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- Yeah! Organization maniacs will be happy! Thu Nov 15, 2007, 10:08 AM
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Do you like black & white drawings and comics?
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7 deviants said  Yes, I love manga!
43%
6 deviants said  Yes, they are so contrasted and/or so detailed
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1 deviant said  Naah, it is dull and boring
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No deviants said  Finish them first, go color them!
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Recent Journal Entries
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Feature meme (2/10), works, readings
Journal Entry: Sun Jun 1, 2008, 8:10 AM
Some time ago, I participated to a feature meme. I wasn't subscribed at the time, so I didn't made one myself. Recently, I participated to two others (*FeuSigil and ~Eru142), and I have no longer that excuse.
So here it is:
- First 10 people to comment on this entry will have three deviations from their gallery featured here till next journal entry (I can accept more, but I will be happy to reach this number already!).
- If you are featured, please do the same for another 10 people in your own journal (but I just make this optional, as I don't like to tag people in general, and it is a bit pointless for non subscribers).
I will update this journal for each (batch of) answer(s)!
[EDIT] First batch of features! Don't hesitate to comment here to be featured!
*FeuSigil
Cute character, emblematic since she chose it to illustrate her journal.
Because the characters are amusing and well defined, and because there is a good effort on making a background.
Because I am still a sucker for black & white illustrations, the character is nice and I love Halloween like atmosphere...
*Shin-Senpuu
Nice ID, with good layout, nice border and interesting choice of colors (beside the original paintings by ^JunkbyJen, of course).
It is less a story than a sketch of a possible future world. I made a similar timeline for one of my stories, so I appreciate this kind of work, trying to define a consistent history where to place a story.
Not much. I should update my Greasemonkey scripts, I made some small adjustments. Most of them are in UserScripts.org, but I hadn't updated the dA pages yet.
I plan to translate my comic pages to English.
I still owe to =frozenpandaman a kiriban for 3,000 (talk about being late!), I made a preliminary sketch since a long time, I think it will become the final work... 
I made my little (30s) film for Ani-Jam and sent it, I wait for the final result. It might be also my first film deviation, and I plan to do the planned animation (I made a simpler one to meet the deadline) where the ferns are growing. See 
for details.
Still playing with Processing, that's a nice tool. Will draw mazes with it. If you look at my CSS experimentation playground, you can see beating hearts in the header. I made them with Processing: by fixing some parameters, I can make them in various styles and colors, etc. Perhaps I will do free avatars on demand with this! 
Not much planned on the drawing side, still must scan my comic with Prune.
Lately I read a lot of the public transports. I always did, but it was these free newspapers. Now I read books from my local library.
I recently read Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (À la croisée des mondes in French) trilogy, after having seen the first movie which I liked.
I am enthusiast, it is one of the best books I ever read (along with the Harry Potters I would say...). It has a good, consistent universe, a solid, well woven story, and despite the apparent child (or, rather, teenager) target, it is deep and mystic and an adult can enjoy it a lot.
A must read if you are not afraid of big, profound books.
On a much lighter side, I have read two volumes of Don Dracula by Osamu Tezuka. This is a very funny parody of Dracula classical movies, which moved to modern Japan with his daughter.
They are confronted to modern problems, and Tezuka develops well the father-daughter relationship, while making the reader laughing out (usually I just smile at such stories).
Just before, I have read Lady Snowblood, the manga that inspired Tarantino for Kill Bill. Superbly drawn and interesting story with historical roots in Meiji period (some adult material).
And I have just read the first volume of Cross Game by Mitsuru Adachi. I am fan of this mangaka, I like his laid back humor, his style of drawing, his storytelling. I have most of his early works in Japanese manga, but not much yet of what have been translated in French. This first volume is excellent, moving, and I hope I will find the followings at the library.
That's the problem with libraries: you often cannot start to read a series because the first volumes are missing, and after the start you have to wait for the gaps to come back!
I was more lucky with Dance! Subaru as I found the 11 first volumes. I am at vol. 5. It is about a girl dreaming of dancing, fueled by the drama in her life. Nice dance images, and good work on psychology, even if likelihood isn't the strong point!
I just stop there, I fear you felt asleep by reading the above! 
- Mood:
Daily Needs - Listening to: Computer humming
- Reading: Processing reference
- Watching: My source code, the result
- Playing: With code!
- Eating: (Square) Roots
- Drinking: Still water, and coffee
(Please ignore this journal) CSS Playground
Journal Entry: Wed Mar 26, 2008, 11:16 AM
Comics are an art form
I love Comics and Cartoons
ComicsList
I'm an adult and I still love cartoons!
