Friday: Clue 3 Released!

Fri Jun 14, 2013, 8:00 PM

Edit: We have our winners!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the first ever #PremiumMembers v. #deviant365 Olympics! The final decision of who won is still to be decided, but I can say that Premium Members gave a tough fight. Great job everyone!

Our winners are:

First piece:

Second piece:

Third piece:

And, special congratulations to these deviants who found more than one piece or all three!

The original journal can be found below!

The finish line is in sight! The last clue is here, and it's all up to you now.

A deviation has been stolen from the Sta.sh archives of deviantART, and both #PremiumMembers and #deviant365 are racing to find all three pieces to bring it back together! Whichever team creates the finalized piece first will win!

Your final clue to finding the deviant hiding the third piece:

The last clue is hidden by a deviant of many names

An electrical primate, now an animated fan

He lets you know every week what's new with deviantART

Find this last clue to secure your team's win!

Once you find the piece, send a note to #PremiumMembers with the image of the piece, and the name of the deviant who hid it.

Remember, whichever official group wins the best out of three rounds will gain bragging rights for all of their members, and will display their dominance for the next month. In addition, the 15 members of each group who reply first will receive 400 Points a piece! (You may enter as many times as you'd like, but you can only win once.) Want more information? Check out this journal.

Got it? Good! Now, go search!

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Thursday: Clue 2 Released!

Thu Jun 13, 2013, 5:00 PM

Awesome job so far, guys! We've had two Premium Members correctly find two of the pieces so far. There's still an opportunity to win 400 Points by searching for the first piece, or try your luck at finding the next piece using the clue below! Remember, you're looking for a puzzle-piece shaped clue, hidden by the deviant who corresponds to the clue. If you think you know the deviant, search their entire profile and see if you can spot it!

A deviation has been stolen from the Sta.sh archives of deviantART, and both #PremiumMembers and #deviant365 are racing to find all three pieces to bring it back together! Whichever team creates the finalized piece first will win!

Your second clue to finding the deviant hiding the second piece:

You'll need your best Poker Face for this next clue
And a knowledge of all things deviantART related
So if you know this super deviant
Find this clue hiding down under!

Once you find the piece, send a note to #PremiumMembers with the image of the piece, and the name of the deviant who hid it.

Remember, whichever official group wins the best out of three rounds will gain bragging rights for all of their members, and will display their dominance for the next month. In addition, the 15 members of each group who reply first will receive 400 Points a piece! (You may enter as many times as you'd like, but you can only win once.) Want more information? Check out this journal.

Got it? Good! Now, go search!

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Wednesday: Winners Announced!

Wed Jun 12, 2013, 4:51 PM

We're coming to you on a special Wednesday to bring you the winners of the Dangerous Escape contest. Since tomorrow will be full of Olympic events, we wanted to get you the winners in advance!

Our top six winners who chose pieces that best exemplify dangerous escapes are:

Chosen by *Alislinn, *Beralismo, *MoonMadMalkav, =MirachRavaia, *slightlymighty, and *JoannaMoory

Congratulations! You should be receiving your Points within the next 24 hours.

Remember, our first clue in the #PremiumMembers vs. #deviant365 Olympics will be released at midnight! Be one of the first five to identify the location of the piece based on the clue, send a note to the group with the location, and you could win Points and prove once and for all that #PremiumMembers is the best group of them all!

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Thursday: Clue 1 Released!

Thu Jun 13, 2013, 12:00 AM

The #deviant365 v. #PremiumMembers Olympics are now in full swing! The first clue is released below!

A deviation has been stolen from the Sta.sh archives of deviantART, and both #PremiumMembers and #deviant365 are racing to find all three pieces to bring it back together! Whichever team creates the finalized piece first will win!

Your first clue to finding the deviant hiding the first piece:

You'll have to dig down deep within yourself
And think of a ticked-off deviant
With never-ending love.

Once you find the piece, send a note to #PremiumMembers with the image of the piece, and the name of the deviant who hid it.

Remember, whichever official group wins the best out of three rounds will gain bragging rights for all of their members, and will display their dominance for the next month. In addition, the 15 members of each group who reply first will receive 400 Points a piece! (You may enter as many times as you'd like, but you can only win once.) Want more information? Check out this journal.

Got it? Good! Now, go search!

