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• Who are you ?
  by Darren Sharp

  If you can start the day without caffeine, / If you can get going without pep pills, / If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pa…

  If you can start the day without caffeine, / If you can get going without pep pills, / If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, / If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, / If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it, / If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time, / If you can take criticism and blame without resentment, / If you can ignore a friend’s limited education and never correct him, / If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend, / If you can conquer tension without medical help, / If you can relax without liquor, / If you can sleep without the aid of drugs, / Then you are probably the family dog!!!!!!

• the problem with gay people
  by sunset

  Got your attention? The problem is, I haven’t got one, but other people do. As I was growing up, my mum said “if you are gay, it doesn…

  Got your attention? The problem is, I haven’t got one, but other people do. As I was growing up, my mum said “if you are gay, it doesn’t matter, I love you” so many times I asked her if she wanted me to be gay. (I’m not) I grew up hearing about the conflict other people had, in other countries, with a mother who would do what she could to help (via Amnesty International). The old ‘best friend’ story-one of my oldest friend, who’s known me since she was two, finally came out a few years ago. We asked her what took her, cos we all knew: even in the most accepting environments, it’s not easy. I knew from the first 5minutes of meeting the BF’s mate (on the goldcoast last year) he was fully homophobic. I promptly told him if he went on about it anymore, I’d assume he was gay. Protest, protest. He protests too much. Then, the BF’s mate was down on the weekend. For the week. And again, proceeded to go on about it. To make jokes. (amongst the swearing, shopping sprees to Armani, and clouds of deodorant. Then hours on xbox). I’d had it up to here. I told him in no uncertain terms that people I love are gay, friends and family. They may not be here now, but I can’t laugh at jokes like that, because if they were there, I’d be insulting them, and he was insulting me by talking like that about gay people. That here in Sydney, people are tolerant of gay people, and don’t make a big issue about it. And I won’t let him be around my friends, hearing him talk like that. Of course, he has no ability to reply here. He promises he’s joking and wouldn’t say those things around anyone else. He knows it’s not appropriate. (not around me either buddy) I’m doing the parent-child thing telling him off. But you know what? I just read in the paper a guy and his partner (who I went to school with) have been bashed. His partner needed surgery, and will never look the same. The police said there’s not much they can do. They had to fight to get the CCTV footage, before it’s written over. The thieves took their phones and have called his mum, telling him they’ve killed her son. That is sick. Did you know something like 90% of bashings are sexuality related? That figure may not be 100% accurate. All that matters is that it’s happened to two people too many. If the police’s attitude is like that, many more too many. We as artists have a voice, and t-shirts to raise awareness, to design images and slogans that promote goodness in the world. I’m saddened that violent images perpetuate. That violence has been cool. Call me a hippy, but though love is sometimes seems harder. but it’s worth the effort. It takes effort. but it actually makes our lives better. There is another person to love, rather than hate in our world. Ironically, (as I say ‘tolerate’) I couldn’t stay at home with a person speaking like that in the house. I do not tolerate that talk. I told him what I’d thought, and out of respect to the BF, didn’t kick him out-it was good timing for me to take a holiday somewhere else. I think that sent the message, despite the fact I didn’t change his opinion (I can’t make him). I’m not sure what else to say, but if you have a problem with gay people, get over it. If you can’t quite do that, go play football, hit a punching bag or rev your car that little bit louder. We know you’re macho enough. We’d probably like you anyways, if you weren’t. Seriously, that behaviour is better than hurting someone we love. Knowing that, maybe we can laugh about how silly those people were, to once behave like that, and enjoy a better reality. That includes you.

• For those of you that know
  by ENaLu

  When you feel a little off / when there isn’t a friend to call / When you seem to be invisiable / to the things you cannot have / when nothin…

  When you feel a little off / when there isn’t a friend to call / When you seem to be invisiable / to the things you cannot have / when nothing / seems to go right…....... Understand this very simple thing / a basic law of physics What we pay attention to / we get more of try it….... notice your feet / isolate a toe / place all you attention there what happens? you become more toe! / more toe sensation / more toe awareness / more toe-i-ness of being so try this notice your thoughts about something / you don’t like, don’t want, don’t need / in your world or alternatively what you / do like, want, or need the more you focus on it / the bigger it / gets the more of it fills up the space / of what you experience energy works like that For those of you that know this / share it / practice it and enjoy / being the creator of / your own life and there is nothing you can’t do / or have….. dedicated to Alexia my beautiful angel….... xoxox

• Reality Check... (A Gift For All of You 'Attached' Men/Women/Animals Out There... Show This Journal Entry To Your Girlfriends, Fiances, Ho's, Wives, Partners, Dykes, Faggots, Whoever...)
  by JenniferB

  In reality, beyond the fibre optic cables of this whore-fucked, artistic, universe, I live with a man I wouldn’t hurt for the world, I do…

  In reality, beyond the fibre optic cables of this whore-fucked, artistic, universe, I live with a man I wouldn’t hurt for the world, I don’t know or feel what it is to love him or anyone else, but I do know how much he loves me, he’d kill himself if I were to fuck him over… he came into my life at a time I was going to end it, he’s saved me a few times since, simply because he continues to love me unconditionally, even though I’m fucked up, a bitch and a ho, he could have left me in a hole to die five years ago, but he didn’t, instead he got on a plane, flew to NZ from another country for fuck knows whatever reason, and he’s stuck by me ever since. I have a psycho of a son I owe my life to because my shitty cycles and baggage became the excuse I needed to fuck up his life… I don’t want or need any other people in my life, I’m incapable of caring for the two men who are with me in real-time, let alone trying to conjure up feelings I’m incapable of feeling for anyone else, Life shouldn’t be hard work any more… All I need is my Art and my Writing… Tell me something fucked up like you’re going to stalk me down and find me and I swear that I’ll never fucking talk to you again, not EVER, I’ll just slam the door in your face and walk away without a backward glance… like you, and many others before and after us, I’ve been through my fair share of shit, and yes, some of that shit has involved being stalked and raped… Saying the kind of crap you say to me isn’t funny, I’m NOT fucking smiling, my life is boringly complacent now – but it’s SAFE, and safe suits me just fucking fine, I’m sick of violence, abuse, high drama and being fucked over, I have a man who sweats blood because every day he tries to keep me alive and on a level – and a son I owe my very existence to. That in itself is enough, if not, even more than I deserve… I only want to be left alone to recreate my Life in the form of art and words aside from that, I need nothing and nobody. So let me blow and ho suck you and fuck you laugh and make a public fool of myself but don’t ever fucking ever tell me that you’re going to find me and be with me. fuck you. fuck me. let me blow you instead. ;-)

• I MISSED HER CALL
  by elfevans

  Boxes plugging, All sizes. Preventing, obscuring Adhering to the foul sketch. Me….pulling Stepping, Over, through an…

  Boxes plugging, All sizes. Preventing, obscuring Adhering to the foul sketch. Me….pulling Stepping, Over, through and Beyond Borders treacherously Flicking reddened tongues At my feet. While the dream Released me to Answer the phone.

