Is anybody have issues with Da lately? I can't upload anything not when i use firefox and not when i try it wit IE. Da is very slow. I can't delete anything from deviationstacks, with the result they are piling up . And i can't do a stock search because i got an error on that page because it won't load. Messagecentrum the same issue .
I couldn't add a new journal till now and i just couldn't upload any deviation .Anybody has the same troubles?
I've reinstalled firefox because i thought it was because of that, but that didn't help a thing.
Well i went to the Da status thingie and some extensions in firefox seem to be the trouble and of course i have no idea where i can enable those dammed things in firefox :s

And i hope that the april fools day ends fast because the avatar change ..well you should think they would have played another joke at us because this one is getting old.

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Its spring. finally. And with that, a need of more time. My son has his holy communion ( or how they say it?) and because we do a garden-party, a lot of planning to go with that..
The strangest thing happened a few days ago when i creating a background. I ended up with another 'tower card' and you know what happened the last time when i made a tower card lol.
I feel the urge to start a new deck. One i want to work with plain normal playing cards, a bit like the lenormand deck but with all 52 cards of a normal deck. Just for fun and to give myself a new challenge ( I'm crazy i know ) . I always enjoyed ' telling the future' with a plain normal deck, but i always hated the fact that there wasn't any symbolism to help with it. So I've been thinking for years how . And eventually when i figured it out i would create one, or not. And it seems that I'm at the edge of that yes or no.. Well see but i do know it will go slower then the mystic dreamer.Its not my intension to publish it. I just want a symbolical plain normal deck. And for that i first need to shoot a few plain card decks to add in that deck.. Then i need to find my papers back for the symbolism and the explanation of each card and because it has been years ago that i have written them down, and since then we have moved, it will be an adventure on the attic to find that stuff back lol
But in the mean time the tower is almost done ( representing the 6 of spades) I just need to find a model to fit in that card, one that represent the 'mood' of that card.. Dammed i just realize this won't be an easy deck to create ..
Well its time again to leave my pc for what it is, and get my son from school, help with his homework, and when Sébastian is awake , go to the playground because i promised Alekxander ..And before i realize it will be 22h before i see my pc back Time really flies

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I finaly put up a fanpage on facebook [link]
So If you are a fan of my works you can become a fan
If you saw the mystic dreamer deck in your local bookstore , as a fan you can show a photo of it there ( i'm so curious to see where they are everywhere in the bookstores because i still haven't see it here in belgium).
If you have ever bought a print , I would really enjoy to see a photo of it , hanging in your room

DA seem to have some massive changes in the past days, first it was the normal message centre that changed and today, the inbox of the notes ( and everything with it) has been changed.
Seems like they totally revamp the site .
I just wished with the stacks messages that they had include a combined reply button so you could thank everybody in one click ( like everybody who faved something) maybe its something for the future, i keep my fingers crossed.
for the rest , at least for the moment i like the changes, the stacks are a great option me liky
And now i Finally going to get some coffee. I need coffeee..

Lately I've noticed that i often use the same stock, at least for landscapes and objects. Some sky's and the wave breaker series of my own stock i have practically used in most of my pieces, not the whole thing but parts of it. I've used clouds as snow and vice versa, i used the wave breaker as mos and as rock. I've combined clouds in so many way's i probably invented new kind of clouds And i've noticed i also challenge myself to use same stocks to get a different result. And the reason is i've got way to much photostock on my pc, not only from myself but also from several stocksites, and DA. it makes me grab for the things i have used before instead of losing time searching for the right cloud or other stuff. For that reason i include a walktrough for the priestess of the wind, and the next 2 pieces will have a walktrough to, so you can see how nuts i am when i don't find the right stock. And that is only since the lamentum piece that i get so nuts

Next to my own photo's and those from stocksites and Da, I've got a few cd's bought at a second hand store with stockphoto's on them ( lucky me ) And its, to be honnest to much stuff to go trough. I spend more time searching for stock because i save in year folders.
Searching for stock i find the most frustrating thing in photomanipulation ( next to finding the right model )


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yesterday I saw in my emailbox that there is a new version of paintshoppro out. Paintshoppro 13 is released and I downloaded the trialversion [link]
I finaly got the thing on on my pc, and Its the dutch version, I'm so used to work with the englisch version that i completly feel lost in psp 13
Well i was wondering if there are people who discoverd this a bit earlier then I, and start to test it. And how they feel about it. Is this version worth to be bought or isn't it. 89 euro is something i consider to give but 1 It has to be the englisch version and not the dutch version because i don't feel like getting to know the dutch terms when i'm so used to the englisch ones
2 are there things in it that are new and so ' wow' that its worth to consider to buy it
For the moment i find it very slow, so i'm moving stuff from my hard drive to an external one, to make place and hopefull it will help to make it go faster
Any feedback would be awesome about this psp version


