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Featured artist
backlitstranger

General information
A.S.L?
I'm seventeen. Female. New Jersey, USA


What is your user-name/name? And what is there significance
my username is BackLitStranger. I cam up with it about 3 years ago when I started DA, I felt somewhat like a person watching everything happening from a far even though I wanted to participate.


What type of art do you submit (I.E photography/writing/OTH)?
Photography


How long have you been a deviant and how did you find out about the site?
Gosh.... I have no idea how long; i'd have to check. Since August 24 2002. Darn.

Your art

How long have you been producing art?
I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil. I've been taking pictures for about four years.


Why/how did you start?
I started taking pictures because I would always draw realism pictures and needed references.  But since half of the time I had to copy of off someone else's property, I felt I should start taking my own pictures and it just went off from there.  I started getting interested in taking pictures of things you don't usually see.  And I loved it.


What do you consider to be your best submission to date?
Gosh. I don't know. I love all of my photographs... www.deviantart.com/deviation/1… is my favorite.  The fact that it was never planned to begin with really intrigues me.  I saw a man on the street playing the flute and took a picture of him.



What inspired this piece of work?
The man was so into his music that I wanted to capture his emotion, show it to the world.



What are you trying to express in this piece?

To just be yourself.

What work do you have planned for the future?
I have huge plans for my future.  I plan to major in Photography at the university of the arts.  I want to become a fashion photographer. Work for harpers bazaar or ELLE magazine.  Or maybe Prada.   


Where would you like to be in five years time?
I'll be a senior at the University of the arts; I would be at my senior photo gallery showing that they do at the end of the year.
  About you

Who/what is your favorite?

Film
The Pianist
Book
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen, I can't stop reading it over and over again
Song
Fourth of July-By Shooter Jennings
Band
Bright Eyes
T.V program
X-files
Album
I'm Wide Awake Its morning
Hobby
Taking pictures.
Actor/actress
David Duchovony
Saying
Dance as if no ones watching
If you could change one thing about the world you live in what would it be?
Change racism






What is your motto?
Be different.

Is there anything you would like to say?
Don't give up on your dreams if you try hard enough you will make it.  And sorry for going Disney on you.

My Say

Backlitstranger has a great eye for detail and colour, she creates beautiful vibrant pictures that cant fail to catch your eye. Also her portraits are full of emotion that just jumps right out at you. Here are a few of my May favourite pieces of her work
  www.deviantart.com/deviation/1…
www.deviantart.com/deviation/1…
www.deviantart.com/deviation/1…

I find all of these pieces simple effective and very beautiful.

Ladies and Gentlemen I give you your luminous artist

Please leave any comments and question you have for her here. And remember to check out the other luminous artists
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Featured artist
celia

General information
A.S.L?
Im 16 years old, female and I live in Tasmania, Australia.


What is your user-name/name's? And what is there significance?
My user names are . . .
smile-for-ceal I chose this because when im taking photos its like "smile"
cealy-stock I chose this because it's like silly! hehe!



What type of art do you submit (I.E photography/writing/OTH)?
I started out with drawings and sketching but now im into photography hoping to get better at it though!


How long have you been a deviant and how did you find out about the site?
For about a year for smile-for-ceal! And a month for cealy-stock! I found out about the sight through a friend!

Your art

How long have you been producing art?
I'v been interested  in art since I could hold a pencil! J


Why/how did you start?
My mum is artistic


What do you consider to be your best submission to date?
Ummm . . . . I really love is 'someone listening' www.deviantart.com/deviation/1…



What inspired this piece of work?
The thoughts I get sometimes, when things are really hard and you go to God you wonder if he's actually listening.


What are you trying to express in this piece?
That even if you're unsure still pray. It helps get things off you chest!




What work do you have planned for the future?
My friend sarah :icondie-cat-die: and I hope to do a shoot really soon! And I'd like to start photographing other people! hehehe


Where would you like to be in five years time?
Living, married with a family!
With my art, I would love to have an awesome camera and be taking pictures on travels!


  About you

Who is your favourite?

Film ~ butterfly effect

Book ~ rachel's tears

Song ~ God Called in Sick Today - AFI

Band ~ AFI is a loved one but there are heaps!

T.V program ~ Lost

Album ~ any AFI :heart:

Hobby ~ photography

Actor/actress ~ jonny depp!

Saying ~ im not mean im just truthful



If you could change one thing about the world you live in what would it be?
That everyone had the same amount of money! Because then hunger wouldn't be an issue power struggle wouldn't either and rich people wouldn't exist!


