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Okay, so the internet got worse, huh?

My primary portfolio of art-nudes on tumblr has been pretty ravaged by their anti-porn algorithms, so here is a new list of places you can find me, my photography and/or my music on the internet.
Nope. Still not here. Still don't feel good about posting my work here anymore. Sorry.

Photography:

  • patreon - Mostly music right now, but there's access to some photosets and updates on my personal life, with pictures, if you subscribe.
  • ello - photography portfolio. no censorship as yet.
  • photog.social - mastodon instance where I post my uncensored photography.
  • pixelfed.social - a federated instagram clone - registrations are closed, but you can still check my stuff out there.
  • instagram - worksafe/censored posts only. Some goofy stuff in my stories now and then.
  • Tumblr - worksafe/censored posts, along with personal thoughts about things. (portfolio tag)


Music:

  • patreon - Like I said, mostly music, right now. It's the best way to hear what I'm working on right now. I'm writing little pieces of music, demos, and full-on songs a few times a month, and you can subscribe for $1 a month.
  • bandcamp (Aetherius) - mostly old stuff, but as soon as I've completed my "albums" I'll put them up here.
  • bandcamp (Horses About Men) - also mostly old stuff, but I've been working on re-recording some old demos we had started, with hopes of releasing them.

Thinky Thoughts / Writing:


  • twitter - I post most of my rants/dorky thoughts here.
  • kitty.town - mastodon instance where I crosspost to twitter/share things I don't want on twitter.
  • tumblr - longer rants end up over here.
  • Townsend Ten Years Ago - retrospective look at my life, ten years in the past, using photos I took as reminders.
  • Caroline like Gasoline short fiction about a sad lady, with lots of irony/black humour.
  • other twitter used to be my main twitter, but I don't know what to post there anymore, so it's mostly going unused. I had thought about posting photos there, but I didn't want them to be found that easily...


... I think that's everything.
If you need me, I'll be lurking.


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It occurs to me that when I made my stereotypical "oh, hey, I'm taking all my work away from you creeps!" post, that I forgot to include links directing you to where I will be sharing my work.

The place where I devote much of my life and my art to is tumblr.

I have several tumblr blogs, but my photography goes on the main one at rabtownsend.tumblr.com
If you don't have a tumblr, or you're not interested in the other things that I post there, you can check out my portfolio directly by checking my photography tag.
If you're so inclined, you can even set up an RSS feed to get notifications in your live bookmarks whenever I post something new. It only takes one click!

I also have an instagram; username: hatebunny (but I don't post much of my actual photography on there).

And just on the off chance that anyone's interested, I have two more tumblr blogs:
  • Townsend Ten Years Ago - where I go through my folder of photos and post one or two photos from ten years ago to the date, with a brief story of what was going on in my life when I took them.
  • The Infinite Humiliation of Caroline Sullivan - an intermittently updated series of short stories and poems about a girl who gets humiliated in some way by the end of every entry. It's kind of darkly funny and poignant.

Additionally, I have two music projects that I work on:
  • Aetherius - sort of dreamy electronic music for sleepy people.
  • Horses About Men - "progressive folk" music with a wry sense of humour. (Our most recent album is a holiday record where most of the songs are about being depressed or humiliated by your family).



I've also been thinking of starting a patreon, and if I do, I'll let you all know, because give me money, yo.

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He gone!

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I never thought I'd do this, but I feel like the deviantart community has nothing to offer me of late.
I've made good friends here. I've made some of my best friends here. I've made a few acquaintances with people I respect.
There's still a lot of beautiful art to take in, and that's one major reason I'm not deactivating my account.

But I have decided to store all of my deviations.

This is for two major reasons:
  1. The most consistent feedback and response on my work has been extremely limited to about 3 photos I took nearly three years ago. New work has received no response at all.
    I attribute this to the presence of boobs. I attribute this to the overwhelmingly prurient interests of this website's userbase, to the extent that I fear they may outnumber the actual artists.
  2. It was recently brought to my attention that deviantArt's terms of use agreement essentially gives them the right to sell your artwork to third parties without paying you any royalties or even telling you. I don't expect that would ever happen to me, given that my traditional art skills are mediocre, and my photography skills are unrecognized. And I know many websites do have clauses that give them powers to use your works in order that the site can run as it is expected to.

Regardless, I don't really want to contribute more of my work into this space.
So, not gonna.

Totally going to keep coming back and following my friends' contributions, but my work will be going to other, more supportive spaces.

So. Woop-de-doo.

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Once upon a time on deviantART, I was kind of a big deal.
Now, I am hardly a bargain, though I am acquaintances with several big deals.

But for reasons, I have been hanging around this website for a solid ten years.

It began with drawings, I suppose. An acquaintance wanted to show me some of his own drawings, and he had hosted it on deviantart, which was a very different beast at that time.

In the summers my family would go to a cottage on a lake in a rural area, and besides reading, I found that the most entertaining thing I could do was make art.

One of the first serious paintings that I did was and is probably still my most popular:



I know it's not a technical masterpiece, but I would have been 15, I think, when I painted it.


The imagery has stuck with me, and it became like a kind of touchstone for me in all of my creative endeavours.

I had also been drawing on a pretty regular basis at school, and produced this:



I guess, as a theme, I was working through ideas about wasted potential and loss of innocence - which I still think are themes I use in my work.

I also wrote some poetry and short stories, most of which are embarrassing.

