to tell you the truth, this whole jark drama is retarded. this is in art community. i think it is horrible that jark was thrown out, especially when he was one of the founders of this site. i understand that there are people on this website who are/were friends with jark, and i can understand their saddness at this sudden loss.

but i feel that there is a majority of deviants who never knew jark yet they are attempting to make waves. why is that? pageviews. celebrity. fame. i find it dispicable that people are trying to cash in on this event by changing everything they submit to yellow.

da has lost a lot of value in my book. i used to be very active, submitting photos very often. but in the end, who really cares about my art work? who cares about your artwork? no one. this website has become just like everything else in the world, a center of self promotion and greed.

my friend onestar recently wrote a very popular journal entry called "bring back community." i think he has the right idea of not submitting anything new. but i think one day is not long enough. i'm out of here, personally. da is of no use to me anymore. i get no comments or suggestions on my artwork. so i cannot personally grow. my comments have no "weight" in the "community" because i'm not a "subscriber." basically i'm nothing here anyway, so what does it matter. not that i even care. i wasn't here to become a famous artist. i wasn't here to have cyber art friends. i was here to be a part of a community where i felt i could improve my art skills. and now i see that i can't.

one other thing that really irks me and has been bothering me here for a long time is how everyone is so blind to art anyway. so much stock is put into photography. what about street art? what about painting? what about sculpture? there is more to art than photographs that look like they should be on a calendar and stupid anime drawings of wolves with human bodies. to me, personally, art is not a snapshot of your cat playing wit a ball of string. art is not scribbling a picture on notebook paper in 5th period algebra. that is not art. this site is not art. this site is not deviant. they should rename this place corporate art. or banal art. or just people-who-think-they-are-artists-because-they-can-use-their-2.3-megapixel-digital-camera art. and to the people who define their lives by this site, and spend like every waking moment on this site... i suggest you unplug your computer, go for a bit of da-detox and get a real life.

and that's all i have to say about that.