• Freedom...
  by Chris Dixon

  You say I gave you your freedom. / Your strength. / Your inner voice. / No, Honey… but I do know what you mean! You had all those alrea…

  You say I gave you your freedom. / Your strength. / Your inner voice. / No, Honey… but I do know what you mean! You had all those already! / You, yourself, have freed them! I only helped you listen, / I only made you believe! / I only helped open your eyes; / So that you, might one day see… I only helped you realise… / Your true potential, / Your awesome inner beauty! / What a truly special person you are, and indeed, always will be! / ...Not only, to just little ol’ me! It is I, who should be thanking you, dear one! / For what, you have given me! You too, made me listen! / You too, made me believe! / It is you, who opened my eyes… / You, who made me see! To feel the way I do right now; / Is to know, what freedom really is! / The truest sense of freedom… I have always wanted! / ...Always needed! You have helped me grow as a person, / And for that, dear one; / I thank you… with all my heart, with all my soul; / ...With all my being! x

• Reality Fades
  by InfinityRain

  Reality Fades / By Rain / Aug 16th 2005 Lights are spinning / Reality fades / My mind is made up / Give in to the haze.. / Neglected..Forgo…

  Reality Fades / By Rain / Aug 16th 2005 Lights are spinning / Reality fades / My mind is made up / Give in to the haze.. / Neglected..Forgotten.. / In darkness I tremble / The dance was erotic / But life’s not that simple / The music stops / As always it does / The silence is deafening / Let me drift on the currents / For only a moment longer / Let me take with me a memory / Memory of the scent of our skin / Intertwined and warmed with passion.. / Just a moment longer… / Then the haze can wrap me up / Wrap me up.. / In her dark cloak of nothingness..

• What's the Point?
  by Gayla Drummond

  I find myself stirred to ramble about something a recent post by someone has brought to the surface of my mind – pretty amazing, consider…

  I find myself stirred to ramble about something a recent post by someone has brought to the surface of my mind – pretty amazing, considering how crowded its become in the last couple of years! =) Why is negativity such an accepted part of online life? I realize we all go through phases as we immerse ourselves in the joys of the internets; and yes, I do think age plays a big factor in how long those phases continue for each individual. Mental age: let’s make that clear. Physical age plays a lesser part in such behavior than some would believe, from my experiences. I’ve been online for…wow, 14 years now. In that time, yes, I’ve witnessed and participated in the most well-known form of negativity – the flamewar. I think what finally made me ‘grow up’ and stop was when ‘What’s the point?’ began echoing louder in my mind than all of the sarcastic or truthful comebacks clamoring to be typed. Words, be they spoken or written, have power. This is a fact, you don’t have to look further for an example than the Bible to see the truth in that statement. Some find great comfort and have great faith in the words it contains; some use it and its words as a weapon against others. Nuff said? Thought so. What’s the point? What drives someone to sit down and systematically tear down another online? Some say it’s a matter of having unsatisfactory lives off line. That it gives the doer a feeling of power to know they can control some unseen person by pushing their buttons with their words. If that’s the case, I’d think getting off their asses and going out to improve those unsatisfactory lives would be more useful and intelligent, but hey, that’s just me. =) Most of us tell someone who complains about instances of such negativity to ‘ignore it if you don’t like it’ or ‘it’s not real life’. Excuse me, but with the increase in digital communications flowing all over the globe, yes, what you do online is part of real life. People have gotten fired from their jobs over things they’ve posted online; you can’t get much more real than that! You can just control it much better than you can the physical part of real life. Online reality laps over heavily into real life. How many of us have read or had something directly ‘said’ to us that makes us smile as we go about our day, or brood over why soandso thought it necessary to say that? Words wound, and I ask again: What’s the point? Why wound someone you may never meet in the flesh, just because the internet makes it so easy to do so without any more reprisals than getting a flood of responses telling you that you’re an ass? I’m not speaking of legitimate complaints with another person. Defending your professional reputation should be done, but do it with taste and make sure you have the facts to back it up if you’re going to do so online. Don’t let it degenerate into name calling and cursing. It just makes you look as bad as the person you’re defending yourself from. Even then…what’s the point? This is where the history of flamewars/trolls works in your favor: while some unenlightened few may believe everything they read online because it’s there, there’s quite a lot of us who’ve ‘grown up’ and realize that the internet is both a wonderful place to interact with others, and a cesspool of game playing where the only object seems to be a high, figurative, body count. No one’s perfect, we all have a bad day here and there, but the best piece of advice I’ve ever gotten about being online still stands today: Think before you hit that send or post button. Re-read what you just wrote, now that you’ve gotten it out of your system, and think really clearly about if you want it attached to your online presence. Being a professional troll isn’t likely to make you famous or rich, and it’s for damn sure not going to make you feel better about yourself. If it did, you wouldn’t keep doing it, now would you? I’ve discovered a well of creativity that had been capped off due to all the time I wasted participating in stupid, useless arguments online. Once I cut myself completely off from all of that negativity, BOOM! Look at all the characters that have come roaring out of the dark recesses to get a little time in the sunlight! So, what was the point? Apparently, the only person I truly hurt by playing games back then was myself. Hell, I could’ve finished 50 or 60 books by now, if I hadn’t gotten caught up in all that negativity. Could be why I hop around so much, too. I’m trying to get caught up! LOL Also, I find much greater satisfaction in trying to build people up than I ever felt trying to squash troll bugs. Which, in some instances, only made me look like a troll bug, too. What you see of me online is pretty much what you get. I like people. I’m a bit of a people person. I normally have to get pretty upset with someone before I’ll get hateful to them, and getting me upset usually takes a LOT of doing, lol. I like YOU, until YOU give me a reason not to. Even then, now that I’ve ‘grown up’, I’ll likely just quit communicating with you. Not argue over it, because really…what’s the point? =)

