*gunslinger

"Caffeine: Helping Gunslinger stay awake since 1976"

I was going through the 3D galleries like I often do, checking out what's cool and what's not.
Apparently some "person" (edited out the more detailed description) has spammed the gallery with a single piece of "art" (a color map) and miscategorized it under vehicles > for land... :S
In itself this can only be described as annoying... but wait it gets better.

I'm the kind of guy who can get annoyed at miscats... but at +50 million submissions, I'm pretty sure nobody's clicking away his or her days checking for them and neither am I.
But when you submit a single piece a gazillion times in a matter of minutes, each time changing the name to random keyboard rantings, that's where I draw the line.
"Art" or whatever you want to call it is supposed to be unique. Submit any kind of idiocy if you like, I'm here for the sake of showing the world what I'm doing in my free time and my gallery also serves as an online portfolio of my work. Most people would agree that not all art gets as many page views as you'd like and sometimes the pieces that were the most time-intensive get little or no page views at all... we all deal with that.
You make art for yourself, and if in the process others find it pleasing, then that's good.
Best-case scenario you stumble across a handful of serious dedicated people who can actually make sensible remarks and advanced critique.
But one reason you're not supposed to be submitting for is to get attention just for the sake of attention.
Anyway... failing to find any related info on submission rules other than a page filled with legal mumbo-jumbo, I took to the #help chat room and asked if this was allowed...

AND IT IS !!!
The only reply I got was something along the lines of: as long as it's your own work you can do what you like.
...
... (me being baffled, followed by *quit*)

So if tomorrow I want to:
a. be a complete *ssh*le and submit a single piece 1000 times
b. fill up storage with duplicate work
c. phish for page views and comments even if they're negative, just to be a little attention-wh*re

then I can go right ahead and do that.
Doesn't seem like the kind of art community our founding fathers were aiming at.
But hey, I wouldn't want to spark a pointless discussion and I'm pretty sure that if there are no rules except for pr0n material, I'm pretty sure nobody cares...

In all I can only comment that I'm currently disgusted with this.
I would have hoped that the rules were a little more strict about this kind of situation.

I guess again one of my illusions just popped out of existence today: that DA is a well-organized and well-maintained community with sufficiently strict rules to keep it fun for everyone and where its 'leaders' maintain sufficient vision and supervision to keep DA true to its original goal: to unite artists and their artwork and keep a common-sense set of rules by which this can be achieved.

Guess I should stop typing here... and maybe stop thinking about it because the more I think about it, the more I get pissed off.

Today I successfully exported a mesh and ran it in real-time in the Irrlicht engine.
That might not seem to be much in itself, but nonetheless: I AM VICTORIOUS

apparently someone wanted to get my password changed. I received an e-mail from DA... I don't remember having an evil twin
SO umm... Vade retro, Satanas !!! LOL

What happens when you can't sleep? That's right, you work (and play)

Coffee, my loyal friend, got me through the night.
A friend of mine (ex-colleague actually), had asked me to make some flash banners to promote her new CD.
Now as I'm not exactly a Flash guru, it took me some time to rediscover the old tricks of the trade to get the job done, but apparently some positive comments have already come my way, so I'm really curious to find out what she thinks of them.
I've posted the first banner in my gallery.

I had also paid a visit to #thumbsshare, where GibbyGibson enlightened me on the topic of Fuzzles, apparently a cartoon creation of some sort that involves fuzzy ball-like creatures and funny / deep text balloons.
I didn't really know what to Blender (in between the Flash assignments) so I created -what I hope to be- a nice attempt at a 3D Fuzzle...
So all in all, a busy and caffeine-laden night