The legal battle that is going to ensue between myself, the Yellow Alien, and the Black Ninja, aka Angelo Sotira, is going to be costly. Lawsuits are never cheap. While Angelo has the ability to make use of any, and all, deviantART revenue generated from subscription purchases, print purchases, and more, in order to protect "the corporation" I do not have an "unlimited" budget at my disposal.
All the support that the community has offered up until this point is more the greatly appreciated. I have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of love that has graced deviantART as a result of my involuntary termination. It is with great hesitation that I now ask the community for more help; this time help in a more material sense.
If you are interested in helping then please offer what you can. No pressure on anyone whatsoever. Those that help will have their names listed on the donation page, should they desire, in order to depict the actual number of people that are willing to help contribute to a legal resolution. Of course, should you desire to remain anonymous then I will most definitely respect your wishes.
Even if you are unable to donate please spread the word. All help in this effort will not go unnoticed!
Please click the image below if you are interested in making a donation. Should you experience issues with that then please let me know.
Thank you, to each and every one of you that do decide to help support this noble cause!
BTW, if you do donate then please leave me a note or comment with your full name so that I can update the donation page with a link back to your user page!
Much love to chezza-t18 for allowing the use of her deviation as part of this effort.
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Quick Thoughts on deviantART ...
A few really quick thoughts:
1) DA's reimagining, rebranding, updated logo, and overall story is fabulous. I will have more to say later, most likely in a longer journal post.
2) I am going to make a concerted effort to be more active in the community again.
3) Need to rebrand my own image here on DA. The current branding is a bit ... dated.
It almost feels like I'm coming home after being gone for years ...
jark.me - my new home on the internets
Long time no see! It has been a super-busy few years. Last year especially so, with the huge 9.1 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. The March 11 event hat trick caused a huge amount of pain throughout Japan, touching and affecting the lives of millions.
As a result of the disaster relief efforts, I was crazy busy last year, especially the months immediately following the huge earthquake and its after-effects. I never really got time to think through a decent web strategy ... until now.
Without further ado, I would like to introduce my deviantART family and friends to jark.me.
What started out as a cool URL shortener for my personal
Have You Had Your Miso Soup Today?
On January 1, 2009, Rich and I launched our tribute to technology evangelism and Miso Soup, hoping to one day be a valuable branch of the blogging tree as well as possibly build our very own Death Star. Imagine how cool a TechMiso Death Star would be, serving up fresh Miso Soup concoctions daily! Seriously though, TechMiso is written by a couple of passionate geeks who enjoy tech conversation, tech criticism, insightful tech commentary and acute analysis of the technology realm. Was the word "technology" used enough in that statement?
TechMiso has written about a variety of topics since our launch, such as government, Google, Apple, Entertai
deviantART Summit Never Before Seen Footage
I am quite disappointed that the administration opted to censor my film based on the fact that it contained "copyrighted music," and offered no further clarification other than to point me to the FAQ entry that lists some URL's to online spots for music that is considered acceptable. What makes no sense about the explanation is that all published music is copyrighted. The following is the entire note that I received from the site administration:
"I had to remove your videos from the gallery this morning as they both contain copyrighted music and we can't allow that on the site. I really enjoyed both of them and would welcome you to repost th
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