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Artists on Writers - No. 2, Charles Bukowski

Fri Jun 7, 2013, 7:36 PM

About Artists on Writers

•••

Writers will always find inspiration in the visions of artists, always feeling compelled to tell the stories behind the moments captured in artists’ unforgettable images,

Just as,

Artists will always find inspiration in the words of writers, always feeling compelled to lend visual reality and habitat to the characters described in the scribe’s haunting words.

If the severely acne-scarred face and coarse exterior brought on by his alcoholic and depressed life was the book cover of his being, then Charles was the ultimate book that could not be judged by its cover. The exquisite collection that was this everyman artist’s art consisted of thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels—mostly all wrenchingly autobiographical, mostly all about moments of epiphany and grace in an otherwise miserable and unhappy existence. The perfect explication of the common man's deepest truth; it's not easy to be here.

Unvarnished and brutal blunt force trauma underlined with hope, beauty, longing, and love. Therein lies the power of his poetry and his prose that strikes to the very soul of the reader that allows his legendary cruelties toward the people in his life and his many general misdeeds to be mostly forgiven—a price worth paying in light of the beauty of his words in those moments when his artistry transcended the ugliness beaten into his heart by an abusive father. A small but loyal fan base has grown up around his poetry and novels. A bourbon-soaked slice of his life was portrayed by Mickey Rourke in “Barfly.” But his works remain just beneath the popular radar, a treasure chest of sparkling gems that remain to this day hard to sell, victims of the stained brown bag packaging they were first delivered in.

A Quote From Charles Bukowski

•••

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
— Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Inspired Artwork

charles bukowski

by ~ercansebat

The Trouble With People

by ~Rhiallom

TrellisI teach a caterpillar
How to conceal its markings
On a grapevine that grasps
The trellis, trimming

Chewed leaves. Bigger
Bite marks upon bite marks.

A rotten apple-core chrysalis
Is hanging on a vine.

All it ever does is change.

I taught the grapevine
Where to grasp the trellis.

And all it ever does is want.

Written by ^NicSwaner

Quotes from BUKOWSKI

•••

“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”

“Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.”

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

bluebird

by ~opheliaXX

Blue bird

by ~V-IMAgine-L

Bluebird

by ~Yumochka

Bluebird

by Charles Bukowski

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks
never know that he's in there.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay down, do you want to mess me up?
You want to screw up the works?
You want to blow my book sales in Europe?

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too clever,
I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be sad.

Then I put him back,
but he's singing a little in there,
I haven't quite let him die
and we sleep together like that with our secret pact
and it's nice enough to make a man weep,
but I don't weep, do you?

Charles Bukowski's Nirvana

by Patrick Biesemans

My Friends are Ghosts

by ~RaVeNuS9

Oh Yes

by Charles Bukowski

There are worse things than being alone,
but it often takes decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late.

More than Flesh

by `BenHeine

Alone With Everybody

by Charles Bukowski

The flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind in there
and sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too much
and nobody finds the one

But keep looking
crawling in and out of beds.

Flesh covers the bone and the
flesh searches for more than flesh.

There's no chance at all:
we are all trapped by a singular fate.

Nody ever finds the one.

The city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill

Nothing else fills.

bukowski

by ~KalifBanane

En Memoria de Charles Bukowski

by ~TheGhostInTheMachine

pressed doldrums

Pressed Doldrums
The blood of Christ is on my kitchen counter.
Liberated and enigmatic at thirty proof,
it has the bouquet of a smoking gun in full bloom.
And tonight, I'm going to Hell with Bukowski's liver.

(C)2005 P.A.S.

Written by `radiophonic

find what you love

by =katworks

Bukowski 04

by *Dumaker

bukowskii wanna be a real poet,
live by the rules of bukowski

& no mama,
i can't get out of bed
not before the sun
sits high in the noon's time

& no mama,
my grammar school rules
are gonna go to waste

& no mama,
i can't use tall letters
when henry chinaski himself
leaves everything
low,
feeling low,
lying low

i don't know any girls
named jane
i don't drink beer
or sleep with
innumerable women who
just fuck me & run

but i wanna be a
real poet
the kind who fights
wee people in bars & loses
and hurts when
the beautiful suicides
are the only ones we see

i'd drink my pains away
but the last thing i need is
another glass wide

Written by *ohsostarryeyed

Bukowski

by ~annaliesje

Bukowski readings for the New Yorker

by ~honkfu

Bukowski 02

by *Dumaker

248

by ~NochePrimigenia

manufactured loneliness

by ~PsycheAnamnesis

What Bothers Them Most

excerpt by Charles Bukowski

They simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude is
one of the most beautiful things
on earth?

