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There. that's why. Best birthday present ever.
Been working on some pieces for a staff show in the gallery at work (that sounds so classy, hahah), and when they're done I'll take pictures of them. They're kinda fucked up awesome. well. At least the big one is.
So! things are coming! soon! but not now. Now I'm going to bed.

]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/11594862/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/11594862/ Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:46:15 PST
although to be fair the Mark and Ryu one was a commission, and Ed and Ichy aren't all up ons each other. just chilling.

perhaps at one point I will draw something unusual and completely outside of my normal repertoire. perhaps I will draw something actually trying to be artistic instead of just gratifying my own madness. Maybe one day I will paint a landscape, or upload some tattoo designs, or gasp, even a heterosexual couple! or girly slash. I really need an excuse to draw some girls all up ons each other, mine should be an equal opportunity gallery of gay. where was I? Perhaps one day I will go outside my comfort zone of subject matter! but it is not this day!

Okay, now I'm going to sleep, because it's almost 5 in the morning. ICK.

]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/11355923/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/11355923/ Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:38:55 PST
And that's all I really have to say, other than my roomies are tag-team nagging me to finish a Spy Buddies story I started last semester. we'll see, folks! I am certainly not tired right now. (haha, watch it never get done. I torture them so.)

]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/8450362/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/8450362/ Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:45:18 PDT
Art theft isn't funny, kids. I don't care if it's intended in a nice way or not, it's uncalled for. you ask permission, and you credit your sources. You do not take people's art without permission and use it to represent yourself on MySpace.

I'm working on getting this situation taken care of.

I'm thinking that future submissions will have big fat watermarks on them. I don't like doing that, but it appears I have precious little alternative.

~A

ETA: wait a tick, I never posted that particular piece here. REGARDLESS, my devArt gallery is going to suffer because of something that happened on lj. Sorry kids, that's the way it goes. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6796503/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6796503/ Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:48:11 PDT
this chicken fried rice I got at Wal Mart is so fucking full of sodium, my kidneys have shut down. ACK! I could not finish it all, it was making me sooo thirsty.

Also the Colbert Report is the bestest spinoff in the history of ever. The gravitas contest with Stone Phillips? COMEDY GOLD, my friends. good times.

and now I will continue to not do this Statistics homework project. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6691753/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6691753/ Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:28:06 PDT _<

but uh..was there a point to this entry? I'm going to bed. yes. sleepytime! ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6545400/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6545400/ Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:00:36 PDT _<
STUPID ALEVE! WORK! WORK, DAMN YOU!

screw pirate day, screw classes, I just want to pass out on painkillers and sleep for the rest of the day. I miss the time when I got my wisdom teeth out and I had nice percocet to keep me from going insane. those were good times. I miss you, my little percocet friends! Auggie misses you very much! ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6383097/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6383097/ Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:29:11 PDT
This video: [link]

Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'"

Al Pacino (and my new Scarface poster)

Pocky, both strawberry and regular-type

My comfy bed

Rufus Wainwright singing in French

GAY PENGUINS ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6330216/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6330216/ Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:57:03 PDT
and I've done some new art that I want to upload. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6202176/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6202176/ Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:12:17 PDT
Besides, I'm going out of town to the weekend, so you know, it's not that big a deal for me. hooray for Jark, and all that goodness. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6146351/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6146351/ Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:10:51 PDT
LINKS:
June Letter from Scott to Angelo and Andrew.

This site's been posting background information on the situation for a while, but due to admin thread leakage and subsequent uproar, it currently plays host to a very interesting letter, Scott's reply to Andrew's response to the above email.

Both of these links I found at justthorne's journal, which has been, in my halfhearted investigation of what the heck's been going on, consistently the best source I can find for clearly-worded statements and the volume of links.

the amusingly titled "devDeepThroat"'s blog. a lot of stuff I've already linked, but you know....the more you know.


My Views
I'm not as well-spoken as a lot of the other activists out there, but I like to think I can string a sentence together when it really matters.

When I first heard about the movement to stop all activity on the site, now I believe called "DeviantArt on PROBE-ation," I was ambivalent towards it. I still am. I have archived some of my works here, but I do not think, at this point in time, I will put all of them into storage as a form of protest. I was not previously aware of the existence of this feature, and I think it's useful; mainly because I don't like the quality of some of my early stuff, but I don't feel like deleting it. Also there's repeat versions of images and I liked the opportunity to clean my gallery up a bit.

As it is, I've never been a paid member of DeviantArt. I've never been a paid member of Livejournal either, for that matter. Between the two I am far more likely to subscribe to my precious lj, because I love icons and I really wish I could have more than three. In all the pandemonium over the DevArt situation I see "community" being tossed about more than any word. Perhaps it's because I've never been a subscriber or had the resources to become one, but I've never really felt like a part of a real community at DeviantArt. This is my own decision, not a fault with the website's organization. I never got around to posting in the forums, which I imagine helps a user's popularity quite a bit (also, I don't have '-chan' in my username).

