Art of April VanSickle

November 4, 2009

Journal moving...

I decided I missed Livejournal and (for now at least) would prefer to do all my journaling there. So, here's the link:
http://aprilart.livejournal.com/

October 5, 2009

I decided that twitter was just not for me. It's sort of an interesting concept but it just doesn't fit my personality. But I am glad that I gave it a go and experimented with it and had that life experience.

On a more artsy note, I've been working on something. :) I'm hoping to show it to you all soon, but its not ready yet.

September 24, 2009

Triumphant!

This has nothing really to do with my art. But, since this problem has been plaguing me for about a month now, I wanted to share the answer.

Ever since I joined twitter, I have been having a problem with actually reaching the site. Why, I really still don't understand, but today after trying all day long to reach twitter and receiving an error that looks like this (the numbers keep changing, but the error was still the same)

Invalid URL

The requested URL "/", is invalid.

Reference #9.d5ea8acf.1251828932.0

I decided to try to figure this out once and for all. No one else seems to realize twitter was down, so I figured it had to be my system. 3 different browsers gave me the same error. Clearing the cache did not fix it. So I turned to google for help. After browsing through many pages, I finally found one that resolved the problem for me. Apparently the problem is that Windows makes a DNS cache on your system to make things faster. So in order to fix this, you need to do a DNS cache flush. I found this article on how to do it (and explaining it) and I did it and like magic, twitter was working again! :)

http://www.updatexp.com/dns-windows-xp.html

Hope this is helpful to someone. I'm posting it here again so I know where to find the link so I can fix it again in the future. :)

September 5, 2009

Art... going, going...gone?

I am considering clearing out my entire gallery of my artwork and starting fresh. Very seriously. So if you are interested in owning a print of any of the current available artworks, then now would be the time to consider purchasing it. Once they're retired, I won't be offering them for sale again.

I'm feeling drawn to a different style of fantasy art. My current plan is to doodle and paint over the next few months and then when I have a handful of new pieces to retire every single piece I've painted up to this month and solely promote the new artworks. Originals from the older artworks may or may not be for sale. Some have already sold or been given away and some I'm thinking of burning. heh. ;)

Next topic: twitter! and other social networking places

I have been thinking about how I want to use twitter. I don't want to obligate people to have to follow twitter for fear of missing an important or interesting post. What I've tentatively decided to do is to use twitter as a mini-journal (for when something is just so insignificant and short that a full journal isn't really needed) and also for links to major announcements. Major announcements will also be added to this blog. i.e. new art or something along those lines.

We'll see how that goes. I am not very much into social networking in a huge way, so I doubt I'll get into it so much as to have entire conversations there. But since so many use and love twitter I'm going to give it a go. :)

I also tried facebook recently BUT I do not like it and so will not be posting there. I have asked for my account there to be deleted. Same goes for MySpace. I tried it (more than once!) and just could not get into it so I ruthlessly killed it too. ;)

As for livejournal: I've had an account there for many years. I don't use it much anymore for my own posts as I post all my journals here. However, I do still check it frequently to keep up with some of the friends I've made there.

That about sums things up for that topic. :) If you are curious about any other site I may belong to, then check out my links page on my website. I try to keep that list current with all the places you can find me on the net.