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- Otto & Victoria, Octovictorian Etiquette
- Lady Gaga, Reduced to Ashes, A Phoenix to Arise
- Beauty as a Force of Energy
- Drones
- Legacy of The Lens
- The Rise Of The Artist, You Are The Future
- The Enduring Enigma of Collage
- The Lonely Path
- The New Street Photographer's Manifesto
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Otto and Victoria, Octovictorian Etiquette
by $techgnotic
Brian Kesinger has been an artist, writer, and animator at Walt Disney Studios for over 15 years. Read along as he shares his thoughts about fan art, storytelling, and what it takes to be a working artist today and into the future. Brian also names a few favorite artists from his +watchlist and reveals the one quality every studio looks for when hiring artists.
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Lady Gaga, Reduced to Ashes, A Phoenix to Arise
by $techgnotic
Can Lady Gaga stage her comeback from the ashes and unite the world’s artists into a new power of influence?Lady Gaga will continue to manipulate the psychic vanguard of pop art, willing it to fit the needs of her music and her philosophy of a new sensibility amongst the masses but the real agents of change today may be the pop culture people fell in love with early in their lives influencing their lifestyles, attitudes and thought processes.
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Beauty as a Force of Energy
by $techgnotic & *louieschwartzberg
Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg has made it his life’s mission to use his cinematic artistry to raise the alarm for public awareness of the dire situation we are facing in the possible collapse of our taken-for-granted natural resources. The “colony collapse disorder” currently decimating our honeybees was the prompt for Louie’s new movie, Wings of Life: A Love Story that Feeds the Earth.
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Drones
by *istickboy & $techgnotic
Choose any media or medium and there is no question that Drones have become the white hot center of debate for a multitude of deeply consequential concerns for the entire Earth Sphere. No matter the digital end point or theatre of conversation, whether it be politics, war, privacy, pop culture, or the rise of machines – Drones or UAV's (unmanned aerial vehicles) are the current catalyst du jour in any number of flashpoint discussions. From the front page headlines of news outlets around the world, to op-ed pages debating national security vs. non-juridical “justice,” to the big budget sci-fi film “Oblivion” with a main protagonist being a lonely drone repairman toiling away on a scorched earth, there is no getting away from the conversation.
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Introducing Madefire Motion Books to deviantART
by +spyed
I am very excited to announce a strategic partnership between deviantART and Madefire, the leading Motion Book application in Apple’s App Store. (iPhone & iPad) Together with Madefire, we are releasing the Madefire Web Reader on deviantART in a new category on our front-page called "Motion Books.” You will immediately find a dozen Madefire Motion Books there, with more books released each Wednesday.
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Legacy of The Lens
by $techgnotic
A study in artistic diversity, Bernardo Medina embodies the renaissance spirit of the consummate artist, always inspired and inspiring artists around him to create and capture the rhythms of life and beauty in a multitude of mediums.
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Issue No. 2 – Charles Bukowski
“They simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?”
— Charles Bukowski
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
— Charles Bukowski
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Issue No. 1 – Hermann Hesse
“There is no escape. You can't be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you!”
— Hermann Hesse
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But is it Art?
by $techgnotic
Perhaps the eternally unanswerable question. But definitely something to chew on... When I first saw it, I was instantly captivated. At first thought, what a brilliant example of modern pointillism! Has some unknown artist taken up the long abandoned banner of Georges Seurat and presented us with a new manifesto championing art as points of light illuminating our waking dreams?!
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Good Nudes vs. Bad Nudes
by $techgnotic
One person’s erotic art is another person’s worthless sensationalism. These questions arise when one encounters the nude in art, an encounter fraught with more emotional, political and personal baggage than almost any other art experience.
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The Future of Storytelling Has Arrived
by $techgnotic
Recently announced changes to the core mythos of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the backlash from fans over the ending to Mass Effect 3 have ignited discussion about the relationship between producers and consumers. It’s exploded beyond the secure borders of top news publications, gaming and entertainment websites. Should you listen to your audience?
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Flash of Lightning, Resonant Thunder
by $techgnotic
The Serenely Powerful Art of `yuumei. Her specialty is digital art in an anime style, but she often employs traditional watercolors and other elements. Her cause is saving and preserving what's left of the Earth's wildlife and its environment; she donates large portions of profits from her artworks to a host of wildlife and environmental organizations and urges all deviants and others to do the same.
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