Pixel Icon Raffle! - Winners!I have now raffled the winners! > v <
First winner is ~Kiwi-San and the second one is ~Frangasm.
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10,000 Point Give-AwayAlright, my brother just left dA, so he gave me the rest of his points (20,000)
He told me because the Deviant Art community was so good to him (he said he met a lot of great people) that as a thanks I should give away half the points.
So, I'm going to hold a contest to make things fun.
You must:
*Watch me
*Advertise this journal
*Comment your journal here
*Favorite this journal
1st place gets 10,000 points
2nd place gets 2,000 points
Good luck guys

Fan Art Contest! UPDATE WITH FAQ

hi everyone! to show my appreciation for all the love here on deviant art i am holding an otto an victoria fan art contest. the grand prize will be a signed limited edition of my book with an original drawing included! submissions must be done by july 17th! that gives you a month. be creative and have fun! please tag "otto and victoria" and "brian kesinger" and make sure your your piece is appropriate for all ages!
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i created a group here called OttoAndVictoriaFans http://ottoandvictoriafans.deviantart.com/ when you finish your entry feel free to submit it to that group so that all the entries can be in one place!
also i wanted to reiterate that all artistic media is welcome from sketching to sculpture, hand drawn to cg. thanks again and let me know if you have any other questions! thank you!

[WINNERS!] Giveaway! [1000 points + Free Chibis~]WINNERS!
Thanks to those who participated! <3
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A giveaway??? Rules are below. (80 pts)Yea... and if you don't read the rules, you won't get anything out of this.

The whole reason I'm doing this is because my group, #Traders-123, has reached over 100 members! And speaking of 100, I also got over 100 watchers!!!

What you have to do
Favorite this journal... you don't have, you don't enter
Comment saying you entered; I'll be lenient on this one
Advertise; you don't have to but is looked up upon
No duplicate accounts; seriously, you need points THAT bad???
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Prizes[Star!]
[Bullet; Green] 1st place is 50 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 2nd place is 30 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 3rd place is a llama.
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Deadline is July 4th. (It's an easy date to remember)

And some art exposure! (Just some random and a

Weekly 100 Points Giveaway [OPEN] Week 3Alright, time for another one

There will be 2 winners ( 50

each ) on this giveaway.

It's easy to participate

This journal.

Share your favorite youtube channel.
And that's it :iconfeelingfreeplz:
The winner will be announced June 23
Extra: Please comment if you take point commissions :iconmikulaplz:
Good luck everyone.

Win a Premium Membership! [Raffle]Ohaii everyone! Chieri here. >u< Still not dead yet. ~~Still just smelling like it.~~
I know I have been quite inactive the past month, alot of private stuff going on and upcoming exams, but I will try to be more active again from now on. I miss being here with you guys and drawing so much. I will try my best to at least submit something regulary and reply to all notes & comments sooner as I did lately. (I really apologize for the wait.) I promise. You may slap me really hard if I neclect it again.
As a little consolation / thank you / because I want to, I decided to raffle away

3 x a 1 Month Premium-Membership
^_^ Because I have some leftover points on my hand and I love hosting little events and raffles.
I hope everyone will enjoy participating. It's easy!
As usual I will use random.org to choose the 3 lucky winners, providing screens that everything will be 100% fair.

Tiny contest! Point prizes8D Time for another little fun challenge!
Draw inside the shape contest!
Rules

You can enter as many times as you want.

No shading required

You must choose one of the characters in this folder http://griffsnuff.deviantart.com/gallery/24055808

Remember to remove the shape/lines when you are done!

The character needs to be full body.

try to fill as much as the shape as possible!

You can not alter the shape.

you can not draw outside the shape!
If you want to enter, you choose between the shapes linked under. You can however do all of them if you want to!
Lineart only -> http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m78/Greiffen/tttt-1_zpsed0fbbf4.png
Shape only -> http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m78/Greiffen/llll-2_zps87cb9751.png
And then you draw the character you choose inside the shape as best you c

Microsoft Employees Disrupt Wii U Best Buy EventsRemember how Nintendo was showcasing some of their E3 games at participating Best Buy stores around the country? Well, apparently Microsoft employees have been hired to go to these events and preach about the Xbox One and make comments like "why would you buy a outdated Wii U when the Xbox One is right around the corner?"
However, the employees aren't getting what they hoped for. Most customers just start bashing the Xbox One in response. Seriously, Microsoft, the people attending these Best Buy Wii U events are people who are intimately familiar with the crap you pulled at E3. They ain't takin' your shit.
At first I thought this might just be a case of one really loyal Microsoft employee taking matters into his own hands (especially since the original source was /v/), but reports have come in from numerous Best Buy's around the country that indicate many Microsoft employees have ambushed the demo lines trying to persuade people to switch to the Xbox One.
Since so many reports have com

10,000 Watchers! +PointsWow, 10,000 watchers! Shame it happened at the worst time (giveaways temporarily deleted).
Still...thank you all for sticking with me!
I guarantee we will have things running as normal again soon!
Much love,
Moomin-Man
PS: I'll giveaway 400

away at random to celebrate! Leave a comment and I will enter you for the chance to win!
1st 200

2nd 150

3rd 50

Join me on swagbucks! Get paid in gift vouchers if you don't have a credit card!

