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Lauren is crazy!  

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  • Deviant of Many Talents
  • Female/Australia
  • Offline for 1d 14h 5m 47s
  • Deviant since Aug 26, 2004, 4:39 PM
  • Subscribed until Jan 15, 2009, 11:54 PM
  • 118 Deviations
  • 29 Scraps [browse]
  • 3,938 Deviation Comments
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DeviantArt makes me feel cheap!

Journal Entry: Mon Mar 3, 2008, 6:00 PM
  • Mood: Frustrated
  • Listening to: telemarketers
  • Drinking: Water
Yes people, trying to get recognition and promote my work on dA makes me feel like a cheap whore! I comment my arse off, I flog my work in the thumbshare forum, I offer comments to anyone and everyone in the thumbshare in the vain hope I'll get a few back in return. Do you know what I get though? Not bloody much!

I think one of the main problems I have is that while I have 57 people watching me, most of them aren't recent sign-ons so the chance of them still being active is much lower. 2008: 2, 2007: 10, 2006: 5, 2005: 18, 2004: 24. I know that I was a lot more active in my early years here, but I've kicked it up a notch in the past few months with few results. I'd like to think that my art has improved at least a little in 4 years, but I guess it's getting lost amongst the huge membership increase.

In other news, I'm getting back into some photography again. You can see that I got a chance to take some nice shots while on holidays on the Sunshine Coast with Benn in Feb.



As a side effect of getting more active I now watch too many people again, I can't get my damn watch list below 300 deviations! I think this has something to do with the fact that I'm trying to comment on each piece that is being submitted.

Lastly, what is the point of replying to people's camments with nothing more than 'Thanks'? I'm logging on and getting excited to see that I actually have a few messages, and most of them are nothing to do with my work or even replying to my comment. I figure that everyone is happy to receive comments, so the thanks is already implicity implied. Maybe I'm just ruder that everyone else here. :P

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My Watchers: 57 I'm Watching: 120
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Devious Information

  • Current Age: 23
  • Current Residence: Gold Cast, Australia
  • Interests: Reading, ATC, Basketball, Ten Pin Bowling, Papercrafts
  • Favourite movie: Primal Fear- I love Edward Norton!
  • Favourite band or musician: Everclear, Ben Folds
  • Favourite genre of music: Alternative
  • Favourite artist: Ursula Vernon- she rocks my world!
  • Favourite game: The Sims 2, Heroes of Might and Magic
  • Favourite gaming platform: PC
  • Tools of the Trade: Whatever I can get my hands on that doesn't bite back.

Devious Comments

~Paimonerra:iconPaimonerra: 5 hours 50 minutes ago
Thanks for the watch!

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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
~ Oscar Wilde
~carisaswenson13:iconcarisaswenson13: Mar 17, 2008, 7:50:09 PM Mood: Zest
Thank you for putting me on your friends list!
~visualawakenings:iconvisualawakenings: Mar 5, 2008, 9:00:32 PM
Thank you so much for the :+devwatch:

Very creative gallery!

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Thanks so much to those on DA who have supported my work!
=The-Avel-Fairy:iconThe-Avel-Fairy: Mar 3, 2008, 7:13:17 PM
Hey thanks for the fav :)

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*anachsunamon:iconanachsunamon: Feb 8, 2008, 6:02:58 PM
Thanks for fav :*
And for feature!! :blowkiss:

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`Elandria:iconElandria: Feb 6, 2008, 8:17:58 PM
Thanks for the :+devwatch:! :hug:

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=Athansor:iconAthansor: Feb 5, 2008, 6:34:05 PM
Thanks for stopping by my gallery, and for the watch! I'm honored! :)

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Any great work of art ... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world—

--Leonard Bernstein
~Red-Clover:iconRed-Clover: Jan 31, 2008, 10:37:48 AM
Thanks for the watch! :)
*emmil:iconemmil: Jan 30, 2008, 9:42:56 PM
hey ya! :wave:

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Potrait paintings: [link]
Animated Icons: [link]
~kingbenji:iconkingbenji: Jan 30, 2008, 12:23:33 AM
Hey, awesome gallery :D

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*asenone:iconasenone: Jan 22, 2008, 11:02:49 PM
Thank you!! I love your colors
=Hroswith:iconHroswith: Jan 21, 2008, 7:42:23 AM
Thank you very much for the :+fav:

:thanks:

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~fishtankbabe:iconfishtankbabe: Jan 18, 2008, 7:42:05 PM
Thanks for the :+fav: on Toucan! :hug:

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*Wereldreizigster:iconWereldreizigster: Jan 17, 2008, 1:07:12 PM
Hello Lauren,

Thank you so much for the :+devwatch: :manhug:

I hope you'll like what I come up with next ;)

Love,
Anouk

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~LenasArtWorXS:iconLenasArtWorXS: Jan 15, 2008, 10:17:56 AM
Thanks for adding me to your friends list :)

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=paleypeach:iconpaleypeach: Jan 14, 2008, 8:55:59 PM
:hug: Thanks so much for taking the time to comment my gallery.


:blowkiss:

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=The-Avel-Fairy:iconThe-Avel-Fairy: Jan 13, 2008, 11:14:22 PM
Thank you so much for the nice comment and the watch! :glomp:

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My icon is my real face.
~asena:iconasena: Dec 15, 2007, 4:12:00 AM
*tag* from another ATCer! :D

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Art is the communication of ecstacy!
~karolina-g:iconkarolina-g: Oct 22, 2007, 6:41:46 AM
thank you very much for the :+fav:
:D
~Adnil:iconAdnil: Oct 1, 2007, 11:05:49 PM
thank you so much for the watch.I appreciate it :thanks:

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=PersephoneStock:iconPersephoneStock: Jul 25, 2007, 11:33:12 PM
Thanks for the watch!
:hug:

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Keri: We're all screwed.
Brendan: Well, it's better to be screwed collectively than individually.
Keri: So, you prefer orgies?
*talbona:icontalbona: Jul 21, 2007, 9:41:26 AM
Thank you very much for th watch, hun :)

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*jefita:iconjefita: Jul 12, 2007, 6:33:30 AM
I can't remember if I thanked you for the watch or not, so thanks again :aww:

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you just keep on trying until you run out of cake
*MoonLightSpectre:iconMoonLightSpectre: Jul 10, 2007, 8:43:06 AM
thanx for watching :aww:

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