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Ohh my... I made a group... With a german name well its in fact easy, once before DA i had a site called anderswelt and because that name seemed to be taken already, i added dunkle before it, which is as good as the dark underworld.. Sounds darker then it actually is.. ohh my ..
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Basicly I just made a group just, out of curiosity how it all works curiosity kills the cat, i hope this won't 'kill' me
In a way i find it really ironic that I as a associal person got so curious how a group works , made one..And trow herself before the wolves
With probably the result that or i have to be social or i slowly let it die a slow death
well, we shall see how it turns out, i guess. It will be a new experiance.
To the people who get an invite to be contributer or co founder, no strings attached If you don't want to, don't do it just to make me happy. Do it because you want, and are as curious as me how it all works, but not because I asked

You can find it here Well i think i need to go on a co founder hunt and some contributers But that will be for tomorrow, or in the next days. Now i really have to go to bed



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The celebrated pharaoh Tutankhamun had a club foot, walked with a cane and was killed by malaria, a study that harnessed modern genetic testing and computer technology to lift a veil on the secrets of ancient Egypt has revealed. ( more to read here [link].

Well its something I sure will tell my son. He starts to hate his clubfeet because it limitated him a lot, and if he hears that pharaoh Tutankhamun also had a left feetclubfeet, he hopefully feel less alone, and hopefully he will realise a bit that he can do big things

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Ohh my... I made a group... With a german name well its in fact easy, once before DA i had a site called anderswelt and because that name seemed to be taken already, i added dunkle before it, which is as good as the dark underworld.. Sounds darker then it actually is.. ohh my ..
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Basicly I just made a group just, out of curiosity how it all works curiosity kills the cat, i hope this won't 'kill' me
In a way i find it really ironic that I as a associal person got so curious how a group works , made one..And trow herself before the wolves
With probably the result that or i have to be social or i slowly let it die a slow death
well, we shall see how it turns out, i guess. It will be a new experiance.
To the people who get an invite to be contributer or co founder, no strings attached If you don't want to, don't do it just to make me happy. Do it because you want, and are as curious as me how it all works, but not because I asked

You can find it here Well i think i need to go on a co founder hunt and some contributers But that will be for tomorrow, or in the next days. Now i really have to go to bed



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Melancholic.

Today i'm feeling melancholic. I'am now a deviant for 5 years here on DA. And today i suddenly missed the people that were around then. A few of them i still see popping up when i add something but lots of them seem to be vanished.
They weren't friends , as you can call them like that, DA friends, People that i always enjoyed to see and read what they said
Well its my own mistake to, i'm not that social, And when i finaly can start a conversation, my messagebox sometimes starts to flood over and in middle of conversations that i couldn't find back till it was to late to give a descent answer back. And i can't expect that they keep trying and almost never get an anwer back

But in some moments, moments like this. i miss those persons. And i wonder how they are, how they are doing, what they are doing. And to my biggest frustration i can't find them back, or they have left DA because of drama, or real life that came in between, I don't know.
Like JLStock, shoofly , marco polio, they all seem to have vanisched. ANd there are many more that for the moment i only see their avatar before my eye..
Da has changed a lot in those 5 years.

well its life i guess, ships passing by, and go away, leaving nothing else but a memory..

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The goddess Astara, on the Cover of the magazine ' Visions' the thirth issue (remind myself of note the model to show her the result)
[link] In the second Issue of the same magazine, they do a feature of me with a biography and some pieces, that one i will recieve in the mail next week I will take a few shots when i got that one

On personal area, Sebastian and myself have a very bad cold. We really started the year with lot of healtissues . stomach flu, he has the chicken pox, and now this cold. Hopefully it will be all we have this year, or I will go crazy
For the rest, I shoot the balloons And gona need to shoot more, when Alekxander has his birthday party.

Slowly i'm able to create a little bit in the little time i have.