• Hyper-Reality Calendar For Sale
  by earthairfire

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• SO WHAT ,? ART OR NON ART ? HEART OR NON HEART ?
  by caroline caux-evans

  Sometimes things dont appear as they are, / And arent as they appear! / Deformed by all sort of “realities” / Perceptions, / Emotions, / What …

  Sometimes things dont appear as they are, / And arent as they appear! / Deformed by all sort of “realities” / Perceptions, / Emotions, / What is the truth ? / WHERE IS THE TRUTH ? / IS THERE A TRUTH ? / OR THE TRUTH ? / Are we clear,? / Are others clear ? / TRUST IN OURSELF ? / OTHERS ,? / THINGS ? / WONDERING ? / WEIGHING ? / WHERE IS THE LINE ? / IS THERE A LINE ? / OR LINES ? / BORDERS ? / FRONTIERS ? / BETWEEN REALITY AND ILLUSION !

• Reality Check...
  by Bobbie

  Well I’m very late to the party and so I’ll honor the request to give funkyfacestudios journal a rest. Firstly thank you to the peopl…

  Well I’m very late to the party and so I’ll honor the request to give funkyfacestudios journal a rest. Firstly thank you to the people that let me know that my images had been stolen, I appreciate it. Actually I’m a little chuffed that someone thinks my work is good enough to steal, not that I’m happy about them being stolen but that someone liked them, hey I’ll take any compliments I can get. I’m also very pleased that it’s been sorted and they won’t be taking images from Red Bubble again. Now for the reality check, if you put your images on the web they will more than likely at some stage be stolen, get used to the idea, it will happen, it doesn’t matter how big a copyright you put on them if someone likes them enough they will take them. I belong to another photography site where this is almost a weekly occurrence simply because it’s a site with a lot of talented photographers and a lot of tempting photos, it won’t be the last time it happens here. As far as I can tell the best defense is a strong community like Red Bubble where people are familiar with each others images and can notify an artist if they’ve seen their image elsewhere or notify the community if they recognize more than one artists work. Then it is up to each artist to contact the person using their image and explain that the use of the image is in violation of the copyright and to politely request it be removed, also let the “thief” know that you will be contacting the site admin. Contact site admin and politely explain the situation and request removal of the image. Most of the time that works. Particularly if there are a number of artists involved. I have seen cases where they were particularly stubborn and it was necessary to point out the legal ramifications of breach of copyright. There are people that don’t realize they are doing anything wrong, there are others that don’t care but some reasoned pressure usually helps them care. One thing to remember is that if you contact another site as a member of Red Bubble you are then representing all of us, your behavior is how the community at Red Bubble is perceived. If you’re going to represent the community please be well behaved. I’m a little disappointed that the Red Bubble community has been represented as hysterical and bullying. I understand that it took some time to get the appropriate responses, 10 hours I believe. Where is the site? Did anyone check to see if, like the Bub, the admins were likely asleep? Could it be a site that the admins work in their spare time? 10 hours is not a long time in a global community, give them a chance. What I was very impressed by was that the issue was brought to the attention of the community and that when the RB gods realized what was happening they acted quickly on our behalf. That’s the first time I’ve seen that happen, thank you very much Red Bubble. I was also impressed with the initial reasoned response. Lastly thanks to the RB community for looking out for each others work. I think we need a Red Bubble night watchman…

• Three more sales - thank you Mr. B
  by Vasile Stan

  My very good friend in arts Butchart, aka Mr. B, a …

  My very good friend in arts Butchart, aka Mr. B, a well known artist in the RB community for his fantastic creativity and his brilliant art has bought three more cards with some of my latest compositions: Sphere of influence Confluent realities Summery beatitude I am personally very honored by his commited appreciation of my artworks. Thank you so very much Mr. B for your fantastic support, it is such a pleasant and yet humbling experience.

• My Ramble for the Day
  by lolowe

  Everything flows from a state not unlike that of the deepest sleep. Rhythms slow down, to a point where it seems that everything has beco…

  Everything flows from a state not unlike that of the deepest sleep. Rhythms slow down, to a point where it seems that everything has become still. Dreams and reality collide, or rather, they mesh to form this strangely altered and beautiful existence. No one knows whether we live the dream or dream our lives anymore. I’ve found that the world to me is but a waking dream. Everything starts off so slowly and then we’re rushed. Rushed to the plot, the confict the climax and then we’re swayed by the eventual fall, the end. We hear ourselves talking, motivating us to take one step forward, or perhaps a step back. But never do we feel quite in control, as if we’re on the outside looking in. Have you ever thought back to your memories? How do you see them, through your own eyes, or are you looking at yourself from somewhere above? It’s strange how we make the choice, to live or watch. It’s the way we are I guess. I’ve been thinking a lot about the end. Not death really, just the end. The end of everything. I never really saw it as death, but just as a resting period before things awaken. It’s like we are all drifting into the quiet place, and when we are aware again, we realize just what our lives had truly been; a fog. A thick fog that only dissipates when the sunlight is strong enough to shatter it’s hold. I guess I’m waiting for the sunlight. One so strong that everything becomes illuminated.

• Another WOOOHOOOO!!! Hummingbirds of the World featured "My Feeder"
  by redhawk

  Thank You Dennis and Jeremy for allowing me to show this image. Even though it is a sad shot I wanted to show how they can be very territ…

  Thank You Dennis and Jeremy for allowing me to show this image. Even though it is a sad shot I wanted to show how they can be very territorial around the feeders. WOOOOOHOOOO!!! Thank You Hummingbirds of the World for this honor. I will treasure this feature. / Redhawk /

• The Astonishing Reality of Martin Kirkwood
  by Gracey

  Having only recently had the opportunity to really look at Martin’s work instead of glancing …

