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Dodge Dart Inspired By You ContestSix artists will have their amazing works of art displayed in a pop-up gallery at the Dodge-Chrysler Headquarters and score cash, iPads, and other awesome prizing. View photos of the Dodge Dart and create art that reflects some element of the car's style and inspiration! Whatever your approach, the art should come from the car.






Six artists will have their amazing artworks displayed in a pop-up gallery at the Dodge-Chrysler Headquarters and score cash, iPads and other awesome prizes. There are two separate categories for entering: digital and traditional. The top three from each will be the wi The new deviantART muroAs you all know, deviantART has a fantastic Web-based drawing tool called :damuro:. This tool is a great drawing application for anyone -- from hobbyist doodlers to professional artists.
Today, we are giving all you beta testers a peek at the next big step forward for :damuro:
The new deviantART muro
The new deviantART muro now saves your work automatically from the first brush stroke. You can close your browser at any time, and when you come back, you can re-open that recording and continue drawing.
Your work is saved to your Sta.sh, upgrading you from just 3 files slots to 2 GB of files -- and 10 GB for Premium Members!
The new :damuro: also features a new look and a brand new smudge brush. The new version also uses the brand new Sta.sh Submit

Earth Day: The Inspiration of the Natural World




by techgnotic
Since human beings harnessed the secret of fire the natural world has been seen by many
only in terms of how best it can be exploited of its abundant riches. It’s amazing now to
look upon the desert sands of the Arab lands and know that this place, the cradle of earliest
civilization, was once known as “The Fertile Crescent.” All Europe was once one great forest –
until all those trees were needed to create the naval armadas of dueling empires. Only the
Earth’s natural forces, like earthquakes, have been more destructive and wasteful than humanity.
“The Romantics” were a movement of poets, painters, philosophers and others who launched
the first Great Dissent against the idea of our Earth as being only a resource to be used up.
They sensed the destruction of the

Harassment: A Survival GuideIt's no secret that the members of deviantART are an opinionated bunch! For good or ill, there is always plenty to say about art that speaks to them. This is great, yet amidst those opinions you're bound to get reactions that are nothing more than word pollution or troll bait. How many of you have logged into deviantART and been faced with this problem?


We've all seen it, been a victim of it, or at least heard about it: Folk out in the digital world living for nothing more than the joy of ruffling peoples' feathers. Well not to worry dear reader, because I've compiled a survivor's guide on how to slay the beast of text pollution: le trolls!
Identify The Problem!
Being the level-headed fantastical artist that you are, when it comes to outrageous claims and aggravating comments regarding your work it seems like common sense for you to set the record straight and reply to these virtual text hoodlums. I

Original Quotes deviantWEAR Design Challenge!
It's time for our next deviantWEAR Design Challenge, and this one is a little different. Writers, you play a crucial role! We're calling on deviants to create an original phrase, statement, or saying and transform these writings into an artistic and unique t-shirt design. Entries should display an imaginative phrase, expression, or statement as well as a beautiful presentation of the words in a "Design Typography" style.
We are not looking for famous quotes by historical figures, fictional characters, famous poets, and the like. Instead, we are excited to see designs and phrases in your very own words. So let your creative juices flow and share your inspiring words with the world! A picture tells a thousand words, but your typographical design for the "Original Quotes" entry will tell us even more!
Participation is easy!
You come up with potential designs for our

Dark Shadows Semi-FinalistsAnnouncing the 10 Semi-Finalists delivered to Tim Burton for his final judgment!
Our staff judges pored through thousands of portraits featuring Barnabas, a dashing vampire played by Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s latest film, Dark Shadows. It wasn’t easy but we finally narrowed it down to these special 10 Semi-Finalists for the Dark Shadows Barnabas Portrait Project!
In addition to cash awards, points, backpacks and devWEAR, the Grand-Winner as well as Second and Third place winners will be made into framed prints and presented to Tim Burton as a gift from the deviantART community. The remaining 7 Semi-Finalists will get a dA Digital Backpack, Dark Shadows merchandise, deviantART Points and a One Year Premium Membership to deviantART!
The one and only Tim Burton will now select the final three winners!

