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Today marks my 5th year anniversary of being on deviantART.

Five years. Wow.

That's technically longer than i was married for, especially given that I joined dA *before* I got married and I'm still here *after* I got divorced...



Remember kids, a dA account is for life, not just for christmas.



With the new version of deviantART just around the corner I've got to say I'm extremely excited by the reaction so far. The beta testing has been going really well, not because we've not had problems and bugs, that's not what the beta testing is about, rather we've received a crapload of really great suggestions for improvements which we're currently sorting (in fact, Beta v2 has just been released for review).

On a personal level to find myself, five years down the line, actually working for deviantART has come as quite a shock. I never expected to be spending 24/7 working on the site, but I can tell you now that it's the BEST experience. It may well be incredibly daunting releasing work to such a close knit community and it's hard to not feel the weight of the community bearing down on me... but then I see what we're creating here at deviantTechnology between the creative team and the IT team and I get the tingly feeling again. I've never worked with such a creative and focused group of people, it's a blast, truely.

In terms of my personal art, I'm still on a journey and my work is still improving. I may not get as much time to do art these days (but everyday is waaaayyy more creative in different ways) but Im very happy that the work I am creating now is a lot lot better.... at least I think so. My techniques have certainly improved if not the subject matter

so yay, five years



z.

Just got home from the Birmingham devmeet. Good laugh with a small but perfectly formed group of regulars and new peeps More on that later... plus photos!




oh and can you keep a secret? Well, go click on Super Secret v6 Preview

enjoy



z.

Those of you who are coming to the meet tomorrow, or want to come but think it's a little on the pricey side, well, how does 20% off the ticket price sound? Sounds frickin' awesome to me....

SAVE 20% on B'ham Sealife Center Entrance Fee!


simply print out the coupon

See you tomorrow!

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Short notice i'm afraid, but there's a lightening fast organised devmeet that's going on in Birmingham next weekend (Sunday 4th May).

As is usual for Birmingham meets, we're meeting at Birmingham New Street Station at 11:30am (or as close to as possible)

When we're all assembled we'll then be mooching down to the Birmingham Sea Life Center to see the shiney fishys.

Late lunch/dinner at the Flapper and Firkin will follow for those of you who get sea sick, or don't want to pay £16.50 (FUCKING OUCH) to see the sites.

Along side the Bonnethead Sharks, Turtles, Stingrays and other tropical fish, you can also see:

*dusty-hacker
`maxwell-heza
$zilla774
=listee
=ryuuza-san
*MissCassidy
*TheJasmineDragon
*mailorderchild
^KevLewis
*ShaunJoyce
`dxd

to register interest, please visit: [link]

see you there!



z.

D:

srs bsns. I kid you not.