  Having only recently had the opportunity to really look at Martin’s work instead of glancing through his portfolio I find myself astonished at how much reality appears in his work – and at how versatile he is with different mediums. I love his abstracts, but also his portraits – it’s difficult to choose a favourite from among this amazing display. This self portrait is one I find myself drawn to, though it isn’t offered for sale. The face is most expressive, and while it’s titled “An artist at play”, one can feel the concentration in this. From the abstract works, I find a pleasing range of colour, texture and balance in Abstract1 It is nearly impossible to select a favourite from among the portraiture – most are very expressive and beautifully done. If pushed to the wall I might select Lance Or Lesley But there are many other pieces of interest as well – a lovely cat portrait, and interesting one of discs, even some doodles. Visit Martin’s own website for even more. Martin is a man of few words, but some of them will make you smile. What drew you here to the Redbubble community? I got kicked out of my favoutite website for breaking the rules. I’m not sure what the rules were but a great Aussie photographer pointed me here. How does your creativity affect other aspects of your life? It buggers it up completely. I work as a tour coach driver in the UK and there are laws against sketching and painting while at the wheel of a large passenger carrying vehicle. How many mediums do you work in? Which is your favourite, and why? I’ve lost count of mediums. A psychic i confided in earlier this week said 6 but I reckon it’s nearer 8. Oil is my favouite. It has supernatural tendencies that can only be explained by diluting it with varying spirits and other unworldly stuff. Tell us about one person or moment that has made your time on redbubble particularly special or meaningful. Oh crikey. That’s a tricky one. Being noticed by the “Painters in Modern Times” group and being a featured artist in their “Best of Showcase” made me spit coffee all over my keyboard. I no sooner wiped my laptop clean when I was invited to be a joint group host. I’m still in a state of shock. Show & tell: What three works or people on redbubble have moved or inspired you? I can’t answer this question without mentioning my Dad If it wasn’t for my father’s encouragement I’d have put down my brushes years ago. 3 works? Moonglow Over Bixby reminds me that painting isn’t dead yet despite being swamped by digital stuff. Karsten Stier’s work is incredible. Starving Artist leaves me wondering whether to laugh or cry. Flibble’s Shelf Portrait just made me laugh out loud. It’s just brilliant.

• The Myths and Realities of Digital Image Theft
  by Jon Ayres

  The Myths and Realities of Digital Image Theft / ...

