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DeviantArt has recently changed its policies regarding the ability for users to report art that has been stolen and put on display here, regardless if credit is given to the original artist or not. They have taken the stance that this isn't true "theft", which I find absurd. An artist should have complete control over their material, and by law in the U.S. as soon as a piece of art is created it is also protected by copyright. There are entire galleries of scumbag users on here that are nothing more than stolen artwork. DeviantArt is condoning this behavior by the removal of the option to report works that are believed to not be owned by the

I have a counter-part to my DA account on Facebook. It's a Like page for all of my cosplay video and photography. I'm getting footage of this past weekend's Emerald City Comic Con on there. If you were interviewed by !A-Moonage-Daydream (https://www.deviantart.com/a-moonage-daydream) and myself, then eventually your video will wind up there. I also milled about the crowds and will be interspersing crowd shots here and there, so you might catch yourself in the sea of people. Keep an eye out for Miku-Cam - that's the video which will contain tons of crowd footage. Here's a link to the page: https://www.facebook.com/CosplayNorthAmerica Be sure to click the Like button if you... welll... l

Not sure how many people read journals, especially mine, but I was at ECC this weekend. All of the photos I took are now up in my gallery. If you know who the cosplayer and/or what the costume is, feel free to comment on the picture and I'll update it. For this con I did something new. I took my videocamera and we interviewed a number of cosplayers, and I also got a lot of footage walking around the con. Once edited these videos will be on my YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/AdamLProductions We will be at Sakuracon this year also. I'll be doing the same thing, trying to juggle interviews of cosplayers as well as take as many photos as I ca