Please Pants Responsibly (Paper Notebooks FTW)

There are two ways to write a novel. Plotting (you make an outline, a plan, a roadmap if you will, and then you sit down and write it) and pantsing (you write "by the seat of your pants, throwing caution to the wind). So when I get asked if I'm a plotter or a pantser, I'm all like er, uh, hold on, let me? Pantser? I think? But I kind of, um, do planny things?
And it gets kind of awkward because in these inarticulate moments I have managed to confuse everyone including myself. And probably spilled a drink.
In recent discussions, however, I've had a bit of a revelation, silly as it is. I've realized that I -- like many writers -- am a plotter/pantser hybrid. And perhaps what I'm doing is something we could call Pantsing Responsibly. And, maybe, just maybe, I could share some of my responsible pantsing tips with other writers. Starting with paper notebooks.
Anyone can find a notebook. If there isn't alread

The Used Game ParadigmOver the course of this past generation I've been watching the video game market react to the way it's been forced to deal with increasing changes. I've come out against used game sales and even written a journal about boycotting GameStop because (like most people at the time) I believed they were the root cause of all the problems the video game industry has. But that's something I don't believe now as intently as i did then. From where I sit, piracy and used games sales are a problem, but not in the way game companies want us to believe that they are.
Used games are a good thing for consumers. We get to try games out, and if we don't like what we see or finish it early, we trade it in and try another title instead. It's a very good system for us since video game rentals are much harder to come by. Most video rental stores in America have gone extinct and outside specific Red Box Kiosks there aren't a lot of places for consumers to rent video games. The exception, of course, being thr

Draw my OC Contest! $35 in prizes!Drawing Contest Topic: Drawing my Original Character doing something! Seriously, anything PG.
Deadline: September 13th, 11:59pm http://wwp.eastern-standard-time.com/

Guidelines for participants~

Your submission can be done in any drawing media (traditional, digital, pixel)
Please do not change or alter her gender without permission.
You can enter a maximum of three pieces, but only may win once
Send me a note or comment here with a link to your entry, and I'll add it to the entries folder. (I will not go searching for it)
You're free to submit your entry to any group you want, but you must accept my request to put it in my group #Collection-System

Drawing Smoochy is what this contest is all about!

Please link to this journal in your contest entry's description!
The entry must be made specifically for the contest! (You cannot use previous deviations for the entry, this includes bases. Collabs are fine as long as the

SPIKE updatesJust thought I'd share with you guys some updates on the progress of finishing my "SPIKE" novel.
A lot of people have asked me how it's going, when it will be published and stuff. I really appreciate getting asked these things because it shows that people are actually interested in my writings, and that it just such a great feeling

I've got two news for you guys today though: one bad news and one good news. Let's start with the bad news.
I haven't finished writing SPIKE yet.
And I honestly don't know when it will be finished - which oddly enough brings us to the good news:
I've made a new, major decision in the SPIKE story that I think a lot of you will be happy to hear. As usual I don't want to spoil too much, but there is a part in the story where Spike and Sam are separated from each other for quite a long while. At first I was planning on only writing from Spike's point of view, like, what he's experiencing during this separation period. I figured that since he's the main cha

WIN A 3 MONTH PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP!so i decided to just do a giveaway for the premium i wanted to give.

i'll be doing more of these in time, since that's mostly what my points will be for- giving premiums away. ♥
WAYS TO ENTER:
• you must be (or can become) a watcher of mine
• make a journal or poll featuring this giveaway, then comment this with the link to your journal/poll
• do not enter more than once, you will be disqualified
after you comment i will reply with a number and i will choose the winner using http://www.miniwebtool.com/random-name-picker/
GIVEAWAY WILL END NEXT THURSDAY (THE 20) AT 6 PM (PST)
winner will be announced via journal and will receive a note from me
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Listening to: a watchwinder winding
Reading: pdn
Eating: probably california pizza kitchen
Drinking: o.j.

update: this gallery of manipulated images rocks! been goin' on forever! seems like the USSR really liked to do it! then again, the kent state thing that happened back in the day ... even one of those photos was manip'd.

see all of you "well you can do it in the darkroom people" ... you can!

the newest issue of Photo District News I saw some very very nice wedding photography.

a friend just sent me a link to what i saw in print.

should you think you know how to do wedding photography ...

please look at this , then ask yourself the same thing i posed above.

thanks everyone for the tinyurl.com hint!!!!!

and ... if you're happy with what you do, cool, don't comment or note or bitch or moan that i'm elitist or that, "with your gear, of course, you can do that" or "how dare you say that, i'm amazing."

'kay?

i'm very happy that you've found clients who are happy it's just "in the big city" we're used to seeing amazing work and the envelope pushed.

but ... should you wish to "push what you do," visit that link.

extraordinary work!

hope everyone's well!

my eyes are going blurry ... i've looked at about 20,000 scans to pull for a project.

in fact, i really don't know if i want to look at either of these screens for a while.

cheers all!

p.s., did you see this scary-ass shit? click "slide show."

