David is a specialist in the areas like: Concept Art, Illustration, Storyboard, Digital Painting, Matepainting, Webdesign(Php/Css/Flash), Design, Packaging, Print, 3D.

... must be a new episode of iFurry. lol

Potato and Risu celebrate Halloween by going trick or treating, raising a demon, having a candy eating contest and much more...(sorry for the delay on the Halloween episode. 2 out of 3 cast members got N1H1)

Become a fan on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/pages/iFurry/181780945241

or on FA
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/ifurry

Notes augmented

We've enhanced and de-bugged Notes. If you haven't tried it yet, now's the time! You can create a private note when you ban multiple users. You can also delete multiple notes at once. Lastly, paid users have the option to add a note (visible only to you) whenever you add or remove a friend (guaranteed to avoid embarrassing social mishaps). If you don't currently have a paid account, you can upgrade now! It only takes a few minutes and costs less than a bad shopping mall haircut (plus, it's way more fashionable)!

Product tweaks and bug kill

1. In another effort to zap spam, comments containing links from domains LiveJournal deems untrustworthy are now automatically screened
2. If you sign up to get notifications of the Writer's Block question of the day, you'll now see the daily question in the email notification, so you'll have a little extra time to ponder before you post. You can subscribe to Writers Block notifications here
3. The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!
4. If you visit a LiveJournal page and get prompted to log in, you'll be returned to the same page after you sign in (Thanks, Dreamwidth)!
5. If you don't edit the timestamp for an entry at all, the entry timestamp will indicate the time the entry was posted instead of the time the Update Journal page was loaded
6. Comments with paddings/backgrounds render correctly within the comment box (and will no longer wrap outside the box and break frames/margins)

New FCK fixes rich text editor!

1. We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5
2. When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken
3. RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0
4. An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor
5. The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers

LiveJournal Cares

We’re pleased to introduce you to lj_cares, a new LiveJournal community dedicated to raising awareness and funds for U.S. charitable organizations that improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Each month, we’ll spotlight a nonprofit that is making a significant global impact through medical research, public outreach, and/or humanitarian social programs. Charities will be selected in accordance with the U.S. calendar of national health observances based on a high rating (of over 60%) on Charity Navigator and global scope of impact.

In this, our inaugural month of November, we will celebrate national adoption month by offering a charitable virtual gift (priced at $2.99) to support Love Without Boundaries, an organization that saves the lives of orphans with life-threatening diseases and places them in loving homes around the world. LiveJournal will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of charitable vgifts (we'll cover the cost of credit card transaction fees). To learn more about Love Without Boundaries, please visit lj_cares and read about how they helped save Baby Kang and the Rainbow Twins from fatal illnesses, who are now thriving in nurturing families. You can purchase your Love Without Boundaries gifts in the Virtual Gift shop.

Papered in postcards

A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to send in postcards to surround us with LiveJournal community. Thanks for coming through! We've received postcards all the way from Germany, Finland, and Canada and from all over the US, including Texas, Florida, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Indiana, Hawaii, and Oklahoma just to name just a handful. We're thrilled with our improved decor.

Please keep the love coming for one more week by writing to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be drawing the names of ten random contributors next Thursday to win paid account credits!

Photos of the week

We have more dazzling images posted by talented LiveJournal photographers from around the world. We're hoping to span the entire globe, so please continue posting and tagging. Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy the view at lj_photophile.

You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

We thank you, once again, for joining us. See you next week!

EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Jenna Vincent - a young Australian artist started drawing at twelve.

Blaze and Frost- you two are childish for reacting the way do because you been repeatedly asked not to do something and bold face lie about things when confronted about it you play the victim card and play that your perfect, its fucking annoying and damn childish. you got called out on something and so you say we are the villains from taking away your car privileges when it wasn't your ass on the line and to make yourself more perfect you hide behind things and your own cowardliness to actually listen to whats right, i know your current post people told you to stfu and that your wrong, and you just deleted their posts to make yourself look good so before you say you won you were back stabbed you pushed first and kept pushing even deeper. you two have more skeletons in your closet then anything so don't make idly threats or things your not ready to feel reciprocation for. oh and don't worry I'm not abusing staff rights, I'm not that much of an idiot. i like what i do.

Jaxson- what the fuck do you really think you can do to me ,oh i pissed you off by confronting you, ohhhh no your going to become obsidian and ruin my life by being pouty pissy emo otter you run away from everything as usual that confronts you like you have done in the past .Only reason your boyfriend hasn't ditched on you yet is cause he lives half way across the state from you and doesn't have to listen or see you 24/7. you made the comment once why does everyone see you for sex? its cause its all your seemingly good for and all you seem to talk about.its all anyone that's mentioned they know you says you try to instantly get in their pants. Let see, you always try to see if your in everyone's good graces and if you do something wrong you do everything to get back in favor, but gods forbid some one should anger the kyoot and fwuffy ottah or he will shoot thunder from his eyes at you and also lets ignore everyone that offers you good and sound advice and do what ever you want cause your an intelligent and resourceful lil ottah and your so sure and right you cant do it wrong ever then why even bother asking about it in the first place

Mix- LOL Tee-shirt? your really gonna call the cops?when you were gonna get it back at mff and now you have to wait longer .then also the fact you threaten to hack my shit and then already have admitting to it when you were "helping"

I really am hard up for money right now, so I'm opening up 5 slots for 10$ pictures. G-XXX and up to 2 characters, any and all people willing to help is a god send!

