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I've got a problem. No matter how I rotate (horizontal/vertical) my images on my computer, when I upload them to DA they get reverted to their original position. Very frustrating! How can I solve this problem while preserving the original image quality?

If anyone could help, that would be great. Thanks.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/22820485/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/22820485/ Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:11:26 PST
Make each day better than the last one.

Even in the deep troughs, remember your joy.

Remember why you live. Remember your roots – your mother's womb.

Don't forget to breathe.

~your friend

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/22071174/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/22071174/ Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:51:36 PST
You don't suppose there's anyway to upload music files on this website...

I apparently don't even have the privileges to upload a video, which is understandable. We don't want people spamming huge files after all.

But wouldn't music be nice? Yes... I want to share some things.

Too bad. For now you must settle with the usual.

Godspeed!

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/20861228/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/20861228/ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:04:20 PDT
Seems like I'm starting to write some more poems and short stories now.

I'll be posting them up.

Thanks in advance for any and all feedback.

Love you guys!

Godspeed...

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/20520248/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/20520248/ Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:36:10 PDT
My name's Matt.

How are you?

Life's pretty fun... Had to drop out of my college program because it was way too intense. But hey, I'll start up again somewhere else soon. I continue to write stories, compose music and snap pictures in the meantime.

Here's some more pictures in a moment...

Peace.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/18983189/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/18983189/ Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:45:35 PDT
Recap of last century: Not much photography. Not much drawing. Lots of writing and music. But nothing I can really post on here. The writing is a big fat novel thingymabobber – a fan fiction, in fact. Almost done. The music is of many genres, for many purposes. My technical prowess is waning, though. I need to graduate into a higher-tier program.

What I need is an epiphany if I'm gonna come back on this website in any significant way. Man tends to create his own epiphanies by working hard. Ironic. Maybe I'll do just that whenever I feel like getting back into the visual arts world.

For now you'll get glimpses of my random photography. Nothing special. I do want to keep doing this. So once in a while, like I said, you'll see something new. We'll just play this by ear. Maybe a couple poems.

God bless, all.

Hey, why the heck is my name Duskara? Extremely outdated.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/17023103/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/17023103/ Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:58:31 PST
*pats self on back* Photography isn't dead yet. For a few months I just stopped enjoying it, but I have, indeed, received another spark. Drawing has fallen away in the last several months. I seem to have much more patience for photography. That's easy to say; snapping a photo takes a millionth the time it does to pencil down a masterpiece. Then again, planning for a good photo can take quite a while. I haven't gotten to that point yet. I look forward to nurturing my patience. *nods*

Life is troublesome, but bearable. That's probably the best I can say it. School hounds me, but inspiration hounds me harder. Balancing my responsibilities with my passions is a more tedious balancing act than ever. However, I'm starting to gain the skills required to dictate myself a bit better. I'll need this understanding with college coming up. What a scary thing...

As for my writing, I'm on the verge of finishing my Yugioh fan fiction, and I will then resume to write another Yugioh fan fiction. I'm planning to scrawl out the first installment in my long fantasy series, Methark 9, for the THIRD TIME sometime soon (I tried the first time about five years ago). I feel I've learned a lot from the fan fiction community of Pojo. My confidence to bear the burden of my brainchild is bolstering again. So is my poetic alliteration, at that... *coughs* But I'll be posting a few little writing excerpts on here once in a while. See what y'all think.

I'm rather concerned for Towfewdz. Wonder how he's doing...

As for my recent deviations, I guess I should provide an explanation for why I did a shoot like that. I've found more enjoyment in the small and the shiny as of late. My dad, a long-time pro who dabbles in a bit of every photographic genre, gave me the uplifting comment of "You could be a product photographer!" So perhaps I'll try my hand at a bit more of this. I'd love to hear what you guys think of the new work.

With that, thanks for reading. I look forward to conversing with my fellow Deviants again. God bless!

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Just kidding. It's just some pencil art by Matwise. Not very important. But... I must say, I'm somewhat proud of these two. They're not quite as embarrassing as my other recent works. I know, I'm too hard on myself. Really, I'm happy with my accomplishment, especially on the Zagar drawing. I think the background turned out quite swell. Though I could still do a lot of work on it. For the purpose of this drawing... I'm content. Buy yes, indeed, please view them and tell me your thoughts/feelings!

