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49 OCs, 49 pairs of shoes project

*Lumysaara:iconLumysaara: reports, 1d 30m ago
Because the shoes of an Original Character matter as much as their hairdo or their special abilities!
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Photography Mentoring Project - We need you!

=DavidVogt:iconDavidVogt: reports, 1d 6h ago
DeviantART Photography Mentoring Project! A photography project where Deviants can learn from each other, one on one!
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Project Comment: 0-5 Comments // Issue 49

=pullingcandy:iconpullingcandy: reports, 1d 22h ago
#ProjectComment is a project that features the generally obscured and underappreciated artists and their art in regular news articles. Our objective is to recognise deviants who deserve more recognition and to feature deviations with less than 10 original comments.

The 0-5 Comments Issues feature a deviant as well as 3 deviations with less than 5 original comments from a wide selection of art. Please give your time to :+favlove: this article and to write constructive comments so that you make a true difference to the artists featured here.

Community Projects: Dec. 26- Kwanzaa

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Community Projects: Dec. 25- Christmas

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Christmas info
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Project Comment: 0-5 Comments // Issue 48

=pullingcandy:iconpullingcandy: reports, December 22
#ProjectComment is a project that features the generally obscured and underappreciated artists and their art in regular news articles. Our objective is to recognise deviants who deserve more recognition and to feature deviations with less than 10 original comments.

The 0-5 Comments Issues feature a deviant as well as 3 deviations with less than 5 original comments from a wide selection of art. Please give your time to :+favlove: this article and to write constructive comments so that you make a true difference to the artists featured here.
3 comments   Projects  Last +fav: ~uzzieleon

Project Holiday Feature

*TwistedHearts:iconTwistedHearts: reports, December 21
Project Holiday Feature: Help out others, and get featured!! :D
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Community Projects: Dec. 21- Haiku Poetry Day

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Haiku
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^PurpelBlur:iconPurpelBlur: reports, December 20
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Photography Mentoring Project - We need you!

=DavidVogt:iconDavidVogt: reports, 1d 6h ago
DeviantART Photography Mentoring Project! A photography project where Deviants can learn from each other, one on one!
10 comments   Projects  Last +fav: ~mezorika

Project Holiday Feature

*TwistedHearts:iconTwistedHearts: reports, December 21
Project Holiday Feature: Help out others, and get featured!! :D
75 comments   Projects  Last +fav: ~erukalice

Project Comment: 0-5 Comments // Issue 49

=pullingcandy:iconpullingcandy: reports, 1d 22h ago
#ProjectComment is a project that features the generally obscured and underappreciated artists and their art in regular news articles. Our objective is to recognise deviants who deserve more recognition and to feature deviations with less than 10 original comments.

The 0-5 Comments Issues feature a deviant as well as 3 deviations with less than 5 original comments from a wide selection of art. Please give your time to :+favlove: this article and to write constructive comments so that you make a true difference to the artists featured here.

Community Projects: Dec. 25- Christmas

^PurpelBlur:iconPurpelBlur: reports, December 24
Christmas info
19 comments   Projects  Last +fav: =Tjers

Project Comment: 0-5 Comments // Issue 48

=pullingcandy:iconpullingcandy: reports, December 22
#ProjectComment is a project that features the generally obscured and underappreciated artists and their art in regular news articles. Our objective is to recognise deviants who deserve more recognition and to feature deviations with less than 10 original comments.

The 0-5 Comments Issues feature a deviant as well as 3 deviations with less than 5 original comments from a wide selection of art. Please give your time to :+favlove: this article and to write constructive comments so that you make a true difference to the artists featured here.
3 comments   Projects  Last +fav: ~uzzieleon

Community Projects: Dec. 21- Haiku Poetry Day

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Haiku
Poetry day
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Community Projects: Dec. 26- Kwanzaa

^PurpelBlur:iconPurpelBlur: reports, 2d 37m ago
Kwanzaa info

49 OCs, 49 pairs of shoes project

*Lumysaara:iconLumysaara: reports, 1d 30m ago
Because the shoes of an Original Character matter as much as their hairdo or their special abilities!
18 comments   Projects  Last +fav: ~Max-CCCP

Help me give Deviantart the Finger (for charity)

`iggygirl:iconiggygirl: reports, 1d 12h ago
Help me raise money for the Alzheimer society!

