http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:13thMurder&section=today deviantART RSS for by:13thMurder en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:25:51 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://13thMurder.deviantart.com/journal/28513282/ http://13thMurder.deviantart.com/journal/28513282/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:21:48 PST
everything in my gallery was done with the 4 megapixel dinosaur that is my kodak easyshare c433. nope, not even gonna glorify it by capitalizing. ah well... i only id had this camera a week ago. monterey would have been amazing.

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some test shots with it:

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these pics arent edited much, and the subject matter isnt interesting, just testing the lens i made.

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Have you ever tried to kill someone? maybe.

Have you ever wanted more than anything else in the world to kill someone? Possibly.

Have you ever known what it's like to want revenge more than anything else in the world? Have you ever had someone do something - anything - completely unforgivable to you so that... you know you will never feel right again until you have rid the world of them?

i have.

what was done doesn't matter here... it's the feeling of wanting revenge. the feeling of being incomplete without it... and in the end, coming to terms with the fact that the past cannot be changed, but the future can.

the idea of this series: the protagonist has killed someone who has wronged them in some serious way... something unimaginably horrible. the protagonist kills this person, and is then explaining it to the ghost... to the body... to the dead person... however you want to think of it.

this is not an emo sort of thing, so don't get the wrong idea. i just feel that this is something many people will be able to relate to... the darkest parts of your mind... some people are driven to insanity by such thoughts, others ignore them and hope they go away... and i examined them down to every last detail.

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no need to calibrate most of the time, what you need to do is adjust the contrast. i knew that nice little fact for months, as for how to do it, that's my recent discovery.

~How to adjust contrast~

Turn it up: ctrl+alt+command+. (period)
Turn it down: ctrl+alt+command+, (comma)

they come set to the lowest contrast as default.

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and doctors are too damn expensive to go to to find out for sure.

if you'll excuse me, i have to throw up now... again.

]]> ~13thMurder http://13thMurder.deviantart.com/journal/23857690/ http://13thMurder.deviantart.com/journal/23857690/ Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:14:26 PDT many great things disappeared, the artists mention admins deleting it claiming it to be inappropriate for DA, or even sometimes stolen in journals, comments, etc.

they are making these claims against artists who would have no reason to steal art, as they are probably some of the most talented on DA. im not naming off any names, but im sure some of them are on your watch list, ive seen this quite commonly lately. about 1/4th the people i have on watch have been effected by this. anyone reading this, look through your favorites, you will probably notice some missing.

to accuse an artist of stealing their own work, or to judge it as not being allowed... who are you to say what art is? do you admins realize that by deleting people's art you are going against what it is to be an artist?
art is all about expression of thoughts. thoughts, as they go are not always pleasant things, thoughts are not always things that are accepted by society as normal, but neither are artists. i judge art on what it makes me feel... and from over 99% of the stuff i see, i feel nothing.

you admins deleted some of the most beautiful art i have ever seen. stuff that made me feel, made me think, caused the kind of euphoria only art can bring. all of that, gone. and what have you gained? nothing. what disaster have you averted? none at all. you destroy without purpose... though im going off of memory here of what was contained within these works, they contained no objectionable material.



wtf DA admins???! did one of you go for the phishing scam and get taken over by an art-hating hacker?

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but my camera... it's crap. 4 megapixels, 1/2 second shutter speed at it's best... yeah, i need something better. ive been trying to get a job, but with the economy as screwed as it is, ive had no luck...

i REALLY want (and need) a much better camera. so ive decided to sell prints of some of my best pics. sure, itll take a very long time to save up for one that way, but better than nothing, right?

so please, go through my gallery, if you see anything in there that you think is print-worthy, tell me and ill submit it.

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anyone else have this?

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Strange to meet a talking frog. isn't it?

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every time i finish anything good, i feel like it was just a fluke. maybe a long series of lucky mistakes, perhaps im prone to flukes.

i can think of ideas sure, but i don't consider myself to be particularly good at executing the ideas i think of, and every time i do, i question myself and wonder how i did it... or even if i did it.

i often find myself looking at my own creations thinking "i couldn't do that..." so what do i do if it's all just a stroke of crazy luck? is it wrong to take credit for my own art if it was only a fluke? even though i did make it... i feel like that sometimes...

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sometimes i notice some bits of art that have a deep artistic feel to them, i always favorite those or add the artist to watch if there are alot. they are usually quite rare, but some people can do alot of them.

what im talking about here might confuse most people, so let me explain what i mean. it's when i see a piece of art that for some strange reason lets me see into the artists existence, to know exactly what they were thinking at the time, even if the thoughts don't make sense. most commonly i find it in surrealism, though sometimes in other places.

often they remind me of dreams ive had.

yes, im weird.

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ok, a getting a bit off topic there. as for photography, i got a digital camera for my birthday a few years ago, i figured out how to use it quickly enough, but now im finding things actually worth taking pictures of. ill be posting any good ones i manage to take, though i know nothing about lighting, or at least not how to properly do it, i just experiment and when i like how it looks take the pic like that.

please comment, i want to know what you think, ill respond to just about every comment, except things such as "nice pic", though i do appreciate them, there really is nothing i can think of as a response for that sort of thing.

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anyway being undead is getting a little annoying, i spilled a cup of coffee on myself... well, i went to starbucks and tried to order a latte, and the barista freaked out and threw a pot of coffee at me, but anyway, now i have a horrible brown stain on my ribcage and i don't know what to do.

its horrible how much prejudice against the undead there is, and how few know or care about it. did i do something wrong by being undead?

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