I read the gallery descriptions
I love your OC's even when it seems like nobody else does
I love black & white
I love animation
I love all forms of animation
And an image too:
FAQ #81: How can I make links to other deviants, deviations, or websites?
FAQ #88: How do I add images to my Journal?
FAQ #104: What HTML formatting can we use on deviantART? And what is the format for these codes?
FAQ #223: How do I make a clickable title in my journal, that reveals more text?
~GIMPtacular
=Mozilla
*TheKnotters
^deviantartfilm
*Comicslist
~meSorry for the noise, this meaningless journal (although not more than some I have read...
) is made only as a CSS playground, to allow me to test various CSS designs, for me or for others, in various browsers.Of course, the great Journal CSS Editor made by `xork could be used for this, but I prefer to have my own sandbox, in real, live setting.
The first version was for `feawen but I just changed the images to no longer use her design, since she picked another CSS.
These are bookmarklets, to be pasted in the address bar of the browser. Should work for most browsers.
(No mood) for journal
javascript:var es = document.getElementsByName("supermoodid"); es[0].value = 0; void(0);Move comment box next to deviation
javascript: var co = document.getElementById("reply"); var ca = document.getElementById("zoomed-in").parentNode; ca.appendChild(co); void(0);(Click here to see the secret!)
<i>italic</i> italic (also <em>emphasis</em> emphasis)
<b>bold</b> bold (also <strong>strong</strong> strong)
<u>underlined</u> underlined
<sup>superscript</sup> superscript
<sub>subscript</sub> subscript
<acronym title="tooltip">acronym</acronym> acronym
<strike>strike</strike>
<h5>Only admins like $lolly can use
hn tags!</h5> 
<span class="Bar">For some mysterious reason, span tag isn't allowed on dA.
<span>Curiously, the closing span tag isn't escaped.
- Mood: Daily Needs
- Listening to: Computer humming
- Reading: W3C documents
- Watching: The CSS being built
- Playing: With the rules!
- Eating: Braiiiiiins!
- Drinking: Water
A little update for Spring
Journal Entry: Sat Mar 22, 2008, 8:12 AM
My account is quite quiet currently, even though I am active on dA, answering messages in Suggestions and Programming forum, commenting on deviations, trying to catch up on my overfull deviantWatch list... And I keep discovering interesting deviants!
I don't draw much, I program a bit, I am planning to participate to a few contests even though I am not sure to meet the deadlines... So I don't promise anything.
I have some old drawings scanned, but I have to do a bit of clean up before posting them, so I postpone them a bit...
Anyway, I though I could make a little casual journal to give some news and show I am still here...
As you can see, I am subscribed again! Yay for CSS experiments and beta testing (currently Portfolios!). And a bit more comfort in browsing and managing the message center. I might try to do a new poll too.
My current one year subscription is thanks to ^Age2003 after the contest he held and that I won. He was away from dA for a while, that's why I was unsubscribed for some time, but it's OK, real life has to have a higher priority than dA life...
And one morning, I had the pleasure to see a FedEx man bringing an envelope from California to me. Inside, there was the nice Fella plushie! I am happy (I am fond of plushies!) and so are my children.. (That's the other part of the prize.)
$spyed has put my Watching you? script in his collection of deviantART Ideas which was some time in the top of collections, bringing even more faves to an already appreciated script...
Somehow, my Greasemonkey scripts are more popular than most of my drawings... Actually, it is logical: I am a professional programmer, trained for that and with quite some experience, while I am an amateur artist, self-taught and with less experience (I don't do that for a living!). So it is OK, I suppose, and the attention is still appreciated.
Another good news: I have now a new computer. Not a fancy super-modern one with a gazillion of cores, a "simple" Pentium 4 of 2004, which is already better than the previous one... The good thing is that I paid nothing for it: my company has moved to a new place (not far of the previous one, but with lot more space) and some computers and screens were deemed as obsolete and promised to recycling... But they allowed some employees to take one each, and most of them went this way... I grabbed the computer, a keyboard and mouse, and a cathodic 17" screen. And the Windows XP Pro license coming with the computer! It would use some more memory, but it is OK, and I type these words on it.
Oh, and I might get some things from my Amazon Wish List because I helped somebody re-coding a site (the main page and the Pizza & Wings page). The design is the original one, but I re-coded it entirely to use modern CSS and HTML instead of tables and monolithic big background image...
That's all for today, see you soon!
