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What happened?!

6 min read

Hi guys!

Holy fucking shit I have not been here in a while. 
Just saw on twitter a new theme was out and naturally I got curious. 

Turns out in February I got a spike in pageviews, starting Feb 17th until Feb 27th, with hovering just around 1K a day and then from 1.200 on 27th to 63 on 28th Laughing my ass off! 

So yeah, no idea what happened, I did not get a DD for a deviation that's more than 2 years old, that I can figure out.

Also I had to delete 1K mentions, because roughly 900 of them were the same person using :vodkala: on a daily basis to wish people a happy birthday. 

If anyone can explain this, please do, or I will forever not know.

That said, what else happened? Not much. I am just not on DA much anymore these days, I am more on Facebook and that has got to be a bad sign, right?  Grump 

But you see the links at the bottom? Twitter and Instagram? I'm more often there. So say hi, if you feel like it. :wave:  

Take care <3

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Hi guys!

In an attempt to make the most stressful holiday of the year even more stressful I decided to have a big freebie event at my blog. Every day until the 24th I will be posting new free items for everyone to download. 

Check out my blog to learn about the freebies!

Today is a special day, it is December 6th and St. Nikolaus day, so the freebie today is especially big. It contains samples from previous products I released, some new items and some old items that are available for free already.

Here's a link to the post with the big freebie!

6-small by pica-ae

The entire website is actually new and fresh with the blog and it's homepage. It contains all the big ways in which you can find me online and contact me.

That said…

I have been rare on DA lately. I just didn't find a reason to go here and I am spending a lot more time on twitter, pinterest, dribbble and youtube. There are a lot of things I need to take care off and I sometimes don't know where my head is. Despite it always sitting on my shoulders, from time to time I feel like it just ain't there ;) 

I have been working on creating products to buy both on Creative Market and Society6.

If you want to help this artist that's me, please share my products. I'd obviously appreciate purchases more, but I will be very very thankful for every share as well! 

Here are some of the products you can find in my stores:

FOR SALE - 5 Merry Christmas Cards and Lettering by pica-ae  Bitch Please - Now as Print! by pica-ae  The Beetle - Print by pica-ae  wtf I - Art Print by pica-ae



Thank you for reading! :heart: 

Take care <3

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Hi guys!

The Sunday through to Saturday feature is postponed for next week. I have not had the energy to focus on it this weekend. I don't want to go into detail, I think you are all aware of the horrible things that have happened in this world in the last week, and I am not one to virtue signal. Most of the time I am torn between lost for words and anger. 

Meanwhile I am working on a few commissions, so at least I can get busy with that. I want to open up more in the future, as mentioned in the previous journal.

Speaking of the previous journal.

After a long deliberation I decided to not give out the points. 

Why?

Because someone manipulated my pageviews to jump from 100 a day to 2000 in a couple of hours. I am very disappointed that this happened. This is a mean cheat and turned a fun game into an unfair farce. I am very unhappy that this happened. 

I don't want to lose many words on this, I sent a note to the people who caught the kiriban to explain it in more detail and I will not give out their names out of respect. 

I have no way of figuring out who cheated and how, but I feel extremely uncomfortable giving out so many points through an event that went down the way it did. 

I can deal with someone who is angry for not getting the points.
Even though I am not the person they should blame, they should blame the person, whoever they may be, that decided it would be a good idea to cheat on the kiriban. 


I still have the points, but I will do something else with them, something that cannot be cheated, to share the points with my watchers and friends on DA :)
I will keep you updated on that :la: 
Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.
― Neil Gaiman
P.S.: Of course I would put that motherfucking gif in here, are you kidding me?!

Take care <3

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Kiriban caught!

8 min read

Hi guys!

I think it's time for a personal journal! 



You didn't see that one coming, did you?

Obviously now that I decided to write this journal I forgot what I wanted to say.

Oh, right!

Kiriban at 333.333 pageviews!


It is about 2000 views away, which is about 20 days judging from my daily pageviews, so I suppose I will reach it end of July or early August. 

If you reach it, take a screenshot and note me with it.
Actually even if you don't hit it exactly, I am probably letting win whoever came the closest. 

Wait, win?


Yeah, you can win something. I've collected quite a few of points that I cannot transfer to Paypal, so I thought I should share them with you. 

Win 1000 :points: if you catch my Kiriban!


Yeah, it's generous, but I want to give this away. 


I should probably hold a contest at some point to give away more of those points ;) 
But no idea yet, really.

Let's get personal?




You're welcome to follow me on all my channels listed below with colorful icons :eyes: I have uploaded a few more prints here on DA and on my Society6 shop.

(Shit, I need to update the instagram icon...)

I uploaded some videos on my youtube channel of my hand lettering:



"The planet is fine. The people are fucked." - George Carlin - YouTube
Brush Lettering "minimum" 3 Ways in orange - YouTube

Follow my Calligraphy blog on tumblr: Pica learns Calligraphy :la: :eager:

Commissions


On another note I am preparing to offer more items as commissions. I will put some in my commission widget, but I will also accept them via note and they can also be paid by Paypal. 

Definitely journal skin and other DA related CSS/HTML items will be there and I will consider also offering other design commissions such as logos and probably calligraphy and lettering commissions, in what context and amount needs to be seen. 

If you can think of something you want to commission me with, you are always welcome to contact me any way you want :) 

Well...    


I hope you are all doing good.

The last weeks & months have been insane on so many levels and I can't shake off a feeling of anger about so many things and people. The world has gone mad and it feels like we're heading straight toward the likes of 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451, with banners in the wind and screams of joy, while Martin Luther King jr. and Christopher Hitchens spin in their graves. 

But I don't want to rant too much. It is hard to keep optimistic and in a good mood though. 

So I will just leave you with this:

“What is freedom of expression?
Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” 
― Salman Rushdie



Take care <3

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This article series features typography deviations that were submitted to DeviantArt from last Sunday to this Saturday, found by browsing newest :heart: :peace:


geometric minilist arabic alphabet #2 by tariqdesignGrow but never Grow Up by request-art
Jeremiah 29:11 by sailorjessiTypo1 by withTO
Take It Further by johnluncoSarah by Dakiedoodles
Psalm 39:7 by sailorjessiBroken Forever by pgizzle618
Life is a dream by challeninAmpersand by Dakiedoodles
Typography #3 by arifstwMyrtanas Lyrik (Gothic) by Coreyrn
Inspirational 1 by gongel
Sarcastic by TranNgocMaiPsalm 56:3 by sailorjessi
Day 9 of 365  by CreativityQueenOne day by EmjaeSnow
Request: Blanco Como la Nieve by request-artCapital A by calligraphyartworks



Feel free to suggest your own deviations for the next issue. Only rule is that they are posted to either of the typography galleries and submitted after this article.
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