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Removing photography from dA

Journal Entry: Mon Aug 17, 2009, 4:54 PM
The more I use dA, the more annoyed I get with some of its more subtle undertones. A long time ago, this site used to be a great community for artists and those looking to find art. The more days go by, the more the "artist" groups seems to be supplanted by those using dA as a substitute for ImageShack, and the group looking for art seems to have given up or moved elsewhere. I'm just not finding the same caliber work here I once did, and it's a little sad. Similarly, I feel like my exposure here is significantly hampered almost to the point where it's not worth the effort I put into actually uploading the files.

When I'm comfortable removing my photos from these galleries, I will start doing it. I will leave my lit here as a way of keeping my account open and staying in touch with some of the friends I've made here. My photos won't fade into oblivion, either. You'll still be able to find them at [link]. Feel free to visit often or not at all, and if you do visit, please don't hesitate to contact me with comments.

Best of luck to everyone.

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I love color. For the past few years, I've seen the world in a particularly dull light. Everything has seemed redundant, purposeless. The world, of course, is a big place, and in it, it is often difficult to justify any sort of existence. We *are* irrelevant, all of us, in the grandest of grand schemes.

But we are smaller than that in a sense that empowers us to be much bigger. We are important, on a personal level, because we are all connected, always, by our isolation. And there will come times in all of our lives when our passing connections will transcend such a base and simple commonality. We will all love, we will all cry, and we will all discover for ourselves ultimately what it means to be where we are.

It's when the courses of those discoveries overlap between individuals that we find ourselves struck with awe and admiration.

From the innocence of a sweetly napping kitten to the savagery of a gouged and bleeding withered face, images inspire inside of us irresponsible sensations. They push us outside of our comforts, toward a primal and raw volition that exceeds the rigid confines of civilization. Images are the medium by which we share our perspectives. Our imagination keeps us human in a systematic and analytic world, and for the sake of that reality, there is only one simple description of myself I can ever give: I am a lover of all things beautiful.

To all of you who audaciously create, who see the beauty in the things that terrify so many, who love and loathe and cry and hate so freely you feel you are broken, in my opinion, you are among the best of us.

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~absolutehostility Aug 26, 2009, 5:35:27 PM
thanx for the comment. i read your little "about me" thing. and i loved it. you see the world through the eyes of a true artist. a truely artistic person seriously speaks, thinks, hears, and sees art. the most simple and ugly of things to other people. are the most beautiful to our eyes. we see beauty in the strangest things. and this might draw people to think we are insane or off our rocker, and maybe we are. but their is a fine line between insanity and absolute genius.
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~Mixels Aug 26, 2009, 7:48:41 PM
Oh, thanks. I think like most of us I am very much searching for something, and the search is very difficult for me because the thing for which I am searching is all around me but out of reach. There's that insanity. It is hard to see beauty in everything. I can't manage it. But to be able to capture the beauty I do see and show it to others in a way that they can see its beauty too is a feat of which I am proud and fortunate to be capable. If only everyone else could or would... I'd really like to see what's churning inside the minds of my neighbors. Then again, knowing my neighbors, maybe not...

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~blacklilyfae May 28, 2009, 11:49:33 AM
Hey, I just got some of the carved stuff priced:

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I know its not exactly cheap, I can also let you know when I price some of the smaller uncarved pieces. :)

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~Mixels May 28, 2009, 7:08:23 PM
Yeah that carved stuff is very well done, would love to have it but sadly am not that rich. =D Definitely let me know when you have the uncarved pieces done though, or if you do sets that are similar size to the carved ones but aren't... well... carved. :) Great work though, hope you do find a buyer so you can keep it up.

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~nellyvansee May 18, 2009, 9:52:39 PM
Thanks for the watch!
You got really nice pictures in your gallery!

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