photomanip and from writing to photography. This is the type of art you want to have in your main gallery, the art to show off to your friends and the world.
b. Utilitarian Art: Under this label falls everything that has to do with art on a daily, utilitarian bases. This includes all types of skinning. Skins and themes for all kinds of programs may be plesant and nice to view, but putting a WMP skin next to your newly drawned painting really just doesn't seem to fit well.
c. Resource/Stock Art: This is the type of art you would like to see being used by others. Either as stock photos or as any other type of resource (brushes, .psd, 3D models, etc) this type of art is yet again being different and doesn't again fit in with the two above.

In that respect Deviants tend to create separate account to keep their Stock away from Art and their Skins away from all the else. Well can't DA do something about this? Is there any way to resolve the issue?

Brainstorming yesterday just pulled up a rather easy solution. That is where the Tabs come around. As of DA v.5 all users have five main tabs on their profile page which are: Profile, Gallery, Faves, Prints and Journal. Well why not add two more? Put a Stock/Resources and a Skins Tab in there and you have it! A complete account for every multitasking deviant. On the coding issues for this i think it is rather simple. A query or tag search is already installed within the system, making the separation of files easy. So by adding some additional code this will result in having three types of gallerias on the same page:
a. Display Art: For all interested in any art forms that you create.
b. Utilitarian Art: For all interested in skins.
c. Resource Art: For all who want to use art bits which you offer to the public.
Adding separate counters for each type of gallery on the profile page would be a most welcoming addition too.

The pros of this are already obvious:
a. Less confusion with multiple accounts.
b. Less traffic for the site and improvement of its speed.
c. Not having to log on and off multiple accounts which saves alot of time.
d. One subscription will be enough to cover all your needs. No need for two or three subs just to be able to show the world all the aspects of your creativity.
e. Each deviants page will be showing a more complete and all around image of his identity, not just the artist, the skinner or the stock/resource master side.

But as every step towards improvement this might have some negative features as well:
a. Users with big galleries in Stock and Art might have trouble moving there stuff all in one place. Here DA might be generous enough as to implement account migration utilities so that users can easily move all there stuff in one place.
b. You might lose PVs and other stats from accounts merging. But hey we are here for the art and NOT for the numbers. Right?

With all these said i raise the question: What do you say? Would these measures make a better DA v.6? Can this help the community to grow and make deviants happier all around?

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~Aleid:iconAleid: Jul 22, 2007, 8:33:35 AM
I think it's a good idea =) but just one thing I directly thought about: how many people have more than one account? Are there enough to make it worth to put all the effort and time, which would be needed for the change, in it? And maybe it's a good idea to make those 2 tabs optional? Or only for subscribed deviants? I think it's important to know how many deviants this would help.=)

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~Kenti:iconKenti: Jul 22, 2007, 8:34:30 AM Mood: Wow!
It can be great!

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~gh0zt:icongh0zt: Jul 22, 2007, 1:55:29 PM
i had also thought this before and i agree with you! they must find a simple way to manage this, at least for the basic types of art! like separating photography from digital art.. well at least this..

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*Phoneix-Faerie:iconPhoneix-Faerie: Jul 22, 2007, 2:21:22 PM
thats a really good idea! wish they would do it!

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*Cyberworld-Arts:iconCyberworld-Arts: Jul 23, 2007, 5:29:29 PM
Thank you. :D I wish they hear us all.

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*Cyberworld-Arts:iconCyberworld-Arts: Jul 23, 2007, 5:31:14 PM
Well i don't know for within display art if it is easy to make separations, but at least on major art types they should. It's one thing to skin, another to make art and a very different one to make resources. Alas i think there is this upcoming feature that will allow this. Something like making folders with different types of art. :)

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*Cyberworld-Arts:iconCyberworld-Arts: Jul 23, 2007, 5:31:43 PM
Thank you Po. :D I wish this raises some voices.

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*Cyberworld-Arts:iconCyberworld-Arts: Jul 23, 2007, 5:32:01 PM
It's not much to ask and i think it's easy to implement. :D

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