Oh, and take a look at my faves, there are beautiful things there!
- Mood:
Cheerful - Listening to: Herbie Hancock - Rock It
- Reading: G. Hernandez - Palomar City
- Watching: My devWatch backlog!
- Drinking: Water, the best drink!
APA covers / Couvertures d'APA
Journal Entry: Mon Feb 4, 2008, 10:11 AM
I write this journal because I will upload a series of related pictures, and I don't want to put a long introduction in each (or even one) Artist's Comments...
Do you know there was a time, in the previous century, no, in the previous millennium!, where most people haven't access to Internet?
They used to write things on paper, sometime even by hand, and put these "letters" in "envelopes", they sticked "stamps" (little pictures with monetary value) on these envelopes and sent them with the Post Office.
Yes, the same that today provides you with invoices and spam on paper... That's what geeks call snail mail...
At the time, people passionated by a topic, be it science-fiction/fantasy, comics, music, movies, role playing games... made fanzines. They collected (often for free) articles and works from amateurs (some which became later well known professionals), reproducing them with techniques going from alchohol copier to professional printer, but most often using a simple copy machine (Xerox). Then they distributed the issues in little shops or to subscribers. And they were often spending more money than they earned...
At the start of the '90s, I discovered an alternate way: APAs. These Amateur Press Associations collect works from their members, and money too, to feed an account. The publisher compiles the works, reproduces them and sends them to members, taking the costs (copying, sending) on the accounts. There are variants, like selling some extra issues to get money and new members, requesting the members to participate more or less regularly, etc.
I discovered that concept, very popular in the USA (at the time; I don't know if there are still much APAs), with lot of topics (the above, politics, religions, local news, etc.), with the French AAAPA (Ailleurs & Autre APA), centered around science-fiction/fantasy. I started seriously to type (on a mechanical typewriter!) to participate there. I participated also to an APArock, which included an audio cassette to share our tastes.
Some years later, being involved a lot in the French anime/manga fandom, participating to the AnimeLand fanzine (later becoming a well known magazine), I had the idea to create an APA around this theme. Thus was born Animapa, were people shared thoughts and tastes on anime and manga. I made the covers of the issue #0 (a proof of concept...) and #1, then other participants made the covers, I reserved for myself #5, #10 and #15.
Meanwhile, seeing lot of participants were good drawers, I launched also the GraphAPA: the idea was to showcase graphical works (illustrations, comics), and to comment on the works of the previous issue. Sounds familiar?
Again, I did the covers of the issues #1 and #5.
These APAs were successful, Animapa had 33 members at issue #10, published in two A5 volumes of roughly 100 pages each; and the GraphAPA had over 150 A4 pages, with 25 members. But in 1995 I had to left responsibility to a member, lacking time to manage correctly the association: the issues were late.
It was a nice adventure, exciting despite the big work. I really enjoyed it.
Now, I do similar stuff... on Internet. So do most of the previous members, I suppose.
J'écris ce journal parce que je vais téléverser une série d'images en relation, et je ne veux pas mettre une longue introduction dans chaque Artist's Comments...
Savez-vous qu'il fut un temps, au siècle dernier, non, au millénaire précédent !, où la plupart des gens n'avait pas accès à Internet ?
Ils écrivaient des choses sur papier, quelque fois même à la main, et mettaient ces « lettres » dans des « enveloppes », ils collaient des « timbres » (petites images avec une valeur monétaire) sur ces enveloppes et les envoyaient avec la Poste.
Oui, celle-là même qui vous fournit en factures et en spam sur papier... C'est ce que les geeks appellent snail mail (courrier par escargot)...
À l'époque, les personnes passionnées par un sujet, que ce soit la science-fiction/fantastique, les BDs, la musique, les films, les jeux de rôle... faisaient un fanzine. Ils collectaient (souvent gratuitement) des articles et travaux d'amateurs (certains sont devenus des professionnels reconnus), les reproduisant avec des techniques allant du reproducteur à alcool à l'imprimeur professionnel, mais le plus souvent passant par un photocopieur. Puis ils distribuaient les numéros dans de petites boutiques ou à des abonnés. Et souvent ils dépensaient plus d'argent qu'ils n'en gagnaient...
Au début des années 90, j'ai découvert une alternative : les APA. Ces Amateur Press Associations collectent les travaux de leurs membres, et leur argent aussi, pour alimenter un compte. L'éditeur compile les travaux, les reproduisent et les envoient aux membres, prélevant les coûts de reproduction et d'envoi sur les comptes. Il y a des variantes, comme vendre des numéros supplémentaires pour gagner un peu d'argent et de nouveaux membres, demander aux membres une participation plus ou moins régulière, etc.
