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New Pope: Gay Marriage is the Work of the Devil

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 1:15 PM

Here's a 2010 #equalitopia article by `r0b where the newly elected Pope Francis (Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio) describes gay marriage as being the work of the devil:

Argentina’s highest-ranking Catholic prelate has warned that the country’s gay marriage bill is a “machination” of the devil, reports Pink News.

Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio has called on priests in Buenos Aires, where he is archbishop, to protest against the bill, which is progressing through Argentina’s parliament.

In a letter to the monasteries of Buenos Aires, he wrote: “Let’s not be naive, we’re not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God .. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.”

Read the full article: Catholic cardinal says gay marriage is the work of the devil

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Hyperrealistic Cat Drawings by Paul Lung

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 11:19 AM

Paul Lung is a Hong Kong-based hobbyist pencil artist.

Cat drawing for Calendar 10pcs by *paullung

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If Pokemon Was Real, This Is How Jynx Would Look

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 1:05 PM

$Ayame-Kenoshi just showed $shyree2 and I *Rats-in-the-van's work. Go check out his gallery and give him a +watch! He has a ton of amazing work!

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dA Artist Designs Binocular Google Glass Concept

Thu Mar 7, 2013, 2:32 PM

German artist Jonas Daehnert (~jonas-daehnert) has designed a concept for a binocular version of Google Glass. The 3D concept images were published to t3n Magazine after the artist posted an initial image his deviantART Gallery.

Futuristic Google Nexus Glasses Concept by *Jonas-Daehnert

Cross-posted to my Google Glass Quora blog, Dat Glass.

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deviantART In Review: February 2013

Sat Mar 2, 2013, 11:52 AM

Each hour, thousands of works are submitted to deviantART. Here's a summary of the pieces that were submitted each day last month that gained a lot of attention.

February 1

`yuumei

February 2

=jjpeabody

February 3

~jeftoon01

February 4

=FOERVRAENGD

February 5

~gamefan84

February 6

`alicexz

February 7

=The-SixthLeafClover

February 8

`yuumei

February 9

~SaeedRamez

February 10

~InstantIP

February 11

*sakimichan

February 12

*viria13

February 13

`Artgerm

February 14

*dCTb

February 15

*ryky

February 16:

*viria13

February 17

~meago

February 18

=Namie-kun

February 19

*sandara

February 20

*Qinni

February 21

*bleedman

February 22

*Katkat-Tan

February 23

*celesse

February 24

`alicexz

February 25

*Shourei

February 26

`yuumei

February 27

`alicexz

February 28

*viria13

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'Blowjob' by Logan Crable

Wed Feb 27, 2013, 8:37 PM

'Blowjob': A series by New York based photographer Logan Crable.

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Unbelievable Hyperrealistic Pencil Drawings

Tue Feb 26, 2013, 7:34 PM

Hyperrealism is a genre of visual arts that resembles a high-resolution photograph. Here are some jaw-droppingly talented hyperrealistic pencil artists on deviantART.

Wet 3 by Sean Barman (V-4-VENGEANCE)

Food by imaginee

Sensazioni by DiegoKoi

Old man pencil by francoclun

Guiding Star by Scott56

An elderly man by FairyARTos

Girl by FairyARTos

Ian Somerhalder by FairyARTos

Angelina Jolie by Rajacenna

Pencil Illustration by LopezLorenzana

Originally answered on Quora:
What are some of the most realistic pencil drawings you have come across?

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How Does One Assess the Mood of a Typeface?

Mon Feb 25, 2013, 12:17 PM

The following was posted to Quora by David Kadavy, author of designforhackers.com.

There are some rarely-mentioned classifications, and ways that typefaces are structured that greatly affect the "mood" of that typeface.

Most people are familiar with "serif" and "sans-serif" typefaces (sans-serif meaning it doesn't have those little feet on the end of each stroke of the letter). Serif typefaces tend to look more formal and "older," while sans-serif typefaces tend to look more modern. But, the underlying shape of the letterforms do even more to affect the mood.

Letter Structure Types
There are three more common "letter structures" that many typefaces are based upon.