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Community Relations Newsletter - March/April 2012Table of Contents
1. Gallery Clean Up Project
2. Feedback
3. Volunteer Openings
4. Share Your Opinions
5. Community Projects
6. Official Contests
7  Project Educate 2011/2012
8. Art History Project
9. Gallery Description Project
10. News from the Chats and Forums
11. News from the Galleries
1. Gallery Clean-up Project
The Gallery Clean-up Project will focus on literally cleaning up the category tree in several ways. This first part of this project, is all behind the scenes.  Over the years there have been categories that have been "removed", merged, or changed and there are back-end changes that need to be done to fully remove them from the tree. This part will not affect you, and if everything goes properly, you won't even notice it
The second part of this will be ensuring that the categories are all accepting the correct file-types.  If there is a file-type that isn't being allowed in a particular category or

Pimps and Whoas - April 17, 2012Pimps
Official dA News
Site Updates - New Sta.sh Submit and Writer Toolbar
The Future of Storytelling Has Arrived
The Film Poster as Imagination's Portal
Site Update: Message Center Journals
Celebrating Deviousness - April 2012

deviantART Community Volunteers Projects, Spotlights, Information & dALove 

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Make a Difference #155Artists join deviantART to share their art and appreciate others. Due to the many artists out there, it’s easy to get towed under and generally obscured from the public.
Make a Difference aims to do exactly that. This series of articles will hopefully make a difference to you as well as the artists featured weekly. Just by giving one minute of your time to write constructive comments, favourites and even watches will make a difference to these artists.
:iconAmoretti-Amaranthine:'s colourful photography is profound in its stillness, as well as moving, literally. There is some awesome variety in her gallery, as demonstrated below, so go check her out!

RosleinRot's Gallery
:iconbirdkiller: uses brevity to his advantage. The way he phrases the concept and portrays it in

Forum Features: Showers!Once again, the CV team is here featuring the works of dA's beloved forumers!
Once per month we'll select one active user in the forums and we'll feature his or her gallery. This is someone we believe represents the forums well with both good forum-abilities and art.
As we're kind (and awesome), we also decided to give an opportunity to everybody to get featured! Every month, we'll create a thread in the Deviation Thumbshare Forum with a different theme. This thread will be made into a sticky for easy access. All you have to do is post thumbs from your gallery matching the theme and, at the end of the month, we'll select our favorite thumbs from that thread and feature them in the next news article
The best thing is that the only requirement is that you're an active member of the forums!
Featured Forumer of the Month: little-wild-one.
selected by :devDistortedSmil

Obscured Photos: Under-Appreciated FeatureObscuredPhotos is a photography group dedicated to exposing obscured (unknown, underappreciated, etc.) photography. It doesn't matter where you are at in terms of skill; if you are underappreciated and you feel you deserve more recognition, you've come to the right place!
This news article features the best of submissions into the gallery, as chosen by our Volunteers. Deviations had under five original comments at the time of submission, so please give your support if you have time!
endless longing by t-ufan Westminster by mcDarius Greed by jorago The Layers of the City by Burning2Sleep Pillars by FlammiferPhotography The Graves by Bubblychoc Expedition: Cloud Nine by Identifyed-Khaos Stripes by filth666 Planets by RuthlessProductions concept by HenriqueFrazao :thumb287492700: To Be Indoors by kerrath :thumb287728381: :thumb287057126: :thumb287953676: :thum

