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Hey all few of you who actually clicked 'watch' way back whenever and then forgot about it since I've basically ceased to exist on this site. How you doin? Me? I'm good. Great in fact. And totally not dead. Truth be told I'm more alive than I've ever been. But I'll get to that in a second.

First off I want to apologize for dropping off the radar… again. I tend to do that when I get caught up in life. Over the past year I've been in school doing the whole 'art student' thing but being that I'm majoring in Graphic Design most of the stuff I've been so busy working on doesn't quite seem 'artsy' enough to put up here. If anything its felt like busy work and designed to exercise my skills as a tradesman rather than work out my creative mojo. But whatever. I do feel like my skills have been honed, so now that I've got something to look forwards to and get my juices flowing, I'm more wiling to share the 'arts' with the world, even if its just sketches.

Which brings me to the meat of what I want to say: I'm FINALLY in a band that I enjoy participating in! WOOOOOO! YAAAY! HUZZAH! I met the bassist when I moved in and we've been jamming ever since but we only just found the drummer and singer at the beginning of this semester and we've just gelled really fast. There's definite chemistry when we're together and it's quite honestly the most euphoric and intoxicating feeling I've ever experienced.

So now that I'm this awesome band, I'm taking all my design knowledge and know-how and focusing all that into the band. Logos, album/demo covers, flyers, posters, portraits, the whole shebang. Basically everything short of telling the other guys what to wear. If I'm not actually making music than I'm either working on our professional image or trying to talk my teachers into giving me extra credit for the work I'm doing.

So keep an eye out for more to come and please give me as much feedback as you possibly can. I' only gong to put out poor work if people don't tell me what they like or don't like about it and this affects my grades AND my bandmates.

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Joe Contento
Artist | Hobbyist | Digital Art
United States
Current Residence: New Paltz, NY
Favourite genre of music: Mainly classic rock, metal, alternative, blues, funk and jazz but I appreciate some electronica; trance, trip-hop, d&b, atmospheric, ambient, etc. Dubstep can suck it.
Favourite photographer: Annie Leibovitz, Baron Wolman,
Favourite style of art: Minimalism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism
Operating System: Mac OS X
MP3 player of choice: 160 Gig iPod Classic
Shell of choice: Umm, definately gonna have to go with Raphiel's on this one
Wallpaper of choice: My own concoctions or ponies at the moment
Skin of choice: The one with the deep dark tan and the sun bleached hair that I bust out over summer
Favourite cartoon character: Batman, Charizard/Pokemon, Kanu Unchou/Ikki Tousen, Kisuke Uruhara/Bleach, Jiraiya/Naruto, Mitsurugi/Soul Calibur, Princess Luna and Ditzy Doo/Derpy Hooves from MLP: FiM
Personal Quote: It's not rape if you smile past the tears
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*ElectricMayhem8416 Mar 25, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
It was great to meet you this weekend, I'm so glad my sculpts went to a good home! Oh, and thanks so much for the watch!
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~androidred0100 Mar 26, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
The pleasure was mine! I can't wait to hear when your next con appearance will be so we can do more business!
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:iconlatchdrom:
thanks for the :+fav:!
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:iconandroidred0100:
~androidred0100 Dec 26, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Dude, thank you for everything! Rock on and happy New Year! \m/
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*Ptepix Dec 7, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Wait...whaaa?! How can Dubstep suck it? It is basicly the metal of electronic music O.o
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~androidred0100 Dec 8, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
On the whole it doesnt do much for me. There's some good dubstep out there but I havent heard much of it. Bassnectar is as close to the stuff as I get really. The majority of the other stuff I've heard holds the bass WAAAAAAAY to long and is waaaaay to glitchy? rappid-fire? machine-gun-esque? Whatever you want to call it, it's too rhythmic without the rhythm for me. It's just not what I look for in electronic music. I listen for space ambiance and insane amounts of psychedelic trippiness that you can just sit back, chill and enjoy peacefully, not get-your-ass-out-on-the-dance-floor-and-shake-what-your-momma-gave-ya type beats. That's why I'm not into House music, Moombahton, or other faster, harder genres.

Well, metal has a bunch of different genres to it too and I don't listen to them all. Dubstep is just dubstep so far as I'm aware. It hasn't been around long enough to have subgenres branch out of it yet.
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*Ptepix Dec 8, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Lol...I can understand that. There are different sub genres though. Like Brostep, Classic Dubstep, and Modern Dubstep.
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~androidred0100 Dec 8, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Ah well that I didn't know, but now that I do I shall not forget it.
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*DeceptiveAlias Dec 7, 2012  Student General Artist
thanks for the fave man
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:iconguitarism:
Hi There,

Thank you so much for the fave...

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