Pimps and Whoas - September 29, 2011

Pimps

Official dA News

The Savage Beauty of Gears of War
Dr Pepper Photo Op, New York City
Flash of Lightning Resonant Thunder
Cutting Edge Prints, Week 39/11

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

Fella Around the World Contest - Deadline October 13, 2011
Natural Colours Contest - Deadline November 4, 2011
Cartoons and Comics: Big & Small Contest - Deadline November 16, 2011

Informative News & Events

dreamarian is hosting a Halloween Hoo Doo Contest - Deadline October 24th!
Help Corner: Emoticons
Conceptual Photography
CNN's Camera Guide!
Writers-Workshop - A call to get Involved
Help touchedvenus raise money for Alzheimer's Research
Winners of the 2011 Epic Movie Poster Contest!
45 Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory

Features & Interviews

24 Portraits of People with Octopuses
The Discover Channel V
Project Comment: Under-Appreciated Feature
Awesome Artisan Crafts
Putting the ART in DevArrt Vol. 30
Focus on Fresh Arts #30: Emotional
Intro to Henna
Emotiviews 5 - Interview with phlum
An Absurd Interview with codenamepanther
Manga/Anime Spotlight: DiMoo
Behind the Symbol with bionikdesign
FanArt Feature: Back to School
Twenty Under Forty -- Vol. 22
Artist Spotlight: Johan Framhout
At Your Most Beautiful
Daily Literature Deviations, September 29th, 2011
The F Word #10
Informal Interviews: jswebb

Groups

  ManipulateThis is a group for photo-manipulators to "challenge" themselves by participating in theme "stock choice" type challenges. The challenges run twice a month, with prizes going out to the entries that are "picked" at the end. We encourage all levels of experience in photo-manipulation to join. In the month of October, we're doing two "dark" theme challenges for Halloween.
Game-Art - we have a lot new going on there that I think a lot of gamers and GDA deviants, and even just general community deviants would love to see.  We have interviews with game companies, indie game developers, etc happening straight until December (longer if we can get more interviews, q and a's set up), as well as prizes to give away like games.
deviant365 Read all about the deviant365 Community at deviantART!

Whoas - Theme:  Autumn

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Next installment to be posted October 12, 2011 and the theme for the "Whoas" is Candyland.  

Wanna suggest a theme? Note moonbeam13 with your ideas!