Humanist
Humanist typefaces have subtle curves and tend to look "friendly." The structure of the letters are based off of hand-drawn letterforms. For example, if you were to draw an "O" with a pen, it wouldn't be completely round. Humanist typefaces tend to be good for non-profits, healthcare, or anything else where you want a "human" look.

Gill Sans and Palatino are a couple of Humanist typefaces.

Geometric
Geometric typefaces are on the other end of the spectrum in that the letter structures are based upon geometry. They can be the kind of typeface with a completely round "O," like the examples above, or they can be something like Bodoni, which has strong contrasts of thick and thin, and is used in nearly every fashion magazine (Bodoni is built by geometrically rationalizing serif letterforms).

Geometric typefaces tend to look very modern and fashionable. They'd be good for content that is math or engineering related, or – as noted – fashion related.

Realist
Realist typefaces fall somewhere in between the hand-derived letterforms of Humanist typefaces, and the geometric rationalization of Geometric typefaces. Realist typefaces have more abrupt curves, and give a sense of rationality and stability.

The beloved Helvetica is a realist typeface, and has a sense of being visually inert – almost "invisible."

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19yo Florent Courty Captures Nature's Wonders

Thu Feb 14, 2013, 10:37 AM

French photographer Florent Courty is 19. He started teaching himself photography 4 years ago. This is where he's at:

Epic Storm from the Ruins by *FlorentCourty

Beginning of the Cold Season by *FlorentCourty

Nature's Eternal Glory by *FlorentCourty

"I'm here to show you what the world looks like outside the every day life.
Open your eyes, just enjoy the magic of Nature."

—Florent Courty

2011 08 18 Lightning strikes by *FlorentCourty

*FlorentCourty

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Blind Spot [Short Film]

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 9:19 AM

"Steven couldn't see how his day could get any worse..."

"Blind Spot" is a short film by Matthew Nayman, a Toronto, Ontario filmmaker.

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Hyrule's Littlest Hero

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 9:55 PM

"The Littlest Link" is a photo series by ~eric3dee:

For Halloween this year, we decided to dress my one-year-old up as Link. We then maximized the situation with a photo shoot Special Thanks to Andrew Saliga of Open Frame Photography for taking many of the pics!

Trek Through the Lost Woods by ~eric3dee

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So Soft. So Fuzzy. So Dead.

Wed Feb 6, 2013, 9:40 AM

"The Forgotten Friends hand crafts all those old familiar faces from our past and many new ones with a bit of a creepy twist. "

Prototype prosthetic limb by ~TheForgottenFriends

Octobunny close up by ~TheForgottenFriends

Octobunny part 2 by ~TheForgottenFriends

Little Black Bear by ~TheForgottenFriends

Little Balck Bear detail by ~TheForgottenFriends

Very Bad Bunnies detail by ~TheForgottenFriends

Fuzzy green skully trick or treater by ~TheForgottenFriends

Green monster bunny with lollipop by ~TheForgottenFriends

Green monster bunny with lollipop close up by ~TheForgottenFriends

Very Bad Bunnies by ~TheForgottenFriends

Very bad Bunnies progress by ~TheForgottenFriends

Woof Woof sitting by ~TheForgottenFriends

Bring out the GIMP by ~TheForgottenFriends

The GIMP close up by ~TheForgottenFriends

One Eye returns! by ~TheForgottenFriends

Sneak peek Voodoo Darlings by ~TheForgottenFriends

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Improved deviantART Integration on Twitter

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 6:28 PM

We're excited to announce that we just implemented enhancements to the way deviantART links display on Twitter, giving you and your artwork more prominence and exposure!

We're always looking for ways to give artists better exposure -- both on deviantART and across the web. Not only do these changes give artists a bigger presence across Twitter by allowing them to reach a bigger audience, but they also encourage proper attribution.

(Hylian Shirt by *blo0p)

What's New

Artwork will appear larger on Twitter.
Titles and descriptions of artwork are now automatically included!
Links to Profiles, Groups, Favourites, Galleries, Collections, Journals, and Sta.sh items will now display inline! When profiles are shared, it pulls in your deviantID and bio.
Tweets including deviantART links are now eligible to show up in more places across Twitter, including Twitter's "Discover" page, their automated emails, and when embedding Tweets on other sites.
In Twitter search, deviantART links are now eligible to show up automatically expanded, giving your artwork more prominence.
Artwork will now show up on mobile devices and tablets!