It's because of my lack of community involvement, I suppose, that I have few reservations over continuing to use DeviantArt the way I always have: a storage place for my artwork that allows feedback from other artists. I'm not giving money to the site, I'm not lining Angelo's pockets and I never have been. the only way I'm part of the problem, as I see it, is that by being a member of the site I contribute to the bandwitdh usage that demands a lot of money for the site to keep running. I think it'd be greatly effective for paid users to cancel their subscriptions; this at least would be a better form of protest than anything I could possibly do.

I plan on continuing to use this site for my art storage. However it should be noted that I will be away from internet access for most of Sunday, so I'll be a little late in learning whatever will have happened on the fateful 5-year anniversary. As an added bonus I won't be able to submit anything on that day, and will inadvertently contribute to the demonstrations. Hooray.

I hope things work out. I really do. I've read the leaked emails and several members view them as valid. I see little evidence to contradict this, and so I have hope that Scott's legal efforts will succeed. It appears that the rabbit-hole of mismanagement goes deeper than just refusing to inform the public. And to keep with the rabbit metaphors: there's a storm coming. General Woundwort is out to stop us, but we've got a boat and we know how to use it. If DeviantArt starts to crash and burn after Sunday, I will seriously consider taking my leave and taking my art elsewhere.

Okay, the Watership Down parallel wasn't NEARLY perfect. it was a spur of the moment sort of thing, you know? I'm not sure if Jark is supposed to be Hazel or Blackberry. Please Bear in mind that it's 2 in the morning where I am, and I'm not at my most coherent. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6137096/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6137096/ Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:46:42 PDT ~Elphaba

Finish:
~Regulus Black Snake Portrait (redesigned, finish colouring)
~Regulus Lineart (colour [cell-style?])
~Jedi Auggie & Halo (colour)
~Good Omens chibis (finish colour & shading)
~Persona Chicks (finish shading)


Start:
~Thom's Puppylove birthday present
~Weasley Twins for LRF
~SPY BUDDIES panel 2
~Bellatrix Snake Portrait
~commemorative pageviews pic (possibly old characters)

and probably a bunch of other crap that I'll never get around to. ACK. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6106566/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6106566/ Mon, 01 Aug 2005 21:56:01 PDT
Spyed talks about the new "Groups" system that'll be implemented I believe starting sometime in September. He mentions how it'll be Art meeting Corporation, turning the nation of DevArt into a nation with smaller cities. Essentially giving us self-government.

But what will this accomplish? Say someone starts a Group for...Harry Potter fanart. If I understand what Angelo's saying about Groups, the founder will be able to control who joins and has access to post fanart within this Group, and it will allow greater exposure for Deviants within the group.

This worries me. It could very easily turn into a system wherein the status quo determines which art counts as 'good', as 'worthy'. And yeah, it'll encourage artists to grow, but it could encourage artists to grow in the direction that the elite want, to produce art for the sake of popularity.

You know what happens when people make art for popularity's sake? You know what happens when Art really meets Corporation?

You get THOMAS FUCKING KINKADE and his shitty little 'paintings' of HAPPY LITTLE COTTAGES, mass-produced by the thousands so that people with poor taste can choke their living rooms with chintzy, sappy shit. Right next to the shelf full of Beanie Babies and Precious Moments dolls and baby pictures of their cats.

I don't consider that 'art.' I consider that making a profit on people's sentimentality when very little effort goes into the manufacturing of a single piece. You could argue that a picture of a happy cottage with a garden full of flowers and bunnies and a nice little lamp outside counts as 'art' because it it has emotional value or means something to even one person. That doesn't make it good art. It doesn't have a message, except "Buy this crap and put it next to your embroidery sampler reading 'Lord Bless this Home,' because I'm going to take advantage of your clinging to a worldview where if we pretend the world is a happy place and where little carefree cottages really exist with no stress, that makes it true. Go ahead, cling to your naive ideology. I'm going to use your hard-earned American dollars to buy a new yacht. Or hell, I might just roll around naked in all this money. or burn it. I've sold more pieces of 'artwork' than Picasso and Van Gogh combined, that makes me a great artist!"

...you know, I think I've been needing to get that rant out of my system for a good long while. Apologies to anyone or their sentimental grandmothers I may have offended by my snarking.

