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Here is a forum to help people deal with “Post-Avatar Depression” because the dream of Pandora can’t come true.

http://avatar-forums.com/showthread.php?t=43

Original Poster:
I recently read on the Avatar TypePad Blog, that people are becoming depressed because of the movie. People are realizing that the dream can’t actually come true. I was trying to start a thread where people gave ideas on how to cope with it, as in reading Avatar stuff, Writing ( about avatar of course), painting, or whatever.

Person Coping:
After I watched Avatar at the first time, I trully felt depressed as I “wake” up in this world again.
So after few days, I went to cinema and watched it again for the second time to relieve the depression and hopeless feeling.
Now I listen to the soundtrack and share my views in this forum. It really helps.

Person Offering Advice:
Start living like Neytiri: in touch with nature, the environment, and not being greedy and wasteful. Pass on the burger, for something more healthy for you and less cruel to animals. Spend your time on this forum, or volunteering in your free time, instead of getting high or drinking, twiddling your thumbs, being apathetic and complaining about how bad the world is. Don’t get swept away by the wave of negativity, live your dream. Your life has only two switches, to shine or not to shine. There is no “apathy” setting. If you’re on apathy setting you might as well sign your world away to destruction. When you get discouraged by everyone around you, be courageous like Jake, and jump on the leonopteryx. Be the change you want to see in your world. There are only so many people on this earth, the more of them that are doing positive things, the less of them that are out there doing negative things. It’s unfortunate that we live in a world where, just by pulling a trigger or making a corporate decision, one single greedy human being can wipe out the hard works of love of many people. But this is why we need to stop focusing on money and start focusing on our environment. Because we have the intelligence to kill ourselves, but not the wisdom to stop it. What will our money buy, when everything that is worth having is destroyed? The only way you can fill the emptiness you feel after this movie, is to jump on the leonopteryx.

Coca-Cola on Thursday launched a facial-matching Facebook application called the Coke Zero Facial Profiler.

As long as users have at least three photos of themselves in their Facebook profile, the application searches across other pictures from Facebook users that have used the app to find someone whose face matches theirs most accurately. Those that don’t have three images can either upload a picture into the app from their desktop or capture a picture from their Webcam.

I had a chance to use the app this afternoon. After it is added to your profile, you can immediately direct it to find pictures in your profile. That process takes a little longer than I would have liked, but it wasn’t so bad that I wanted to move on.
Coke Zero Facial Profiler

The Coke Zero Facial Profiler.
(Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET)

To match up my face to someone else’s, I took a picture with my Web cam. After I chose the picture I wanted to use, the app asked me to drag my image to match the shadowed outline of a head. I also needed to move markers over my eyes to ensure that the application was reading my image correctly.

My only issue with Coca-Cola’s facial-matching app is that it took too long to find a match. I realize that it’s searching through several faces to find the right person, but the experience left me wishing that it would end sooner than it did.

After finding a match (the app said it was a 60 percent fit), I was given the option of connecting with the person I matched up with. It was a nice option, but I was unsure how that conversation would go–”So, you don’t know me, but our faces are about 60 percent alike. Wanna be friends?”–so I opted against it.

Overall, Coca-Cola’s app is worth trying out once or twice, even if just for a laugh. But until more people try it out, and their images are added to the database, I’m just not sure that it has the kind of lasting power so many other apps on the social network have. I would come back to it in a month or two to see if the matching can improve, though.

here’s a link the facial profiler. http://www.cocacolazero.com/index.jsp#/facialprofiler/

Funny Late Night Fun. Of a Boy Doing “Awful Caricatures”

Portrait Prank – These bloopers are hilarious

Tokyo, Japan (CNN) — Nene Anegasaki is a witty, doe-eyed beauty. She looks perfectly perky in sexy skirts, doesn’t pick fights and is always at one Tokyo man’s beck and call — that is why the 27-year-old decided to marry her.
The only complication: She is a videogame character in the Nintendo DS game called “Love Plus.”
Still, that didn’t stop Sal 9000 — the only name the groom would give — from marrying Nene in a ceremony witnessed live by thousands on the Web.
When asked if Nene is his dream woman, Sal replied, “Yes, she is. Her character changes to my liking as we talk and travel to different places.”
Japan’s Internet community has witnessed relationships and marriages to avatars, though it’s typically been within the confines of the virtual world. Last month, Sal decided to be the first human-to-avatar union. Clad in a white tux, Sal married Nene in front of some friends and Web users watching the ceremony live online.

 

The wedding, while not legally binding, was Sal’s way of expressing his devotion to his avatar girlfriend.
“I love this character, not a machine,” said Sal, when asked about whether he can love an electronic device. “I understand 100 percent that this is a game. I understand very well that I cannot marry her physically or legally.”
The courtship began in September when he started playing the game, in which players nurture a deeper relationship through game play. Sal started carrying Nene around the streets of Tokyo and taking her to Disneyland and to a beach resort in Guam.
Sal says Nene is better than a human girlfriend. “She doesn’t get angry if I’m late in replying to her. Well, she gets angry, but she forgives me quickly.”
Asked if he’s courtesy addicted to the game, he says, “If addiction is playing this every single day, then you might call me addicted.” With Nene, Sal doesn’t feel the need to find a human girlfriend, he added.
Hiroshi Ashizaki, an author who writes about Internet and game addiction, doesn’t think Sal 9000 is an extreme case. What is healthy about Sal is that he can communicate with people enough to do an interview on CNN and webcast a half-serious wedding, Ashizaki said.
“There are many others who can’t express themselves like Sal can, and those are the cases we worry about,” says Ashizaki. What’s important to note, Ashizaki says, is that Sal is a representative of many of Japan’s young gamers.