Yukari, asagi ve cepecevre

by ~SayinBayan

Watching a Kurt Cobain BiographyIt wasn't your best work;
The modern day classic
that twirled
around the youths ears,
dancing with their drums,
whispering, luring them:
"I understand you."

It wasn't your best work;
The riotous shows,
passion visibly taking talent
by the neck,
strangling it until dead and everyone
is sweaty and no-one
realises they've just witnessed a murder.

It wasn't your best work;
Your legs shaking,
chattering like joke teeth,
your head splintered into a wreckage,
alphabet spaghetti brain matter, blood,
shotgun shells, all tagged against the wall
like a silly excuse for a painting.

It was your best work;
With all of your beauty
a

Written by ~Broadcraig

The Gut Wringing Machine

by ~Loominary

The Genius of the Crowd

by ~Polotron

Charles Bukowski

by *nakkah

Charles Bukowski - The Poetry Reading

by Forever Lucky Films

drinking with charlesit's unusual -
i'm usually not fond of strong drinks
even though
tonight i'm with my two favorite guys;

'cause, it's that time of the month,
year,
life -
time to be stupid and grieve over things
like
listening to the song we listened to
on the night we said good-bye:
love has just started for us
and shit
and god do i need a cigarette
though i never wanted to get addicted
(to cigarettes)
(to you)
and i swear i'll stop
i'll stop
i'll stop
but i know
daniel's may reach my liver and get away
but i can't just touch the angst
and flee -
it stays inside.

charles can pour another glass
and i can go to hell.
it's all over a

Written by ~Tornment

Charles Bukowski

by ~Masked-Scaramouche

Born Into ThisThis is humanity:
Where solitude is easier
than having friends help you through a problem.

It's easier to say 'I`m ok',
to conform to conversational conventions;
than it is to be honest.

It is not hard to look normal;
It is hard being different.
Born into difference,
Rejected for differences you cannot fathom.

It is easier to treat life
like your mother's womb:

warm,

comforting,

you're alone.

But instead...
I have been born into this.

Written by ~SnowWhiteQueenX

Quotes from BUKOWSKI

•••

“Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.”

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

For BukowskiLeaving so soon? It's
okay - we've come to expect it.
Visit every so often. Send a letter signed with a heart.
Every one will be placed unopened in the top drawer.

I
swear.

Answers are only excuses.

Disguises are
only wishes...
Genuine expressions of what we want to be.

Faded, tired, we finally
rest -
only to find that every day is another performance.
Marvelous! (the crowd cheers.)

Here is what they've come for.
Every single
last one of them. They don't want your
love, they want your pain. No one ever leaves disappointed.

Written by `YouInventedMe

Lit Out For the Territory

by ~DocSonian

Der Mann mit der Ledertasche

by ~3Licht

I, in the nights

by *partiallyHere

Charles Bukowski

by *donchild

Questions For the Reader

•••

Does an artist’s life story necessarily serve as an element of his or her art? Can you even try to separate the work from the life of the artist?

Does “real” artistic commitment require excesses and the testing of boundaries in the real-time of your own life experience?

In your experience has your art been affected by the way you conduct your life?

Can the actions of an artist be so negative as to dismiss all of the artist’s work? For example, Ezra Pound a poet who embraced fascism or Leni Riefenstahl who made infamous and some say brilliant propaganda films for the Nazis.

Research & Curation

•••

=naikki

=TheGalleryOfEve

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Site Update: Undiscovered, New Journal Writer

Thu Jun 13, 2013, 6:42 PM

In our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing weekly Site Updates to keep members informed and to gather feedback. Below is a list of recent changes to the site, bug fixes, and feedback that was brought up by members in the last Site Update.

What's New

Undiscovered (Beta): Unearthing Quality Art

Each day, hundreds of thousands of pieces of art are submitted to deviantART. As more and more artists join, create, and share their work, it becomes easy for high quality art to miss its chance to stand out and be seen.

Our new browse mode, Undiscovered, aims to bring new, high quality artwork to the foreground.

Read more »

The New Way To Write Journals

Writing a Journal is easier than ever with the new Write a Journal Entry page. Add formatting, artwork, files, Journal Skins, and emoticons to your Journal for a more dynamic journal creation experience!

