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in case you haven't laughed yet todayhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs
Folks, I'd like to sing a song about the American Dream
About me, about you
About the way our American hearts beat way down in the bottom of our chests
About that special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts
Maybe below the cockles,
Maybe in the sub cockle area,
Maybe in the liver, maybe in the kidneys,
Maybe even in the colon, we don't know
I'm just a regular Joe, with a regular job
I'm your average white, suburbanite slob
I like football and porno and books about war
I got an average house, with a nice hardwood floor
My wife and my job, my kids and my car
My feet on my table, and a Cuban cigar
But sometimes that just ain't enough to keep a man like me interested
(Oh no, no way, uh uh)
No I gotta go out and have fun at someone else's expense
(Whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
I drive really slow in the ultra fast lane
While people behind me are going insane
I'm an asshole (he's an asshole, what an asshole)
I'm an asshole (he's an a

***URGENT MESSAGE PLEASE READ***HEY, PLEASE READ THIS- ITS SERIOUSLY IMPORTANT
THE FATE OF YOUR INTERNET-LIFE IS AT STAKE!!!!!!
APPARENTLY THERE IS A HACKER ON DEVIANTART, CALLED 'LIFE OWNER'.....
TELL EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY ON YOUR LIST ADDS HIM THEN YOU WILL GET HIM ON YOUR LIST. HE WILL FIGURE OUT YOUR ID COMPUTER ADDRESS, SO COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE EVEN IF YOU DON'T CARE FOR THEM AND FAST BECAUSE IF HE HACKS THEIR EMAIL HE HACKS YOUR MAIL TOO (I think what it means by that is that he could assume the identity of your friends, and FOOL you into opening the letter since you think it's your friend that's sending it )!!...
Anyone using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on. This information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton. Please send it to everybody you know who has access to the Internet. You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled 'Mail Server Report'
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changesthere are people i used to talk to
every day, or every other day
that all the sudden we just
stopped,
and i have absolutely no desire
to try anymore,
not because it was ever difficult
or because i was ever the only one
or anything,
just because
there are only a handful of people
i care to keep consistent in my life right now.
--
i have deleted a few people from my watchlist. i am sorry. i just can't keep up.
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i am going through deviations.
i deleted everything from groups.
if i can't get myself interested within the first stanza/paragraph or two, i delete it.
i just can't stand to see old stuff sitting in there anymore.
i need to clean it all out and start keeping up with the people i watch
the way you guys have been keeping up with me. (or trying)
--
there are over 30 feature journals in my inbox
i am scared to go through those
they're last on my list
--
i'm staying the weekend at my grandpa's about four hours away from where i live,
it's a tiny little town in the middle of nowhere,

fragment 29i found myself unable to write about you -
i should have known
i should have known
i should have known

drown me in opinionsnot even joking, please begin drowning me in your opinions okay
because I keep second-guessing myself and then triple-guessing, quadruple-guessing, cinco-guessing etc.
basically my thoughts on this are bi-polar
so there's this really cute girl at my school. We've had a class together all year, but until like two weeks ago we never really talked or anything. So on Wednesday I added her on Facebook and she accepted it. She then liked all of my profile pictures (there's only four) and also liked some drawings that I had posted. That night she messaged me "hey" but I was asleep and didn't respond till I got home from school the next day.
When I responded back we started talking and continued the conversation until I fell asleep. The next day (yesterday) at school, she had her arm on the back of my chair the entire class kjgnsatruif and when I got home we started talking again. Later that night she went to some paint party at a club so she wasn't able to respond for a while.
When she does i

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versus: traditional and digital, some sketch

Critique by ~AlaseaInk Jan 27, 2013, 3:58:25 AM

First, the digital is very nice. Otherwise, I am not a digital artist, although I know a bit this style

So, I like the colors. Maybe you should use more custom and texture brushes to make your pictures more realistic.
Let's talk about the traditional one! I think it is really promising, the perspective and the composition are OK. My advice is, you should be more patient, you have to work on textures. I don't know how many pencils do you use, but the more you use, the best is the final picture. Because the 8B is darker and softer, and the 4H is harder and lighter. It is good to smudge the graphite with a handkerchief or something like that, but try to use different kind of pencils, to make more and more layers. It makes your drawing realistic. You can study the bodies, and everything you want to draw, to learn the weight of the objects, you know. And for the highlights, I always use white gel pen, or white acrylics.
I hope, I helped!

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Critique by ~llxAlucardxll Jan 26, 2013, 10:57:04 AM

For the traditional the only thing is, (if you did not know this) you can use a finger (I use my pinky mostly) to smudge the shadows which thus makes it a bit smoother and easier to erase if you mess up. For the digital, I myself do not use it so I can not give any advice or critique. I love the brick patterning on the house and the thoughtfulness you put into the old architecture and that it would not have perfect symmetry. For the digital I really like the coloring and the realistic spread as the ice melts. Keep up the good work!