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About Me Premium Member Deviant of Many Talents Roland Matthew Joseph Ziemke28/Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 2 Years
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The best thing about Holga cameras is that their weaknesses are their strengths; they don't auto-advance the next frame once the p...

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Judging packaging is a little bit of a tricky gamble dancing at the top of a slipperly slope because it is always in danger of overshad...

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In terms of concept, it is nothing shy of genius. It taps into notions of confidence when it comes to whether or not "flys are done up"...

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MJA040

Sun Feb 7, 2010, 4:32 PM
  • Mood: Artistic
  • Listening to: BBC Radio
  • Reading: Las Lindas
  • Watching: Doctor Who
  • Playing: unsure (beat Legend of Princess)
  • Eating: Orzo
  • Drinking: Dr. Pepper
Current Status

Revver has been sitting on my videos for over a week now. It's really getting annoying. My messages to the support and review teams have gone completely unanswered.
I've still received no word from YouTube about applying for a partnership. I expected that as you've got to have a pretty strong following to qualify, but for Revver to just outright ignore me for over a week is just inexcusable.
If that sounds like faint praise for the Tube... I neither confirm nor deny it. If there's a single positive thing I would ever have to say about YouTube, it's that I actually really like the annotation and interactivity features. Some people use them to append factual updates to their v-logs, which is very useful given the time it can take to edit and upload a video, not to mention what can transpire after it goes live. One of my favorite YouTube videos is an interactive game that uses stop-motion animation of Street Fighter action figures. It's simplistic, but it's beautiful for it. I'm using the middle-of-the-road feature of annotations where I simply put links to the subsequent and previous entries in the series at the beginnings and endings of the videos. That said, I'd really love to do more stuff that takes advantage of the interactivity features. What gets me is, despite the influence of YouTube, no other video-sharing site has anything close to this. DeviantART, as we know, allows you to pause the video and leave a comment at that particular point in the timeline, but that's the closest thing I can find. Flickr has their "note" function, but that's more an extension of their comment and critique systems than any sort of platform for interactive media. I would have thought blip.tv would try to trump YouTube, but they don't seem interested. In any case, the question remains: Could YouTube genuinely be... growing on me?

Fortunately, despite this bit of bad news, I've got a few ideas for drawings that have been rattling around my head for a few days. It's just a matter of getting over those "blank slate jitters" and finally laying down the line-work.

I think all artists have a collective fear of blank surfaces. There's probably nothing more intimidating than a blank canvas or sketchbook page. It shows just how much work you have ahead of you and makes you think far too long about that first stroke or line. Sure, you can paint over it, erase it, take it as a "happy accident," or even just start a whole new page.

If you suffer from "blank slate jitters," "canvas creeps," or "tabula rasa heebie jeebies" how do you get over them?

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"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered." -- Number 6

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: New Wismexouri
  • deviantWEAR sizing preference: Whatever size does me justice
  • Print preference: Whatever does the work justice
  • Interests: All things art,
  • Favourite movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey, America Psycho, Aah! My Goddess: the Movie,
  • Favourite band or musician: Prodigy, Pink Floyd, Yes, Gyorgy Ligeti, Brian Eno, Wagner, Jeff Wayne, H2SO4, David Bowie,
  • Favourite genre of music: Electronic, Experimental, Prog-Rock, Classical, Opera,
  • Favourite artist: M. C. Escher, Naoko Takeuchi, Frank Frazetta, David Mack, Niklas Jansson,
  • Favourite poet or writer: Douglas Adams, John Fowles, H. P. Lovecraft, John Wyndham, William S. Burroughs,
  • Favourite photographer: Eikoh Hosoe, Ansel Adams, Nobuyoshi Araki, jaca_randa (flickr), Maboroshi-sensei (Rising Sun),
  • Favourite style of art: Sumi-e, Portraits, Biomechanical, Sci-Fan-Fi, Gothic, Humorous, Anthropomorphic,
  • Operating System: Platform Agnostic (Mac, Windows, Linux, various mobile OSs)
  • MP3 player of choice: PSP
  • Shell of choice: Aphrodite's
  • Wallpaper of choice: Bayonetta
  • Skin of choice: Smooth & Silky (bow-chika-bow-wow)
  • Favourite game: Sonic (series), Riven, Trapt, Samurai Warriors, Monster Hunter (series),
  • Favourite gaming platform: Sega Genesis, Sony Playstation 2, Sony Playstation Portable,
  • Favourite cartoon character: Bender, Kenny McCormick, Donald Duck, Miz Mishtal (El-Hazard), Caboose (Red vs Blue),
  • Personal Quote: "Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view" Return of the J
  • Tools of the Trade: India Ink, Cut-Outs, an assortment of cameras,
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:iconmissy-tannenbaum:
Thank you very much for the watch! I really appreciate it. ^^

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"Listen guys, these are the warlord's orders." -Sengoku (Neo Geo ARC; every level)
:iconllovesart:
thnx for the fav!

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purple madness
:iconsmallfry2894:
thanks for da fav i really am happy

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meow
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just to tell u my favourite letters are cwm.
if u want to know what it means:
COOKIES WITH MILK
:icon533497:
Certain images I can't resist, among them women in hoods (guess my favorite Teen Titan). You make such a cute little hunter
:iconsmallfry2894:
lol thanks X3

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meow
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just to tell u my favourite letters are cwm.
if u want to know what it means:
COOKIES WITH MILK
:iconinvader-kate:
Thanks for watching me :3

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:iconinvader-kate:
I saw the original one of that guy PumplcinPie traced xD
It looks a LOT better than Pie's lol

I can't answer on his website because he blocked me

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:icon533497:
Everyone's pieces look better than :iconpumplcinpie:'s. There might be traces of something mistakable for talent in some of Pie's drawings, but he seems to have this agenda that causes him to create those hateful works of his. It wholly nullifies any redeeming qualities he might have.

It's a shame he blocked you. I read in one of his journals that he was going to unblock people that he had previously blocked as a mock act of good faith. I guess it's vindicating to see that every act of his is tainted with lies and spite.

Don't worry about it. He'll never become anything more than he already is, which is less than nothing.
:iconpumplcinpieclub:
Jo, it's me.
The little Invader.

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:typerhappy:~=PumplcinPie faiiiiiiiiiiilzorz~ :typerhappy:

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