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I just added stock in my stock account,
But ..You know what I need?
Or better what I wished ?
I wished I had a ’ personal photographer’ in my lazy moments, moments where i'm to lazy to search for stock that i haven't or can't find  back in my saved stock folders, mostly silly details that I need to have no matter what
like now I want balloons, tons of them. I have balloons, but my sons birthday is only 9 days away, and i will shoot some then.
I'm to lazy for the moment to check DA, or stock xchng. I know i have saved ballons from DA in my stock folders but I just can't remember who it could be that put up the balloons ( i think they were 3D balloons)
So for that reason i 'want a personal photographer', that i can say,’ go shoot some balloons, here are they blow them up and shoot them ‘ In fact as I read it, I need a slave

I do have some friends who take photo's when they travel or see something interesting ( Ohh Heidi will like this, or Heidi can use this ), my sisters do the same .They give all on usb,  And those end all in my personal resources, ( next to my own photo's that i don't seem to find the time to upload in my stock account ) .And because of DA i have written permissions ( even gifts need permissions, just in case )
But right now I need a gnome who wants to shoot those dammed ballons in the middel of the night.. Now
I do have one balloon in my own photo's, but I have so many photo's that i don't know where to start looking. I need to go back to 2003, looking in each month folder, and those seperate photo's and i never get to my goal because i always find something other interesting .

Well being a photomanip sometimes is a pain in the butt. I mean, tons of stock on DA, shutterstock Stock xchng. And still not finding what you need, is sooo frustrating
Be my own model, well I hate being photographed, even when some photographers told i'm photogenic, i still don't believe them . So i'm very gratefull for all the models here on DA that willing to share they photo's
But i try to shoot as much photo's  to use in my background as i can to avoid using stockphotos from other people. But sometimes i have no other option to use others till the day i got the luck to shoot it myself.

Today the same, i was driving my car and suddenly i see a little forest, misty weather and a road where almost nobody drives ( i tought) Well i pull my  car over in de mud. And start to take some shots when 2 cars in opposite direction of course had to pass where my car was :@ I stood in the mud, the bottom of my skirt was getting muddy ( long dresses aren't so smart at that moment ), so was my car and still they had to pass right there. I was thinking ' common, nobody drives here ever, but when i decide to take some shots ... there they are, I won't move my car more in the mudd'.
The same at the grave yard this week. nobody is ever there, and today, 5 people were on the graveyard walking around..( mysty graveyard).
People always looks so strange when they see you take photo's of the most normal things ( or not so normal things)

Today, by some foolish luck i bought several Cd's with stockphoto's on, in a second hand store. Normally its all classic music or flemisch music but today stockphotos
But for some reason i don’t trust it. One is a limited cd of Coral photo’s. And the others are from something called datacraft something and one is just called artpassion  .
Well there will be probably some licence  on the cd, i hope, But for one euro/cd i can’t complain, can I J

Well enough  rambling, back to the search for ballons. I have some courage now that i didn’t had this night


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2009 is just a memory and the year 2010 is going its normal way.
and of course, the first thing that hit us was a stomach flu.. Well i guess is't a way to start the year, isn't it.
Sebastian got the chicken pox and a heavy exceem because of it.
so you see we really started the year 'good'.
Anyway
the new groups system is great, really, normally i forgot to submit in the groups i was a member of, and now its much easier. The only thing that bugs me, is the tsunami of deviations in my inbox, because of that And that in an inbox that has already to much unseen things that i should check out. maybe when i have tons of time, but that will be a dream i guess

Because i doesn't have much time to spend on my pc( blaming that cute little boy that is asleep now ) premade backgrounds are a blessing. Some stockproviders really have the most amazing premade backgrounds in their stock, that makes me feel sometimes bad to use and change them
Here are some of those stocks that has those amazing backgrounds.
So when you don't have the time , or have no inspiration, or are a bit lazy to create a background, these stocks are a real blessing. When you download and use it, please read their rules first and follow them


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I still in artclasses, working at 3 different paintings ( i have a good year finished 2 paintings, and working on 3) 2 are texturized ones so I wonder what will come out of those because i'm not a star with that kind of painting. And a New one for the atlantis serie. For some reason i don't create photomanips of that serie anymore but only paintings. And i doubt I will ever sell on of those serie ( i never sold any of my paintings ).
So now i'm gona try to work on my manip again, which frustrates me a lot that i only make on in a week because of the short times i spend on my pc .Its not good for the keeping the inspiration

Have an awesome day, week and tons of fun
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Before i forget that we are christmas till its to late
I wish you all a year where the sun warms your souls with in the snow a trail of beautiful memories..

I wish you all a great Christmas and a Fantastic Newyear. I hope that all your dreams and wishes may come true .