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/13763544/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/13763544/ Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:48:53 PDT
That's all. Have fun not looking at them. *sighs*

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/13722315/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/13722315/ Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:12:31 PDT
Joyful living!! -Matt

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/13447723/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/13447723/ Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:58:44 PDT
I journeyed to my grandparents' house in northern Minnesota on Thursday, the twenty-first of June... being yesterday. Thus, the events are fresh in my mind – a meek little house standing over a lake, somewhat run-down, but brimming with life.

My purpose was to help Grandma and Grandpa with some jobs around the house, since they're moving soon and need all the help they can get. My grandfather is a MAJOR pack-rat, to the extent that he owns a department store-sized garage filled basically wall-to-wall with anything you can imagine, but especially plumbing equipment. He's a very cool man, always with a hearty story to tell. And he does that often... very much so.

They live up in the country, so... things get a bit dustier and less shiny, as goes the will of nature. As I made my way around their dwelling, outdoors most of the time, doing jobs like chopping limbs off overgrown trees, hauling trash cans of whatever to the dump, helping reinforce the joists under their deck, and cleaning the filth out of very dark, seldom accessed corners, I kept my camera at the ready.

As you can see, as of my most recent several deviations, I had some interesting moments up at the lake house. A very specific moment inspired me to write this journal, and I'd like to share it with you all.

My grandpa assigned me to clean the area under an overturned motor boat, which acted as a roof over a small supply area that housed lawn mowers, snow blowers and some other junk, just beside their driveway. Some stray oak leaves rested in the sheltered space, along with some dirt and bug corpses and riddled the asphalt. Once I hunkered down with my work gloves, rake and broom to purge the sanctum, I realized how incredibly dirty it was. Cob webs sprawled underneath the boat, little captives bound tightly and frozen in breath, dangling from the ghostly strands. The fallen leaves were outnumbered by the ranks of the dead, I'm sure. But some living, too, lingered. Centipedes and rather large spiders milled around.

As I pondered the gruesomeness of the spectacle, the words flashed through my brain, "Nature's artifice of decay..." Sounded cool, so I kept the phrase to heart. When I swept my hands through the grimy darkness, removing the waste, I felt like an invader upon a sacred world, not one much unlike my own, though I loathed it. The feelings the darkness and dusk gave me... Dismal and haunting. So much death. And yet... The spiders were alive, weren't they? That darkness beneath the boat was brimming with life, in fact. To say that this is nature's artifice of decay... holds some truth. From a human perspective. But from that of the bugs... I don't know. In humanity's neglect of its facilities, the rest of nature takes a foothold, thus keeping the cycle of life booming. What's wrong with that?

The whole atmosphere up at grandpa and grandma's house felt dirty... impure. Yet, it was a relief. God grabbed me by the collar and showed me another side of himself, which I found very intriguing. The dirtiness is usually associated with distaste... But if one emerses him/herself in nature, I think one can realize that the simple, dirty things, even the frightening, dark places that should never be looked upon by decent people, are very ideal places to find art.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/13409345/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/13409345/ Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:10:06 PDT
I must say, this has inspired me to draw some Kingdom Hearts fan art.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/13354661/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/13354661/ Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:32:47 PDT
So I took this chance to take some new pictures with our snappy new camera (get the pun?), a Canon Power Shot A630. Yaaaayyy... I'm very pleased with its performance. Please check out my new pictures! You'll find that most of them occur on a dock... or at least include a dock in the frame.

As for this "mood" stuff (below)... I'm not doing all of those things right now. They're just the most recent activities I've performed in the specified category.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/13221170/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/13221170/ Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:22:20 PDT
Earlier in the month of May, 2007, I went to Chicago... and took lots of beautiful pictures, until I lost my camera. *weeps*

When I got back from Chicago, I had learned many an important thing about life, harsh as the lessons may have been. So I moved on, leaving photography behind temporarily and focusing more on my fantasy novel and my drawings.

So... I've also been working on a graphic novel for school, since last September, and I posted one of the pages for it. My dad volunteered to photograph the pages for me since we don't have a scanner. He has a 14-megapixel camera, so it's just as good as a scanner.

