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Pixel Icon Raffle! - Winners!I have now raffled the winners! > v <
First winner is ~Kiwi-San and the second one is ~Frangasm.
Congratulations! ^ - ^
Here's the screenshots: (If the image won't load click here.)
You can now delete this journal from your favourites.
Thank you for joining everyone! > v 0
Samples of my pixel icons:

10,000 Point Give-AwayAlright, my brother just left dA, so he gave me the rest of his points (20,000)
He told me because the Deviant Art community was so good to him (he said he met a lot of great people) that as a thanks I should give away half the points.
So, I'm going to hold a contest to make things fun.
You must:
*Watch me
*Advertise this journal
*Comment your journal here
*Favorite this journal
1st place gets 10,000 points
2nd place gets 2,000 points
Good luck guys

[WINNERS!] Giveaway! [1000 points + Free Chibis~]WINNERS!
Thanks to those who participated! <3
#1 - :iconstellarhohoemi: =stellarhohoemi #145 http://gyazo.com/3c85275328e20e9c29b4df497496a3be
#2 - :iconpastachan415: =PastaChan415 #97 http://gyazo.com/ed9cd42a6db6852445a9238d2e97a10d
#3 - :iconanichan7: *anichan7 #1069 http://gyazo.com/c13f0ba1315169bd8c3535e8f3c39b6a
#4 - :iconUnImmortalBunny: ~UnImmortalBunny #1027 http://gyazo.com/a805ffcc725b8d75d08cabc0f47496c8
#5 - :iconSaKetosan: ~SaKetosan #1055 http://gyazo.com/f619d82896957ab4794d367f23a31e9c
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Fan Art Contest! UPDATE WITH FAQ

hi everyone! to show my appreciation for all the love here on deviant art i am holding an otto an victoria fan art contest. the grand prize will be a signed limited edition of my book with an original drawing included! submissions must be done by july 17th! that gives you a month. be creative and have fun! please tag "otto and victoria" and "brian kesinger" and make sure your your piece is appropriate for all ages!
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i created a group here called OttoAndVictoriaFans http://ottoandvictoriafans.deviantart.com/ when you finish your entry feel free to submit it to that group so that all the entries can be in one place!
also i wanted to reiterate that all artistic media is welcome from sketching to sculpture, hand drawn to cg. thanks again and let me know if you have any other questions! thank you!

Weekly 100 Points Giveaway [OPEN] Week 3Alright, time for another one

There will be 2 winners ( 50

each ) on this giveaway.

It's easy to participate

This journal.

Share your favorite youtube channel.
And that's it :iconfeelingfreeplz:
The winner will be announced June 23
Extra: Please comment if you take point commissions :iconmikulaplz:
Good luck everyone.

Win a Premium Membership! [Raffle]Ohaii everyone! Chieri here. >u< Still not dead yet. ~~Still just smelling like it.~~
I know I have been quite inactive the past month, alot of private stuff going on and upcoming exams, but I will try to be more active again from now on. I miss being here with you guys and drawing so much. I will try my best to at least submit something regulary and reply to all notes & comments sooner as I did lately. (I really apologize for the wait.) I promise. You may slap me really hard if I neclect it again.
As a little consolation / thank you / because I want to, I decided to raffle away

3 x a 1 Month Premium-Membership
^_^ Because I have some leftover points on my hand and I love hosting little events and raffles.
I hope everyone will enjoy participating. It's easy!
As usual I will use random.org to choose the 3 lucky winners, providing screens that everything will be 100% fair.

Microsoft Employees Disrupt Wii U Best Buy EventsRemember how Nintendo was showcasing some of their E3 games at participating Best Buy stores around the country? Well, apparently Microsoft employees have been hired to go to these events and preach about the Xbox One and make comments like "why would you buy a outdated Wii U when the Xbox One is right around the corner?"
However, the employees aren't getting what they hoped for. Most customers just start bashing the Xbox One in response. Seriously, Microsoft, the people attending these Best Buy Wii U events are people who are intimately familiar with the crap you pulled at E3. They ain't takin' your shit.
At first I thought this might just be a case of one really loyal Microsoft employee taking matters into his own hands (especially since the original source was /v/), but reports have come in from numerous Best Buy's around the country that indicate many Microsoft employees have ambushed the demo lines trying to persuade people to switch to the Xbox One.
Since so many reports have com

A giveaway??? Rules are below. (80 pts)Yea... and if you don't read the rules, you won't get anything out of this.

The whole reason I'm doing this is because my group, #Traders-123, has reached over 100 members! And speaking of 100, I also got over 100 watchers!!!