Looking back at the past year, it was a hectic year where i wasn't able to create a lot. It was a year with the birth of my son, the surgery of my oldest son. A year were the crisis hit most people. A year were we had to look what was really importent and what not.
And still a year passes so fast. It seems like just a few moments ago that the year 2009 started and before you know 2010 is before our nose.
Its a year were I noticed that people can act very selfisch, very 'me' and the rest can drop dead attitude. Their 'this is what you see but its not me' mask. Their making fun of situations that aren't funny at all. Their proudness of bullying people in their past.Their non excisting respect for others. They pretend they respect others but they aren't really saying the truth. The egotripping people who only help people when others see it, and don't bother when nobody is looking.
I see people yelling to take care of mother earth, and when nobody is looking do stuff that ruin mother earth.

And maybe its because i get older, that it gets more on my nerves, I don't know. But it get the effect on my that I don't hide it anymore when i see selfisch people, how they get on my nerve. I'm turning into a grumpy lady
So looking back at the past year, this grumpy old lady seem to had a close relation with the law of murphy
My last encounter with him gave me a thirth degree burnwound on my belly. Well after the c-section, my belly is numb, i don't feel a thing there. result , i got burned while i was cooking and i never felt it, till my husband asked what that red thing on my belly was. And then of course to late to take any action. Now because the wound is at such unusual place, it heals not so well. I hope that murphy stays out of my way next year.
Lord insomnia, visit frequently to, and Its a vicious circle, because during the day, your are tired ,and at nights you can't sleep. Well he will go some day i hope

Looking back at the past year, i noticed that the quality of the things( electro, cloths) you buy, isn't what it use to be. Its like it has to break in 2-3 years ( if you are lucky) Every year i have to buy a coffemachine, because it just don't hold. People say, ' buy a senseo' well that thing doesn't come in my house, i drink to much coffee, and it find it only a good for people who only drink one cup in a day ( i mostly drink 2-3 liters coffee )
You can't imagine how angry i come when some electro stuff gives up, and we have to search for yet another one. Where is the time that a washmachine got 15 years old? our first coffemachine was 9 years old, and from then we had to buy a new one every year, and this year even 2 , in 2008 we even had one that started to burn when it was 3 months old. I don't find it normal anymore .I have a long black velvet skirt that is 16 years old, and it looks still new, and i have skirts that are 3 months old that fell apart and that i had to sew ( and i hate sewing )My boots fell apart literally after a week of raining. I'm thinking of buying some army combats again, at least they go a few years before they get a hole

And still when i look back it wasn't a bad year, if you think that with all the misfortune, we got stronger out of it .. So that is good isn't it? I have a fantastic husband, and 2 cute boys and that count more then anything..
Well if i ever win the lotery i would be very glad to

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Just some info

I just discovered that on the site of EON You can get Vue8 pioneer for free [link]
There are some limitations but you can all read that on that page.

Daz3D has a huge sale : lots of products are 50% off

Sebastian is a bit sick, the docter will come in the afternoon, he has a cold, and a slight fever which not worries me much but what worries me is that he's skin is red like some kind of allergic reaction. Maybe the combination of the cold with his teeth coming though is causing it, but i just want to be sure. Alekxander also has a cold, but he is he's usual self so he went to school.
Its the first time since long that i have some extra time on my pc while Sébastian sleeps. ( so i really hope the docter will arrive in the afternoon so i don't have to wake him up now) Normally he sleeps very little, and is very active, and follows me everywhere i go. WHich is sometimes very frustrating because i can't do much . Not to mention i don't get a lot of time in my pc .

We are already December again.. A year passes so fast , and in a month we are again in a new year.
But now i'm gona play in psp while i have the opportunity I 'm kinde confused because all that extra time now , can you believe that

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I'm so lucky...Not
the law of murphy also seem to visit our home frequently

A few months ( i think) I fell off our stairs, Had a giant blue spot on my behind that looked like a black half moon and I seriously hurt my feet and leg who turned blue from my knee to my feet. I probably broke one of my euh ,thingies there at the end of my foot, because wearing shoes was a disaster and moving that little thing almost drove me through the ceiling. I started to cough just at the moment i was descending the stair and before i knew it i was falling. If you know we have a marble stair , you can imagine it was not exactly a soft fall. now i have a hole in my leg , i don't even know how i got a rond hole of 0.5 cm in my leg when the hole stair is square

A few weeks ago for some idiotic reason i succeeded getting stuck with one finger in a mailbox ( a real one, not an online one ) result half of my nail gone. i never knew that could bleed so much

I thought i had a verruca on my elbow, now it turns out its psoriasis. I froze that dammed thing a while ago, It hurted like hell, got some kind of burnwounds because of that freeze and it got back bigger then before. And now it turns out that froze that ugle thing was a useless act. At least its not contagious. Because Sébastian has a big fascination for that ugly thing. He always want to peel on that thing ( wel me to but its only because it start to hurt )
But strangly enough I find the fact that its psoriasis less worse then when i thought it was a verruca . If people comment on it, well their reaction show me fast enough if they are superficial or not. I really don't care.

