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Funny coming back here after 5 years away from this place.
My profile page is an amusing snapshot of my life 5 years ago and it's got me all nostalgic, thinking about much things have or haven't changed:
Today, I'm working for an agency as a Front End Developer who gets to do fancy things with JavaScript & CSS on chunky projects for big clients. I love it.
So even though I don't do design anymore, if I hadn't joined DA nearly 9 years ago, I wouldn't have been inspired to develop my Photoshop skills ... thus never taking an interest in skinning Winamp ... therefore never taking an interest in UI design ... and possibly wouldn't have had the skills to land my first web gig years ago.
Funny how things work out Thanks DA!
My profile page is an amusing snapshot of my life 5 years ago and it's got me all nostalgic, thinking about much things have or haven't changed:
- It says "...has quit smoking (again)" up there underneath my username. And 5 years later, sure enough, I'm still struggling Let that be a lesson, kids - smoking is bad for you.
- My listed interests are still the same. I still love websites, basketball, F1 (go VETTEL) and poker.
- My last journal entry was about my first iPod (the first gen nano). I'm now a full Apple convert. I work/play on a MacBook Pro and an iPhone.
- I was probably a better designer 5 years ago than I am now.
- I'm 28 years old now, no longer 24, sadly.
Today, I'm working for an agency as a Front End Developer who gets to do fancy things with JavaScript & CSS on chunky projects for big clients. I love it.
So even though I don't do design anymore, if I hadn't joined DA nearly 9 years ago, I wouldn't have been inspired to develop my Photoshop skills ... thus never taking an interest in skinning Winamp ... therefore never taking an interest in UI design ... and possibly wouldn't have had the skills to land my first web gig years ago.
Funny how things work out Thanks DA!
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My first iPod :)
Man, this thing is cool.
Things i brought that i probably shouldn't have!
My stance
Over the last two weeks i've read some pretty outrageous things on both sides of the jark (https://www.deviantart.com/jark) fiasco. The funny thing is, during those two weeks of heavy reading, i came to rediscover what i love so much about this place.
The art!
Before all the controversy, i was a sporadic visitor at best. I only came to check on a few of my favourite deviants, see if there were any new Winamp skins and check if there were any new dA features. But then jark (https://www.deviantart.com/jark) was fired and journals were popping up all over the place with information. Before long, i began noticing peeps were hiding their galleries -- bringing their Favourites to the top of t
I've read enough ...
... there's just too much ugliness going on.
http://www.t52.org/
http://www.t52.org/screenies/
The house that Jark built ...
jark (https://www.deviantart.com/jark)
How funny does it look? Having followed this site since '01, to me jark (https://www.deviantart.com/jark) is deviantART. How can the man who started it all be forced out? And how can news like this come on the cusp of the community's fifth birthday? It just doesn't compute. If i was a robot from Futurama, my head would explode.
I've hardly been around lately, so i dunno who does what around here anymore. There seems to be so much more staff around now -- there has to be. This place is huge now. All i [thought i] knew was that jark (https://www.deviantart.com/jark) was the Big Boss Man -- or at least one of them. I thought he was the heart and soul of this place. The Grandfather. And you
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