MrColon

I just recently realized that I've hit a new high when it comes to my pageviews. Right now I have 13,177 pageviews and it makes me happy that so many people have checked out my profile here on deviantART.

To celebrate this great progress I'm making I have accepted a lot of different types of artwork for this feature. I'm happy that there was such a variety of different photos, literature, paintings and so forth - because that's what deviantART is all about. The great community, the great variety of people.

So with no further re due I now present the third feature I'm doing as a celebration of 13,000 pageviews and counting. Love you all for the great support!

My latest work


#1. Literature
PlaygroundOh how I want to go play with those other kids.
But will they want to play with me?
I might be icky to them or maybe even cool.
I think I'm a nice person,
so they should like me.
But I'm oh so nervous to go over to them.
My feet won't move,
I'm pretty sure there isn't sticky gum
under my brand new sneakers.
I wish they could come over,
everything would be much easier.
Why must I bring this situation upon myself?
I always make myself nervous.
Why me?
Maybe I should toughen up, and just go over.
I feel my feet moving, but wait! I'm not ready!
Oh no! They see me? What should I do?
It's already too late because they all stare at me.
Just smile, you'll be alright, just hang in there. Will I Paint it Black?I want to paint a picture of my heart for you.
A black canvas
a blank slate of darkness
how I was before
you found me
There is a light somewhere
out of focus, yellow
in the upper-right corner.
There is midnight blue sand along the bottom
prickly and thin
deep enough to engulf us both.
Red passion slowly melting
the stone that
once was a heart.
Violet wings fluttering softly
around my mind
behind my green eyes.
Pink blush covers
a dark bruise
in my self worth.
I'd show the painting to you
but I fear you'd misunderstand.
You see, I'm not sad anymore.
I was broken.
You are the one
who is fixing my soul
and stopping me from
painting it black. To PerceiveShe pulled at the ties, murmuring logic in sickly sweet tones.
She breathed in yesterday and let it go-
Released it so it would burst in the Sun.
She pulled apart the threads-
The connections of skin and nerve endings until
She saw the world in a new and different way.
She hid behind the mirror,
Asking her reflection to play sentinel
As she learned to crawl past old, dead ends.
She released the marrow from its bones
And woke up the music in songbirds' throats.
She whispered dreamscapes into wide-open minds and
Tried to breathe back in the dawn.
She's tired and worn; somehow still moves on.
She sings about bags of wool as she
Replays old nursery rhymes against her teeth and palate.
She snips fragments of red cloth and paints them
Into a cohesive picture…
But there's no big bad wolf to gobble her whole.
(Just her own actions and lack of control.)
She pulls at the ties,
And manages to free her hands…
And her hands are wings and dreams and
The chance to wake up and sing.
She says

#2. Drawings, paintings and digital art
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#3. Photography
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The colours of red and green. Roses and grass. But although that's the initial thought; this feature contains a varied mix of photos with the theme red and green.

A couple of days ago I opened my second feature thread on the thumbshare forum and this time I got a great response. Red and green is the theme and I thought I would get a majority of photos of roses and grass and leafs. But I was wrong; I received a wonderful mix, as you will notice.

What does the colour red mean? The first thing that comes in mind is love. Although that's the case for many - red can also mean murder, insecurity. Red is a conflicting colour. It's the colour of the devil and the colour of love. It's the colour of war and the colour of life.

So what about green? Not too surprising, green is the colour of nature and well-being. But some photographs with green in them are also mysterious. The colour is seldom sending a negative feeling, most often it's about happiness and nature.

Examples from my gallery


Submission from others
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I hope you enjoyed this feature. me for more features!

With time the colours are growing stronger. Every day invites you into a new world. The green is fading and yellow, orange and red are taking over. The lovely autumn is here.

Before jumping into the main part of the feature I would like to begin with the segment "Friend to the friendless" where I feature one of my dA friend's work.

Feature segment #1: Friend to the friendless
This time around I've decided to feature three photos taken by Sooper-Deviant. He's quite popular with over one million page views. But I've been following his work for a long time now and he had a couple of photos that really fit this theme. Here they are:

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Feature segment #2: They called, they were heard
On the forum I opened up a thread in the thumbshare section asking for autumn photos. I expected more people to submit they're work. But since this is my first feature I'm happy anyway. This segment will be updated one more time on October the 4th, Monday.

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Feature segment #3: A chosen few
Because of the low number of photos that people submitted I went on a little search and found myself a couple of photos that I decided to feature.



So there you have it. The first autumn feature and I thank everyone for participating with these great photos. Friend me on dA if you would like to see more features.

Do you want to connect with me? That's great!
Facebook: Eric Lauri Kulo
Twitter: Erik Lauri Kulo

There's changes going on. Every thing is moving fast and I'm re-organizing my deviantART. The plan is to become a much more active deviant.

Some may already have noticed that there's changes being made on my profile page. Some of you may have noticed that I'm exposing my twitter account. The question is what am I up to?

This is what I'm planning:
At the moment I'm trying to build a solid base of followers on my twitter account. Once that is done, I will begin accepting requests for my "photo of the day" segment on twitter. At the moment I'm linking a photo on deviantART every day on my twitter. My goal is to have people submitting their own photos and hoping for exposure.

Another plan that is in the works is to create news features and the first is already in the making. The first theme is "autumn". It's a soft start and hopefully every thing will work out and I will be able to create a type of a metropole where I'm giving underappericiated artists the exposure they deserve.

So please do hold on tight and be patient.