 Today was as gloomy as the devil’s ass-crack. I worked at Sea World as the caricaturist. My job works on commission; meaning that for every drawing I do, I get a certain percentage of that sale.

Today my boss made all drawings 50 percent off ; meaning MORE CUSTOMERS. So I’m working twice as hard for the same money. I was servicing more guests then a milf at the local whorehouse.

Two things happened:

1. I became tired.

2. I became a dick to the guests.

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Here’s a dialogue.
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Customer: how much is a drawing?
ME: $12.50 a person.
Customer: oh!………. But how much for 2 people?
ME:twice as much.
Customer: oh!. ………….. But how much if there’s 3 people?
ME: (I turn my back to speak with another customer)
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A friend asked me this exact question the other day.

It occurred to me that when I was 20 I was a constant shut-in. Drawing nonstop, and getting stuck in this “funk” of self pity and disgust of the world outside my computer screen. And my social life was revolved around eating my ramen noodles in front of my dog.

Then at 22, something snapped in my brain and I went the opposite direction. I was partying, chasing the opposite gender, drinking and hardly drawing whatsoever.

Then at 24. I been struggling to keep hold of this “balancing act”. My goal being to have a decently banging social life while accomplishing a good workload.

I think I’m doing pretty dang well lately.

This isn’t advice, this is just what I do….

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1. Never turn down any invite to anything.

2. Sleep less.

3. Never have a “girl friend”, ha!

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I’m compiling information on different artist experiences in this matter and if any can relate in any way, Any suggestions?

Hey guys,
From the minute I signed up on deviantart, it’s always occurred to me that people that come from less social back ground tend to be on here. (Not always, but many times) I know what you are thinking “Well duh, it’s an art site, artists are weird” No they are not, don’t make me smack you. They simply think a lot more about weird things.

Art attracts abstract thinkers. And the “DA” tends to attract the young artistic thinkers of this generation. Sounds like a TV add, but true. It also attracts a lot of 10 year old kids posting their stick figures. (crappy stick figures, not stylish ones that my friend kitty posts)

This revolution I’ve noticed has lead to something that really hasn’t been around before.

“What is thanking about Omegaman20?”
I’m talking about the mass level of socializing and selling of yourself you do. Truth is that it’s always been around, but never to this level. In the pre-internet era, people didn’t have an outlet, and were too afraid to show their art. Hell, I know a girl that kept her art under her bed and showed absolutely no one! I honestly feel that sites like the DA have pushed these people to get out of the closet artistically. Art is meant to be seen and enjoyed by the viewer, regardless of skill set.

With myspace, facebook, youtube, iphones, twitter, and now deviantart; we are coming out from our lonely places. We are constantly socializing via internet. The DA has really let us put our stuff out there and really connects with others like no other group of artists. (Some of you guys live on the other side of the planet.)

I know people think that being online can basically “guarding you” from reality. That can be true to an extent, but I think it’s a step. It’s a step to learning about how to interact. Some people never even make it to that first step.

For example, guys at my old art school were some of the most talented guys I had ever seen, but they couldn’t talk to anyone. Like nada! They stuck themselves in a hole and never crawled out, not even online. This produced great art, but seriously creepy minds. These guys should have been working LONG ago. But they just stayed in their bubble. It’s been five years, and some of them are still there NOW!! In fact one of the best artists I ever seen has been working at Starbucks for 2 years. WTF? No one taught them how to sell themselves. And to do that, you have to socialize or at least know how to.

Good art means nothing, if you can’t sell yourself.

Get out of your bubble now! If I could reach through the computer now and kick your @$$ into doing it, I would. But I can’t.

-OM20

Here’s a few things I wish I had the mindset to do when I started. For me personally, I feel I’m 3 years behind where I should be, because of personal things.

Here’s a few Fast thoughts. I want to write a more extensive paper on this later, but this is good for now.

4 Things you need to do to never stop growing as an artist.

1)Have No Ego
Having an Ego is probably the biggest thing I’ve seen hinder people’s progress. Having an ego gives you a warped view on your own works. As an artist, you need to knit-pick every thing you do. Don’t over obsess, but take a realistic,objective view on where it is you are. Look for your weaknesses and attack them systematically. Every person I’ve seen that’s studied outside a school system, and found moderate success has had an ego.(usually the older generation) And for that they’ll never get better. In their minds they have “already arrived.” A closed minded way of thinking.

2)Practice Accordingly

This one is obvious. Practice, like crazy. Everyone has a different way of going about it. I’d schedule your practices. Really hit it hard for a few days, then take a day break. Or something to that extent. You’d be surprised what a break can do. But only take a break, if you feel you’ve worked hard enough to earn one.

3)Don’t Be too Hard on Yourself

The other side of the spectrum that I see a lot, is when people think they just plain suck. Most of the time, they don’t. Acknowledge what you are doing correctly and attack what you think is weak. (ex.if your cant draw hands and feet, start practicing them alot)

4)Seek Out Others Better then Yourself

This one kind of goes with the ego thing. Seek out other people that are on the same road you are, but a little bit further.(or way further) Talk their heads off. Ask them what their mind set is. If you can’t speak with them try and look at their art, and figure out what process they might have used. This to me, is one of the best shortcuts. Getting input from someone who’s been through the trial an error.

Just some quick thoughts.

-om20