What is your motto?
Love life and make every amazing moment last as long as you can!


Is there anything you would like to say?
:heart:
thanks for reading this and keep it real!

My say
Smile-for-ceal produces great photographs of herself, her thoughts and feelings seam to seep through her skin, her face seams to just suit black and white pictures. She also has a great talent for capturing the grace of her subjects. I think happy to die   www.deviantart.com/deviation/1… is an inspired picture. In this picture we see a beautiful young lady who seams to be full of life, and blissfully happy and yet we see a gun pressed to her head. Please leave any comments and questions hear and Go and check her gallery

Also remember to check out the previous features, and leave suggestion for anybody who you think should be featured
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Featured artist
s-f

General information
A.S.L?
20/m/Liverpool and Coventry


What is your user-name/name's? And what is there significance
s-f, they are my initials. I was lacking creativity on the day I joined DA it would seem.


What type of art do you submit (I.E photography/writing/OTH)?
My DA account is a barren wasteland of not a great deal. Ideally I would submit all my music, but as DA doesn't offer that category (as far as I know) so its just website designs and the occasional logo.


How long have you been a deviant and how did you find out about the site?
I have been lurking in the shadows at DA for years, but only set my account up Jan 13th of 2004 (10:46am apparently). I have been designing websites and indulging in application skinning for years and DA is the biggest source of that sort of stuff.

Your art

How long have you been producing art?
Music: a few years. I have been a singer forever in one way or another, but only started playing guitar a few years ago.
Websites: About six years. I started off with the worlds most awful website, and I've progressed a fair bit and make a decent amount of cash from it now.


Why/how did you start?
I started making music as soon as I felt I was good enough, and despite being a pretty confident person, it's a lot of pressure, especially performing in public, which I've started doing over the last couple of years (open mic nights/parties etc.)


What do you consider to be your best submission to date?
Its not on DA, because its music, but 'not bad, just ordinary' (www.36-degrees.co.uk/spotless/… )


What inspired this piece of work?
It was a good chord pattern that Ben (my guitar totting friend) came up with, and the idea of writing a song about normal life. We wrote it together and it turned out really well. It was recorded using my iMac G% and garageband, and features a guitar, and three different sets of vocals which sound pretty cool.


What are you trying to express in this piece?
It's just a song about how life isn't the way songwriters make out. Its all about the tedious things we do everyday, which aren't bad, they're just ordinary. It's a bit of a feel good song.  



What work do you have planned for the feature?
I am getting more and more into designing websites for clients, so that takes a lot of my creative time. But I never know when the mood to write a song will strike, often its just a matter of thinking of one good line or chord pattern.


Where would you like to be in five years time?
Living in Japan, working either in a creative industry job or something equally enjoyable. I want to be a better web designer, a better musician and a lot better at Japanese.


  About you

What is your favourite?

Film
Either 'fargo' or a film called 'If' which was made in the sixties. Napoleon Dynamite is a current favourite though.


Book
Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami

Song
Live in a hiding place by Idlewild (on the remote part album)

Band
Seafood (seafood.uk.com)

T.V program
Desperate housewives or the news.

Album
Either 'The Bends' by Radiohead or Surviving the Quiet by Seafood

Hobby
Playing guitar

Actor/actress
Keira Knightley (hubba, and indeed Hubba)

Saying
Youre only young once (at the most inappropriate times)

If you could change one thing about the world you live in what would it be?
I would be the head of the iTC, and therefore save the nations TV viewers from such horrors as the Friday night project, loose women and the top 100 whatever's.

What is your motto?
I dont think I have one to be honest…

Is there anything you would like to say?
Erm … yes, I'd like to recommend Yum's Korean fondu and all you can eat buffet, which in on Bold Street, Liverpool. Its all good.  


My say

I know s-f very well, he is my cousin and at times I kind of hate him. I hate him in the way us insecure people do when we come in to contact with someone who is far more talented then ourselves. There is no way round it, s-f can do anything he turns his hand to, and anything he turns his hand to he soon excels at with great ease. He is an amazing web designer (as you will see if you check out his site) www.36-degrees.co.uk/ and has an almost bottoms pit of a brain when it comes to computers (at least it seams this way to me, i'm not very good when it comes to computers, I cant even set the clock on the video player). I wouldn't mind he being good with computers if he wasn't such a brilliant musician. You see what really grates on me is that s-f also manages to write sing and play very heartfelt songs, so not only a man with a promising feature in web design, but also a man with a promising feature in the music biz. In short s-f has a great life ahead of him weather he choose the web or the song. (I hope he chooses song thoe). S-f is one of the smartest, funniest, coolest, friendliest, talented individuals I have the privilege of knowing, and although I hate him with a passion I couldn't be more proud of him, he gives me hope if he can do it why cant we?

