furry art archives
Jan. 5th, 2003 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashThere's been a flood of screaming, impatient newbies trying to apply to the VCL lately. I suspect 'I got a scanner for Christmas!' to be the main culprit. I found myself laughing out loud when I looked at the Yerf forum and saw the one who was kicking and screaming the loudest popping up in the general and critique forums there, with the exact same horrible scans.
But then I started thinking about it and got a little depressed. All these kids, looking for an outlet for their art... and then it hit me. I will start a NEW furry-art archive.
And the name of this archive will be '/dev/null'.
/dev/null will not have huge bandwidth requirements.
/dev/null will not have huge storage requirements.
/dev/null will not have any eligibility requirements.
You want in? You're in. But here's the catch. Unless the administrix (that would be ME) likes your art, it vanishes a week after you upload it. And if you try and upload the same drawing again, you're In Trouble. Maybe, just maybe, you'll be allowed to tag one drawing as safe from the grim reaper.
/dev/null is geek-speek for 'trashcan'.
Unfortunately, devnull.com and devnull.org are already taken. Maybe I could call it fridgeart.
Addendum: More evil things to do.
But then I started thinking about it and got a little depressed. All these kids, looking for an outlet for their art... and then it hit me. I will start a NEW furry-art archive.
And the name of this archive will be '/dev/null'.
/dev/null will not have huge bandwidth requirements.
/dev/null will not have huge storage requirements.
/dev/null will not have any eligibility requirements.
You want in? You're in. But here's the catch. Unless the administrix (that would be ME) likes your art, it vanishes a week after you upload it. And if you try and upload the same drawing again, you're In Trouble. Maybe, just maybe, you'll be allowed to tag one drawing as safe from the grim reaper.
/dev/null is geek-speek for 'trashcan'.
Unfortunately, devnull.com and devnull.org are already taken. Maybe I could call it fridgeart.
Addendum: More evil things to do.
- The ability for one artist to tag another as having stolen from her work. But beware - everyone can see who you think has swiped from you, and who thinks you swiped from them!
- Hardcore image-recognition in the backend - it stores a rendering-down of everything you upload, and checks against all your art when you upload. And pulls it out of otherwise-inaccessible cold storage to say 'Hey! You already put this up!' if you try to re-upload something.
- A forum with a whole section devoted to accusations of art theft - let the court of public opinion decide!
- Favorites/very-not-favorites functionality for the recents viewer. With the top ten loved and top ten loathed artists spotlighted in a sidebar. I wouldn't make that data public in a sensible archive, but this is the evil archive! Plus, you can always see what percentage of viewers are loving and loathing your art, so you know if everyone's ignoring you.
- Artists I have deemed Worth Keeping always sort before the commoners in the recents. And in the artist listings.
- Every, oh, six months, you get the power to make another drawing safe from the Grim Reaper. And if I decide you still blow goats, I can revoke this, because it is the Evil Archive, and I am its Evil Dragon Queen. It'd probably work like trying to upload another userpic to LJ when you've gone from paid to unpaid. Or maybe it'd just start de-immortalizing images at random until you were down to the amount allowed.
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Date: 2003-01-05 01:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-05 01:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-05 02:07 pm (UTC)I see you've thought of everything. Excellent.
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Date: 2003-01-05 02:19 pm (UTC)If you would like to join /dev/null, go here.
If you would like to resign from /dev/null, go here.
If you would like to complain about your drawings being deleted, fuck off!
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Date: 2003-01-05 01:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-05 02:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-05 02:50 pm (UTC)Dang...looks like thecircularfile.com is also taken.
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Date: 2003-01-05 02:54 pm (UTC)I'm just really evil and bitchy these past few days...
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Date: 2003-01-05 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-05 03:18 pm (UTC)commoner
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High Administrix
It does look like Drugz-R-Good is reposting some of Potkitten's work as his own; Drugz hasn't even always bothered to edit out the signature all the time. One month in the Penalty Box for you, my little coked-up friend.