Well, we have to life with it because there is no real cure for it. And the treatements causes most of the time to much side effect, that for the moment i just don't bother for it. i'm not gona try several things to get rid of that thing, at least for now .its another result of my non existing immunity system, i guess


Sebastian smashed a cup, he like the noise so much and we were to late to grab it out of his hands, so it broke.. He is so dammed fast he crawls around like a little formule 1 car and stands up..

Our chicken legs eggs ( duhh) but for some reason my husband must found an very old one without knowing it was an old one. So i was cleaning the shell before putting it away and for some reason it breaks... The smell was terrible , that dammed egg was rotten. I kept smelling it for the rest of the day for some reason..

we cought a foodpoisoning on halloween.. I normally have a stomach build of 'concrete'but was the first that went down. Alekxander went down the second and my husband as last. Luckely in 2 days the worst was over, and we don't like pitta anymore.. at least not from where we got it.

Something heavy felt on my toe and my toe nail fell out a few days later .Not so funny because that day everybody seem to want to step on that feet ...

SO today was a murphy free day and i hope he stays away for a long time...


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Some photo's of the building up of the exhibition are up. you can see them here [link]. more will follow
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Copyright a thing that is so difficult on the internet.
So Just some interesting links about copyright that i have found during my searches on the internet about that
Copyright and patents questions
Transfer_and_licensing
Copyright for collage artists
Know your rights Copyright Law for the Creator of Fan Works
Creating a self published artbook/portfolio
Everything about copyright
Model releases
Photos of Trademarked and Copyrighted Works
Photos of Copyrighted Works: Do You Need a Release
Non-commercial uses of images: do non-profits need model releases
When Editorial Uses of Photos Require Model Releases
Model Releases: Why US laws are important to non-US photographers
Discussing Stock License Agreements
The Creative Commons and Photography
The Creative Commons2
Gaming the Creative Commons for Profit
A Proposal for the Creative Commons
Photographing People
Digital Manipulation: What is "Pure Photography?
Digital Manipulation: Responsibilities of Photojournalism
10 Big Myths about copyright explained
A brief intro to copyright
The Copyright Symbol Webpage

Dutch internet page about copyright
Wat is auteursrecht en hoe krijgt u dat
Copyright foto's
Alles over auteursrechten
Foto's op Internet

Anyway :
is holding a mini color contest
Read the details on her yournal [link]

  
possible rips .
Because I don't have an idea what site just display my art with credit or have something else in mind .
These are just a few i found .. because i didn't feel like going through every single site: (

sites that has my art on , but credit

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[link] (not in the beginning but she mention it later in the answers )
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Sites that has my art on , but don't credit

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Is just the most fantastic person i've encountered on Deviant art the last month ; She offered to help write me with my bio . Well she did the most amazing work, she cleaned out my answers, ( meaning my ramblings ) put it in a nice clean context.
I could never ever done it like she did is.
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I'm trying to write a bio... The horror!! The past hour i just stared at my screen, wondering what i should write in that thing. i'm just to chaotic to write
I just don't have a single clue what to write in it, and more importent how to start on it.

about my background: i'm boring I just have no idea what to put their:
My inspirations, well there i write to much.

After some research on the net how to write a thing like that, i'm even more frustrated because it seems i have to write about myself in thirth person.. How the hell do i do that ? I'm not schizofrenic, i don't have a button in my head that release a voice that makes me talk about myself in thirth person I tried, i really did try , I did search in myself for a hidden identity who could talk about me , but for some reason i don't have one

Now you can ask why i put myself in such stress situation of writing one
I've been contacted by a magazine who wants to euh feature me (?) And they asked for that thing. And because of that i'm in stress modus now
Anyone have an idea what i can and can't write in that thing?


Anyway :
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Read the details on her yournal [link]

I Fell in love once more.. And not on my husband for a change, well that happens all the time , that i fall in love when i see him he so cute ( luckely that he don't read my DA journals or he would kill me because i called him cute ) except when he cut some trees when he sleeps, then i feel the urge to kill him

No, this time I fell in love once more on what i 'm doing for the moment. ( And no i'm not doing naughty stuff )
I'm just playing with a new manipulation, cosy, Enjoying some music, Enjoy the silence how strange that may sound with my music playing, in the middle of the night ( whats new )
And Suddenly i feel butterflies in my stomach, a cosy little feeling.. An enchanting , overwelming feel of happiness for the thing that let me get rid of my creative eggs. A feeling of bliss and pure joy.