What you have to do
Favorite this journal... you don't have, you don't enter
Comment saying you entered; I'll be lenient on this one
Advertise; you don't have to but is looked up upon
No duplicate accounts; seriously, you need points THAT bad???
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Prizes[Star!]
[Bullet; Green] 1st place is 50 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 2nd place is 30 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 3rd place is a llama.
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Deadline is July 4th. (It's an easy date to remember)

And some art exposure! (Just some random and a

10,000 Watchers! +PointsWow, 10,000 watchers! Shame it happened at the worst time (giveaways temporarily deleted).
Still...thank you all for sticking with me!
I guarantee we will have things running as normal again soon!
Much love,
Moomin-Man
PS: I'll giveaway 400

away at random to celebrate! Leave a comment and I will enter you for the chance to win!
1st 200

2nd 150

3rd 50

Join me on swagbucks! Get paid in gift vouchers if you don't have a credit card!

Please Pants Responsibly (Paper Notebooks FTW)

There are two ways to write a novel. Plotting (you make an outline, a plan, a roadmap if you will, and then you sit down and write it) and pantsing (you write "by the seat of your pants, throwing caution to the wind). So when I get asked if I'm a plotter or a pantser, I'm all like er, uh, hold on, let me? Pantser? I think? But I kind of, um, do planny things?
And it gets kind of awkward because in these inarticulate moments I have managed to confuse everyone including myself. And probably spilled a drink.
In recent discussions, however, I've had a bit of a revelation, silly as it is. I've realized that I -- like many writers -- am a plotter/pantser hybrid. And perhaps what I'm doing is something we could call Pantsing Responsibly. And, maybe, just maybe, I could share some of my responsible pantsing tips with other writers. Starting with paper notebooks.
Anyone can find a notebook. If there isn't alread

The Used Game ParadigmOver the course of this past generation I've been watching the video game market react to the way it's been forced to deal with increasing changes. I've come out against used game sales and even written a journal about boycotting GameStop because (like most people at the time) I believed they were the root cause of all the problems the video game industry has. But that's something I don't believe now as intently as i did then. From where I sit, piracy and used games sales are a problem, but not in the way game companies want us to believe that they are.
Used games are a good thing for consumers. We get to try games out, and if we don't like what we see or finish it early, we trade it in and try another title instead. It's a very good system for us since video game rentals are much harder to come by. Most video rental stores in America have gone extinct and outside specific Red Box Kiosks there aren't a lot of places for consumers to rent video games. The exception, of course, being thr

SPIKE updatesJust thought I'd share with you guys some updates on the progress of finishing my "SPIKE" novel.
A lot of people have asked me how it's going, when it will be published and stuff. I really appreciate getting asked these things because it shows that people are actually interested in my writings, and that it just such a great feeling

I've got two news for you guys today though: one bad news and one good news. Let's start with the bad news.
I haven't finished writing SPIKE yet.
And I honestly don't know when it will be finished - which oddly enough brings us to the good news:
I've made a new, major decision in the SPIKE story that I think a lot of you will be happy to hear. As usual I don't want to spoil too much, but there is a part in the story where Spike and Sam are separated from each other for quite a long while. At first I was planning on only writing from Spike's point of view, like, what he's experiencing during this separation period. I figured that since he's the main cha

Draw my OC Contest! $35 in prizes!Drawing Contest Topic: Drawing my Original Character doing something! Seriously, anything PG.
Deadline: September 13th, 11:59pm http://wwp.eastern-standard-time.com/

Guidelines for participants~

Your submission can be done in any drawing media (traditional, digital, pixel)
Please do not change or alter her gender without permission.
You can enter a maximum of three pieces, but only may win once
Send me a note or comment here with a link to your entry, and I'll add it to the entries folder. (I will not go searching for it)
You're free to submit your entry to any group you want, but you must accept my request to put it in my group #Collection-System

Drawing Smoochy is what this contest is all about!

Please link to this journal in your contest entry's description!
The entry must be made specifically for the contest! (You cannot use previous deviations for the entry, this includes bases. Collabs are fine as long as the

WIN A 3 MONTH PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP!so i decided to just do a giveaway for the premium i wanted to give.

i'll be doing more of these in time, since that's mostly what my points will be for- giving premiums away. ♥
WAYS TO ENTER:
• you must be (or can become) a watcher of mine
• make a journal or poll featuring this giveaway, then comment this with the link to your journal/poll
• do not enter more than once, you will be disqualified
after you comment i will reply with a number and i will choose the winner using http://www.miniwebtool.com/random-name-picker/
GIVEAWAY WILL END NEXT THURSDAY (THE 20) AT 6 PM (PST)
winner will be announced via journal and will receive a note from me
have fun! CC:

Someone left $20 in an envelope at Fanime''
Hey guys!

Fanime was amazing but it totally left me sick for weeks

after I got better, I went through the letters I got and found one that had nothing but $20 and a note describing one of my posters. It looked like someone made a mistake and accidentally gave me their money without getting a poster. I want to return that money so If it was you, please e-mail me at Yuumei.yan@gmail.com with your name and address.