  The Myths and Realities of Digital Image Theft / By / Jon D. Ayres Being involved in digital art and photography for many years I have seen many misconceptions about digital image theft, especially lately. Of course any photographer and digital artist should be concern about having their work stolen and at present to only sure fire way to prevent digital image theft is just not to place your work on the internet, but lets be honest, image theft just does not happen as much as some people claim it does. For example, look at the number of people who are members of Red Bubble who post their work, how many have been caught using work they stole or have been caught stealing work posted on Red Bubble? Only one or two that I’m aware of, how many do you think are uploading work they stole? Considering the number of posters and the number of new members and post made every day, I would say the number of digital image thieves is very small if any at all. I read where one poster stated that they would no longer trust what she sees on Red Bubble because one person was caught uploading work that he stole from other artists and that is sad. I tend to trust people until I have a reason not to and when I see art work on different sites of the Internet, I will give the artist the benefit of the doubt until I have a reason not to because I consider myself also an artist. I take my own photographs and do my own post processing and conversions and I can prove that fact at any time to anybody, I want people to appreciate my art as I appreciate others art. From the forums of Red Bubble, it seems that some seem to think as Red Bubble becomes more popular, it will attract more image thieves. I can not argue with that, but let’s take a look at the types of image theft. Too many artists as I have said many times before, fail to even consider the business side of selling their art, they want to place their work on the Internet for people to see, admire and purchase, but are so afraid that somebody may steal their work and this fear many times lead to them taking actions that may protect their work in a small way if at all, but the price they will pay will be in lost sells and less admiration and appreciation for their work. Business is risks and gambles, both in a brick and mortar store or an Internet store and unless you’re willing to take some risks, you really have no business trying to sell anything. Lately on the Red Bubble forums I have read where a few people are saying that they are seeing more and more work submitted by people who are using work and photos which are not theirs. I somewhat wonder just how true this really is, because very often, things are not the way it seems, yes, this also applies to digital art thieves. But like I said before I like to give the person the benefit of the doubt until I have reason not to. Of course, f you think somebody has stolen another artist’s work, you should bring that to the attention of the directors and administrators of the site so they can look into it. But often times what looks to be somebody else’s work in reality is not anybodies else work but the submitter. A good example of this is on several of the larger stock agencies. When I first started looking for a stock site to host some of my photos, I always do a search to see just what my competition was on the site and who are posting work like mine and what they are posting. Often I was in shock by what I found when I did a search for photos of Moscow. One every large stock site, looked as if the people posting photos of Moscow were all on the same tour, taking photos of the exact same things almost in the exact same locations, standing in exact same spot. That was how close most of the photos of Moscow matched each other, of the 30 or 40 people posting photos taken in Moscow; they all looked as if they were all taken by the same person. So you have to be very careful in making accusations against somebody. Also if an artist buys a photo they like from a stock site or photographer, many times they can use that photo in their art as they see fit and I have given other digital artists to use my photos in their art for free. I retain the copyright of the original photo and the artist has copyright on their art. You have to be very careful with making accusations against somebody. Of course we artists all have to lookout for each other, but that also is a responsibility to try and be absolutely sure before making n accusation against anybody. When I first started working in photography and digital art, I learn the importance of having a good attorney retained to handle situations such as this, its sad that in today’s world, every business or individual involved in business needs an attorney, but that is a fact and I have one. If anybody steals my work or other legal photo and digital art issues that may arise, then I let my attorney handle it, that is one of the reasons I have retained her. In the early days of the Internet, I remember people only uploaded their images to show what they could do and many times the artist would be flattered if you said I would like to use your photo or art and they would let you use it for free, you only had to give recognition to the artist. The Internet was a gold mine for the ad agency, magazines and post card companies looking for digital art to use and in many cases for free. Even today there are many free graphic arts sites, one of the stock agencies I use even has a free section where photographers can donate work that can be downloaded and used for free. Though not as common as it used to be, businesses, companies, publishers sometimes seem to think they can download and use photos and graphic arts from the Internet for free. Case in point, here in Moscow a couple of years ago, a phone card company took a liking to the work of a local Moscow photographer and downloaded some of her photos to use on phone calling cards. The photographer just happen to be walking by a shop that sold phone cards in the subway and noticed several cards for sell with her photos on them, so she bought one of each and when she got home called the phone card company who tried to tell her that because her photos were on the Internet, they could be had for free, and they refused to pay for the work they took. Luckily the young lady knew an attorney who called the phone card company and told them that unless they were willing to pay for the work they stole, the matter would be settled in court. The young photographer ended up getting $500 per photo, which was about twice what she would normally get. That is why today, most businesses and publishers do not steal photos and art work from the Internet, because it is a no win situation for them and they know it. Yes, some businesses still take photos from the Internet, but they generally are small businesses who think they can get away with it without it being noticed, larger businesses and publishers know better and if they do not, they legal team will remind them. But this still does happen from time to time, consider Rebekka Guoleifsdottira, one of flickr’s most popular photographers. She’s posted the above composite to her flickrstream and written a post about how she’s been ripped off by Only-Dreaming, a London based print-selling company. Rebekka says that this store stole her photos, sold them for thousands of dollars and now will not pay her for what they stole from her. Rebekka tells how a friend of hers came across their store on ebay and recognized one of her prints. Rebekka looked into the matter and discovered 7 more of my photos being sold there. “I spent a good many days researching, going back thru their customer feedback, and was able to track back the sales of at LEAST 60 prints made from my images. These prints sold for a total sum of 2450 british pounds (around 4840 US$ )” said Rebekka. So far Rebekka’s attorney has only been able to get her images (which are all right’s reserved) off of Only-Dreeming’s website. Rebekka is an art student and single mother and could not afford a long drawn out legal battle. Only-Dreaming claims they bought the high resolution photos and did not know they were stolen. I tried Only-Dreaming web site and only the main page works, so maybe they are out of business now. The second group of image thieves and the largest group are individuals and make believe artists and photographers who steal other’s work and claim it is their own. It is these thieves that I find the most disgusting. But even though lazy no talent sewer rats like this make the largest number of digital art thieves, considering the number of talented true artists today who post their work on the Internet, the number of lazy sewer rats will always be small. They seem to think that because there are so many digital artists posting their work on the Internet and there are so much digital art that they can help themselves to what ever they choose and nobody will notice, famous last words. I did a web search for that person who caused such a uproar on Red Bubble who was caught steal digital art, named Donkeyass or something like that. I noticed their web page is gone now, but that person still has artwork posted on quiet a few digital art agencies and sites. But word is getting out about Donkeyass. Thieves are not known for being smart, that is one reason why digital art thieves are pretty easy to catch. Just look at that fool Donkeyass, posting his stolen art all over the internet, as if nobody would notice it. Just how do you catch digital art thieves? To a small degree its luck, as in the case when you accidentally stumble onto your work being used without your permission by another, most stock agencies are like large families, the membership generally look after one another. If you’re a member of a stock agency, then you generally look at other members photos and art and you have your favorite artists. I generally also look at other art and photography sites and have my favorite sites, if I notice a photo or art work on another site that looks like something another member of the stock agency I’m a member of that another member may have done, I will let them know about so they can check it out, same if I notice a photo or art piece in a magazine or advertisement, I will mention it the member I know, at least congratulate them, so they at least know their work has been noticed and if it is unauthorized use, then they are aware of it. Most stock agencies take image theft very seriously, both the thieves who steal members art and members who steal others art, so make the stack agency aware of images which may have been stolen. Some stock agencies use digital finger prints, each photo or art work uploaded to the site is digitally fingerprinted, then if the photo is right clicked, downloaded or saved, it can be traced right to where it was downloaded and by whom. There is nothing wrong with saving a photo you like, its how you use it that can cause trouble. Here is a very interesting link on digital fingerprinting: http://www.blogherald.com/2007/12/03/digital-fingerprints-for-images-detecting-image-theft-for-free/ / Canada has a new digital police force whose job is to search the Internet for digital thieves. Canada Seeks Digital Cops to Catch Digital Thieves / http://secondliferesearch.blogspot.com/2007/07/canada-seeks-digital-cops-to-catch.html / This is only a few of the many ways to catch digital thieves. How not to protect your work The methods vary, but remember, there are ways around most methods of protection if a thief knows what they are doing. Some mistakenly believe that disabling right click saving will protect their work, but I’m afraid these people only have a false sense of security. All a image thief has to do is use a screen capture to save a photo or art work. I have an Adobe program that I use to save web pages to make my own reference manuals (for my own use), I remember not long ago on one of the Red Bubble forums a lady saying how well protected her photos were on her site because she had disabled right click saving. Well, I copied her complete web site in less than 30 seconds, then extracted all the photos from the pdf file, nothing any easier than that. In less than 30 seconds, I had a copy of every photo and art work on her site. There are programs where all you have to do is enter a web address and it will download every photo or picture that are on the web site. So you can very well see that disabling right clicking does nothing. As a matter of fact enabling right clicking has helped me make sells. Many of my clients like to save my work and show their clients if they are interested in having my work, so I have no problems with right clicking as long as the person doing the right clicking does the responsible thing. I’m against disabling right clicking for several reasons, first, it does not work, second, I make sells by allowing people to right click and save a low resolution copy of my work and third, I live in Moscow, Russia, my family likes in the US, I want my family to be able to right click and save my work. Now if you right click my work and save it then use it yourself for financial gain gain or claim it is your work, you better hope that I do not find out about it. Watermarking is one of the best ways to protect your work, but many people not only watermark their work wrong, but also have no idea of the real reason for watermarking. Most people feel that watermarking is to make it hard for an image thief to use their work, well guess again, a good image thief knows how to remove most watermarks. Some think that by putting a big watermark across the middle of your artwork will protect it and in most cases it does, but it also makes your artwork look very bad and unprofessional and could very well cost you sells, that is why it is not bothered with by most digital thieves, they only want good art. In my and a lot of other people’s mind, a big bold watermark across a photo or art piece completely destroys it. Faded watermarks or transparent watermarks are better, but faded watermarks still take away from the photo. But this really is not the purpose of watermarks. Watermarks are for showing that a photo is copyrighted and how holds the copyright and in my case to show that I am the artist who created the art and that in a lot of cases keeps image thieves away. The purpose of watermarking is not to make it hard for an image thief to steal your work, but to show who owns and copyrighted the work. Then if the case ends up in court, the image thief is already sunk because even if they remove the watermark, that only makes your case stronger. The image thief has lost before they even began, that’s why most professional image thieves stay away from watermarked photos. And for this purpose, a small watermark is all it takes. Remember, if a professional image thief wants your digital art, they can remove a large watermark just as easy as they can crop a small watermark on the corner edge of a photo. Watermarks are for showing who owns a photo