So strange that you can fall in love, for something you are doing, a hobby.. Feel such desire to practice your hobby...

Anyway :
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You seen i have put a New Id up, and Now for the first time in 5 years you see  me in a very recent photo almost clear photo .. The mistery has gone

Well …. Browsing through DA news since a long time, I noticed a few things have happend and the popularity seems to be a hot topic again.. And more’ how to become popular on DA ‘ things . Its amusing to read those because they tell you everything and at the same time they forgot to tell you the magic popularity formula.

lets face it ,DA is a community that is based on popularity, and then art.
For some people , being popular is heaven and for others its a useless given.
But we have to keep in mind that only things become popular because they are good, at least most of the time. Nagging about popularity doesn’t give popularity . Asking how to get popular, won’t gain popularity. If that is what you really want, what you are longing for, to be popular on DA.

SO DA is about popularity ….if that is what you most want here, you probably get frustrated because its given to few to sit on that trone.
But if you don’t want to be popular on DA standaards but on what you create, how will you become ‘ popular’ then?
Everything that is New, is in the beginning, unknown and unloved. That is for all artists that join, how good they may be.  In the beginning we are all the same seed in the ground.  How do you grow faster then the other seeds without the task of being very social , so that everybody see you? How do you get the right attention , for your art and not your social skills? It seems almost impossible..

The thing is, to be inventive, creative and original, The more you have something in your gallery that hasn’t been seen before , that is well done,  the bigger the chance is that you will become popular. IF You are on the right place at the right time ..
But keep in mind ! When your style become popular, people will start to take your idea’s and build on it, or just copy it. You will get silly questions, and dumb comments. You will encounter rudeness and people who aren’t so respectfull to you. You probably get frustrated because of that .. .
But You wanted to be a popular artist, and you got it, so deal with it. Don’t wine, cry, or whatever that other people use /abuse your style.Its naïve to think that things like that won't happen to you when you finaly are popular. I’ve seen it happen a lot on DA in the 5 years i’m here, and i know it will happen again and again, and can be happening right now. Who knows ..

. The true ones -followers- are the ones - your watchers - for who you keep creating. If somebody comments or give critique, accept it without being hurt, because you can learn from it, and most ot the time, they just say what you already know . If somebody got so inspired that they get the same style, evolve yourself and your style. See it as a challenge to keep two steps before them.. And at the same time you keep growing instead of freeze in the same style.. As an artist you should grow with every piece you create. You should try to not see it as a threat to your popularity when others use/abuse your style . Because most of the time the troubles and drama are just about that and nothing more, coverend in a juice that is called ' i don't like that people copy my work because its my style and not yours.'  ( simplistic put) The only thing you got from those 'battles' is two hurt people and fans divided in two groups.

You can join clubs to show more people then your watchers what you are doing.
It will go slower, much slower , then being a social artist on DA. But it last longer, because people will love you for your art, your progress. If you want to be popular because of your art , you have to have patience.

If you can’t wait, well you can go on the social tour, but then you have to keep in mind that at one point you have to deal with drama, envy, and all those negative peelings.
But its a given fact that if you are not the social artist, you will be unnoticed, and unloved for a very long time. But the ones who watch you , they are the onces who love you for your art, and not your social skills. You can take my words on that.

You think a daily deviations is the way to jump into the highest regio’s of DA’s popularity, well think again, that only last for a few moment before you fade away in the mist of DA land again. And unless you have daily deviations one after another, you won’t stay at the highest regio’s because of that on DD. So forget that option to , to become one of DA populars.

You think pageviews show the world that you are popular. Well big chance you have been ripped and hotlinked ( if you are not the social type, if you are a social busy bee, it can explain high pageviews ). So how accurate are those numbers at that point? SO its good that you can disable them isn’t it

Well soit thats my humble opinion about that.
And people i’m not popular, and frankly i don’t long for that. I prefer to stay on the side line, and observe everything from there. Much more amusing and fun there

Again i’ve noticed some people have left DA or took a break from it because they have been dissapointed in DA and people.. It always sads me to see that.
My thoughts about that…

Don’t depend on DA, because they won’t help you when you need them. If you get ripped they don’t do anything. They are a company and we are just small fishes that make them bigger by using their tools. They will do what they please, and not what us please. Well they trow fishes to keep us happy, but thats it. We depend on our own skills and talent to get noticed outside DA. But we also rely on our own to go after rips and stuff like that. DA act like we are one happy family, but don’t count on them to protect their family. If you keep that in mind you will survive DA . If you use DA as a tool , a way to show the world what you are doing, use them like they use you , and you will be fine. If you think DA is a cosy little family, you will be hurt some day.