In other news, I will be at Anime Expo at table A24 and A25

Hopefully the Knite books will be ready by then!

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by =LaxmiJayaraj, Feb 1, 2013, 8:51:35 PM
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Good Morning!

Our 3rd Mandelbulb 3d Teaser starts today!!!

As per our group rules, winner of 2nd Teaser Dave

, has got the privilege to coin the rules for this Teaser...

Here it goes....

Before that....Please see this link for General Rules...[link]
Here is a list of Tutorials for MB3D...[link]

The 3rd Teaser Rules
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"DE combinate - 4Da"

The rules are that you must use any IFS formula as F1 and use the remaining formula from the given list of 4Da formulae....in DE Combinate option.

The only formulae allowed for F2-F6 are as follows:

_ScaleC4d
HalfOct4a
HalfOct4b
Menger4
Menger4ex
MixPinski4
MixPinski4ex
Octahedron4
Sierpinski4
Sierpinski4ex

These can all be found on the "4Da" list in the formula window.

You may fill any of the six formula slots in any sequence.
Julia is OK. you can use any mode of your choice ...like Min, Max, Inv Max...etc
Please start from scratch - no tweaks!
If it is necessary, you can use a Background picture, like sky etc... provided, it should not occupy major portion of your deviation.

It is not required that you post your full parameters but it would be of interest and appreciated if you could indicate in the description, what settings specific to the DE combinate you chose.

Please submit your deviations in the folder "3rd Teaser"
Each participant can submit 2 deviations.
Last date of submission - 25th February 2013

Good Luck! Have fun!!!

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~DDDPhoto Feb 17, 2013

Here is my second entry [link]

~DDDPhoto Feb 16, 2013

Here is my first entry [link]

*timemit Feb 13, 2013 Student General Artist

here is my 1st entry [link] :thumb354027977:

*timemit Feb 17, 2013 Student General Artist

Here is my 2nd [link] :thumb354869022:

*timemit Feb 11, 2013 Student General Artist

well when I saw the rules posted I immediately assumed that the Abox ones where not to be used as they were not on the list and I excluded them from my experiments...... that seemed clear enough to me but I can see how confusion could arise from opening up the 4d tab and seeing the ABox formulas in the 4D list there..
From a personal point of view I really don't mind if some have used Abox, if people feel that they have missed out by not using it they can of course remove any one or both of their entries and resubmit something that they prefer which includes the ABox formulas!
How does that sound to you all ? There is still ample time to investigate Abox as an option and it is in the 4Da list.. it is just a minor hiccough and the whole teaser concept is meant to be fun and experimental..!! thanks to Hal for bringing it to our attention.. (tim starts furiously working away with ABox

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I will put out a journal that offers the chance to use ABox and anyone can resubmit if they please unless a majority don't agree on this neh! ...but I don't really see a reason to be uptight about it

*HalTenny Feb 10, 2013

I don't want to start trouble or get anyone in trouble. but I did want to clarify the rules, so I have a question. The 3 Abox formulas under the 4Da tab are not listed along with the ten allowable formulas that can be used in Fo.2- Fo.6. So can the three Abox formulas be used or not?

=LaxmiJayaraj Feb 10, 2013

Thanks for this post, Hal...it's not mentioned in the list of Formulae in our rules....so it can not be used....

After reading this I was checking our entries...and I have noticed that in one of the entries this formula was used...actually it was my fault...I thought it as a Teaser entry and asked the participant to submit it in our group, without realizing that ABox formulae were used in it....now I have rectified my mistake..so sorry about this....Once again thank you so much for posting this for clarification.....

*HalTenny Feb 11, 2013

That wasn't the only one, there are a several more. It might be worth mentioning or clarifying in a new message sent from the group because there are others that don't seem to be aware of it. Just a suggestion.

~LightBulbMoon Feb 11, 2013

Unfortunately, my list of formula in the 4Da tab only contained the 10 listed. I thought it was a good way to reasonably limit & constrain the Teaser. Since we are so far into the Challenge I think we should rule to stick with the 10 I originally listed - even though I did say the entire 4Da tab was OK.

My thinking is that if we now expand the list, those people who have already submitted their entries will feel handicapped in some way.

Am I correct in interpreting the situation that there are no entries with that use a formula outside of the 10?
Hopefully that is true & we can continue with a level playing field.

Sorry for the confusion. I hope this clarifies it.

*HalTenny Feb 11, 2013

I was in no way suggesting that the list be expanded. I suggested sending a clarification out clearly stating that they (the Abox formulas) are not to be used. And yes, there are several more entries that I am aware of [link] and [link] that are using Abox formulas. There may even be more as I have not looked at any of the parameters that have been posted. Again, I wasn't trying to change anything or cause trouble, I only felt it should be cleared up before more people make the same error and use formulas that aren't allowed.

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