Oh yeah, and houses full of silk flowers. I hate those too. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6084481/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/6084481/ Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:45:06 PDT ~Elphaba

Finish:
~Regulus Black Snake Portrait (redesigned, finish colouring)
~Regulus Lineart (colour [cell-style?])
~Jedi Auggie & Halo (colour)
~Good Omens chibis (finish colour & shading)
~Persona Chicks (finish shading)


Start:
~Thom's Puppylove birthday present
~Weasley Twins for LRF
~SPY BUDDIES panel 2
~Bellatrix Snake Portrait
~commemorative pageviews pic (possibly old characters)

and probably a bunch of other crap that I'll never get around to. ACK. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/4745484/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/4745484/ Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:10:56 PST
Right, a couple weeks ago I borrowed the play from Breanna and read it and loved it, in all its inscruatble postmodern wonder. And the just last night (or early this morning) we all watched the movie and OMG I LOVE IT SO MUCH. the adorable! the slash! the hotness! The Hamlet-as-played-by-the-poor-man's-Paul- Bettany-ness!

Expect there to be fanart, because I went crazy and I need to get myself to the library and scan this madness. HOLYCRAP. ~crabs-within-bubbles you really should have encouraged me to see this movie sooner. goddamn, Gary Oldman. he is so fine. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/4584004/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/4584004/ Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:26:32 PST
Anyway. Happy Valentine's Day, all! Or, if you're single, happy...Monday. okay, that didn't work out so well. Happy Lupercalia. find your loved one and beat them with a wolfskin.

speaking of the happy canids, I've been in an Auggiewolf frame of mind lately, and I think I've got the new design finished for mine anthro form. because...I got nothing better to do. I'll upload the drawing later. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/4163691/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/4163691/ Sun, 26 Dec 2004 18:03:01 PST
And I'm sure I suck utterly with it now, but hopefully my measly skills will improve somewhat in the future. I'm LOVING Painter, though. done one random thingie already, although I should probably move it to scraps since it looks rather...unfinished. I dunno. it's randomness at its finest.

I am so freaking excited right now. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/3462512/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/3462512/ Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:47:40 PDT I needs my shinies! ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/2554772/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/2554772/ Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:36:46 PDT
been finishing up a bunch of things I've had lying around..hence the updates. I'm working on this huge evil nouveau thing (well, not working atm, since photoshop hates me) and I'm almost done with it, but I am just too damned tired to do anything. gah. 2:30 in the morning! there was a time when I would be wide awake at this hour! College, why hast thou forsaken me?

ugh, need sleep. or cookies. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/2141156/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/2141156/ Sat, 03 Apr 2004 01:11:38 PST
..also, I need to get out of this rut of drawing block I've been in. -_-; ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/1170264/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/1170264/ Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:01:44 PDT
so yeah, I know someone asked about the location of my fanfic, it's at ff.net, here:
[link]

enjoy, leave a review, flame me, whatever. ^_^. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/1154680/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/1154680/ Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:25:01 PDT Heh, I really wuv the Demons pic, I've had to kind of put the comic project on permanent hiatus, and it was good to draw my characters again. I think they missed me. ^_^.

Dairoshi in particular is looking more and more like an evil vampire lately. huh. been reading too much Anne Rice, I think. yep, that's it. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/1122887/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/1122887/ Tue, 02 Sep 2003 20:19:22 PDT ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/1101555/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/1101555/ Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:16:25 PDT Will post more pics later. ^_^. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/991493/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/991493/ Sat, 26 Jul 2003 11:03:59 PDT ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/991490/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/991490/ Sat, 26 Jul 2003 11:03:32 PDT ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/989818/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/989818/ Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:13:17 PDT _ ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/966674/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/966674/ Sun, 20 Jul 2003 13:29:15 PDT
And yay! people been commenting on me art! I lurves them! I lurves them all!! *hugs for evryone!* blargh. must go now, but will post more deviations later. yesh. much more artsies. ^_^. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/964451/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/964451/ Sat, 19 Jul 2003 22:13:41 PDT And I FINALLY got the chat to work for me at The White Council. woohoo!
Tomorrow am going over to Aroka's place to apperantly play videogames and watch anime. And they call this educational preparation for a silly teachign program. ^_^. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/916706/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/916706/ Sun, 06 Jul 2003 19:29:30 PDT so Kara got me addicted to ER now, because last night is was on and she was all: "ooh! ER!" and I'm like: "..okay, nothing else is on tv, I'll watch it and humor her." but then (this was a rerun, mind you) Julianna what's-her-name started goig into labor with George Clooney's babies (On thanksgiving! On the Subway!) and instead, as I had presdicted, of being trapped in labor on the broken subway with a bunch of crazies, she was rescued and taked back to the hospital by the most gorgeous Croatian man ever. ..yes kids, I am now completely and pervily obsessed with Dr. Kovac. Who is angsty AND slutty! WOOHOO! ....I scare myself sometimes. Now I'm gonna go look for pictures to put on my desktop. ]]> ~avalonauggie http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/898518/ http://avalonauggie.deviantart.com/journal/898518/ Tue, 01 Jul 2003 20:52:05 PDT ~avalonauggie