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About Me Member Surreal Artist Synbryo25/Male/Canada Recent Activity Deviant for 6 Years
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portfolios and the end of the road

Tue Jul 21, 2009, 7:34 AM
  • Playing: WoW
  • Eating: Glass shards
  • Drinking: Coffee
To some extend, it didn't bother THAT much how deviantART has become some kind of big kittypic-fail-pop-elitist-fail myspace-facebook-wiki-youtube trashcan. Not enough to really cause anything but a lack of interest. I still posted a few things and came on this site about 2-3 times a year.

Now, deviantART introduces some kind of portfolio thing. It's great and shiny and clean. Basically you pay a small amount of money (for the dA branding-free version) and you put your stuff in a cheap customizable tabbed glorified agenda.. and there you are, you've got a portfolio.

As a graphic/web designer, to me this is a huge failure.

For one thing, a couple of us are going to hav to find another way to pay the rent, because who needs expensive professional work when you can just upload a few JPGs into a customizable template?

Then there's the true failure: web farms. What i call web farms are sites like myspace, youtube, deviantart, etc. where people willingly stack themselves in a tiny bit of a url to e-exist. I find them hostile or maybe just sterile.

I'm not angry or anything, I just don't see anything in here that ressembles in any way the deviantART I joined in 2003. I may not be uploading anything more to this site, ever again. If you're on my page and I've removed "everything" but this journal, then it seems I decided to take that away, too.

If you need me I'll be in real life.

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  • Interests: art, graphic arts

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:iconyakiroba:
Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuule!! Wow, that was a strong one!

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:iconsynbryo:
don't steal my straws, or i'll steal yours
ill just end up stealing mine back along with yours
so dont

seriously, man
don't.

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:iconclairabel:
Your art is amazing, I'm entranced by it!

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:iconeowyn-brandybuck:
your gallery is really really sweet. Your art is just incredible.

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I see you.





haha did you look behind you?
some people actually admit that they do when I text them that :p

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:iconamalthee:
[link] Gotcha ! Tu m'excusera. Ça, c'est pour avoir confondu la couleur de mes cheveux. :)

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