and the copyright and this is very strong in courts of law, especially when you show that the watermark has been removed. For this reason, watermarking is one of the best protections for photos. But only if you do it right will it help your sells, not take away from your sells. There are many digital arts now, the competition is very strong and if your going to make sells, you have to provide a pleasing to the eye product, do not let your watermarking take away from your work, if you do, a buyer will go somewhere else to find their art. As I said, most professional digital art thieves and businesses do not try and take watermark photos because they are copyrighted and if caught, it could be very expensive for the business or pro image thief. But the lazy make believe digital artists are the main ones who steal watermarked work for their own use or to claim as their own work and in a lot of cases the individual make believe digital artists can be the hardest to catch because they can hide among the true digital artists, but they are also the easiest to catch, because they are stupid. How do you protect your digital master pieces? Every stock agency, every art site, every web page where photos can be posted, should make it clear that digital art theft will not be tolerated, either by people downloading art (by downloading I mean for their own use) or by artists who are members of the agency. That all work is copyrighted. That fact alone is enough to make most people leave your work alone. And that if caught, the agency will take what ever actions needed to rectify the situation and by legal means if required. This warning should be placed on every page which has a photograph or art work is found. Do not make threats that only encourage image theft, its like waving a red flag in front of a bull. The digital image thieves who know what they are doing are few in number and will not be stopped no matter what, but thankfully they only concentrate on photos and artwork that big money can be made on, not art work like on Red Bubble or other stock photo sites like this. Face facts, if your work was truly good enough to make big bucks, you would not be here, would you? Your stock agency should refuse to use hot linking, hot linking is one of the easiest way for the digital image thief to steal images, all they have to do is copy the code and place it on their web page and whola, look at what they have now, your photo or photos all for themselves. / If you’re more worried about people stealing our masterpieces than you are about selling them, then do not list your gallery or portfolio on the Internet search engines. The less people who know about your work or where to find, the lesser number of digital image thieves who can find your work. If your more concerned about selling your work and being an successful artist, then submit your gallery and portfolio to Internet search engines. Business is risky, just look at the number of businesses robbed and broken into each day, even on the Internet, but you can make your Internet business safe if you choose to. Use numbers instead of letters or place a number somewhere in the photo name, misspell the photo name, but be careful if you want customers Using low resolution photos as examples is one of the best ways to protect your work, I know some have said, “Oh I downloaded a photo from Red Bubble and made a post card with it” I mean really, now how about trying to resize that photo to a more useful size, you may be able to get a 4 inch by 6 inch card made using that photo if your lucky, but any larger forget it. Having low resolution examples is the best way to protect your work and one of the ones I prefer most. Make it 4×6 inches (or smaller) at a resolution of 72dpi and that’ll make it near useless for printing purposes, unless the user wants to shrink it to half the size 2×3 inches to get a good resolution for printing. Watermarking your photos, some believe they need a big watermark across their photo, I do not, and a small watermark is all that’s needed. Some like me place it in a corner of the photo, some place it in the middle and others somewhere like curved around a car wheel, on a church steeple or in another unnoticeable place in the photo or art work. The reason for this is to be able to prove that the image belongs to you. But to ruin the image in an effort to save it, defeats the purpose of having the image for sell in the first place. Digital art is now very competitive, will no telling how many artists doing it now. You have to keep your work appealing and a big watermark across your work just is not very appealing to most people looking to buy a piece of art. Though watermarking can make it a nuisance for the person to steal it, but watermarking is ugly, and you’d pretty much have to destroy the photo before someone like myself would have trouble removing it, is that the type of work you want to present to prospective clients, I sure do not. You may want to consider copyright protection or registering your copyright just in case you ever have to go to court. There have been a few cases where the court has ruled against the artist who created the work because they were unable to prove that they took steps to protect their copyright. Cases like this are few and far between, but they do happen from time to time. Some stock agencies mark their photos with digital fingerprints. Digital Fingerprints allow a photo to be tracked, who downloads it, time it was downloaded, where it was downloaded to. Stock agencies have found that just mentioning that their photos are digitally Fingerprinting scares away most digital thieves. There is only foolproof way to protect your digital art and that is just not put it on the Internet at all. No matter what means are developed to protect digital art on the Internet, it will only be a matter of time before a way to defeat it is found. Just last month in St. Petersburg there was a hackers convention, one of the sites hacked was one of the larger popular stock photo sites, the hackers were able to bypass the security of this stock agency and download every photo on that site. If you so paranoid that you think that your masterpieces will be stolen, then you should not place them on the Internet at all. If it can be seen with a browser, it can be taken, plain and simple. How do you find out if your work has been stolen? / 1. To find stolen text or articles: Check any search engine using exact original text near the top of your page and put it in quotes, also search for the title of your work. / 2. Find stolen images: Use Google’s Image search or any other search engine that allows you to search for images and use any word that would describe your image. You can also search for the image file name but if they are smart (luckily most digital art thieves are not) they may have changed the name. / 3. Use CopyScape http://www.copyscape.com/ which allows you to enter your web pages URL and it will bring up any site with your content on it (this often results in directory listings with a list of your menu links or other text) so look for listings with a significant amount of words being copied. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-——- / Steps to Remove Stolen Content / This information comes from Lori’s Web Design http://www.loriswebs.com/stop-stolen-content.html I used this information as my source for this part of my article, so I can not and do not in any way claim this to be mine, I rewrote the indo like I did in school when I had to do a report. So I give full credit to where I found this info. J. D. Ayres / Try and find the contact information for the web site where you find your stolen work. Most thieves are trying to sell what they steal or claim it as their own and usually always have contact info on the page. If they have no contact email on the website which is rare, then contact the sites hosting service. / Check their domain Whois for contact information. All registrants are supposed to provide contact info. Use InterNic Domain Names Search to search for the registrant’s or administrator’s contact info. There are several ways to search for contact info, Mapquest, USPS (United States Postal Service for those who do not know), Whitepages, Yahoo’s People Search, name search on Google or Yahoo, and the phone company where the thief is located. Many cities have online phone directories all over the world. If all of the contact info for the domain is false and the phone company says there is no person by that name listed in that city then this domain was likely purchased for illegal practices which is against the law. You can report them to the org that regulates registration of domains with Internic’s Whois Data Problem Report. They will then try to contact the owner of the domain and if this is not resolved within 15 days they will remove the domain. You will have to provide proof that you own the content in question and include all valid info to support your claim in your letter. / You have to be able to prove that you actually own the work. It is best to have your work registered with the US Copyright office, but not necessary really. You will then need to use proof from a third party online, for example, an electronic copy (save a browser copy) of Google’s cache of your page or website with a date. I generally make .pdf copies of every web page I have material on, so there is no question about when I posted it. I also never use my original photos for my work, only copies, so if needed I can provide the original photo with EXIF data and meta-data. Hopefully you have already done this from the start so if your wrk is stolen, you can prove who had the work first and posted it first. If your website with the stolen content has been online more than 1 year you can provide a link to the Way Back Machine which keeps copies of websites and will provide 3rd party proof who had the content online first. This does not prove who owns what, only who published it first. / Write the owner of the site with the copyright infringement and send a cease and desist letter. Even though you can do this yourself, it is best to have an attorney do it because attorneys are not brushed off as easily as individuals are. You may want to try writing and sending the letter yourself before contacting an attorney or just skip this part all together and contact the Internet host of the thief. / First look for the hosting company’s Terms of Service, every host site has them on a web page with rules about using the site. Most Internet providers (at least in the US) have strict rules about copyright infringement. Quote those rules which apply to your situation in your letter. The thief’s website will probably be removed if you can prove that they have content on it that belongs to you and is there without your permission. Some hosts will take the stolen content down immediately and possibly even remove the whole website. Some hosts will insist on your sending a DMCA report by certified mail according to their rules which are either on their website or they will send you by email. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law which implements two 1996 WIPO treaties. It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services that are used to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly known as DRM) and criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, even when there is no infringement of copyright itself. It also heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet. On May 22, 2001, the European Union passed the EU Copyright Directive or EUCD, similar in many ways to the DMCA. / In rare cases contacting the offender or their hosting company may not provide the desired results, then look over their hosted sites and write all their advertisers, sponsors, membership organizations, subscribers, Internet Service Providers, Google AdSense as well as any other PayPerClick Services, Yahoo Directory, DMOZ directory, including those who are linked to their website. Inform them this person has stolen your copyrighted material. / If you have been unsuccessful so far, you have one more option left to you before taking legal action, to file a DMCA report with Google or Digital Millennium Copyright Act report. Also file a DMCA report with all the search engines this site is listed with. This is a very long and time consuming process and must be filed via regular certified mail. Make sure you have your facts correct and are completely truthful because if you are not, it could result in legal penalties for you. But this last method is very effective; outside of this your only recourse is taking the thief to court. / Of course all of the above really depends on the country where you live, the country where the thief lives and the country where the thief’s web site is hosted as to how you can deal with the situation. How many digital art thieves are caught and how many get away? I There really is no telling, most US businesses and publications no longer take images and use them without permission because of the legal ramifications, remember I said most, some US businesses still do. From what I have seen on the Internet, it seems that the largest group of business digital image theft goes on in Britain now. Only-Dreaming as mentioned before is a British company, Active Magazine another UK outfit, http://www.leelau.net/2006/activemagazine/activemagazine.htm / I guess UK businesses are like how US businesses used to be, if its on the Internet, then its free for the taking, US businesses pretty much wised up after a few lawsuits. But digital image theft happens all over the world and the only way to stop it is not with software or disabling this or that, but for the honest digital artists to look out for one another. Be careful and try not to jump conclusions, but when you see something that may not be what it claims to be, contact the stock agency or web page director and tell them, I’m not sure, but I think this image may belong to somebody other than the person who posted it here. I maybe wrong, but maybe you should check this photo. Also contact the artist you think the photo may belong to and tell them that maybe they should take a look at the photo and see if it is theirs or not. If all the true digital artists unite and stand together and start kicking some digital thief tail, it will not take long for people to wise up. Of course there will always be thieves, that’s a fact of life, but if we unite and say “enough is enough, we’re not going to take it any more” it will not take long for this problem to be a lot lesser of a problem. / Jon D. Ayres Sources: / Design http://www.loriswebs.com/stop-stolen-content.html / Lori’s Web Design http://www.blogherald.com/2007/12/03/digital-fingerprints-for-images-detecting-image-theft-for-free/ Digital Fingerprints For Images: Detecting Image Theft for Free Canada Seeks Digital Cops to Catch Digital Thieves / http://secondliferesearch.blogspot.com/2007/07/canada-seeks-digital-cops-to-catch.html