Also... I have another drawing that I really want to show you, but I think the proportions are wrong and I'm embarassed. So I'll keep touching it up, hopefully not to the point where the grafite stains become immutably prominent. *sighs*

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12935349/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12935349/ Sat, 12 May 2007 22:22:32 PDT
I've been working on another drawing... It shall appear in this place soon.

Also, I shall be in Chicago from May 14-17 for a school-supported cultural study. This ought to result in some interesting photographs.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12595985/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12595985/ Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:56:52 PDT
For anyone who's interested in the book... Here's a brief summary of what I have so far.

Just kidding.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12560533/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12560533/ Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:18:20 PDT
I commend all of you who haven't explored abstract photography a whole lot to try out some. It's very rewarding, in my opinion! Maybe it's not your bag, but... I thought I'd throw that out there. So have fun putting feeling into whatever art you create and God bless you all!

By the way, my mood is due to having missed a significant amount of sleep over the past few nights and having a colossal science test tomorrow, for which I've barely studied at all. This is the first time I've ever felt like I could die from a lack of sleep. this SUCKS.

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1.Fingers: matthew
2.Chin: mjjaztthyeew
3.One finger, eyes closed: mstthre
4.Elbow: matthew
5.Nose: matthew
6.Palm: maffhbew

That palm one confused me.

1.) List Four fandoms you have.
- Pokemon
- Yugioh
- Laurel J Thompson
- Tales games

2.) Have you ever slept in the back of a car?
Definitely. Many times. Long vacations to Montana have called for such things...

3.) Have you recently dyed your hair/cut it?
Ohhhh, about three months ago it was cut...

4.) List four people that you look up to the most.
- Laurel J Thompson
- Ethan Capers
- Wendell Schaap
- Jesus!

5.) How many pets do you own as of now?
I own one pet currently. She is a black cocker-spaniel poodle named Shadow.

6.) Which do you prefer: Something with sauce... and some fried vermin. What are you talking about?

7.) Who is your most played character?
Laurel J Thompson. He is a MAN.

8.) Choose one or the other, not both: WHAAAAAA?!?!?!? This is like a dolphin crashing through my window and landing in my piping hot soup bowl!!!


9.) Name three aspects that tell who you are.
- Imaginative, intuitive and not very stick-to-it-ive by any stretch of the imagination or intuition.
- Quite unreasonably brutal, but not entirely beyond reason.
- Somewhat resembling a cow, except... Forget the cow part.

10.) If you could have a power what would it be?
Any power I can imagine... is entirely possible already. Why ask for something that’s in God’s hands and only His to give?

11.) Who was the last person you talked to?
I talked to my little sister, Sarah, last.

12.) Who was the last person you said "I love you" to?
Sarah, actually.

13.) Write down the first five words that pop into your mind
- Ornithomimid
- Dolphin
- Poop
- Ibris
- Omnium-Gatherum

14.) What's one thing you wish you could do better?
I wish I could relax physically and mentally-- not be swayed by outside forces so much.

15.) Do you like the way you are?
I strive to be like Jesus Christ. However, I understand that I am fallen, and I value who I am-- a fearfully and wonderfully made creature in the image of God. It is important to love one’s self, no matter how tainted.

16.) Choose, Summer or Winter:
Fimbulvetr (Winter)

17.) Choose, Rain or snow:
Snow

18.) Water or ice?
Shizen Gyoun Ryu Sui

19.) List two odd things about yourself:

- I can’t not write. Storytelling permeates my existence.
- I love talking with people. It brings me joy to learn about people’s spirits.

20.) Now tag 6 people who should do this quiz!
NO!!! I don’t know how!!!

Okay, fine... NO!!! I don’t even have six people to commission.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12286793/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12286793/ Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:44:21 PDT
Today's been great for photography!!! The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, the ninjas are throwing shuriken at old ladies... Whaaat?!?!?

