Pimps and Whoas - July 26, 2011

Pimps

Official dA News

The Art of Capturing Souls
CodePLZ - What is the plan
Presenting: Community Volunteers
Cutting Edge Prints, Week 30/11
Quit Work, Be A….
24 Hour Prints Sale

Comic-Con!!

deviantART Artists Represented at Comic-con!
South Park features work created by deviants!
Overheard at Comic-con - Features megturney cosplaying Poison Ivy!
The amazing deviantART Street Team!
Quixote on the half-shell
Interview with: Stephan Martiniere
Interview with: Whilce Portacio (WhilcePortacio)
Interview with: Dave Wilkins (Dave-Wilkins)
Interview with: Zhang Jingna (zemotion)
Overheard at Comic-con - Featuring Collin Farrell, megturney cosplaying Slave Leia, Artist Alley photos!
Interview with: Reilly Brown (ReillyBrown)
Overheard at Comic-Con - Featuring high-lights from our Comic-con panel
Comic-Con tour with $spyed

Official Contests

All "official" contests will begin at midnight PST on the start date and end at 11:59 PST on the end date. This applies to all Community Relation run contests and all deviantART sponsored contests.
denotes US only contest

Fotolia & DeviantART Plans Gone Wrong Contest - Deadline August 16, 2011
How do You Drink Dr Pepper Contest - Deadline August 22, 2011
Epic Movie Poster Contest - Deadline August 31, 2011

Upcoming devMEETS

London Picnic Meet  July 30th, 2011
Amsterdam, the Netherlands August 7, 2011

Informative News & Events

Tips for Spontaneous Portrait Photography
Dancing Business Cat - Race to End Animal Cruelty
Volume 24 Contests Accepting Artisan Crafts Entries
Urban Exploration - Where to Begin
Super Obvious Secrets…
Project Edcuate: Where Are the Thumbs
Lucian Freud dies age 88
#typoholics - Monthly Challenge #1 '11 - One Color
Writers Welcome Wagon Revival
Poets-N-Prose Writing Prompt July 18th - August 1st, 2011
Walking for Alzheimers
Sanguem deus Contest held by DestinieKirby ends January 13, 2012!!
Composition Learning and Breaking the Rulez
Improving your Art - what dA news can teach you

Features & Interviews

Interview With a Lolita: dolldelight
Emotional Emoticons 19
So i herd u liek emotes?? - Volume 122
Devious Minds: WilderWein77
PhotoJazz Five: rhapsoudize Interview
10 rock photographers you should know
Seven Creepy (and Fascinating) Experiments
Emotiviews 3 - Interview with *yarjor
Body Art Inspiration: The Joker
Tattoos in the Pinup & Glamour Galleries
Harry Potter Tribute
An Absurd Interview with chutkat
Weekly Stamp Feature - the 40th Installment
Love-dA-Lit Issue 36
Love for Thy Watchers and Friends

Groups

  Storm-Chasers - A group for all the nut jobs who love being right out there in the mess of things. Weather it be Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Blizzards, Lightning Storms, or anything else mother nature can throw at us!!!

Tornadoes-of-dA - Anything tornadoes, photos, digital, drawing, anything that involves one of natures most powerful types of storms. We love tornadoes!!

dArtzine - is an independent webzine that focuses on promoting artists from Deviant Art in general. All categories of art presented in the community are taken in count to be promoted, we base the selection of the art included in the issues on the quality, concept, ORIGINALITY, and uniqueness as well as style and technique that the artists have. Nevertheless the webzine has a section special for beginners, where these ones will be encouraged to progress in their technique and helped by monitoring this progress.

All-For-Art, a group that shares the love of all things "ART", and the place where any artist can get the attention they deserve.

artistsofcolor is a group dedicated to spotlighting art by and of people of color. Anyone who embraces ethnicity in their deviations are welcome to join.

ManipulateThis is having a photo-manipulation contest beginning August 1st -August 31st. The theme is "Exotic Princess" and there is a choice of stock to use for the entry. Only members can participate, but new members are welcome to join the group. All levels of manipulations are encouraged to participate. Prizes include exclusive stock packs for winners in each level.

AllArtSupport is currently hosting a new huge contest (13 July - 29 August). Check our the rules.

Water-And-Nature-Art - We have a Monthly Theme where the winner gets faves, a llama and features, and every month we have agreed to feature the top 10 deviations sumbmitted in that month. I would really appreciate some support.

r72 Infrared Photography Group is planning to print photo books with the BEST of #r72. Every month we are making polls to have top 10 voting results of our members. The first book is planned end of November 2011 as Xmas gifts.

StaffAppreciation - The goal of StaffAppreciation and the deviantART Staff Appreciation Week is to promote general community positiveness, and to show the core staff members that we, as a community, appreciate their time, efforts, dedication, and overall work here on deviantART. There will be a week-long event held from August 8th until August 14th, during which time the community will be able to participate in chat events, mini-contests, and a super-secret gift for the $taff of deviantART. So, if you are interested in anything mentioned above, feel free to +devWatch StaffAppreciation and take part in the festivities! Additionally, for a limited time, people can win a 3-month PM and 250  by pimping our group.

KiribanKrazy is a group for anyone that's interested in DA kiribans and all the prizes that could be won if you participate in one. The blog is always updated with new kiribans that have a wide variety of prizes for deviants to win. Currently, we're looking for new members, and we're also accepting new kiribans to feature.

Whoas - Theme: Storms

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To contribute to the next installment of "Pimps & Whoas" please comment on this journal with the appropriate links and information.  If promoting groups, please include a description so people know why they should check it out! Also use devtags not icontags eg:communityrelations not

Next installment to be posted August 9, 2011 and the theme for the "Whoas" is:



Wanna suggest a theme? Note moonbeam13 with your ideas!