• the tough issues
  by budrfli

  sometimes art is needed to help us stop and hear reality speaking / i feel honored whenever my life here involves me in those issues and …

  sometimes art is needed to help us stop and hear reality speaking / i feel honored whenever my life here involves me in those issues and makes me look inside and hear the speakings we need to makes us aware of how blessed we are and how thankful we should be / this is one of those challenge

• Dreams or reality??
  by CateTownsend

  Last night I was thinking about my beautiful aunty and feeling sad about the way she died, and then I started thinking of different ways …

  Last night I was thinking about my beautiful aunty and feeling sad about the way she died, and then I started thinking of different ways to die… not that I want to die atm far from it. My aunty suffered a painfull, horrible death. Vommitting up blood and choking on it, it was so bad seeing her like that. Unfortunately I had no idea of how sick she was, I actually thought she was in remission, until my cousin called and said she was dying and I had better hurry if I wanted to say goodbye. This happened two years ago and the shock was enourmous to see her like that, it was my first experience of seeing someone die of cancer. So I thought I don’t want to die like that if I can help it. Then I got to thinking about going to sleep and not waking would probably be one of the better ways of leaving this world. Then I thought what if when we are dreaming and we die we become a part of the dream and then that becomes our new reality….. because I don’t know about you but my dreams can feel incredibly realistic. This thought led to all kinds of random thoughts and possibilities….. I guess it’s something that we don’t like to think about or dwell on but it would be great to hear other people’s thoughts on the matter. Even experiences such as near death or ghosts, angels miracles ?? whatever…. Oh yeah and these are just random thoughts by the way not meant to be offensive to anyone in anyway

• the painkilling powers of pretty
  by Rella

  Life has an evil tendency / To try to burn and batter me / But I’m not breaking easily Sketching seems to have a way / Of entrancing me m…