J'ai découvert ce concept, très populaire aux USA (à l'époque; je ne sais pas s'il en reste beaucoup de nos jours), avec plein de sujets (ceux ci-dessus, la politique, la religion, les nouvelles locales, etc.), avec l'AAAPA français (Ailleurs & Autre APA), centré sur la science-fiction/fantastique. J'ai commencé alors sérieusement à taper à la machine (mécanique) pour y participer. J'ai aussi participé à l'APArock, qui incluait une cassette audio pour partager nos goûts.
Quelques années plus tard, étant beaucoup impliqué dans le fandom français anime/manga, participant au fanzine AnimeLand (devenu plus tard un magazine bien connu), j'ai eu l'idée de créer une APA autour de ce thème. Ainsi fut né Animapa, où les gens partageaient leurs passions pour l'anime et le manga. J'ai fait les couvertures pour le numéro 0 (un premier essai) et 1, puis d'autres participants ont fait des couvertures, je me suis réservé celles des numéros 5, 10 et 15.
Entre temps, voyant que de nombreux participants (apaïens) étaient bon dessinateurs, j'ai aussi lancé la GraphAPA : l'idée était de montrer des œuvres graphiques (illustrations, BD), et de commenter les travaux du numéro précédent. Cela vous semble familier ?
Là encore, j'ai fait les couvertures des numéros 1 et 5.
Ces APA étaient des succès, l'Animapa avait 33 membres au numéro 10, publié en deux volumes A5 d'environ 100 pages chacun ; et la GraphAPA avait plus de 150 pages A4, avec 25 membres. Mais en 1995 j'ai dû donner le contrôle à un membre, faute de temps pour gérer correctement l'association informelle : les numéros prenaient de plus en plus de retard.
C'était une belle aventure, excitante en dépit du gros boulot que cela représentait. J'ai vraiment aimé ça.
Maintenant, je suis actif... sur Internet. Comme la plupart des membres, je suppose.
- Mood:
dA Love - Listening to: The Raconteurs
- Reading: Icare (Mœbius/Tanigushi)
- Watching: My devWatch backlog!
Best miscat reporter in Flash gallery!
Journal Entry: Wed Jan 9, 2008, 9:35 AM
I was shocked today to learn that I won a little contest made by ^Age2003, the Flash gallery director, to clean up the Flash gallery of miscats.
Indeed, before the file restrictions, clueless people routinely put there Gif animations in the Flash > Animation gallery, movie files in the Flash > Movies one or game screenshots in the Flash > Games one!
The file restrictions being not retroactive, there are still lot of miscats in these galleries, and ^Age2003 made a contest to motivate people to report these as much as possible.
I already reported a number of miscats before (see my Essay on miscats, based on my experience) and I plan to continue (when the backlog of devWatch deviations to look at will be killed).
I supposed I would loose, having not much time, but I played the game for a while, before real life took too much of my time to continue.
To be honest, I was helped by a pair of Greasemonkey scripts I had done before and I improved for the event: one allowing to see the type of the download file when clicking next to a suspect file in the gallery browsing page, and providing a direct link to the report page. And another showing this file type in the report page, pre-filling the form, and providing a button getting all deviations in the Flash gallery from that deviant and allowing to get the file type of these deviations on demand (too long and hazardous to get them all at once): when a deviant starts to do a miscat, we often see many similar miscats in his/her gallery. Although I saw some flashers also doing animated Gif lazily putting them in the Flash gallery.
File types are useful for miscats in Flash, or in Animation galleries, where a JPG file is a sure sign of a static image! But also elsewhere: in Resources, an image in the Action scripts of the Gimp is a no-no. In Photographies, a Gif image is highly suspect! Etc.
I don't see this as cheating: as I wrote, I make these scripts available to any serious reporter willing to use them, and I still do the job manually, not trusting bots for this kind of task. I just regret I couldn't do more (but I will be back! ). And I spent many hours on the task, partly writing and refining my scripts (but that's just fun!), partly doing the manual report (but lot of the boring part was done by them...).
And ^Age2003 agrees with me on this, the important part is to have lot of work done!
So, I won a 1 year subscription (wow!), and a Fella plushie (I chose it over devWear, I always loved plushies and my children will love it!). Yay!
- Mood:
Amazed - Listening to: Peter Gabriel
- Reading: Persepolis
- Watching: My devWatch backlog!
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