New Years Challenges!

*EmeraldTokyo:iconEmeraldTokyo: reports, 2d 2h ago
This challenge prompts you to come up with 10 New Years Resolutions you can draw/write out for yourself. You can also take on the Zodiac and Chinese Zodiac Challenges.
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RATF TAKING A BREAK

~RippedArtTaskForce:iconRippedArtTaskForce: reports, March 17, 2008
Written by: `DWALKER1047 Founder, Ripped Art Task Force

RATF ANNOUNCEMENT


The RATF is taking a long breather at the moment due to some unfortunate circumstances with three out of 4 Administrators dealing with life-threatening illnesses, myself included. So regrettably, I have decided that it would be in our best interest to take an extended break in order to recuperate and be able to resume our work for RATF at a later date, (sometime this summer is my goal).

As founder of RATF, I have decided that our page on DA and External website ([link]) shall remain active as it is an excellent resource for all. As the RATF page is still operational, we ask that you please continue your support of our project, and utilize the information contained on its pages to help to assist you with your art theft issues. RATF has not forgotten about you...WE PROMISE!!! We are committed to the protection of our artwork.

Since its inception, the RATF has been responsible for 80,000+ pieces of artwork removed from various sites, and at any given time we had over 100+ open cases to assist in their resolutions. Even if we had only 1 piece of work removed....it was worth it! So, that is at least, 80,000 works of art thieves cannot rip from DA members. Everyone of our Admin and volunteers was constantly gathering information passing it along so we were able to update to our page and external site 24 hours a day from all over the world. Plus RATF was coordinating efforts in dealing with all aspects of copyright infringement to the best of our abilities. Our dedicated volunteers spent thousands of hours combined to assist us with our project.

I would like to at this time encourage everyone who has had their art stolen:

1. If it happened on DA, then Report it to DA.

2. If your artwork is stolen off-site-REPORT IT TO THE SITE ADMINISTRATOR using the copyright letter on the RATF site ([link]), and keep on them until your work is removed!

3. If you have a question, we will still try to answer them as best we can, and may take some time to get to you due to our current limitations.

4. Take action yourself to help yourself by placing watermarks on your work…adding a copyright notice in your comments, utilizing the DA watermark, and when you find your work stolen do something about it!

I personally would like to acknowledge the following individuals for their outstanding work, dedication and devotion to the RATF, and its principles. We applaud your efforts for the countless hours of research behind the scenes, to help stop art theft from DA members. If any of you ever have the opportunity to speak to these awesome people, please take a moment to thank them for their efforts towards our community and art theft. Thank you!

=laurengary
`1arcticfox
*anjaleck
`cmptrwhz
=LonesomeFaery
=Almoace
*MouseRunner
=opinionatedelf
*beigebuddha and her son Damien
=pantherwitch4982
=SethraLavode
~KainApophysis

****A note will go out to ALL RATF Team members when we resume operations and begin to assemble our teams.****

IT WAS WORTH ALL THE EFFORT OUR WONDERFUL RATF TEAM PUT INTO IT!!!!!! AS THE FOUNDER, I MUST SAY I AM MOST PROUD, HONORED, AND PRIVILEGED TO HAVE WORKED ALONGSIDE ALL OF YOU AND AM THE BETTER FOR IT. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND EFFORTS IN REPORTING, RESEARCHING, INVESTIGATING, LETTER WRITING, GRAPHICS DESIGN, WEBSITE DESIGN, and UPDATING. WE APPRECIATE IT TREMENDOUSLY!!!

