...or however you want to call it. Basically, I just want to get rid of the old journal and try to fill it with somewhat new-ish stuff (that nobody really cares for but still gets slammed with it).

1) I was on vacations the past two weeks! Expect some images to come soon. You're now supposed to yayz or to noez
2) Pokemon White is awesome. Feels like it puts me back in the Red/Blue/Yellow-era...... just with much better graphics xD
3) Supposedly, I have, once again, missed my dA-birthday by a day. Can't believe that I've had my account for 3 years already, but I guess that's how things go. So, question of the journal: what do you wish a person that has a fictional account anniversary?

Edit: Since quite a few people have asked me about it, I will post the link to the respective deviation at the bottom of this journal. If you wish to not know who exactly is involved in this controversy, please disregard the last line of entry.

*swearing and cursing sided with flaming may occur in the following lines*

Usually, I don't really give a thing about all the interaction between deviants that do not directly involve me. Pretty much according to the motto: I've not been invited, therefore I'll stay at home.
In this particular case, however, I have to deviate from this. It involves a Daily Deviation, a Gallery Moderator, a suggester, and a couple deviants. I will try to not mention any names; however, the clues should be sufficient to identify them. To sum up what has happened:

A fairly new member to deviantART received a, in my opinion, well-deserved DD for one of his pictures. The suggester is himself a successful Space/SciFi-artist with high reputation among the community. The GM is a versed SciFi-artist and has been doing his job for almost a year now.
Soon after receiving the DD, a deviant (I refuse to write "artist", as this would actually imply skill, creativity, and you-name-it) openly flamed the suggester and the GM for their choice in a comment on the deviation. Just as an additional info: this person himself has received 4 DDs (if they're deserved or not is questionable) and his images can all be put into one category since they show extreme resemblance to one another. The skill is another such a thing but you can guess what would come up, so I'll cut it here.
The flamer received a response which contained the aformentioned info and the following, very true statement: "it's extremely rude to comment this on the artist's work, if you have a problem take it up with voyager himself as the artist (although deserved) did not ask for a DD."

You think the flamer would acknowledge his fault and back off? Hah, you can't be more wrong! In fact, he replied with a comment which could not be anymore arrogant: "Stay out of this british boy! You don't know anything."
Seriously, this attitude just striked me. This "british boy" is an awesome painter that has grown from a merely average deviant to a true artist over the past 3 years. He shows variation from piece to piece, has dynamics, covers a wide range of topics, from Space Art over landscapes and fantasy up to portraits, to just name a few. This is just my personal opinion, but I am pretty sure that he knows a whole lot more than the flamer. But that aside, soon afterwards, the flamer joined the #SpaceArt-chat. A word of apologize? Nope. Let us check a few excerpts from the conversation (I will not comment them as they are pretty self-explanatory; <flamer> is the one that initially posted the rude comment, <painter> is the one that took the courtesy of responding to that guy):

02:57:08 AM <flamer> why do u replying me defending other ppl?
02:57:16 AM <painter> my problem is that comment you posted was extremely rude and made me angry
02:57:34 AM <flamer> OH THAT'S SO SWEET

02:58:50 AM <flamer> I was rude so what I think it was worth it
02:58:51 AM <painter> if you don't like it, block me
02:59:04 AM <flamer> ofc i would
02:59:16 AM <flamer> but don't wanna lose one more watcher :lol"

02:59:26 AM <painter> i really couldn't give a fuck, i've already removed you from my watch list
02:59:40 AM <painter> because every piece you release is the same composition with different planets
02:59:47 AM <painter> which i don't need to keep seeing in your polls
02:59:49 AM <flamer> omg that was touching like i would give a fuck

03:02:12 AM <flamer> even though ... did u think i was making those pics for you to see them?
03:02:52 AM <painter> i know you weren't and i'm not complaining at you, but i don't like them therefore i have removed you
03:02:56 AM <painter> is that a problem?
03:03:08 AM <flamer> not at all
03:03:36 AM <flamer> did u see me saying i just don't wanna lose one more watcher  ?
03:04:21 AM <flamer> i would block u without telling u
03:05:26 AM <flamer> because i lost many watchers from blocking ppl
03:05:36 AM <flamer> i don't care about the ppl
03:05:42 AM <flamer> i just care about the number
03:06:30 AM <flamer> why i'm talking to u now anyway you are blocked
03:06:36 AM ** flamer has left [connection closed]

Pathetic. Plainly pathetic. What are your thoughts in this?


