Any fellow artists reading this?

The reason I ask is because I’m interested in starting a new art critique community site, that will be the successor to my 7 year old forums Untitled Image that badly needs a reboot or to just be killed (likely the latter).

The goal of this new site will be to have a manageable size community focused on getting quality critique and inspiration from fellow artists. The community may even be invite only. Large sites like DeviantArt I find to be too large and impersonal to get any quality feedback or interaction.

I’m looking for a few people to help get the site off the ground. I’m just in the very early pre-panning stages so I don’t even have a name yet. Please let me know of your interest in the comments or email me contact -at- androidworkshop.com

The end of an era? Well my message board at least..

A link to my lamenting over it perhaps being time to close my Untitled Image Forums after nearly 7 years.

Now Playing: What's in your Game Console/PC?

A forum discussion I started. Fun to keep-up with right now after the torrent of holiday game releases.

Shopping for new Sofa (forum thread)

I’m looking for a new sofa so I started a thread on UI for suggestions.

Sleek updated design for Untitled Image forums powered by punBB 1.3.x.
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Sleek updated design for Untitled Image forums powered by punBB 1.3.x.

Untitled Image Design Tweaks

I’ve been working on the 2009 revision of the Untitled Image layout. For the open version of Untitled Image go here.

Thinking about rebooting my forums

My message board Untitled Image started way back around 2000 on EZboards as a manga style art critique community. It was later restarted on phpBB hosted on a friend’s hosting account around 2002 refocused on art critique in general. A few years later the database was transfered to punBB and has been moved from server to server, and now has an archive of 32,900 posts.

The dilemma I have now is how to breath live back into the forums. I am pondering a “reboot” and starting fresh without any archived posts. I am also considering making the focus on casual creativity, a place where busy creative people can show their art to help keep that creative muscle in use.

punBB 1.3 Extension: Easy Stats Code Embed

This is an extension that I requested for use on Untitled Image. Props to Garciat for the work on the extension. It allows a punBB administrator to install stats tracking code from Google Analytics or Reinvigorate (etc) via a simple text box in the administration panel. No need to edit any files.

Near final forums banner design? Another mockup for the layout and banner of my message board Untitled Image. I still haven’t coded the banner into the layout, this is just a Photoshop mockup.
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Near final forums banner design?

Another mockup for the layout and banner of my message board Untitled Image. I still haven’t coded the banner into the layout, this is just a Photoshop mockup.

Work in progress: Banner graphic mockup for my forums Untitled Image. Here’s the discussion about it.
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Work in progress: Banner graphic mockup for my forums Untitled Image. Here’s the discussion about it.

Hosting soon to be resolved

Right now I am in the process of testing my friend’s server with Untitled Image. If all goes smoothly I’ll go ahead and make the switch.

If things go poorly on his server I plan to get the “Home” hosting package on ModHost for $4.95 /month to host both my domains.

EDIT: Thanks to my friend’s server I’m now back online with AndroidWorkshop.com.

Working on a new Message Board

Well it’s not really new since I am using an imported “Untitled Image” database that has been in use for a few years. It’s a community for creative people.

The idea is to restart the community using the latest version of punbb. I’ll be working on a new layout for it, and I plan to keep it very lean and fast loading.