Good.
That said, i’m gona go on a stockhunt once more.. You should at least think i have stocks saved enough on my harddrive to choose from, but sometimes i need fresh ‘meat’  to put my teeth in…
With some SigloXX [link] Two of my favorite songs..

Midnight musings... or better how time slips through my fingers by doing and thinking useless things ..

And again its after midnight. Its seems like its the only time i can spend some time on my pc. In the night i hear some cats fighting, and screeming like some creature from hell is broken lose. I looking at my screen, reading comments and try to answer some with a feeling of regret that i can't answer all of them. Again more then 11.000 messages

In my ears resonate the bass from the tactical sekt song ' Capital Fallacies'. And i know I will switch in a second to the suicide commando song ' see you in hell'. The cats seem to stopped their battle, i don't hear anything for the moment , then an occasional car driving in the street..

I installed the new daz version and well I found things back that i thought were lost. Or that i forgot i had . Chaos on my pc, well not something i'm not familiar with
I remember now that my psp is open and that i only got into daz to make a libel for the waterscene i'm creating now.

My sons are sleeping , and my husband seems to cut some trees in his dream I have my earphone on, so you can understand that the trees seem to resist a bit. Wel i quess its better then the trainsounds he sometimes makes those really can drive me over the roof . trying to get some sleep when somebody 'tsjou tsjou' noises isn't helping that moment

Psyclon nine starts to scream in my ears , once more he 'rape this world', and my feet starts dancing. I still can't figure out why i like that song so much.

Meanwhile, the libel is added, and i feel the manip is almost finished. And its about time to, i spend to much time on it.
My back hurts a bit because today i overdone myself.. Really i have to remind me more that i can't carry more then i can.

Sopor aeternus ' the goat ' Starts to play ..kinde depressing with the funeral march tune in it, i think the one from chopin. Never payed attention to that before .

Ohhww time flies. Again 30 minutes passed by, and I've done almost nothing.. my psp froze because i 'm searching for the last thing to add in that manip, daz is rendering, and i'm reading some news articles.
"A firm called lifegem is planning to make diamonds of Michael Jacksons hair". ( Do they have nothing better to do? )
"a cd with the pope singing "
"Dogs with a facebookpage" .( do dogs type and read?)
"the plans of building a house under water".( not for me with my fear of drowning , as a professional doom thinker i saw the whole thing collapsing and its not even build.. )
"A mother who is literally allergic for her own baby". ( That i find so sad, a mother who can cuddle her baby because of a rare allergy )
"The planet venus has a new strange bright spot"  ( Still don't know what that spot is.. instead of attac from mars, maybe we have to keep a closer look at venus )
"icecoffee contains as much calories as a normal hot meal" (dammed, I have to stop drinking those )
and more of those things..
We life in a strange world sometimes

Still working on that waterscene, and I realise the time comes closer when i drive myself nuts of finding a fitting title.. For some reason I keep thinking of ET, and his phone home.. Doesn't seem to be good with a mermaid

There are 2 moments when i'm doing a manip that i'm not so crazy off. 1: is going through all the saved stock folder in the search of the model that screams the loudest to be used. Sometimes it happens fast, and sometimes i need days to find the screeming stock..

and 2 is the moment when its finished. A strange feeling of saying goodbye to a piece where i've worked hours on..
and a minor thirth one is when i have the model like i want it, and i start to create the background. For some reason I end up with 4 or 5 different background tries before i  'create the right one. Really I would jump a big hole in the air when on one day i create the right background from the first try..

well enough ramblings and musings, I started to sing and you are so lucky that you can't hear that
Sopors version of Edgar allen poe 's " Alone'
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.

i can't remember a poem out of my head even if my life was on stake, but this one, i can sing it

ENTRIES FOR THE EXHIBITION ARE STILL WELCOME. iT MAY BE PIECES THAT YOU HAVE CREATED A LONG TIME AGO

Little update:
About the expo, you can see it here [link] and in this journal

For the exhibition:
There will be 4 area's in the exhibition
1: sculptures by De Beelderij (   a procject were mentally disabled artists get a chance to show their talent)
2hotography ( underwaterphotography and photography that has been published)
3: digital art 1 my area ( surreal fantasy etc little ps not to much mermaids because they aren't real fish)
4: digital art 2 and Yoeri's area ( normal realistic )

I get a wall with a lenght of 15 meter where i can hang A2 posters of the art so I guess i can hang about 15 pieces printed out and framed in ( don't worry we take care of that)
If i get lots of pieces, and can't display them all on the wall, then there will be a projector where the rest are going be projected big size on a white wall.