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Date: 2003-01-05 04:10 pm (UTC)My favorite theft of 2002, one girl accused another of stealing her idea of rainbow fishnets and claimed that she copyrighted it. My response was "you're 14! you don't even know how to make the © symbol"
*J.Vasquez Icon intentional
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Date: 2003-01-05 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-05 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-05 05:43 pm (UTC)Actually, I'm thinking it might be a rather open archive: furry, wildlife, fantasy, sf, it's all okay. Maybe you can declare a work as being in a category when you put it up, and people can look at 'just furry' or whatever. As long as you're not doing copyright-violation fan art that could get the Administrix in trouble, you can upload whatever you please!
But it only stays if the Administrix (or anyone she nominates as Vice-Administrices) thinks you can actually, like, draw.
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Date: 2003-01-05 05:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-05 05:59 pm (UTC)I asked Ch'marr if he could lay his hands on any sort of breakdown of the VCL's bandwidth. If browsing the recents isn't the lion's share of the bandwidth, this thing might actually be possible. I mean, I don't want it to end up like Side 7 where they're paying the bandwidth for sooooo much suuuuuuck.
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Date: 2003-01-05 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-01-05 08:15 pm (UTC)pixelspew.com
neutralgrey.com (thanks, splorp.com!)
queenpeggy.com (okay, kinda egotistical)
evildragonqueen.com (same)
arthorde.com
fridgeart.org
fridgedoor.org/net
unfortunately already taken:
arthole.com/org/net (thanks, protocat! "look at my arthole!")
arthoard.com
tempusfugit.com/org/net
suggestion...
Date: 2003-01-06 12:40 am (UTC)Re: Parasite
Date: 2003-01-06 09:59 am (UTC)This started as a little thought experiment on 'what happens if there's no back storage'. Since I've been in a vaguely evil mood lately, it turned evil. I make no apology for this.
I've checked, and it turns out that eliminating the availability of old art would, for the most part, have little to no impact on the total bandwidth usage of an archive - it's all in serving up the latest images. And people who feel that every single thing doodled during their math class are the ones who put forth the largest volume. So it wouldn't work.
gxddbov.com?
Date: 2003-01-06 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-06 05:39 pm (UTC)I was tempted to actually try and make it for a few hours yesterday, is all.
MeeeeEEEEEeemmoriiies...
Date: 2003-01-06 09:19 pm (UTC)Re: MeeeeEEEEEeemmoriiies...
Date: 2003-01-06 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 10:26 am (UTC)I don't have a working scanner, and I'm dreading the fact that when I do, as people-scanning-stuff goes, I'm not really such great shakes. Can you see any way around the phenomenon of "decent at making art, sucks Clydesdales at scanning art"?
Another problem I've seen on a favorite miniature site is people posting the same scans over and over as they're planning to sell the actual minis on e-Bay and want good coverage. It feels less like "hey, look what I did in Maf!" and more like a "hey, look what you can buy" thing - there's less joy, and less new stuff. The "repeat post" rule sounds like it diffuses this, but would you consider adding a clause about not mentioning anything about where the art in question might be for sale?
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Date: 2003-01-07 01:02 pm (UTC)Scanning's easy. Really. All you have to do for a decent scan is scan in grey then image->adjust->levels most of the time, and a little cleanup here and there. If you've got USB on your machine, you can get something fine for scanning pencils for eighty bucks nowadays.
More complex stuff can be done, like scanning in color so you can drop out col-erase from beneath inks without bothering to erase, but once you know what you want to do, that's easy too.
Of course, the Evil Archive wouldn't care about scan quality. If you want to present all your work as shitty scans, feel free! But just watch the number of people who're ignoring you grow and grow, and never know why!
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Date: 2003-02-02 03:56 pm (UTC)DumbYiffyVixen, you have the following messages:
Ultraken hates you!
Someone hates you!
MyScannerHatesMe likes you!
Peganthyrus hates you!
Someone likes you!
Ashtoreth hates you!
Someone hates you!
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