rest your soul and just know love
expansion emenates from all life
living or long gone
as the wind blows or eyes move at once
pairing in a lack of loss
images of petrol bombs
laid out among the wreckage
pithing us without pause
and bouncing our craft
focus brings us round
to see the truth of this
resolution moves our hand
to create a new truth of this
assiduity sets our being
to keep the truth of this

"Valentine's Hot Guy" Has now been made available as a print. I can only get it submitted as a greeting card. Maybe soon I'll be able to make it available in more versions.

BUY IT!

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions held by Deviantart.com, their affiliates, or their staff. Hate me if you will. But tell me why! Argue with me! Defend yourself as I will surely defend myself!

Deviantart is no longer Deviantart. It is now Deviantanime/cosplay/myspacepics/emokids/PornThatsNotReallyPornItsArtWhenInRealityItActuallyIsPorn. People tend to put up whatever random crap they happen to fill their lives with and then say, "Oh! I'm an artist because I can (choose one): take pictures of myself from funny angles; draw Goku better than a 4 year old; put on makeup so that I look like Naruto; put fake blood on my wrist because my parents won't let me out past 9; take pictures of my dick (or girlfriend's dick) on a black background!"

Here are steps to take to make yourself a REAL artist:
1.) Don't be dumb
2.) Create something original

Yes, two steps. That's it. Both equally important, mind you.

Now you may be saying, "Dave! I worked hard on my Lara Croft costume! I think that's art!" Or "Dave! My 'funny-angle' pictures of myself with a single bloody tear aren't JUST for myspace! It expresses my deep well of sadness and emotion in an abstract ARTISTIC fashion!" Or perhaps, "Dave! Nudity is art no matter for what purpose it may have been created!"

To this I say, "No."
1.) Yes, your Lara Croft costume may have taken two full hours of looking through thrift store clothing racks to complete, but c'mon. Two what purpose does this work serve? What emotions should I feel when I view your work? What knowledge will I gain that you've exposed of yourself in your work?
2.) Yes, your bloody tear myspace pic may express your sadness and depressed emotional state. But I'll bet $50 that ANYONE could figure that out just by looking at the way you shuffle down the sidewalk with your head down, slightly tilted, and your My Chemical Romance patch sewn onto the $70 backpack your mom bought you. Your picture is not abstract, it is not original, it is not creative, it's an overdramatic obvious plea for attention from anyone that's willing to listen. Quit whining and complaining about your bullshit and FIX IT! If something is wrong... FUCKING FIX IT!
3.) Nudity for the purpose of representation is art. Nudity for the sake of the beauty of the body is art. Nudity so you have something to whack it to or so that you can trick friends, family, or strangers into looking at your pathetic wang, is, however, not art.

Now, what gives me, someone with some very basic somewhat emo-style "art" in his gallery, the right to go on this insane rant? Because I was where all of you are... except for the whole naked thing. But I've been in that, "The world sucks blah blah blah. No one cares etc. I should die." mentality before. I was one inch away from death and then someone helped me. They told me not to be dumb and to fix what was wrong. So I did. Now I'm happy. No medication, no therapy, nothing! All I did was sit down and read a bit about life, then I changed my life. Why? How? Because I'm God. I'm Divine. I am the absolute ruler of all this is my life. Creation is a matter of my imagination. And guess what the REAL exciting part is. You are just as divine, as godly, as powerful as me, if not more! So stop whining, stop being a myspace whore, stop taking pictures of your dick, and make your life exactly what you've always wanted it to be... glorious.

Thank you for your time and cooperation.

PlEoAvCeE RuEnSiPtEyCT

I am now, officially fully deviant.

I just purchased a 3 month subscription to Deviantart and it only cost me $8. It seems crazy, but $8 is an amazing price to pay for just the lack of advertisements alone. Not to mention the fact that all the extra browsing options and opportunity to beta test are thrown on top of that. I'm definitely glad I did it.

Now I must make some art to put up on my evolving DA page! HAHA!

PlEoAvCeE RuEnSiPtEyCT

WELL HELLO!

It's been almost an entire year since my last journal entry.

I was working at Hungry Howie's... got a temp job at the WCCCD Downriver Bookstore, got promoted to the warehouse driver, quit Hungry Howie's, turned 21, and got promoted again to the Site Manager of the WCCCD Western Bookstore. That is the superficial account of the past year.

Above and beyond that, I've gone from the deepest darkest depression that I've ever been in, to being a more enlightened, productive, creative, intelligent, spiritual, alive person than I ever have been.

And so... life goes on.

See ya in a year.