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deviantART Project Educate

Street Week in dA - The epilogueStreet Photography* Week 23rd - 29th, April
is over.
It was a great week for deviantArt and your response was overwhelming.
Street community in dAland might be relatively small in numbers
but I dare say it is the MOST DEDICATED community of all!
Project Educate's street journals reached so far around 10.000 pageviews
and I expect this number to rise twice as much.
Thank you all for your great support,
your comments and your encouraging attitude.
You can find below the updated Overview of the PE Street Week where every day links to a journal.
Thank you once again and I hope I'll be seeing you in the upcoming
"So you think you can Street" Contest
 
OVERVIEW
Monday, April 23
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Project Educate Continues! Project Educate Continues!!!
projecteducate is a group and all updates from individuals during their weeks listed below will be posted over there! So be sure to join or watch for the full updates! If you want to partake in Community Week by writing an article then just note the group with your ideas!
We have Moved! Find the most up to date Calendar over at projecteducate...

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Deaf Artists~Two Sisters~Art History
Late-Deafend Adults. 
The meaning of a Late-deafend Adult:
Late–deafened in general means deafness that happened any time after the development of speech and language.  Late-Deafend Adults are usually unable to understand speech without visual aids such as speech–reading, sign language, and/or Computer Aided Real–time Transcription (CART). The Late-Deafend Adult also may have lost their hearing suddenly or gradually as a result of inherited causes, accident, illness, medications, surgery and/or noise. 
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Frances and Mary Allen. Two Late-Deafend sisters.
Frances and Mary Allen had planned to devote their lives to the teaching in the classroom. However, hearing loss forced both to give up their dedication to classroom teaching. 
In 1893, Frances and Mary traveled to Boston by train to be examined at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirma

Deaf Artists ~ Art HistoryThe ArtHistoryProject has grown from a Project into a Super-Group and is being recognized throughout deviantART. I am thrilled to participate and share with you a brief introduction to Deaf Artist. Over the next three days I will post articles regarding Historic Deaf Artist. I truly hope you enjoy reading and sharing the love of Art History. 
I believe it is important to share with you a brief description of Deaf Culture. Deaf Culture describes the social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values and learning centers of communities that are affected by deafness and use sign language to communicate. The word deaf is often written with a capital D, "big D, Deaf" in sign languages when being used culturally, when used in the medical field for the audiological co

A Brief History of TypographyA Brief History of Typography
A little insight into the history of not only Typography, but also of written language. This article will be far from covering it all, but focuses on highlighting some of the major events and periods in the history of Typography.
Typography
From the Greek roots τύπος typos = "impression" and -γραφία -graphia = "writing".
Cuneiform
~ 30th Century BC – 200 AD
Or "Script of Nails / Cuneiform Script" is probably the oldest form of written text. This calligraphic form of writing was carved into clay tablets.

The Latin Alphabet
~ 800 BC – present
This is the basic alphabet used in all Western languages. The Romans based it among others

Street Photography - The OriginsAs we all know from the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding everything was invented by the Greeks. Well, ok we left some trivial things to be invented by the Chinese as well. What you may not know is that Street photography was also invented by the Greeks before Photography itself was even invented.
Seriously now:
Kairos is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune moment or "the supreme moment". The Greeks believed the concept of Kairos is achieved when such a moment is grasped for otherwise the moment is gone and cannot be re-captured.  According to ancient Greeks, Kairos was the god of the “fleeting moment.”
Interestingly the ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While chro

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CSS News, Links & Information

Get the new Gallery CSS thumbnail ClassesHi guys,
As you might have noticed the messed up gallery in your profile or while browsing DA now, its due to the change in codes by deviantart.
I've uploaded the set of new classes that are used for customizing your gallery thumbnails. So, for all those CSS coders check it out and revert back if you have any queries.

Sid

Understanding resolutionLast night we went on a discussion about resolution, what is dpi, lpi , spi, ppi. There were many things i got forgotten in terms and concept, but you can read more about it here. I recommend you to save this document on your computer as a reminder.
http://www.ideastraining.com/PDFs/UnderstandingResolution.pdf
For more information go to my blog.
http://www.elsevilla.net/2012/04/understanding-resolutions.html