The 15 pieces that will hang out will be chosen by the team that takes care of the exhibition and a few high persons of the aquariumclub .

People that will get into the exhibition will be noted to get some additional info, like their website and name, and a prize , in case somebody wants to buy the piece ( and additional their paypall account so we can tranfer the money in case of the sold print).

Next to the entries i recieve here we are contacting artists that has made a piece with a fish theme that we like.

Like I said before the purpose of the exhibition is showing the world what can be done with photomanipulation, and digital painting.
And the area that i have ( fantasy, surreal) isn't one that is known well. the realistic one like fish that comes out a dvd is more known
So I really want to give the visitors of the exhibition what we can do with imagination, our programs, and stock .
( and shoot i have to write a thing about digital art )

So If you have made a piece with a fish , reptile, and you want to show it outside the internet, give it a chance Send me a note with a link ( make sure the stockproviders  you used stock from know about it ).

If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask, and I will answer them as good as possible ( language problems in mind )

Entries for the exhibition : still open till the end of august
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The Imaginairy world of fishes and Reptiles

Theme : Fishy ‘s and Reptiles
How would they see the world?
How do they appear in Dreams and your imagination?
How does a fantasy with fish / reptiles look like?
This is not the easiest contest , i knowJ This will be a contest that challenge your creativity , skills and originality.
A contest where the mainfocus isn’t a model but a fish or reptile.. But i know most of you can pull it off

Why this contest?
Blame it on the aquariumclub that has me as a member. Blame it on the persoon that discovered my photomanipulation hobby and rambled about it in the club and blame me because i could ’nt resist the challenge to get you all in it

Our aquariumclub holds and aquariumexhibition in the year 2009. 10 years ago they did the same thing and now they are doing it again. Next to the aquariumexhibition they hold an art exhibition. Last time they asked 3 traditional artists to show their stuff. But next year they want to do something totally different, something that hasn ‘t been done before. And that is a Digital Art Exhibition, meaning art that has been made with the computer.
They asked me to get involved ( actuall y I was in the Workgroup before i even realised it )
They asked me to collect artists that makes digital art about fish or reptiles. But I could’nt find a lot. And i can’t make 40 fish pieces So i decided to make a contest, so that every body on DA could join and challenge them selves to create something they normally wouldn‘t do.

How will it work.
The contest will have to parts .
1: the normal contest concept where there will be chosen a first, seconde and thirth winner by Judges here on DA . There will be prizes as usualJ

2: The exhibition concept : every entry ( New and old pieces ) will be judged by the Workgroups of the exhibition and the board of the aquariumclub. They will be strict because they have a good name to keep up and they wanted to do something totally different with this digital exhibition instead of contacting recognized artists . So they are taking a risk but they want to show the world that there is a New kind of art on the block..
Judges of the contest may enter this part of the contest .

They will choose 40 pieces that they think will be fitting for the exhibition. So 40 artist will have the joy of getting exposu re in this exhibition. So this means that even when you don't win the contest and get 1 -2 or 3 place You still have a change to get exposure , to hang your piece in that exhibition for 2 weeks. That means that If people like your piece, they can contact you, to purchase the piece. Or that you can sell it there at the scene itself.

Deadline :
The Imaginairy world of fishes and Reptiles contest starts on the 10th of September and last till the 20 December 2008 .

Remember:
If you want to join you have to keep a few importent things in mind.
1 :Fish and reptiles have to be in the main focus of your piece.
2 :Remember to use stock that allows you to use in commercial ways ( so get written permiss ions where they say its ok )
3 :Mermaids you can do them but they probably won't picked to be in the exhibition unless it is exceptionele good.
4: You can enter with old pieces you made , but only in the exhibition part of the contest. For the DA part of the contest it has to be a New artwork.

Who can enter the contest ?
Next to digital painters and photomanipulation artists , Photographers are also allowed to join the contest because there is also a section for photographers.

Special things to remember
The pieces that get into the exhibition: ( meaning after the judging part )
- You have to send me the full version file in psd file.
( We will print it out in posterform and hang it in the exhibition )
- You have to create a little card with information about the piece ( title- , where they can contact you and prize of the piece ( Because people can take your card if they like your stuff so they can contact you or buy it if they like it a lot )
-You have to put a selling prize on it (like 100 euro),Just in case people asking for it. You never know if something like that happens

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