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i'm getting too tired of this!
i was looking through today's deviations in top favourites order, and couldn't go any further than the 10th page..
if you think about it, more than 90% of daily submitions are no better than miserable snapshots, or rubish work you'd better use for recycling than submit it

i'm sick of browsing through dA and finding stuff like bad quality snapshots, with no content, huge unfocosed photos that occupy two screens on the scroll, drawings that might have been taken from the 1st grade yearbook or something, awful clichés, nude porn-wanna-be-but-dA-doesn't-allow-me photos of your girlfriend, sick bad taste manipulations, rubish pictures attacked by the PS filter maddness, cuty-fluffy-weee pet photos, etc, etc, etc

i mean, how can people consciously submit stuff like that to the Art Photography category, for example?!
and don't throw me that "this may not be art for you, but it is for others" theory, cause we all know that isn't true! sure, there's a lot of art out there i don't like, even though i consider it good, but some things, you have to admit are pure garbage!

i'd give you some examples right now, but that wouldn't be very fair.. so i just ask you to do a little bit of browsing in case you never did it and see for yourselves

come on people, put some good sence on your minds, this isn't a simple Photoblog, or "Mrs. Whoever's Cuty Webpage", or a wanna-be porn site, this is deviantART (the caps on the ART are so for some reason..)!

i think this site has tons of incredible artists, but half of them have their work drawned by these.. "things"
and i'm not saying that just because you have bad work you can't be on dA. i'm saying that if you have bad work and are aware of it, don't want to do anything to improve it and simply submit, submit, submit and submit, then NO, you shouldn't be here. create a photoblog, or anything like it, and submit any daily snapshots you like!

for me, this comunity has the porpuse of allowing me to meet other artists good works, browse through them, learn from them, submit my rubish photos, get them criticised, improve, and submit better and better things

don't know if you've noticed, but i deleted a lot of stuff from my gallery recently, cause despite some comments, i think they were really bad.. and, hopefully, in the future i'll be deleting my curent works, because they won't be good enough anymore. ok, so maybe i have bad work, but i'm trying to improve it!

sorry for all the arrogance, but i just can't be indifferent to this anymore. we have to be honests, not everyone can make art, it's the truth, why are we fooling ourselves?! if you don't have recognition on your work, it's not because your unknown, it's because you're no good! i'm sure you have many other qualities better than art, go and find them out! tell me i suck, and i'll leave the next day!

this is the truth, either you like or not, but many good and medium artists left dA because of this. i only didn't leave dA already, because i keep learning a lot with this, it has very good features and resources, i love finding incredible work here, this is the easiest way to show my work to my friends, i have nice people commenting on my stuff and if there's a few people watching me, it's because those few people like what i do and i intent to continue to do it for me and for them

i dream with the day i'll browse through dA and find only the medium-good stuff (even if i don't like it, everyone knows what's good and bad!). anyway, you can say i'm a bad person, or whatever you want, but this is my truthful opinion and i'm sure it's the same as many of you, who are silent

best wishes for you all
and a continuation of good Art

Oh my! I was having problems with internet at home, so I connected once and entered dA and, before the connection fell off, only had the time to take a glimpse at that unnusual dA frontpage and read something about a present or whatever..

Well, I have no idea what it was, 'cos I didn't have the time to read it, and today when I got here, VOILÁ, I'm a subscriber! Now.. could someone please tell me what the.. is going on?!

But, oh well, if they want me to be a subscriber, then have it their way! I'm still getting used to this, but it's way tooo great! New Journal features, new browsing appearence, every page I enter looks different! It's a new world, I'm amazed..

I've been away for a while and haven't submitted anything for ages, so this seems like the best moment to present my new ID and start resubmitting stuff.

That will be all folks!

My dog finally gave birth yesterday.
It was a long and (I'm pretty sure) exhausting delivery, but they all survived through it. It's one of the largest broods I've ever seen, 9 puppies!
Anyway, since I have nothing else on my mind right now but this lovely miracle, I'm starting a new series of puppy photos. I'll try not make it too «cuttie» and «sweety» , so that you will keep on watching my work.
Oh, and, if you get tired of it, just say so, please. It's good to know when to stop..