It's all gone but the memories
DeviantArt is soooooo no longer the DeviantArt I joined all those years ago.
I've been thinking just recently that there's not much of a point in hanging around here these days.
When DeviantArt was young and new, a lot of guys like me, from the hiREZ scene, from the ANSi scene, from the modding and skinning community - we went out of our way to promote this community. If I were to have to guess, I wouldn't have any real idea how many thousands of people I've pointed towards this site, how many members are here because I and others 8 years ago went out of our way to help promote and endorse this web site.
Now it seems that the hierarchy has completely changed, and nobody who has any authority on DeviantArt really even remembers the guys who were here at the start, or what we did to help in DeviantArt's meager beginnings.
I was really fortunate that my entire 8+ years of being a part of the DeviantArt community, staffers compensated guys like me with free memberships, honoring not just the fact that we came on board before DA was cool, but we helped MAKE DA cool.
My premium membership will expire in a couple of weeks, and after that I don't really feel like I should owe the new DeviantArt any "dues" to pay for such simple services, to be a part of a community I helped recruit.
I'll miss some friends. A lot of people from the old school I am in touch with on other social sites, so we'll keep in touch.
If you are one of my old time friends from DA and you're not a Facebook friend or a member of one of the other communities I participate in, drop me a line so we can be sure to keep in touch!
I think the DeviantArt I remember has probably already been gone for years and I'm just now noticing it.
I'll make my graceful exit.
fond regards,
CatBones
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My Second Annual DAHQ pilgrimage!
I just returned from Hollywood!
Last Summer I took a fun vacation to Hollywood to tour the DeviantArt Headquarters and meet Spyed and Techgnotic and many other DA staffers. This past week, I took a second trip to the HQ and got to spend time with all my friends there once more!
This time, I took my daughter with me. She had never been to California, and she had an amazing, magical time!
She was totally enamored of Spyed, of course. When we went out to eat dinner at a terrific Greek restaurant, she was starry eyed when he conversed with out waitress in fluent Greek. That was such a great evening!
We got to meet Bentley, a beautiful Englis
Devious Journal Entry
I haven't posted in my DA journal in a while, so thought I'd check in.
I recently hit the 9 year mark here on DeviantArt, and I have to say it's still as fun as ever. =)
There is no social networking community on the internet that I've continued to invest myself into with as much persistence as I have here. I love DeviantArt!
In closing I'd like to share a link to a Facebook group which is largely tattoo artists, but you'll find art being shared in many mediums besides tattoo art!
Browse through some of the beautiful work here: -> https://www.facebook.com/groups/Trueartists.Best.Artwork/
Until further notice..
I'm happy to inform my friends and fellow deviantArt enthusiasts that I'll be sticking around with deviantArt until hell freezes over.
Long live the memory of "The Scene." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_art_scene
I love you guys.
Remember the old days?
Nowadays the internet is just - TOO much.
I remember when I was logging on with a SLIP account and a dos client, the "world wide web" seemed small enough that you might just be able to see it all. Hell, I remember before that even - we traded art through BBS networks, over 2400 baud modems that pushed packets in the wee hours of the night so that come morning i could get up and see something new from somewhere on the other side of the country, or the other side of the world. We were the pioneers. Before there was DeviantArt. Before there was Myspace. Before Yahoo or Google. None of these things were even a daydream in the minds of men, and
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Glad to hear this got worked out for you mate. Angelo is quite a closet art scene fanboy. Don't let his success fool you on that note.
I miss our talks. Hope you are well!
I miss our talks. Hope you are well!