(Leda by *MarcelaBolivar)

Add the Twitter Widget to Your Profile Page

Premium Members, if you have the Twitter Widget installed on your Profile Page, your Twitter username will be included whenever someone shares your artwork, Journals, or profile, allowing viewers to easily follow you.

Remember to Use the Share Buttons

Remember: Using the share button on deviation pages is an easy way to share content and ensures that the artist will be properly attributed with a link back to the original artwork.

Plus: Enlarged Facebook Thumbnails

As of a few weeks ago, Facebook implemented a change which increased the size of thumbnail images in the News Feed from 90x90 pixels to 154x154 pixels. We've adjusted the way these thumbnails display on Facebook, taking advantage of the bigger size, giving your artwork a bigger presence on your friends and fans' News Feeds.

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(Powder-III by ~COLORCASTMEDIA)

Thanks to `aMoniker, who was the developer on this project.

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iPrison by Apple

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 1:27 PM

Print ad campaign by Felipe Luchi for Go Outside Magazine. (via devidsketchbook)

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dA Artist Raising $20k for LGBT Animated Film

Mon Jan 28, 2013, 7:46 PM

New York City-based artist Alex Myung (~alexmyung) has started a Kickstarter project to raise $20,000 to create Arrival, an animated short film with a focus on the theme of coming out. Equalitopia sits down with Alex to discuss the project.

Currently, the project has raised almost $4,000 from 74 different backers, averaging out to about $52 per backer. Keep in mind that Kickstarter projects are “all or nothing,” meaning that if the project doesn’t reach its funding goal by Wednesday, February 20th, no funds will be transferred to the project.

Equalitopia: Could you tell us briefly about the storyline of Arrival?

Alex: Arrival is about a young boy growing up in the countryside with his mother, who moves to the city to pursue his dreams. Along the way he falls in love with another boy, but he struggles to connect with people as he contemplates coming out to his mother.

Read my full interview: Animated LGBT Short Film “Arrival” by Alex Myung Aims to Raise $20,000 on Kickstarter

*AlexMyung's work on deviantART:

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The New deviantART Submission Process

Tue Jan 22, 2013, 6:23 PM

The New deviantART Submission Process

DeviantART is proud to announce a new way to submit and share your art. Our new submission process is powered by Sta.sh, our portable creative studio, making it quicker and easier to submit art than ever before!

Quick & Easy

The new consolidated and streamlined submission process is designed with ease of use in mind. The process is split into individual stages that guide you through the submission process for clarity. We've emphasized the most important settings of the submission process and collapsed the more advanced options for simplicity.

All In One

The new submit process is powered by Sta.sh, which gives you the ability to drag and drop files from your desktop, select files from your Sta.sh, and save your deviations so they can be submitted later. The new process also integrates our Premium Content feature, which allows you to sell digital downloads of your work.

Roll over each section for more details

Stash - Your Personal Creative Studio

Sta.sh is your personal creative space on deviantART, a home to images, writing, animation and everything in between. Sta.sh keeps your inspiration organized, your projects consolidated, and provides ease of use when publishing your completed work. You can store your files, host works that you might not be ready to make public, and also makes it simple for you to share works in progress to gather feedback and advice from other creative individuals. Enabling you to upload and share content instantaneously to anyone in the world, Sta.sh truly is your artistic development platform.

Your Sta.sh goes wherever you go. Using our APIs, developers have integrated Sta.sh into their own applications, making your creative life easier. Paintings created in ArtRage and photos from Adobe Lightroom can be saved directly to your Sta.sh. When not near your computer, you can upload from mobile devices using =Pickley's Sta.sh Client or `KnightAR's Android uploader. Plus, you can always upload via email or FTP.

Write Literature and Journals with StashWriter

Sta.sh Writer is an innovative writing engine built into Sta.sh, designed with the writer in mind. It provides a writing environment that combines rich-text with HTML, allowing for both ease of use and adaptation to any complexity you may want to add to your work. From easy formatting tools to the inclusion of CSS in the form of skins, Sta.sh Writer lets you say what you want to say how you want to say it.

