Special effects and makeup guru Stan Winston passed away on Sunday, June 15th in Los Angeles, California. Winston was best known for his work for the "Terminator," "Jurassic Park" and "Predator" series, and Edward Scissorhands. The 4-time Oscar winner most recently worked on Iron Man and was special effects supervisor on the upcoming Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.

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this is truly sad, i have always enjoyed this great mans works, and hopefully anyone who has seen my works has seen the influence he has had on me

rest in peace

well now that the final decisions of the NIPA: Northern Ireland Photographic Association sports photography round of which i spoke of in the last journal have been made. i decided to upload the four piece of mine that made through the first round and into the final

sadly my pieces were not marked high enough to be placed in any of the spots. i must admit i expected as much, hell i was in shock when they got through round one.

i didn't get to go to the judging due to a conflicting schedule(i.e. i couldn't get the night off) but have heard a mixed bag of comments from people who did, about what was said about the work.

though the only one that seems to stick out in my mind was a someone at the event refused to comment on them as when they found out 3 of the pieces were from a wwe event, they said that it wasn't sport and shouldn't be allowed to be entered

gotta love the art world huh


Deano

i was holding off on posting this but i thought why the hell not, you may have not known as i dont post my art here much any more, i'm heavily into photography, so much so that it was the main focus on my art degree, anyway i'm part of the local photography club in my area and there are set rounds for contests every few months. the way it works is you first have it in club then the winners of the in club section go on to face the other clubs, the last one that was held was based on sports photography.

i wasn't going to enter but i thought what the hell and ended up actually winning the thing, i came first and second place in colour as well as first and second in black and white.

amazed the hell outta me

i havent posted the chosen photos online anywhere, but 3 were taken at a wwe show and the fourth was on a tour of old Trafford football ground

all i need to do now is sit back and watch them get tore apart in the next part of the contest lol

sorry everyone for the huge dump of updates sure it hurt the eyes, i haven't had the time to really update my stuff here so it was a sorta all at once type thing lol.

i also finally managed to organise the gallery using the new features for seperate folders.

what i wanted to ask do you as artists go through your gallery's and delete old pieces. i was thinking of removing a lot of the older pieces that i'm no longer proud of, or in the texture maps cause character i have redone. yes it would cut down on the clutter but if people have commented or faved the pieces i wouldn't feel right removing them, plus it would lower my Deviations number not that would really matter

what is your thoughts on this.

D.

yesterday was the final day of my year 3 BA (Bachelor of Arts) honours degree in art and design majoring in photography( i did modules in visual communication, web design, fine art) at the university of ulster, i passed with a two one (the only higher mark is a first but to get that your talking about hitting 85+ out of 100 on each module for the 3 years)

so thats me official finished and graduated university/ college, I'm really proud of myself for the work i did but I'm not as excited as i thought i would have been

all thats felt is to add a few more images to my gallery and have my final show on Monday night when it opens to the public and invited guests

now to find a bloody job