Hi guys what's up how's it goin?

So I recently moved house. I'm barely getting any hours at work (Coles) but that's okay. I'm going to a wedding today woot. I'm putting some music up on this here site [link] and I have a twitter here [link] in case you don't look at my pictures or read the descriptions. Check em out. Umm what else? Okay I'm gonna promote myself some more. [link] This is all the sites I'm an active member of. If you're a member also, feel free to watch me or whatever the site involves. If I know you, I'll add you back Don't worry about spamming me or something. Aside from dA, I'm really quite unpopular XD

I uploaded all the decent pictures I did during my unexpected month without internet. There are more but they... are crap. I'm gonna try and do some painting/charcoal portraits soon once I can get my hands on some materials and a decent chunk of time.

I saw Where The Wild Things Are the other day. It was so awesome that I felt inspired to write a massive essay about it. No really. I found that much substance in it. It was awesome. I talked about it for hours afterward to whoever would suffer my ramblings. I wanted to write a blog entry about it but... my blog is being used for Riiga now I'm probably gonna be spending between Christmas and New Year's with my step family so that I have an excuse not to go in for work ;D Oh wait they already aren't giving me hours...

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So this is something I came up with myself while at work. It's been on my Facebook for several months but I thought, well golly, I ought to share it with that fantastic bunch on dA! I know that every time I submit a thought-provoking journal I become overwhelmed at the responses and take a long time to reply, but here I go again:

"One day, an old man noticed his prize-winning garden was terribly dry, and so he prayed to God for rain out of desperation. It poured all night.

The neighbouring woman left her washing out on the line overnight, thinking it would be dry and safe, as she didn't have time to bring it in the previous day. When she woke, her washing was soaked. She pulled it off and angrily muttered, "Stupid rain!"

In the house behind her, a man glanced out of his front window to see his car was covered in wet leaves and flower petals, as he had parked it under a tree overhanging the street. The leaves clogged the windscreen wipers and one of them snapped under the strain: "Bloody rain!"

Down the road, a man woke to a pool of water across his outdoor entertainment area. The gutter had clogged, and the water backed up and burst the drainpipe, spilling it all over the decking and furniture: "WHY did it have to rain?"

A teenage girl was out spending time with friends, and she walked home with two of them. They were caught in the rain, and when she woke up in the morning, she had a fever and was coughing a lot. She called up her friend and questioned why it had to happen on her birthday: "Couldn't it have rained another day? Like, tomorrow?"

On the next street, a woman hurried outside early in the morning to collect the mail and she slipped on a patch of lawn that had been reduced to mud. She twisted her ankle, cursed, and staggered to her feet.

In the next block, a boy received word that the soccer game that day had been cancelled; the sports oval was too wet. He threw his soccer shoes across the living room and stormed upstairs: "Stupid, stupid rain!"

On the hill, a man woke to find a bad mosquito bite on his arm which was unusually large and itchy, despite having killed four the previous night. He hastily blamed the abundance of mosquitoes on the recent heavy rain.

On the main road, just past midnight, a man was turning a corner a little too fast. The road was too slippery and he lost control, slamming the car sideways into a tree. He didn't even have time to blame the rain, because he died almost instantly.

The old man with the prize-winning garden was very pleased with the rain the following day.

He did not utter one word of thanks."

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I would like to gather some opinions yo.

If somebody is accused of art theivery and the artist defends themselves for a short while but then gives up, are they likely to be deemed guilty or innocent?

If somebody is accused of art theivery and the artist ignores the accusation entirely, what then?

Or if the artist continues to defend themselves until the conversation becomes a painful and twisted cycle fuelled by overwhelming self righteousness and egotism. What then?

Would you think an artist who stops defending themselves does so because a] they realise they are in the wrong and have run out of arguments b] they realise the accuser is blind and will never accept that they are wrong c] they realise that it's just not worth the energy anyway d] something more mysterious?

Somebody on SheezyArt reported my Where The Wild Things Are painting as traced and thus against the SA TOS. I received a message from admins two weeks later saying that my painting was removed because filtered digital works are against the TOS, and the evidence that it was filtered was because it lines up "perfectly" with the reference, even though the reporter insisted that I painted over the original and did not filter it. Could somebody please explain their reasoning to me in a reasonable, sensible, comprehendible manner? I will give you money if you can (not really). Seriously, where's the sense? I stopped defending myself after a few replies because I realised they weren't listening and I also realised it doesn't matter what they think.

I deleted every trace of arguing and accusations that I could because their comments were not necessary, polite, sensible, considerate, or truthful. Not to mention that said comments involved threats, revealed (somewhat misleading and exagerrated) stalkerish personal information about my life as evidence that I'm a fake artist, obscene language, disgraceful degrees of arrogance and conceitedness on their behalf, constant "shouting" at me in FULL CAPITALS, boasting about their profession and therefore inherent ability to discern and define the realms of what's possible and what isn't in terms of the infinite world of art... and apparently removing those sort of comments proves that I'm guilty. The only way I was able to prove myself, according to them, was to show video recordings of my painting process, base sketches and studies, and progress shots, just like all the "normal people" do. Why would I be so insecure about my art as to post all of that rubbish for every single painting or drawing I do? I already have tutorials and I'm writing a book about portraiture.

Should I even have to defend myself against such accusations? Should I even want to? Why?

I'm sorry but I just had to share this with people who would understand <3

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Sorry if you were expecting another rant, but this time I'm looking for your opinion ;D

Can we properly criticise an unfinished work? Can we properly criticise works when we do not know the creator's full intent?

Please discuss if you want to :3 The context is open (and context is of paramount importance, as we all know), but some examples are: a person's life, a work of art, a piece of music, a novel, or for the epic-minded: all of existence.

I personally believe the answer to both questions is generally a "no", but you know, like, whatever.

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I'm back. Omnomnom. I had a good time :3

I feel very detached from dA, so pardon me while I go about my life for a while.

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