I took some indoor and outdoor photographs today... I must say that I'm very pleased with the mirror shots. What do you think of them? I found the whole concept quite meaningful.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12278062/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12278062/ Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:34:34 PDT
Right now, I feel particularly unsuccesful and incredibly sort of happy about nothing in particular. So... of specific things to discuss there is relatively nothing except a definite something that sort of resembles... this awesome Zelda song I'm listening to. Yaaaaaahahahahahaaaaa!!! It's The Lost Woods- Techno Remix. Rocks my sox, yeah... Oh, man. It's all trippy and skippy and nippy and blippy... and hippy, except not really. And it's definitely NOT drippy. Or grippy. That would just be wierd. *huggles a giant piano*

So... I feel like I want a bunch more people to talk to me. So I'll have to talk to a bunch of people in order for that to happen... Time to go hunting for some souls. Yeaaaarrhhhhoooo. You know any good souls to be hunted?

What's an idea without an ideal?

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12175336/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12175336/ Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:56:55 PDT
On another note, in a very all-encompassing manner, I have entirely no idea of what I could have been thinking when I wrote that title up there... sort of. Actually, I was thinking of Spiral. (Don't respond to this paragraph, because it no longer exists. Trust me.)

I was writing a reflection on the book of Romans (in the New International Version Bible) for school... and I finally consolidated a theory that has been floating around somewhat dismemberedly in my cranium for quite a while. The theory is as follows...

"The simple problems in life are the most difficult to answer. Complexities are merely stems of the infinitely and indecipherably simple problems; we trap ourselves in the illusion that complex problems in and of themselves are meaningful."

Please talk to me about this, whether you agree or disagree. Deviant Art is about art, correct? I'm indulging in the art of thinking.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12159274/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12159274/ Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:05:05 PDT
There's a heck of a lot of Deviations about to be uploaded.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12134176/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12134176/ Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:25:29 PST

Bye.


Bye now.


Goodbye.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12124890/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12124890/ Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:14:36 PST
My Most Recent Thoughts...
-Stop trying to be mature and just be yourself. It’s the most mature thing you can do.
-We are all the same and we are all different; therefore, we are all different all the same.
-Nothing is purely original. Were it such, our memories would forfeit their purpose.
-Never stop believing in yourself. If you do, you will cease to be yourself.

The following is a quote from a character in my novel series.

“Hope doesn’t completely disappear when doubt grows either, however much it may fade. Hope and doubt are both inseparable with a creature’s existence. Without them... constantly vying for power... I believe one would cease to have a soul.”- Gulivan Traupol

I really do love thinking. There’s so little time for it... But simply making the time can make all the difference. Slowing things down a bit never hurt anyone... Really, it didn’t.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12098912/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12098912/ Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:38:07 PST
I would very much like to wander around outside and take scary nighttime photographs, but since I'm so tired, I'll do that tomorrow night, since we have school off the next day. Yes, that will be perfect, and I shall give you a fresh fleet of pictures. Tomorrow night will be perfect.

By the way... Gackt is freaking awesome. His music, though I cannot understand Japanese, caresses my soul. True art transcends language, and Gackt has accomplished something heavenly.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12076898/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12076898/ Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:27:02 PST Well, I haven't been doing a lot of Deviations lately, as you may have noticed... but I plan to draw some stuff if I can.

The urge to draw is welling up within. Soon, my fortifications will crumble... and the river of creativity will careen through my heart. Everything will be whole.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12053862/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12053862/ Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:31:36 PST
Just kidding.

However, I felt in the mood to snap some compelling self-portraits. I've submitted four of them as Deviations. The other two, in which I am garbed in a suit and tie, are from a few months ago. As for LJTS... don't even ask. It's way too cool for you. OooooOOOOOOOoooo... *squelch*

Please, never forget to sit down once in a while and reflect on your life. In the modern world, people are ever steadily abandoning the value of tranquility. What will this rat race credit you once it's done? With the internet, perhaps, we can send messages across the planet and help even just a few people to understand. Don't live shallowly. Absorb every little moment you can grab.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12041364/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12041364/ Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:29:12 PST
I was inspired by shoveling to take pictures of snow. Instead, for some reason, I decided to snap (pun intended?) a few icicles. These Deviations will be submitted shortly. Pleeeeaase check them out. They're awesome.

Hey, for all of you who haven't shoveled your snow yet... DO IT. It's fun. And use your legs, not your back. You'll thank yourself later.

]]> ~Duskara http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12025161/ http://Duskara.deviantart.com/journal/12025161/ Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:36:40 PST
How corny and awesome that was. Hehehehe...

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