Read more »

Notifications for Commissions

A new set of notifications have been added to the Message Center to bring more exposure to artists offering Commissions!

Read more »

Change Log

Clicking on a username inside the "Who faved this?" modal would open that deviant's Profile inside of the modal. Fixed by $muteor
The "Give Points" modal would stretch in Firefox and not display properly. Fixed by $inazar
For Internet Explorer users, the "Send Note" modal on Profile Pages was briefly broken. Fixed by $shahyarg
The "Submit to group" modal stayed open when using browser back button and going to previous deviation page. Fixed by $muteor
Chat failed to load for a short period. Fixed by $shahyarg
Selecting multiple categories when setting up a Channel would generate an incorrect search query. Fixed by $DEVlANT
Clicking a thumbnail in the footer would display an error before loading the deviation page. Fixed by $muteor
The order of examples included in a Commission would change when saved. Fixed by $adahacker
The Website Button was removed because of its lack of use. Removed by $shadowhand
When updating a Journal in the Journal Portal, selecting "Notify your deviantWATCHERs" did not work. Fixed by $randomduck
Social widgets in Journals did not work when those Journals were reached using the "Next" or "Previous" buttons. Fixed by $shadowhand
Banned users would encounter unhelpful error messages when attempting to install widgets. Fixed by $adahacker

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In rare situations, mostly due to browser incompatibilities, the Fill tool could behave incorrectly when watching a Redraw. Reported by ~MangaDeity99 and fixed by $mudimba

Sta.sh / Submit

An extra "Upload" button would appear in Sta.sh. Fixed by $drommk
When opening the Schedule menu, people would sometimes see NaN instead of the date, and scheduling wouldn't work properly. Fixed by $kouiskas
The layout of the Submit page was broken for iPhones and iPads. Fixed by $kouiskas
Duplicate tabs would appear when refusing to accept the Terms of Service. Fixed by $kouiskas
For some deviation types, first-time submitters were being asked to accept the Terms of Service, even if they already had. Fixed by $drommk
The category preview panel wouldn't clear when going to or from certain categories. Fixed by $drommk
Some users would get an alert mentioning fatal errors when trying to submit to Groups. Fixed by $kouiskas

Sta.sh Writer

The toolbar was widened slightly for a cleaner layout. Fixed by $inazar
Pasting markup into Writer could become a potential XSS vector. Fixed by $Alisey
Pressing Tab to jump from a Sta.sh comment to the "Submit Comment" button did not work. Fixed by $inazar
When previewing a comment, the comment box view did not resize if the window was resized. Fixed by $inazar
The Preview button in the toolbar did not always reflect the correct state. Fixed by $inazar
When previewing a comment in Sta.sh, the "Close Preview" button overlapped with the scrollbar. Fixed by $inazar
The conversation sidebar would not display at all if only some of its contents failed to load. Fixed by $inazar
Browsing away from a Sta.sh item would not reset the sidebar. Fixed by $inazar
Clicking into a comment box at the bottom of the page would expand the Writer toolbar and sidebar off the bottom of the screen. Fixed by $inazar

Your Feedback

Thank you for the feedback left on last week's Site Update! Here's some of what you had to say:

Deviants were pleased with the launch of Multi-Submit and Scheduled Submit. Some deviants mentioned that they would like these tools to be open to everyone, while others said that they feel they are good Premium Member features.
Deviants were positive about the new Ideas Forum. We are still actively reading through and analyzing suggestions, but we encourage you to continue to use the new forum, or try it out if you haven't done so yet!
Responses to the Discuss topic varied. Some deviants said that they don't use mobile apps when creating art, while others mentioned frequently using them to create. Some of the apps that deviants mentioned include Sketchbook Pro, ArtRage, Procreate, and Art Studio for iOS.

Discuss!

The New Journal Writer

Have you given the new Write a Journal Entry page a try? If so, what do you like about it? Do you prefer to use rich-text, or do you switch to HTML mode? What features do you find most useful, when writing a Journal?

Have a suggestion, idea, or feedback? Leave a comment on this article!
Want to keep track of known issues? Check out our Status Forum!
Find a bug? Report it to the Help Desk! (Be as detailed as possible!)

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Thursday: Dangerous escape!