AWESOME WORK EVERYONE!!! :clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

*******ONE OTHER NOTE TO THE ART THIEVES OUT THERE.………WHEN WE ARE RECUPERATED, AND RETURN TO RATF.....IT WILL BE WITH BOTH BARRELS BLAZING!!!!......."IT AIN'T OVER UNTIL THE FAT LADY SINGS!!!" AND THAT.....YOU CAN TAKE TO THE BANK!

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:iconlinuxkid76:
I hope you all feel better, I'm sorry you're all so sick. :hug:

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Bee Taisho, Taisho Family, Young and Lost and Bee/Inuyasha's Dog Demon forms are mine (C) 2008 Melisa Whittaker and are NOT for sale or rent. My icon was made by my sis =KC-Whitestar
:iconznow-white:
Thank you so much for all your hard work that you have done to help the fight against Art theft,to some it may seem like a no win battle but you and your team have shown us there so many possibilities where we can win.
I wish you a speedy recovery and look forward to you bouncing back fit for the fight..:heart:

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Resources & StockART Gallery Moderator.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
And a large group of professionals built the Titanic.
:icondwalker1047:
Thank you...that is very much appreciated.

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You think it's funny until a thief "steals your :deviation:"
=Apophysis Admin
=Fractal-Resources Resource Admin
~RippedArtTaskForceFounder
*ImagersFractalDDsResource and News Manager
*FractalDreams Resource and News Manager
:iconlinuxkid76:
You're welcome.

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Bee Taisho, Taisho Family, Young and Lost and Bee/Inuyasha's Dog Demon forms are mine (C) 2008 Melisa Whittaker and are NOT for sale or rent. My icon was made by my sis =KC-Whitestar
:icondwalker1047:
I am very committed to the community, and having been a victim of art theft, I feel it is my responsibility to educate people on what to do. I am very committed to this, and when I am better....those thieves are in for a run for their money!

Thank you so much for your support of our project. :hug:

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You think it's funny until a thief "steals your :deviation:"
=Apophysis Admin
=Fractal-Resources Resource Admin
~RippedArtTaskForceFounder
*ImagersFractalDDsResource and News Manager
*FractalDreams Resource and News Manager
:iconalmoace:
Glad to here that the RATF will be back soon, I am still available to help people if they need it and there is also =TheATaPC to also help out while you are on your extended time off.

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Get Great CSS *Club-CSS - Get Avril ~Avril-Club
Do NOT :rip: people's work - =TheATaPC
Game Soundtracks:[link]
My Work:[link]
:iconcaterfree10:
I hope you all feel better soon. The Art community loves you, I'm sure and you'll be missed until you guys can return back and better than ever!

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:heart: Zutarian forever and always. :heart:

Join the ~AvatarPlzProject today! :D

My current avatar was made by =AiShindou.

This artist has only 6500 page views AND IS FREAKIN' AWESOME!! ~tehangelchan SHOW HER LOVE NOW!!!!
:icondwalker1047:
Now....That is what I'm talking about! Thank you for the support...we all appreciate it very much! :hug:ss

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You think it's funny until a thief "steals your :deviation:"
=Apophysis Admin
=Fractal-Resources Resource Admin
~RippedArtTaskForceFounder
*ImagersFractalDDsResource and News Manager
*FractalDreams Resource and News Manager
:icontekmeb:
We're always here,thank you for all you done so far.
I hope you all get better soon.Take care guys,we're in need of you.

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Are you there?
:icondwalker1047:
Thank you sweetie....I may be contacting you. Let me see how things pan out...I have something in mind. I appreciate ALL of your support my dear friend. You have been such a great asset of RATF. :hug:ss

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You think it's funny until a thief "steals your :deviation:"
=Apophysis Admin
=Fractal-Resources Resource Admin
~RippedArtTaskForceFounder
*ImagersFractalDDsResource and News Manager
*FractalDreams Resource and News Manager
 

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