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:star: :star: :star: NEW VIDEO!  Planning vs Not Planning http://youtu.be/IbjqtyKJCAM When I'm looking through books in a brick and mortar store, I flip to the middle of a book for some reason and then put it on the shelf as if I ever had any intention of buying it (I don't know what compels me to buy a book anymore, to be honest).  HOWEVER... When I am here at deviantART, our supercool scrolling thumb feature allows me to see the first sentence of a story and make the determination on whether or not I want to continue reading.  That said... I don't read much around here. Why? Boy, rhetoric is fun.  We know why. I don't judge a book by i

October 31, 2012 - Time to put the chainsaws back in the shed, hang the skin-suits up in the closet and announce the WINNERS of this year's All Hallow's Tales Contest! Competition this year may have been less crowded than in previous years, but no less fierce!  Please help me congratulate this year's winners: FIRST PLACE: :thumb333493774: Harvest Time by Tobaeus (https://www.deviantart.com/tobaeus) First Prize :bulletred: 1,000 points courtesy of Points Pool donors. :bulletred: $20 Amazon Gift Card from Memnalar (https://www.deviantart.com/memnalar) :bulletred: Dripping Blood Bookmark from Memnalar (https://www.deviantart.com/memnalar) :bulletred: dA Print of winner's choice from CRLiterature (https://www.deviantart.com/crliterature) :bulletred: 6-month premium membership

How many of you have ever written an artist bio?  I was submitting my poetry to an online magazine and they requested all the poets write artist bios.  I'm not gonna lie, I was horrified when I read the bios other poets submitted. :fear:  Most of them were truly terrible.  I searched on DA for Artist Bio guides, tips, tricks, suggestions, and couldn't find anything. :confused: Not one single thing. I was thinking of doing a tutorial about writing an artist bio because so many people write crappy bios without realizing it. I know a lot about writing bios because I kinda do it for a living; I'm a self promoted musician.  I've written hundreds

                  “If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it’s a street photograph.” — Bruce Gilden “Turn your attention to the four-legged population.” — Ying Tang “Take a bus. Do weekly shopping. Pop into a public loo.” — Nils Jorgensen “Document some evidence of human ingenuity that would otherwise go unnoticed. Do it without including any humans in the picture.” — Michael Wolf “Get lost in a thicket of signs and structures.” — Wolfgang Zurborn “Never ignore a cliché.” — Artem Zhitenev  

Spring is here! For many of us, street shooters, it's the best season to go out and shoot "street". And then come back and show what we got. And maybe enter a neat little contest ;) "So, you think you can street?" It is my great pleasure to announce the first Official deviantArt "So you think you can street" Photography Spring Contest which will be held from May 1st till June 15th in deviantArt site. Everyone is welcome to enter ! Contest Guidelines 1. Your entry must be a STREET  photograph. 2. Your entry must be submitted in a special deviantArt category which will open on the 1st of May and can be found following this path: