takyoji

I haven't uploaded anything of any value in like 6 years now. I haven't allocated any opportunity to drawing, and probably haven't drawn any single thing since high school. Haven't really done anything 3d modelling-wise. I've just been moderately occupied with work (web design and development, and some residential computer repair). 

(Warning: whining time)
I've also grown a little apathetic of photography. Considering "my" Nikon D50 which was a 'gift' in the beginning, but was prohibited from bringing it anywhere, or that I had small windows of opportunity to use it as my brother (who had 'gifted' it to me) had it most of the time. And then eventually one day, he had it on a tripod unbalanced, and it had tipped over, with the lens of the camera mashing into the ground (but not cracking), but of which jammed the autofocus of the lens. To which my brother later on finally let me finally have 'my' camera, and got something better for himself. The Nikon D50 is also limited that it cannot handle SDHC cards, so I can only use 2GB or less SD cards, otherwise it has a memory card error. This about about a few years ago.

The other part that drove further apathy is being dictated as 24/7 family photographer, and the punching bag for any errors. Specifically, my brother chooses to make each Christmas picture, more complex each year. This year, his Christmas picture included: him, his wife, 1 baby, 1 toddler, a cat, two dogs, two horses, 3 goats (I count 12 things). If one has their eyes closed as the shutter opens, or turns their head, it's my fundamental error as a 'photographer' to not perfectly capture a picture with all the above, looking at the camera, eyes open in symmetry.
(End of whining time)

Lastly, I don't consider myself a 'photographer'. I only do 'opportunity photography' in the sense that: the only reason anything of my stuff might be 'interesting' is only because I had the opportunity to capture something interesting. Whether it be a time-limited opportunity, such as clouds. Or access to uncommon things, such as water features and related plants. Just because I have access to such things does not make me a photographer. It's a matter of perspective, editing, proportions, and other art conventions or variations of something to be 'art', rather than seeing something and pushing the button.

In summary, I have not drawn, I have not done anything 3d, I don't have a camera in a convenient condition (and don't want to burn money on something better, as I won't use it to its value), despite wanting to at least have something to put on dA for about a year with no results. Thus with that track record, I don't foresee that I'll have really much of anything to post in the future. (I haven't even been on dA for anything shorter than 3-6 month intervals).

Oh well.

Just mentioning that I've somewhat returned to deviantART. I haven't been on for probably a year or two, primarily due to being distracted with work and life. Part of the original reason that I had returned was to get back in contact with some folks of The Packs Den, which is a forum I help do technical administration for. I may actually start doing something creative for once in my life; such as drawing perhaps.

I'm lacking motivation or ideas for anything of photography, as my Nikon D50 has sadly gained dust over the years. I've really only been doing studio-ish photography with it anymore; such as the homepage images for my business website: techsanity.us/

As stated, I'll likely be attempting to draw things, such as canines and werewolves preferably. I don't think I'd be able to pull off drawing anything original of werewolves, as all I can really do is replicate a picture (last time I've drawn was in high school, probably 3-5 years ago). I may try a shot at 3D modeling of werewolves or something, but I usually lack perception of form for organic shapes (I've of course done plenty of 3D images of inorganic shapes).

So either way, expect a variety (or mess) of things (if any).


_{And as if anyone cares. xP}

Egad. I happen to be alive. The reason I haven't been active is that I haven't really created much for the past year or two; in other words, I'm considerably in my own little "dark ages" currently. I can barely even get any of my own work done anymore. If you listen quite carefully, you might just be able to hear the sound of my brain rotting.

We have renewed the domain (as a third-party entity; since Anthony is the one that has the ownership), thus The Packs Den is accessible to the public again. Still haven't moved to a different server yet, since again, we don't have control over the domain, and it appears Anthony Brownrigg has been ignoring my 3 messages so far (sent of a period over a month or so; 1 prior to the inavailability), but have also found methods of backing up the database and files without filesystem access to the server. The only thing holding us back from moving to a better server is the domain, which is owned by Anthony currently, which would have to be transferred to us at some point.

For more information, view the status at the safehouse for The Packs Den: pack.paradice.net/

And feel free to kick me repeatedly for not updating it to "Accessible" after the previous downtime was over with. Otherwise it's updated with information about the more recent issue.

[Update] Change added (December 5, 4:45pm CST)