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The Give And Take: A Guide To Critique

*writeaway:iconwriteaway: reports, 2d 1h 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.
3 comments   Editorials  Last +fav: ~Ombreon

Let's keep our perspective

`davincipoppalag:icondavincipoppalag: reports, 1d 3h ago
My 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.

Freedom

=3wyl:icon3wyl: reports, 2d 23h ago
What does Freedom mean to you?

The Etsy Wars-CNN examines Etsy

^kkart:iconkkart: reports, July 14
CNN 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.

Gangs:No Peace Until There Is Peace In Our Streets

*DAPoliticalForum:iconDAPoliticalForum: reports, July 12
:star: 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.

Skills to Survive Life: Part One

=druideye:icondruideye: reports, July 11
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.

deviantARTtimes Sunday July 12, 2009

=deviantARTtimes:icondeviantARTtimes: reports, July 12
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.
3 comments   Editorials  Last +fav: `jenepooh

"Thanx Mr. Rorschach"

=dwk61:icondwk61: reports, July 10
Music by the legendary Rex Illusivii (Suba) set to an extraordinary collection of suggestive artwork.

Grammar: I can haz?

~Selenedragon:iconSelenedragon: reports, July 9
We all have grammar troubles sometime. Want some hints? Want to avoid some certain mistakes? Come and join! Class is about to start.
42 comments   Editorials  Last +fav: =chesney

DENYING THE POVERTY DRAFT-THE SOLDIER AS A SYMBOL

=whitetrashpalace:iconwhitetrashpalace: reports, July 9
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.

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Editorials This Week

deviantARTtimes Sunday July 12, 2009

=deviantARTtimes:icondeviantARTtimes: reports, July 12
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.
3 comments   Editorials  Last +fav: `jenepooh

Let's keep our perspective

`davincipoppalag:icondavincipoppalag: reports, 1d 3h ago
My 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.

Freedom

=3wyl:icon3wyl: reports, 2d 23h ago
What does Freedom mean to you?

Skills to Survive Life: Part One

=druideye:icondruideye: reports, July 11
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.

The Etsy Wars-CNN examines Etsy

^kkart:iconkkart: reports, July 14
CNN 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.

Gangs:No Peace Until There Is Peace In Our Streets

*DAPoliticalForum:iconDAPoliticalForum: reports, July 12
:star: 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.

The Give And Take: A Guide To Critique

*writeaway:iconwriteaway: reports, 2d 1h 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.
3 comments   Editorials  Last +fav: ~Ombreon

Quotes From the DA Politics Forum

*DAPoliticalForum:iconDAPoliticalForum: reports, July 11
[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.

Undiscovered, Vol. 3

=roguequeen:iconroguequeen: reports, July 12
One featured artist a week.

Undiscovered, Vol. 4

=roguequeen:iconroguequeen: reports, 3h 24m ago
A new feature of an undiscovered artist.
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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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