Edit: I got quite a few questions about who exactly is involved in this. After some thinking I came to the conclusion that hiding the truth would be not beneficial at all, so here you go: the image. Check the respective comments; you'll find them really quick and can then rhyme together who represents whom in the aforementioned paragraphs.

edit: 'tis overrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! You're still free to join #Spaceart, though

Then come join us in #Spaceart chat for the second week of our awesome painting battles!
Basically, 2 hours to paint something based on a theme which is released shortly before, nothing serious just a chance to jump into the deep end and trying to paint something awesome.
So, if you are interested in psata, awesomeness, and even more psata, come join today, March 6th, at 8:00pm GMT+1! See you there

....considering the old journal was dealing with all that New Year's stuff. And that's pretty much over for the next 10 months xD


So, I'm finally done with my exams for this semester. Was about time
Now, that means, that I get heaps of time to waste till the summer semester starts again. So, I should be able to draw some more stuff pretty soon


Also, if you haven't seen it yet, I started a donation pool for a 1-year-prem-membership. If you have any points to spend and like to have a journal feature when I reach that goal, you are most welcome to donate


As I'll have free time till mid-April, I'd like to do a few commissions. Contact me if you're interested!


Random word of the moment: caek. What is your random word of the moment?

Hmm, looks like another year is over. Thinking back of it, quite a few things happened, like........... umh..... yeah....
Regardless if it's only happening to you, some national event, or even a global deal: what was the most striking thing for you in 2010?

Did you already make up your New Year's resolutions? I somehow have followed the tradition of not doing it. Can't think of anything that I can keep up

Either way, happy 2011. Let it be an awesome year!

You probably have seen about 20,000 of those journals/blogs by now but you will have to stand one more

Merry Christmas to ya'll and a happy New Year!! Hope that 2011 will become a great year

What are you getting from Santa? Anything awesome?



Also, for those interested, I am working on two pieces. One painting and one 3D-pano. Should be done within the next two weeks

Seriously, what's up with deviantart? Every single day I see a different offer. What is this madness?!

Also, question of the moment: have / are / will you buy something because of these offers?

Trying to make this one short as there is really not much behind this journal.

After being accepted at uni, I'm now moving out of my parents' home, into a 1-room-apartment. Drove up there today to transport all the stuff I (am supposed to) need. Also, had a quick glance at University itself. Pre-courses start on Monday, but I haven't found the corresponding departments yet
Will be fun............

Not quite sure about how much time I will have in the very beginning, but I might have to reduce my already fairly low productivity-rate in regard to graphics even more. I'll try to upload some doodles to my >scrapbook< to at least pretend that I'm alive. We'll see how it goes.

Cheers!




Update (6 Oct)
So, after 20 years (aka. 5 days), I got my internet properly set up. Network admins = evil
The uni is larger than I expected it to be; there are literally no signs telling you what is where (well, at least I know that the Physics-department is in building #32........). There seems to be no real system behind those numbers and they're just dished out randomly to buildings on either one of the two campuses. I think, I have spent more time searching lecture halls than attending to lectures
To my great surprise, the assignments we get are as easy as you can get; yet they are present in such a high quantity that they get super-annoying.
Meh, whatever, I'm going home over the weekend. Might even consider taking my tablet with me next time I get back here


Update (21 Oct)
Currently, the only Internet-access I have is at Uni. Guess where I am at
Of course, this way, I cannot access anything other than a few programs -- I tend to save my stuff on my external HD. Gosh, I hate those network admins....

The people have already given up the hope. One full moon has passed and the protagonist has still not returned. Lost in the seemingly infinite hadal zones chances were little that he would ever return. And so, another night passed without news.
The next morning should mark a turning point. Deep inside the void, a shape began to emerge slowly from the blackness. Soon, the villagers gathered amd watched the spectacle. Silent rumoring went through the crowd. Was this the one that was thought to be lost?
"Impossible!"
"Unconceivable!"
The villagers could not trust their eyes. The one gradually appearing was no other than *BLPH. He has returned!


So yeah, I'm back from vacations. Glad to see that not much has changed during my absence (or at least it seems like it). Nevertheless, got a bit stuff done. Besides getting a bit into PHP, I, of course, doomed Photoshop a little, ultimately resulting in a few photos (of which I am still deciding which to upload) and one painting. Yeah, just one. I went overkill with both, size and details. More information later on.

Furthermore, I'm still trying to get my e-self up-to-date which is quite tedious. Having to go through 2300 messages and 1500 deviations will require quite some time..........
Also, to state the obvious, I'm back to riding the wave again aka. having a tilde in front of my username. Not sure if that will have an impact in me, but I somehow got used to the star. lol.

So, anything world-shaking happened while I was gone?