  Life has an evil tendency / To try to burn and batter me / But I’m not breaking easily Sketching seems to have a way / Of entrancing me most of the day / When reality causes me to fray… Trying to capture what I see / Is the painkilling power of pretty / So I let Holly inspire me… This link is to a little sketch that wants to be a painting…

• we all could stand for such a "reality check".
  by Thomas Josiah Chappelle

  Recently, one of our precious members wrote this journal statement: Forgetting I want to forget about myself—completely. / I want never…

  Recently, one of our precious members wrote this journal statement: Forgetting I want to forget about myself—completely. / I want never to want anything for myelf again. / I want to learn never to feel hurt by others, no matter how much they hurt me. / I want to be ready to acknowledge that those I love are always right, even when they are not right. / I want to quit being obnoxious. / I want to learn not to open my mouth until I am 100 percent sure that there is no possibility that it will hurt others in any way. / I also want to learn to be funny and make jokes. / I want to be an angel. / Do you think I could be an Angel? There are many of us that have felt the same way about our ownselves….. I assured that person of that reality. When I wrote this for her and to her, I did not realize that we all could stand for such a “reality check”. This artist expresses the talent that abides with them so well in several different mediums -exquisite and elegant….It is in the day to day living that we bumble, fumble and tumble all over ourselves and others…here we cannot find many times the elegant tact, the exquisite discernment and the majestic wisdom to do as we ought. Thank you for bringing these facts and truths to bear….Artist Supreme / ..to keep us on our toes with awarenes of who and what we are all about. “I have felt this way many a time, If being ourselves, tires us out…get some rest . Pray that the next time your feet touch the floor, you’ll have an opportunity to restore and be restored…as for the fourth line…that is a toughy….more so in a different manner than the rest….bite your tongue and zip your lips is best…. As to being an “angel” – we really don’t know much about angels do we…..are they trully “perfect” ? All I know is that one third of the angelic hosts followed Lucifer, the Angel of Light in rebellion against God. Even Angels are given a choice to do right or do evil – just like us. The difference: They seem to inhabit a different “body” than we do, exist in a different realm than you and I for the most part – the sad part of their situation, seems to be is that they were not offered a “Plan of Salvation”. / Being a human “with feet of clay” is very irksome at times – we can’t be “angels” in the heavenly sense but we can be God’s messengers of hope and mercy yet still. You want to learn how to be funny – don’t worry -we are; sometimes , sadly so. Do what Bob Hope , one of the most well known and enjoyed comedians did - / He looked in the mirror and saw an inexhaustible source for having a good laugh. One thing for sure, if we did not open our mouth, we would lessen the chances of hurting someone else else…but also lessen the chance to bless someone who badly needed blessing with a simple “Thank you” or “I appreciate what you are doing and have done”. / So you see…we are going to hurt someone.. no matter how hard we try not to…but try anyway…..it is good for your self esteem. We are going to find ourselves, “needing” this or that in life; learning to be content is a discipline we should all work at in patience. Forget about yourself – don’t we wish that in our lowest points….Suppose then we just “try” to do that and find someone that has a need that we can fill graciously…. Thomas Josiah Chappelle / Order of the office of “Chaplain of human reliques “

• Love this site
  by Jim Caldwell

  One could live here. When reality isn’t all we wish, we could easily slip into here where all the creative, wonderful artists and lovers …

  One could live here. When reality isn’t all we wish, we could easily slip into here where all the creative, wonderful artists and lovers of beauty and truth reside. My one problem is needing to spend a lot of time in reality, life in the world, work with the camera, and time spent gaining new experiences to write about. I don’t have the time,normally, to answer all the comments, make the ones I really want to in the length each deserve, so I feel wanting. Sorry if I miss anyone, ever. Love is the answer Jim Caldwell

• ::a true tale::
  by leannem

  Lately I have been somewhat depressed, thinking about the events in life that are out of my control. I want to tell you a little story. M…

  Lately I have been somewhat depressed, thinking about the events in life that are out of my control. I want to tell you a little story. My daughter, who will turn 21 this year…has had a rough time here lately. She had a baby January 15th 2007; my grandson who means the world to me. The father has very little to do with the baby. They broke up about a month into her pregnancy and they had been together about 2 years. A few weeks later she met a wonderful Marine stationed in Jacksonville, North Carolina named KC. He took on the responsibilities to help her raise Matthew. He also bought her a ring and asked her hand in marriage a month before leaving for Iraq this past August. In December, my daughter, who had been living with us at the time, walked out of her bedroom and told me she was breaking up with this wonderful man. Why? We still do not really know. I had all of his possessions here while he was in Iraq and remained close with him. In another few short weeks she met another..she got pregnant again within 3 months of their relationship & are currently together. I see things in this one I do not care for, but isn’t that the way it goes? KC just got home from Iraq and spent a few days here with us. My daughter, was here at one point and they finally got to talk and see each other and they remain friends. I as an outsider see the best thing for my daughter and grandson walking out the door. I do not want any of my children to be with someone they do not want to be with, so I try to not be all like..what the hell are you doing? Just because I see a perfect fit does not mean it is to be. It is always hard to let go of the one’s you love, especially children because we want nothing but the best for them. We want to make sure they are always protected…we got them this far and have to trust within ourselves that we taught them more than enough to carry on, on their own…

• Illusions
  by Amber Elizabeth Fromm

  Trinkets, Glamour, Greed, So easily are we caught in the trap of illusions. The land of desire doesn’t truly fill the emptiness in our h…

  Trinkets, Glamour, Greed, So easily are we caught in the trap of illusions. The land of desire doesn’t truly fill the emptiness in our hearts… The ultimate fulfillment and “Reality “is love, compassion and the gift of sharing inside and out what we have with others… there is nothing in my life that has ever come even close to this / wiping a tear, feeding the hungry… split your apple in two… Teach your children to sing write draw dream and LOVE / What a truly spiritual journey… Hope you don’t miss the boat. and buy into the trap… of false rewards think about it / God bless:) / Amber Elizabeth…

• Every one hurts someone
  by Robxavier

  Look no futher then your arms length and you will find pain. Everyone will hurt you at some point in time. To evolve mentally is the key …

  Look no futher then your arms length and you will find pain. Everyone will hurt you at some point in time. To evolve mentally is the key to a quick healing. Expect the worse and hope for the best. That reality in itself is worth living.