Create Digital Paintings with deviantART Muro

DeviantART muro is our breakthrough HTML5 artistic application that allows you to create works of art directly from your browser. We recently added the ability to watch, submit, and share recordings of your how your work was made, allowing members to watch their favorite artist's drawing process.

Generate Earnings with Premium Content

Last July, we launched the Premium Content Platform, which allows content creators to become sellers and generate real earnings by making digital files of their high-quality work available for download. Deviants can download content immediately after purchasing them using deviantART Points, and the artist immediately sees the profits deposited into their My Earnings account.

We've continued making enhancements to the Premium Content Platform as we gradually roll it out to more of our members. The new Submit process makes it easier than ever to submit deviations as Premium Content, and with this launch, we're releasing the Premium Content feature to everyone!

Try it out! Submit Art

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Introducing Commissions on deviantART

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 4:08 PM

Generate real earnings through custom creations

1. List Commission availability on your profile

The Commissions Widget showcases your offerings, showing potential clients that you are accepting requests.

2. Client request Commissions

Commission requests are sent to the artist's Message Center, allowing them to accept or reject the request.

3. You receive payment, you deliver artwork

Artists can track their Commission transactions and generate real profit through My Earnings, garnering 80% royalty on each transaction. Earnings can then be withdrawn as a check, via PayPal, or converted to deviantART Points.

My Correspondence

The new My Correspondence page gives you access to all of your correspondence messages, including Commissions and Group requests. Comments and replies can also be left on accepted commission requests, for a more convenient experience for buyer and seller alike.

The 80% Royalty, Explained

DeviantART offers one of the few places on the Internet with millions of visitors interested only in the incredible depth and breadth of artforms presented by our deviants. And, the truth is, it costs money to run the site. The Commissions Widget alone required building a number of new technologies, as well as harnessing and tweaking existing features to work with the new changes. The 20% fee we charge helps build and maintain everything that's involved -- and there is more to come on this feature.

We're considering tiered fees in the future for people who reach monthly sales levels, and for Premium Members, but we'd like to see this spread onto the site before making those changes so we can accurately project where the breaks for the different levels should be placed. Anyone who chooses to use the widget will be providing us valuable insight and data that we will use to mold the future of the widget and the forthcoming Portal/search ability that will allow people to browse and discover artists who are offering commissions. For those who don't see the value in the widget, deviants still have the ability to provide commissions via the same methods they've always had.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What are Commissions?
2. When do I have to pay for a Commission?
3. When do I get paid for my Commission?
4. What happens if an artist doesn't deliver a Commission?
5. How do I settle a Commission dispute?
6. I requested a Commission, but the artist still hasn't accepted or rejected it.

Coming Soon: Browse and discover artists who are currently offering Commissions.

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5 Hours of Jet Flyovers Overlapped in 30 Seconds

Tue Dec 4, 2012, 9:58 PM

(via reddit)

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The New Sta.sh Comments

Fri Nov 16, 2012, 11:08 AM

Today, we've upgraded Sta.sh comments, allowing you to easily add formatting and media to comments. You can now pull in images to your comments and then draw on those images using deviantART muro! This new feature, powered by Sta.sh Writer, makes collaboration in Sta.sh even better!

Easier Collaboration and Communication

We're happy to announce the new Sta.sh comments. As you're aware, Sta.sh Writer allows rich text editing of literature and journal deviations on deviantART, and we're happy to expand this functionality to more areas of the site.

The new Sta.sh comments allows multiple features and rich text editing to be employed on these comments. Not only does it improve on functionality that already exists in comments, it also pulls in the full power of the Sta.sh Writer application into your comments, completely revolutionizing creative communication on Sta.sh.

Add Formatting and Media to Sta.sh Comments!

Add formatting to comments with the formatting toolbar!
Add images to comments using the "Add Media" sidebar.
- The conversation tab shows deviations on the page.
- The Sta.sh tab shows items in your Sta.sh.
- The deviantART tab shows deviations from anywhere on deviantART.
- The emoticons tab gives you access to official and community-created emoticons.
Draw on images using deviantART muro!