In 2004, I was given my first digital point-and-shoot camera as a high-school graduation gift.
I used it very frequently to take photos of scenery and my girlfriend at the time. Most of those have also been stored or deleted.

I think of them as practice for what was to come later.

Here's another early photo that was rather popular at the time.



One of the key moments in my history with deviantART was when my relationship with the aforementioned girlfriend ended, and I needed to express myself. Besides taking some somewhat artsy self-portraits that would be written off as selfies by today's standards, I asked an acquaintance I had only just met whether she'd be interested in posing for my first real nude shoot. I had always wanted to do get into that, because it seemed to me that if I had a palette of paint with every colour of the rainbow on it, and I had never used red before, it would be pretty foolish not to use red. (Red is nudity, apparently).

However, here's where things get dramatic:
Not long after I took those photos, and put them onto deviantART, the model put one or two of them onto her Facebook account (this was 2006, I believe) thereby alerting pretty much everyone she knew that she was naked on the internet. Her parents threatened that they wouldn't help with her next year of tuition for school unless I removed them, and of course I did - but I wasn't very happy about it. Besides that, a shitstorm of humiliation was rained upon me on account of the location of the shoot, but that's another story.

But anyhoo, I wanted to pursue more of that kind of photography with more people, and I did - though I refused to do the shooting in any setting I couldn't control, which meant that my next few nude shoots occurred in my dorm room:



One was an acquaintance I knew through that first girl, and the other was my best friend of the time, who had been experimenting with nude self portraits anyway, and so I asked her. These sets gained me lots of watchers, faves, and views, and I realized then the power of boobs on deviantART. The more boobs, the more fans.

So, naturally, nobody ever agreed to shoot nudes with me again, and I shifted my focus.

I tried to get more involved with the community by joining a chatroom on dAmn.
The one I joined was #UnknownPhotography, and i made a few friends there, and sank a lot of time into just sitting in there chatting.

Unfortunately, the life kinda died from that chat, and though I stuck around, eventually I gave up on it.

In 2008, I bought myself a slightly better point-and-shoot, and used it frequently to document the walks I took with my girlfriend and her dog:



As you can see, she was a freckly redhead (though, in truth, her hair was "dirty-dishwater blonde") and my appreciation for those two qualities led me to start a feature in my deviantART journal where I'd post photos I'd collected and favourited that featured people with freckles. I did something like 30 of those features before I ran out of steam on it, but doing that got me the chance to co-found the group redheads-n-freckles, where we still feature real redheads and freckles in photography and art (to the exclusion of all others)!

Eventually, one of my self portraits garnered the attention of a model I'd been following, Carla Johnson - a unique and beautiful 65 year old woman who had decided to enter the world of nude modelling. She was also quite an intelligent and interesting blogger, and contacted me via dA to interview me about my self portrait for her blog. I answered her questions, and through keeping up with her blog and commenting on it, I made a few more friends and acquaintances in the nude photography community.

Also around that time, I discovered the self portraits of create-illusions, and after communicating a bit on deviantART, we became very close friends, and these many years later, we still communicate on a daily basis. I have never met my best friend, but deviantART is where I found her.

In 2010, I bought myself my first dSLR, which I'm still using.

Just for the sake of brevity, I will sum up this section by explaining that I tend to go through cycles of productivity, with maybe four legitimate photoshoots per year, interspersed with self portraits as ideas come to me. That cycle has basically continued to this day.







I'd like to think my style and skills are evolving and improving, and I use the self portrait as sort of a way-marker for where and who I am in my life.

deviantART has facilitated that evolution and growth, and while I've never really hit it big or got much back, I feel like it's the place I am most comfortable just... putting my work.

While it's not the same place it was ten years ago - or 14 years ago, for that matter - it's still a place I love.
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So, if you're still paying attention, I finally finished editing those photos I took in the spring, and I've been posting them slowly over the last few weeks.

Carly by HateBunny   it's no story. by HateBunny

The models are actually sisters, Carly and Lindsey - but one's a redhead and one's a blonde. I went to highschool with both of them, and I think they're both beautiful.
I started with Lindsey - the blonde - because she got to look over hers first, and I wanted to be sure everyone was happy with what they got before I started plastering them all over the internet. She seemed pretty happy with them all, and so we've been trying to schedule another shoot where we'll try to do some more exciting and experimental things.

Right now, I'm about mid-way through posting my first round of Carly photos. I think it's some of my best work. I think my work with both sisters is some of my best work. So, I'm eager to get Carly back for another shoot as well.

Please let me know what you think of the photos and the models. I enabled critiques for a reason.

I also did a pretty cool set of self-portraits fairly recently, but I'm saving them for the moment. I like to clear the palette, so to speak, after every big set that I upload with some self-portraits. I don't know why I feel like that clears the palette, apart from the fact that I get tired of seeing my own face after a while, so it motivates me to pester girls for photoshoots. Anyway, I uploaded one of them as my most recent devID, just as a preview.

I'm slowly going through my gallery and re-arranging it so that I'm making better use of folders, removing the lesser shots from the featured gallery and putting them in folders arranged by the model, and if I've had more than one shoot with them, subfolders within those folders. Anyway, if you're looking through my gallery to waste some time (who would do that?) you may find more photos of a particular model by sifting through her folder on the left instead of just going through my featured gallery.

You can also find me on flickr. I post the same stuff there, but if you have a preference.
Flickr

And I'm on tumblr too, where I share some of my favourite art that I find here, and post occasional out-takes and alternates (and you can get to know me, a bit, probably).
Tumblr
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