Thu Jun 6, 2013, 3:27 PM

Excellent stories last week! Who knew there were so many creative ways to claim your property from your neighbor? We enjoyed reading your stories!

The top three winners are:

*rachcedillo (Read story here!)

*KaraValmeyjar (Read story here!)

=NekoMailJeevas (Read story here!)

Congratulations! You'll be contacted about your prizes within the next 24 hours.

For this week, we're challenging you to go on a little scavenger hunt! We're looking for a deviation that fit within a theme, which comes to us directly from a random phrase generator!

Your phrase is:
Dangerous escape

What deviation can you find that fits within this theme? What's the most treacherous way to narrowly avoid danger? Link it to us in the comments below! Find more than one? Enter as many times as you'd like!

We'll choose six winners who will receive 800 Points each! Winners will be chosen based on accuracy to the theme and selection of deviation. All entries must be in Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 11:59 PM Los Angeles, CA, time.

What deviation can you find that exemplifies dangerous escape? Let us know and you could win!

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Celebrating Deviousness - June 2013

Sat Jun 1, 2013, 12:01 AM

Deviousness Award

Congratulations to `
ChewedKandi

Four Colours In Her Hair

Stella

Sameria Love

What is this Awesome Achievement?

The Deviousness Award is an accolade which is traditionally handed out on the 1st of every month to one truly outstanding deviant.

All the cool kids have book photos

Rainbow Sparkles

Fluffy Meow

Who is `ChewedKandi?

`ChewedKandi has certainly gone out of her way to keep the vector community on the right path. Always making sure that her talents are infinitely scalable, Sharon has put her bezier curves to excellent use, and firmly anchored herself as an inspirational leader. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for June 2013 to `ChewedKandi, congratulations!

Congratulations to `ChewedKandi

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Site Update: Multi-Submit and Scheduled Submit

Thu Jun 6, 2013, 5:34 PM

In our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing weekly Site Updates to keep members informed and to gather feedback. Below is a list of recent changes to the site, bug fixes, and feedback that was brought up by members in the last Site Update.

What's New

Multi-Submit and Scheduled Submit (Premium Member Features)

Upgrade to Premium Membership to use these new features!

Multi-Submit and Scheduled Submit, two often-requested features that will make submitting to deviantART even easier, have been launched to Premium Members!

Multi-Submit is a tabbed interface built into the Submit page which allows you to upload and submit multiple deviations at once, and Scheduled Submit lets you set a future time and date for uploaded files to be publicly posted to deviantART.

For deviants with a busy schedule, or who like to upload and submit multiple deviations at once, this gives you the opportunity to prepare and present your work to your watchers without having to worry about flooding Message Centers or risking works going unnoticed!

Read more »

Trying Out A New Suggestions Forum

We've been running a limited trial of the Ideas Forum on our Customer Service Central, and have just expanded this trial to more deviants. This forum allows for a great deal of flexibility in how we approach suggestions, including giving staff the ability to mark suggestions as complete, planned, or not planned, the ability for community members to vote up suggestions they agree with, and more!

Read more »

Merging Journals in the Message Center

A few years ago, we merged News and Journals. Until now, Journals submitted to the Journal Portal still came through to the News section of the Message Center. Today, all of these messages — and all future messages — have been merged into the Journals section of the Message Center for clarity.

Change Log

The "More" buttons in a Group Gallery did not show if the window was too wide. Fixed by $shahyarg
The global settings for Group Gallery submissions were not being enforced properly for the Featured folder. Fixed by $randomduck
Clicking a "Visit Journal" link in the Message Center would open the Journal, but the "Next", "Previous", and "All" buttons would not display. Fixed by $muteor
Links containing FTP URLs would break when formatted. Fixed by $shahyarg
Browsing Collections in More Like This results only opened first item loaded by 'view more' and scrolling. Fixed by $helloandre
There was a display issue when collecting thumbs on profile page. Fixed by $shahyarg
Opening a thumbnail in the footer by using ctrl+click (command+click, for Mac users) would open that deviation on the same page instead of in a new tab. Fixed by $helloandre
Journal thumbnails would have cosmetic issues when stacked in a Group Gallery. Fixed by $shahyarg
Promotional discount price changes would not display properly in the "Buy Prints" box. Fixed by $shahyarg
Prints Shop thumbnails were briefly broken. Fixed by $muteor

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Filters were not behaving properly, often turning the layer either pure black or pure white. Fixed by $mudimba
There was a cosmetic bug in the layer palette when a file had a large number of layers. Fixed by $mudimba