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Quick Refesher: I draw the webcomic Last Res0rt, about a futuristic reality show (and the girl who signed up for it before figuring out she's also a vampire!). I'm almost done getting Volume 1 ready for print.

With Volume 1 looming on the horizon and the holidays coming up, now’s the time to put together what it’ll take to make sure this preorder stays on schedule — which includes no small amount of fundraising! Since the start of Volume 2 (if not throughout Volume 2) is going to involve, among other things, a veritable battalion of Star Org soldiers, why not ask you to help me find a solution to both?

You can help support the comic and keep Volume 1 on track, and I can draw you into the comic as a Star Org soldier instead of having to come up with random extras! You’ll not only be helping me, you’ll become part of the story!

Continue reading at lastres0rt.com and get full details...

TL;DR: Pay at least $50 and you'll get not only a custom conbadge of yourself / your fursona / whatever in their new role as a Star Org character, you'll also get a future cameo in Last Res0rt as well. If you don't feel like spending that much money, I've got a new wallpaper and some new Zazzle merch available as well. I'm doing this to raise money for the books; if I don't raise enough money, don't count on seeing the books anytime soon.

sixwordstories
Whether you're in the mood for a creative challenge or you're short on time or attention span, this semi-addictive community is perfect for those who find flash fiction way long. Once you get the hang of it, you won't be able to stop. The prince turned into a frog. The girl ran home to mother. Tough to write. Easy to read. It's a double threesome of fun.

dailyfoodie
Delicious, ambitious, and occasionally nutritious dishes make for an eclectic, all-you-can-eat feast. Whether you're searching for recipes for your next dinner party or you're jonesing for a late-night brownie fix, your cravings are sure to be well sated. A warm and inclusive community that welcomes all orientations, from carnivores to vegans, from gourmands to junk-food junkies. Guaranteed bias-free, food-positive, and pan-epicurian.

I'm holding a ladder auction that ends in a few days to help pay for my college tuition, but no one has bid sadly, so I'm going to put it out here in hopes that it might spark someone's eye!

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1027299/

There is the link to the auction, so if you have any questions feel free to ask!

Blackout - Hey, it's dark, right?

A Touch of Class page 1
A Touch of Class page 2
A Touch of Class page 3

Offering 600x600 busts to be additionally converted to icons, should you wish!

( Examples under cut. )

Quick turn around, I'll start upon receiving payment ($5 US) via Paypal at KatMason(at)gmail(dot)com. Leave refs in a comment or email :]

Just three spots open for now:

1. Gloria - paid
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Why yes, I am hooked on dragons!

This weekend: Friday the 6th til sunday the 8th on all furry magnetic doll sets.
buy a doll get a clothes set free in my etsy shop:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/chewiemonster

The empire strikes back

In recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal.

RSS feeds again

If you're addicted to xkcd_rss, icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience.

Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!

c_s_i

If you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here.

Enveloped in postcards

Last week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be giving ten random users paid account credits.

Photos of the week

If you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too!
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So I've been thinking for awhile now about doing this. I call it "name your own price commissions". And basically what that means is you will tell me how much you want to pay, you can pay any amount you want with the minimum of $5..sorry but I do have to make profit off this because commissions are my only source of income atm...

Depending on the price you pay determines the quality and time that I will spend on your picture.
For instance, if you paid $5 you get a sketch, $10 would get you a badge. The higher the price the more pictures you may get too, so if you paid $50 you could get a digital picture of your character and a traditional picture of your character.

I am taking unlimited spots for these so don't worry about not being able to get in on this deal!

If you are interested please send me a note with the price you want to pay and I will respond with what you could get :)

My art galleries:
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/celestialwolfen/
http://celestialwolfen.deviantart.com/

Resin Horse Relief Casts


Bay (sold) Buckskin (available)
I plan on casting these until the mold breaks (I predict this will happen around #20-25) it will not be remolded. They are cast in white polyurethane resin out of silicon molds and have a three inch diameter.

Unpainted (white) resin copies: $10 plus shipping
Prepainted resins (pictured): $12-$15
Custom paints: $15-$20 (small sculptural mods can be made to match certain characters)

I can add pin-backs, a hole or clip for a lanyard, magnets, and there is enough room at the bottom to write a character name, they'd be excellent conbadges for all you horsey folks.

Offering commissions for a template based icon.

Examples:


Commissions only available for quad critters at this time
(though unfortunately I don't have a proper base for hooved creatures yet D: )

Icons are 6$ a piece, 15$ for 3
paypal only, sent to armaina at gmail dot com
Just respond with the ref

Slots:
1. hadley (done)
2. arazia (done)
3. arazia (done)
4. arazia (done)
5. belle_draco
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