All of the photo manipulations that I had on here were taken off.

I'm not mad anymore, just...curious.

This website is called deviant art, is it not? Traditional art is a creation of many works generally from scratch. One would think that DEVIANT art would allow for all sorts of possibilities.

Now, here is the part where I am curious.

Have these people heard of Duchamp? Such a thing was invented called the "Ready Made". He took a urinal, and submitted it to a museum. No changes AT ALL. And called it ART. AND NOW IT'S WORTH MILLIONS. A. URINAL.

The concept that Marcel Duchamp employed was called: "Art for arts sake".

Now, if I had just put a picture up on here without changing anything, that would be art for arts sake.

But NO. I CHANGED IT. There was time that I spent in Photoshop, manipulating an image. I made asthetic choices in how I wanted the image to appear. In the end, it was completely different that the original image.

Now, if I had done this for anything else, it would be ok. Like, an image of a flower. But because it is something mainstream it becomes taboo?


And what about all the drawn characters from...well, EVERYTHING on this f'ing site? I mean, you can't go to most profiles without seeing fan art from any manga, videogame, tv show, movie, or novel.

So what I am getting down to is: Where is the line drawn? When does something infringe copyright, and when does something exist as a standalone?

I suppose that I am still upset. But it's mainly because there is censorship on a website designed to accept art OF ALL FORMS.


I think I know why it happened. When I put up the "Round Robin" photo, there was probably some twat who loved Robin and got all upset that I had a little fun with the image. They probably complained to the site managers, and then they investigated all the things on my page.

Well, I hope you are happy twat. You took away someone's right to art.