My Focuses: Varied Artist, Database Administrator, Project Manager
What I do: I am by day, the Senior Manager of a technical department at a mid-sized software and services firm in Silicon Valley. By every other time of the 24 hour cycle, a freelancing illustrator/painter, amateur musician, and working on both a paralegal cert and pondering graduate studies in political science.
I have long been interested in online communities, having been an early orbiting presence around the team that created Sourceforge, as well as a former Gallery Director for Deviantart, and a current member of the Resurgere and Breed Art groups. A full work history is available here: http://www.zeruch.net/?page_id=284
Operating System: Linux, Win32, Mac
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My Interests: Political Science, Theology, Complexity Theory, languages, stuff, things.
Artists I like: Bill Sienkiewicz
Bands I like: I own more music than most Virgin Megastores have in stock.
Free Drawing ProgramThere are several, depending on OS, and support for tablets is in most or all of them IIRC: Inkscape GIMP (including Gimpshop) ArtRage Krita Almost forfot: Dogwaffle Smoothdraw NX Artweaver Synfig (if you want to do animation)A month ago / Total Posts: 2
Importing from Deviant ArtI am thinking that either some load threahold has been hit, or DA is filtering requests from the importer, as I too am experiencing the exception thrown in Anubicdarque's post. And to add, I have tried this on two different browsers (Chrome and5 months ago / Total Posts: 15
PDF databasethe .pdf format is somewhat well documented at this point (or so I thought). Certainly there should be a way to strip data out of a .pdf and do some kind of import via transform (i.e. XML/XSLT) or a straight insert into a DB. Not sure about the6 months ago / Total Posts: 3
Unrelated influencesAn influence certainly does not have to show directly. It can be in a conceptual way, or in small ways of observing the work as it progresses. The influence can be very subtle, or otherwise wholly integrated into a whole that otherwise obscures its6 months ago / Total Posts: 4
AptanaI actually use this for even simple edits of xml files. It's updater can be a little overaggressive, but it is a nice IDE, when you don't want to use vi.6 months ago / Total Posts: 8
Painting from a photo digital or traditionalI think it largely matters on result. If the result has something additive; if it is stylized to a point where it clearly goes from the source material elsewhere, then that is fine. Mimicry, while not without its benefits, generally lacks a creative7 months ago / Total Posts: 9
What was the best gig you have ever been to?Tough call. I've been to hundreds of events, so if I had to pick a top 10: Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Brian Blade and Wayne Shorter @ the Masonic Me'shell Ndegeocello @ Bimbo's Steve Coleman & 5 Elements @ Ajax Lounge Billy Cobham7 months ago / Total Posts: 14
Lovely Canadian MusicI suppose my tastes in Canadian artists is mostly more 'familiar' - Rush, Michael Brook, Joni Mitchell, Bass is Base, Melissa Auf Der Mar, Oscar Petersen, Bif Naked, Esthero, Jane Child, Philosopher Kings, Dalbello, Daniel Lanois, Nelly7 months ago / Total Posts: 7
Pencil = UnfinishedWhat the creative considers finished for his or herself, and what any observer feels about the state of a work, are never guaranteed to coincide, no matter what media.7 months ago / Total Posts: 25
Sun acquires MySQLThe lack of understanding of what Sun's purchase of MySQL, and in turn Oracle's purchase of Sun mean for MySQL seems to have eluded many; it fundamentally changes little. The code can be forked if need be (yay Open Source, and Oracle has7 months ago / Total Posts: 6
importing from deviant artIt needs to thread well. The old one was in python. It didn't work so well. Interesting. I would not have expected that (then again, I am not a coder, but a technical project manager by all accounts), as we have had some great luck in both speed7 months ago / Total Posts: 35
importing from deviant artOur new importer can only import Featured deviantart work. We're working on a way to import the rest but DA doesn't provide an RSS/Atom feed for the rest so we have to do it manually. This involves significantly more work so we have a C++ coder7 months ago / Total Posts: 35
Favorite band EVER?Miles Davis. Fleetwood Mac, without a doubt. Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks was a match made in Heaven! I could take or leave Nicks and McVie. Buckingham was the most compelling songwriter and player in that group for me; I actually think7 months ago / Total Posts: 43
Who's a musician and what do you play?I used to play acoustic trap kit pretty well, but have been off and on back at the beats since. I do still play, but its inconsistent, and I mix it between acoustic and electronic percussion/programming. I was in a (mostly) trio called the Heavy7 months ago / Total Posts: 23
THe Mix ThreadThe Vernon Reid Gonzo Guitar Mix (all bands, all genres that involve VR): Living Colour - Cult of Personality Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society - Barbeque Dog Marcus Miller (w/ Miles Davis) - Rampage Spearhead - Caught Without an Umbrella7 months ago / Total Posts: 9
deviantart portfolioHope you didn't leave the page too early. Once it's done scanning you still have to select the individual artworks one by one to actually import them into the portfolio. It should show them to you soon as it's done scanning. This is -at7 months ago / Total Posts: 29
suggestion/help - Multiple SubmissionsCurrently, You can only upload one file at at time. We do however allow you to import your work from DA. Multiple uploading is on our to-do list, but it wont be for at least a few months due to other priorities. Thanks for the suggestion tho What7 months ago / Total Posts: 2
Hello from deviantART!Well, there seems to be even more than one former DA staffer roaming about. I am simply mulling about, trying to see what all the hubbub is about before (if) I dive in the rest of the way.7 months ago / Total Posts: 25