Sta.sh / Submit

The "+New" button would disappear in Internet Explorer 8. Fixed by $kouiskas
For Multi-Submit, if there was only one tab left open before refreshing the page, it wouldn't have the close button after refreshing. Fixed by $kouiskas
A "Saved to Sta.sh" popup would incorrectly appear when opening a remembered tab. Fixed by $kouiskas
When closing all previously open tabs and then uploading new items, a duplicate tab would appear. Fixed by $kouiskas
Clicking the close button too early would make the button disappear instead of closing the tab. Fixed by $kouiskas
Resetting a tab wouldn't remove saved settings. Fixed by $drommk
When switching tabs while scheduling a submission, the Schedule menu would close but the calendar would still display. Fixed by $drommk

Sta.sh Writer

Writer could fail to display included emoticons under certain circumstances. Fixed by $kemayo
Big thumbnails were broken, and would instead display the same as thumbnails created using the standard :thumb: code. Fixed by $kemayo

Your Feedback

Thank you for the feedback left on last week's Site Update! Here's some of the feedback you left for us.

Feedback regarding the Discuss topic varied. Some deviants mentioned posting features for art they like or art they feel fits a specific theme, while others mentioned that they post features to showcase a specific artist or artists.
Some deviants mentioned that they'd like an easier way to add thumbnails to features. In response, other deviants suggested using Sta.sh Writer's sidebar to add images more quickly.
=SingingFlames suggested having different size options for literature thumbnails, to match the different size options between :thumb: and :bigthumb:, when posting features.
Deviants generally did not like the suggestion regarding Polls being automatically removed from the Message Center after voting.
Some deviants would like to see more of their transaction history using deviantART Points. Suggested by *Xeshaire

Discuss!

Creating Art with Apps

There are many apps for mobile devices that are designed for creating art when on the go. Do you use any apps for creating art, when on your mobile device? If so, what apps do you use, and why do you prefer to use that app (or those apps)?

Have a suggestion, idea, or feedback? Leave a comment on this article!
Want to keep track of known issues? Check out our Status Forum!
Find a bug? Report it to the Help Desk! (Be as detailed as possible!)

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Thursday: Battle On!

Thu May 30, 2013, 2:49 PM

We're nearing the end of the month already!

Time really flies.

This week, we're calling on all Premium Members who are also secret agents, especially trained in various combat styles. We have a special assignment for you!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to defeat your evil next-door neighbor. He isn't just any ol' neighbor -- this man has laser-shooting eyes, a wind tunnel in his abdomen, four arms loaded with deadly poison, and porcupine-like spikes protruding from his back. And he hasn't given you back your lawn mower you lent him a month ago!

Not to worry! You have your trusty three weapons with you, which are:

A bucket of modeling clay

An orange

A broom

Using these three items, how would you take down your opponent? Be creative and tell us your heroic tale!

Either write your story as a comment to this journal or post it as a literature deviation and link it in the comments below. Any length is fine!

We'll pick three winners who will receive a one-year Premium Membership! Winners will be chosen based on inclusion of the three items, creativity, and ingenuity. All entries must be in by Tuesday, June 4th at 11:59 PM Los Angeles, CA, time.

You've finally had enough of the laser-holes in your apartment and porcupine spines in the lawn, and it's time to take on your neighbor head-to-head. What do you do? How does the battle go down?! We want to know!

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The Journal Portal

Community Mood

Polls

What is your preferred drawing software?

About Artists on Writers

A Quote From Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Inspired Artwork

Quotes from BUKOWSKI

Bluebird

Oh Yes

Alone With Everybody

What Bothers Them Most

Quotes from BUKOWSKI

Questions For the Reader

Research & Curation

What's New

Undiscovered (Beta): Unearthing Quality Art

The New Way To Write Journals

Notifications for Commissions

Change Log

Sta.sh / Submit

Your Feedback

Discuss!

Deviousness Award

Congratulations to `ChewedKandi

What is this Awesome Achievement?

Who is `ChewedKandi?

Congratulations to `ChewedKandi

What's New

Multi-Submit and Scheduled Submit (Premium Member Features)

Trying Out A New Suggestions Forum

Merging Journals in the Message Center

Change Log

Sta.sh / Submit

Your Feedback

Discuss!

Polls

What is your preferred drawing software?

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