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6. SORRY, BUT 99% OF NOTES WILL NOT BE ANSWERED; I EITHER USE THE SUGGESTION OR I DON'T.

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NEWS - LOVE this story.

VERY GOOD NEWS for photographers who make photographs of people in public places!

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*simba May 25, 2007

Gotta love the scans.

I don't know about the wedding photography ... wait, I like St. patricks, and the beach bride to be, and the day before, and ... oh, Merrill's arrival and the bride putting on her shoes.

*realizes I'm rambling*

That tinyurl.com is a lifesaver. You've been missing out man.

That VT stuff is crazy. So sad. I guess we take a lot of things for granted. Nobody ever sees this shit coming.

Try to have a good weekend man. I'm trying to get caught up.

~glynnisbaker Apr 24, 2007

I'm supposed to photograph a wedding in October.. I'm nervous as hell and told them they ought to get a paid professional since I'm far too shy and inexperianced for that field.

I remember there was an article in pop photography where they took a bland, awful photo of a flower and manipulated it so much that they "made it beautiful." I always thought the photo should be beautiful from the start..?

I love your work and am always in awe of your style. I love film photography and wish I could get back into it. Your work has always been an inspiration.

~stargirlphotography Apr 24, 2007 Student Photographer

chris look at this! thought you might like the link seeing as we've been going on about changing photos and stuff....

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~ioquacious Apr 23, 2007

omg you didnt cuss in this entry!

hahaa

nice wedding photos...
not the typical ones i'd see locally.
hmmm would you personally shoot for your daughter's wedding?

and yeah, the VT thing is shit. damn. :\

~dugonline Apr 22, 2007

"don't comment or note or bitch or moan that i'm elitist or that"

Did I fall under this category in our last exchange? I wonder cause I hope not to have given that impression.

Other than that, I agree with the manipulation through history bit. News, especially in politically sensitive countries (like America) have always had propaganda, cover-ups and the like. I like things like Jerry Uelsmann. I always have. Those pictures intrigue me and require a lot of skill and knowledge that I don't have, but if I had the funds to back it, would love to try and learn!

As for wedding photography, the site was neat, but I will have to look more later, cause I wasn't too impressed with what I saw in my quick glance. I have never done "professional photography" cause I don't feel I have the skill or the experience required. I very much consider myself a "hobby photographer" and remain in those boundaries. However, I have taken photos at wedding using concepts, perspectives and ideas that has led to the "pros" at weddings asking if they can use my ideas that day and in future weddings. Flattered, but I am sure I wasn't the first and was happy to "grant them permission".

So here I am, back at your journal. I figured, after such a long exchange in the past entry, it would only be fair to come around and read more.

`cweeks Apr 23, 2007

i don't think you ever said that.

seriously, i think the full impact of alterations and manipulations of things we've all seen hasn't really "hit" yet.

wedding stuff. if you're not an afficianado of the genre, i'm not sure how much impact they'd have on you.

glad to hear some pros liked your concepts.

it's all good.

~dugonline Apr 23, 2007

Well I appreciate wedding photos, but I can get bored with the "traditional pictures". This is what will probably keep me from ever turning pro. I just want to take pictures in the way I see the world. In the way I see people interact. I saw a photo on a wedding site the other day that I had already taken at my sisters wedding. My girlfriend showed it to me, cause it was exactly what I had done, and it was their centerpiece for breaking traditional photos. Having the proffesional look at what I am doing and ask is a nice feeling, I will admit. But at the same time, I don't feel I "own" that idea by any means. In the end, I show a bunch of pictures to the wedding couple/party and they will pick out 1 out of 10 that they really really like, and include with their albums or on a wall, which is neat, but I am by now means living in the mainstream world. So I never expect much more than the happiness found in getting my nice clothes dirty to find an angle or view that is otherwise missed, but enjoyed by me.

In the end, good or bad work, I look at it all. I am a little peeping tom in that I like to look at the random snapshots others will submit as art, cause its fun, and I like to see the best in everything!

`cweeks Apr 23, 2007

i love "not being the official shooter" and being able to give a bride and groom a few photos.

and, yeah, none of us really own any concept ... it's ALL been done before.

i, too, am a peeping tom of life ... totally agree with that!

=SamSeddon Apr 21, 2007

thanks so much for the links, those photographs were awesome, and informative.

My friend was actually in the dorm that got shot in..at vt. Her boyfriends roomate was the RA (I believe they are called) that got killed..bleh..death..

~adamkozlowski Apr 21, 2007

Well... Those wedding photos are interesting, but honestly - many of them are cliched, many are photoshopped... Generally nothing really surprised me or move me. And maybe it's because those photogs that took those were actually experienced wedding shooters. I remember your photos from that wedding in italy and... well, they were different. And dare i say, without any asskissing whatsoever, that i liked those more than the ones in the Top Knots gallery. Not that these are bad..., no, rather those that you took were more... truthful.

Just a thought.

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