31 Pieces of Art added to my deviantART Page

I spent several hours today on my home page at deviantART. I added 31 ASCII's, ANSI's and VGA's from my personal "best of" collection.

It wasn't the upload of the art that took so much of my time. What took the time was writing comments for every single uploaded piece of my art. Some Comments were quite detailed and have some inside details about the Group, BBS, FTP Server (etc.) the Art Work was created for.Also some interesting stories about the actual circumstances that lead to the creation of the individual piece. It's often not only interesting to read for the people that were also part of the scene at those times and can personally relate to the things I am talking about. It is also interesting for the viewer who never had anything to do with the whole thing and is just interested in the classic art of ASCII and ANSI Text Art and Low-Res VGA (320x200 256 Colors or 640x480 16 Colors).

Whatever the case, I believe it will be worthwhile for you to stop by and have a look for yourself. Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC

ASCII Lens Rebuilt

After the Schlock and desperation on Thursday night when I found out that my Squidoo.com Lens about ASCII and ANSI Text Art was severely damaged and a lot of it's content gone all whining did not help so I went off and was looking for something to do that would distract me and get my mind off the problem with Squidoo. I actually found a pretty nice distraction in form of a Website called DeviantArt.com which is dedicated to Artists and Art loving people who can use Deviant Art to publish their Art and interact in a virtual community via Forums, Comments and Personal Groups. Every Member has its own Homepage. The free Membership offers everything you need as Hobbyist. Memberships are interesting for the folks that want to sell their Art to interested Buyers. My Home Page at Deviant Art is here. You can Showcase your latest Art and favorites. You have a Personal Journal you can write and make public to visitors. Other Member can visit your Page and leave comments just to you, but also to your Journal entries and published pieces of Art. They offer much more and I can only recommend that you check it out.

I spent today several hours to rebuilt my ASCI & ANSI Text Art Lens at Squidoo. It is now all good and shiny again.Have a look here. My Lens-Rank improved too. I am now # 31 in the Art Category and # 263 across all Categories. I hope that this will not happen anytime soon again. I was lucky that I had most of the content somewhere else saved which made it not as hard as I initially thought to rebuilt it. See you at Deviant Art. Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC.

Half my Lens kaputt

It had to happen after I got it nice, nicer and also more popular at Squidoo.com.

I made it to the Top 100 Lenses for Art, moving to position #41 in that category and #347 over all topics working my way up to the Top 100 Lenses. I was in the middle of adding content when everything fall apart on their end.

Half of my "Lens" about ASCII and ANSI Text Art at Squidoo is gone. Text is missing, Images (Flickr), Amazon References, RSS Feeds and all related links. Ahhhh!!!!!!

Squidoo Support! Help! I contacted them and hope that the can recover the previous version. It's easier for me to add again the new stuff than to re-create the old.

The site is still a mess. No Flickr Images are displayed. None of the RSS Feeds is working amd the technorati.com search doesn't work either.

I am so mad , but I can't do anything right now but wait that they got their stuff fixed at Squidoo.com. Then I have to clean up the mess and will try to recover as much of the content as I can and reconstruct the rest from memory as good as I can.

Squidoo.com is still beta, but you should try it out anyway. It's fun and they add stuff all the time. But learn from my problem and save the content of your Lens(es) somewhere. What happend to me can happen to you too. My other Lenses at Squidoo.com (followed by their "Lens Rank" today:

- My "Merchant Product Datafeeds for Affilates - 101" Lens #649
- My "BBS" - Bulletin Board System Lens #1,301
- My "Affiliate Marketing" Lens #2,699

Roy/SAC