Join for FREE | Take the Tour Lost Password?
[x]

deviantART

 
:iconvolcanohead:

~volcanohead

Joseph Robert John Morris
ProfileGalleryPrintsFavesJournal

Christmas + New camra

Wed Dec 26, 2007, 8:05 AM
Hope you all had a merry christmas and wishing you a happy new year (why is it wrong to say happy christmas and a merry new year.) I got a new camra for christmas, a Pentax k100D with a 18-55mm zoom lens. I am looking forward to taking some great pictures with it- and not having to bother with scanning them in on my dad's scanner as well. There is one more picture I need to submit, I will do that soon.

Mr. Right (my new nick name)

  • Mood: Joy
  • Listening to: Annie Lennox- Songs of mass Destruction
  • Reading: The Amber Spyglass- Phillip Pullman
  • Watching: Top gear- The challenges
  • Eating: Christmas food
  • Drinking: Cider

Back, and better than ever

Sun Dec 16, 2007, 5:49 PM
Why is it that everyone who has to take over a years brake from devinatart (no internet connection at home, and devintart is blacked for being a ';pornographic' on my old college network) always end up being drawn inexpilically back to there old deviantart accounts, just to check whever anything has changed.

Well to inmense relife, deviantart is not in the habit of deleting accounts that have not been used for 90 days (bloddy hotmail) though nothing has changed, it seems like, similar to real life, on devinatart you have to shout to get noticed.

Still, enough of the (slightly) drunken reininessance, back to the buiness of what has happened to me in the passed year, four months and one day. Well I am currenly studying chemistry at Bangor uni [link] I am having a great time, though I am home at the minuite for 3 weeks over xmas.

I did good at my A-levels- I got Religious Studies B, Sociology B, Chemistry C, Geology C, and Biology D. Not as well as I hoped but then again, what can you expect doing 5 at once (3 is the norm.)

I will make a another journal soon but my Dad has just come back.

Bye

Volcanohead (now known as 'Mr. Right' after correcting a member of staff 5 times during one lecture.)

P.S.I will try and add some art soon.

  • Mood:
  • Listening to: Van Morrison- Enlightement
  • Reading: The Tin Princess- Phillip Pullman
  • Watching: Nothing(computer broke, no tv to watch dvds)
  • Playing: Nothing, computer broke, writing on mums com
  • Eating: Risotto for tea (at 2am in the morning)
  • Drinking: Twinnings luxery chocolate indulgence

Back from Hols, restarting

Tue Aug 15, 2006, 7:00 PM
Hi, got back from a five day lark with two mates at our second house, then my computer broke, hence I hav'nt looged in for about 2 weeks. Isn't dav 5 just the same as dav 4. I had too clear out my account entily as it was getting two full, hence I will not be replying to any of your journals/devs sent before this date, but anything you wish me to comment on just contact me through the usual methods. I will hwoever be pretty onmipresent between now and october so I will be on top of messages as far as I can be.

Bye
volcanohead

P.S. I sorry I have not submitted any new work for ages, buy I will have some online very soon. Should be some good pics as well.

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
:wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave:

Hi, back from exams, found cool new site

Fri Jun 30, 2006, 6:57 AM
Hi back from exams, totally horrible becuase I caught the flu and counld'nt revise very well, so lots of resits next year. How are you all, love to hear from you.:handshake:

found a cool new website for all those people who love totally weird and wacky bits of info, the address is [link]. It a project producing maps where the area each contry takes up on the map represents the statistic being mapped. Very cool site, take a look. :clap: to the guy who thought of it.

My life is pretty boring at the moment, so I should be able to get through the 380 devs waiting to be looked at from April onwards (should enjoy that.) Please be patient as it may take a while to get through them all but i will do. You all submitt to much good stuff. I think I might join some clubs to get the pageview count up a bit, any suggestions for good clubs would be most appriceated. Just got a camra back from repair and found a flim in it from the lake district, should be some good pics on it and I've just been to York cathedral so I might have some good pics from that trip too. Apart from photography all I'm doing at the moment is playing computer games in the new computer I got about three weeks ago.

Love you all

volcanohead

Hi, busy with exams

Fri Jun 9, 2006, 3:33 AM
Hi, sorry I hav'nt been around much exams are creeping up on me. I will hopefully get some time after the 26th to say hello to everyone. I might even joint some groups, any suggestions will be appriciated.

<div align="center"><img src="http://www.tomick.de/dailychanges.png" /></div>

<div align="center">Isn't it amazing how many new deviations are submitted daily on dA?
That the amount of people who are interested in dA increases daily?
And the fact that so many artists have found a platform to dicuss and present their work to others?</div>


Without a doubt it's a big, interesting and versatile community.
But isn't it amazing to always see the same artists on the frontpage every single day concerning the fact that so many new deviations have been submitted?

We're all aware of that and believe that this has to change. It is already quite difficult for the "unknown" artists to promote their work and gain more attention.

Clearly, we do not intend to deny the skills of those great artists who enrich the community by sharing their magnificent work. But we do intend to enhance the platform in such a way that "unknown" artists might get a real chance to draw the public attention to their own pieces of work by promoting it on the front page of the community.

In our opinion we think it unjust to only have the chance to be represented on the front page if one has the luck of having many watchers.

We would like a better system which allows a deviation to be seen on the front page if, for example, it has 'only' reached about 40 favourites and about 200 views.

Take a look at the actual situation: You have uploaded an impressive piece or art that gets faved according to the number of your total views/watchers. Then, however, a more popular deviant uploads a more or less 'average' deviation and automatically reaches more than the double of your favourites/views in a mere moment.

A new structure of the frontpage could enhance the actual competition on dA, i.e. popular deviants wouldn't be able to best the "unknown" artists by posting a rather average deviation.

A reasonable alternative to present the "daily top favourites" on the front page would be a bigger amount of thumbs which would show the 40 best deviations of the day in a random order.

We think it's in everyone's interest to change the current situation and make dA a place where creating and sharing unique art plays a far bigger role than scrambling for new watchers.

If you agree, help us and yourself by copying and pasting this entry into your journal. Text file --> [link]

The community

:community:

Journal History

Site Map