Pimps and Whoas - February 9, 2012

Pimps

Official dA News

Celebrating Deviousness - February 2012
Pin Up From Objectification to Empowerment
The Great Valentine Exchange
Site Update Comment Counts on Thumbs and More
Giving Your Stacks an Introduction
Artists to Check out - Part 10
Cute Monsters deviantWEAR Design Challenge
Emoticon Gallery Changes
Cosplay from Fandom to Identity

Community Relations Projects

Community Projects Update
projecteducate is now a group! - Watch us and learn how you can get involved in upcoming Project Educate series!
Art History Project See full schedule here

Informative News & Events

Proposed Projects Category Changes
Ongoing Community Projects
Next San Francisco SketchBomb February 25, 2012
February's Solution Sanctuary: Critique
Be a Hero, Report a Miscat!
arteporamor (Means Art for Love) and is MelGama's charity project to get money to Brazilian Organizations.
Anthro Challenge #81
Support Beccaclious in the Race for Life 2012!
Derby Devmeet - March 31, 2012
Gifts for the next Emote CV Project
Tip of the Day - Traits of a Good Artist
Commission guruubii!
How do you do that? Clean Line Art
Marwell devMEET - date set!
Artisan Craft Themed Challenge - Hearts
Accepting Mentees - How do you do that?
Heart Art Submissions are open!
The Social Currency of Opinion
Amaranthine Project
The Senior Stache is here!
Perspective
My Kid…
Need A Tutor?
News February 2012

Features & Interviews

Demonstrably Deviant Issue II
Shuurei's Weekly Features of Randomness III
Weekly Hunt 37
On Shadow and Light
Listen to an Interview with $Makepictures
How They Did It - The Story Behind the Shot V2
The Ladies of Lit Volume XVIII
Emoticonists on dA - 4
Inspirational Artisan Crafts #13
Forum Features - Dragons Chinese New Year
Ask Frocktarts anything!
TypoTalks with suqer
Your Picks My Page Vol 2
Fairy tale Fantasies and Inspirations

Groups

  Critique-It's Photography week has begun! I would so appreciate any help pointing members of the photography community to our group. You can find details in their weekly blog.
Lit-Visual-Alliance, a group dedicated to encouraging literary artists to work with visual artists, announces its first contest
Not getting enough exposure in the literature community? Feel intimidated? Don't know where to start? Expose-Lit is here!
vicious-verse -  A poetry only literature group dedicated to dark verse. Our Jungian shadow must be expressed so that we may integrate our disparate selves. vicious-verse shall be a safe haven for the dark poetry that festers within us. We must be completely human if we are to know ourselves.

Whoas - Theme:  Love

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What I'm looking for from you guys:
News, Features or Interviews you want to promote
Groups you want me to feature or highlight
  deviations that follow the theme for that issue
DevMEETs or events going on around you or being hosted by you.
Commission information for those looking for Commissions
Anything else you feel you want the deviantART community to know about!

Next installment to be posted February 29, 2012 and the theme for the "Whoas" is Green. 

Wanna suggest a theme? Note moonbeam13 with your ideas!