Comments on: Deviant Art

Deviant Art

sourbrew — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:59:06 -0800

Deviant Art is an incredibly rich resource of the profound, the visually impressive, amusing, and surreal.

By: abcde

abcde — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:00:36 -0800

Not to be negative, but this is like linking to CNN.com or Slashdot or something ;) It's a very well-known site. Now I'll get refuted by tons of people who never saw it, though, so you may be right.

By: sourbrew

sourbrew — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:00:44 -0800

I know that deviant art has been included in links and other posts as a resource. However to my knowledge i could never find it as a feature post. Which are your favorites, there are thousands to choose from.

By: sourbrew

sourbrew — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:02:03 -0800

Yeah i thought that it was a possibility but i have been on metafilter for about 3 years now and had never seen it until i discovered it by accident googeling today.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:03:09 -0800

i've never seen it before ; > some good stuff, some shitty stuff.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:06:23 -0800

this one's great (and it's cool that they take anyone's stuff, good or bad)

By: Gyan

Gyan — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:35:29 -0800

I linked to some more sites in this earlier thread.

By: Gyan

Gyan — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:38:29 -0800

Just some random advice, I've hung around deviantart and similar sites for a loooong time now. Deviantart is essentially a clearinghouse now. Somewhat like the central UPS sorting center. Some of the sites I and others linked to, in that thread, have a better signal-to-noise ratio.

By: luckyclone

luckyclone — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:44:30 -0800

(and it's cool that they take anyone's stuff, good or bad) no it's not.

By: suprfli

suprfli — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:56:49 -0800

Deviantart is essentially a clearinghouse now. Somewhat like the central UPS sorting center. hello pot. this is the kettle calling. it's mefi.

By: firestorm

firestorm — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:16:03 -0800

very old site. It annoys me to know that there are these gems out there that I may never know of. years pass of good times that I might never experience. I spent my adolescence in a internet boom town so I feel acutely the time compression

By: shoepal

shoepal — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:33:11 -0800

Metafilter: Acute Time Compression

By: scarabic

scarabic — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:38:07 -0800

Wow. And all this time I thought it was about Devian Tarts. Aren't the Devians like cousins to the Vulcans or something like that?

By: loquacious

loquacious — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:47:09 -0800

I don't know what it is but I experience this strangely irrational annoyance when people post links to things (not just on MeFi) that I've known about for years, or months, or whatever. And in thinking about it objectively, I don't know why I feel this annoyance and irritation. It is a recurring theme, not just on MeFi. It goes a little something like this (sing along now!): "Hehe, check out these badgers!" "Dude, that's so three months ago! You're lame!" Why? I don't feel the same annoyance when someone posts something I haven't seen before. Is it "Joneses, please keep up."? I don't know. It's really complex and doesn't seem like it's within any sort of Western-culture-specific historical "norm" for the range of "normal" day to day experiences and emotions. With the amount of information now on the net and constantly being generated 24 hours a day, how can we honestly expect the "the class" to "keep up"? Even with fairly well-known sites with a large and active userbase? Yeah, I'm metathreadjacking* and making up lame words and I'm done. Good post, sourbrew. Appropriately brief, linked to goodness, and I bet a few people saw it for the first time. (*Spell checker recommends "meathead" for this. Owch.)

By: kindall

kindall — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:49:23 -0800

That first one in the main post is by Daniel Conway (Arcipello). A friend of mine, who recently published a fantasy novel set in a sort of alternate Imperial China, says it captures the mood she's shooting for in the sequel perfectly. This is my favorite of his. This is also good. Dude's twenty years old. Sigh.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:50:42 -0800

[this is good]

By: kindall

kindall — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:52:06 -0800

And no, I'm not seeing DeviantArt for the first time -- I first found it a whole month ago, when I went to buy a print of "Her Silent Silhouette" for Alma. If not for a random link from DPReview, I probably still would not be aware of it. I get the feeling it's been around for a fair bit of time.

By: azazello

azazello — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:09:07 -0800

Unfortunately some time ago DA disabled search for non-members, which to me severely limits its functionality (although I guess I should start using Google for it). Other than that, it's spectacularly good. The total sum of talent represented is astounding.

By: t r a c y

t r a c y — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:20:53 -0800

i've been using deviant art for a few years now, mostly for windowblinds & iconpackager themes, and i love it. but i have to agree it's become a clearinghouse. you have to wade thru' a lot of crap to find the gems.

By: kliuless

kliuless — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:21:52 -0800

this one's kinda neat [via boing boing?] did a similar collage in an art class one time cutting up some national geographics on mars, yosemite, tropical fish and the honey hunters of nepal :D also 'impressive' reminded me of this one by stephen martiniere! re: the secrets of jin-shei saw this on scitech daily recently! hopefully it is better than chung kuo :D

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:06:10 -0800

Actually, it *is* cool that they accept anyone's work however good it is. It encourages people to have a go, get feedback, keep trying and improve. If anything annoys me about this thread it's luckyclone's attitude. Foolishly, I used to value intelligence as the prime human trait. Now I value endeavour - having a go yourself and encouraging others to do the same. I know realise why the term "hater" exists.

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:06:21 -0800

...now*

By: Gyan

Gyan — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:38:39 -0800

nthdegx: it *is* cool that they accept anyone's work however good it is. It encourages people to have a go, get feedback, keep trying and improve. That would be true, if you did get feedback. There are currently 4,916,172 "deviations". I bet not more than 5% of those have any meaningful feedback. And not more than 25% have any feedback.

By: Blue Stone

Blue Stone — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:49:08 -0800

I'd never heard of it. It deserves it's place in an FPP. Nice call, sourbrew.

By: Jairus

Jairus — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:29:29 -0800

I posted some art I did there once (self-link, obviously), and I think I'd post there again if I wanted to use their DA Prints service, but otherwise it's just too large of a community for me.

By: kindall

kindall — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:07:37 -0800

Foolishly, I used to value intelligence as the prime human trait. Now I value endeavour - having a go yourself and encouraging others to do the same. That only results in something worthwhile if you're intelligent, though.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:16:47 -0800

Thinking about it, DeviantArt certainly must qualify as "best of the web," even if everyone did know about it. I think this was an a-ok post.

By: swank6

swank6 — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:21:09 -0800

Been using Deviant Art as a resource for my wallpaper rotation for as long as I can remember. Thought everyone knew about it, but apparently not. Definitely worth letting people know about it.

By: thunder

thunder — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:22:24 -0800

I signed up for my own account last year. It's a great place to share artwork (especially if you don't have bandwidth of your own), and people who's opinions I trust have bought prints and said that the deviantprints are very high quality. Without the search function, the community has (to me) kind of a small, grass roots feel. Meaning, I find out about other artists/art through links to friends, etc. And I can get notified whenever someone I'm 'watching' puts up new art. Since there's not a lot of art in the town where I live, this is a very good thing. :-)

By: kindall

kindall — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:43:59 -0800

deviantprints are very high quality I bought two that I had to send back because they were way too dark, in that Mac-graphic-displayed-on-a-PC way. YMMV.