I recommend that you find a song called defence of the realm by our featured artist S-F. I consider this to be his finest piece of work. Ladies and gentleman I give you your luminous artist. Please leave any comments or question you have for him hear.

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Featured artist

TrinityXXX


General information

A.S.L?

19, Last time I checked Female,

I currently rent a house with my friends Bob, James and Dave

in a suburb of Chicago,IL.








What is your user-name/name's? And what is there significance

TrinityXXX was actually a joke I had with one of my friends

I was talking about opening up a website,

he thought I had met a porn website and said

"you can't have one of those without the XXX!"








What type of art do you submit (I.E photography/writing/OTH)?

Writing by far, usually in the Erotic or Human Nature categories.

Sometimes I get into my photography moods,

I bought a camera mine as well use it :)








How long have you been a deviant and how did you find out about the site?

           since Apr 19, 2004, I honestly don't remember how I found it though! It must have been one of my 2 a.m., out of cigarettes and caffiene mindless google searches. haha.






Your art


How long have you been producing art?

Since I was 3 years old,

my first piece was made with stolen lipstick from my mother's make-up drawer

I ripped a piece of paper out of one of her yearbook's and drew

jesus, and an angel.

It's really creepy hahaha

I started writing poetry at age 6

One of my pieces was published in a Youth Poetry Book.




Why/how did you start?


I started writing poetry as a form of release for myself,

I had always been the kind of person that let things bottle up inside.

It usually led to self destructive behaviors because I didn't know how to

deal with things that had happened to me.

I let one of my friends read some of my work and he started crying

because some of the things I had written about had happened to him.

It opened up a lot for him,

then I started to use my writing to let other people know

the weren't alone.






What do you consider to be your best submission to date?


The "On Your Knees" series


Molest, www.deviantart.com/deviation/1…, www.deviantart.com/deviation/1… Drugs,  www.deviantart.com/deviation/1… Death, www.deviantart.com/deviation/1…, www.deviantart.com/deviation/1…, www.deviantart.com/deviation/1…
Sister
www.deviantart.com/deviation/1…





What inspired this piece of work?


Things that had happened throughout my life






What are you trying to express in this piece?


Just being honest with myself, I was sick of hiding my problems inside a

notebook, or inside my mind.

You can't really get over things or accept it unless you are honest with

yourself, even if it hurts like hell to open up.










What work do you have planned for the future?

Hopefully become a little more expierenced in photography.










Where would you like to be in five years time?

The best paramedic in the city of Chicago,

have kids, fall in love, you know..the cinderella shit. :)

About you


Who is your favourite?


Film

Legend

Book

                                                            haha I am a huge dork but

                                                Love You Forever, by Robert N. Munsh

When I was little, I couldn't sleep without this book being read to me.

Song

Dawn of a new day- In Flames

Danger Keep Away- Slipknot

Band

(Old) Fear Factory

T.V program

Aqua Teen Hunger Force,

I really don't watch television

Album

October Rust- Type O Negative

Hobby

Working on cars, Driving, Smoking

Actor/actress

Johnny Depp.

Not for the fact he is attractive,

I honestly believe he is an extremely talented person who has a lot

of passion for that he does


Saying

                 If you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you - Nietzsche


If you could change one thing about the world you live in what would it be?

God, where to start...












What is your motto?

Don't give a fuck about what other's think of you,

do what makes you happy.

In the end thats all you're going to have.




Is there anything you would like to say?

Thank you so much for having me as a featured artists,

I've never done anything like it before :)

Time for a cigarette

My say
I found trinity one night when I was browsing through da. I saw this picture of this very beautiful woman who looked sad. And yet beneath her sad exterior I saw this strong independent woman. I saw it glowing through her skin. It's for people like her that I created this group. This is what I consider to be her finest piece of work. www.deviantart.com/deviation/1… I want to start by saying that her pose in this picture is like a poem itself. Also the two lines that accompany it just say it all. She is truly luminous and these are truly her luminous times. Ladies and gents I give you your second featured artist Trinityxxx. Please leave any comments and questions for her.

Also remember to check out the previous featured artist. And leave suggestions for people you think should be featured here
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