Welcome to a brand new beginning for an old bygone.  That's right, we dusted the old, quite possibly unlamented Hall of Statuary, took a good close look at it, and asked ourselves the imperative question: "What made this work?  What made us enjoy it?  And how could we improve it?"

And that's where the idea of Gorgon:Art came along.  We've taken the things that we have enjoyed most in the ASFR online groups— the from-the-ground-up creative aspects such as stories and art and the feeling of community— and meshed it with a healthy love for 3D artwork, and after some consideration formed a Yahoo! Group based on the idea of creation for creation's sake... The tools were right there for the using, after all.  A mailing list/forum, a file and photo storage area, and ways for members to update, themselves.  Our plan is for Gorgon:Art to be a hub of self-expression through self-creation.  And jeez, does that sound snotty.  The point is, we want to see what people are capable of when using inanimation and transmutation as their inspiration, working from a blank slate.

The idea, in other words, was that we wanted to see who else created art from nothing based on a love for ASFR-ish ideals, and let them have the place in the sun they so richly deserve for their creativity and imagination.
 

Well... this page is starting, at least, as an archive area for the Yahoo! Group Gorgon:Art, which you'll find links for all over the damned place.  Like right here.  Maybe in time, this place will grow and become far more than just a simple archive for art and fiction overflow from the Gorgon:Art group, but for right now, we'll take whatever we can get.  If you haven't hit the Gorgon:Art group (located here), then you really should.  It's sort of the culmination of an idea that's been flittering around in our head for a while.  We decided that we can't be the only ones so in touch with our inner statuephiles that our tastes are the only ones that matter.  Everyone's different.  Sure, we can upload statuesque and transmutative art.  We can punch out transformational fiction.  We can probably even do it in a manner that most people would like.  But no two people have the same tastes.  So the best way to cater to the most people was obviously to allow everyone to see what happens when people create their own transmutational fiction and art from the ground up, and try to encourage others to do the same and join the community... because in the end, only you know what you like.

Eventually, I'm sure we'll have some plans.  Tutorials for doing things in 3D, Postwork, and writing.  Maybe some stories and articles written just for the G:A group and this site.  Possibly even some G:A comics.

So just take a look around, hit some of the links, and enjoy the revival of an old site all grown up.  Whatever the case, the point is... the choice is yours.  Now go.  Have fun doing what you enjoy.  That's what this community has always been about, anyway.

- AF and JMD

31 December 05

Totally Updated the Art Archives.  I think.   I added stuff.  I remember that.  Also added a brand new story by none other than Cobalt Jade, based on a picture by Minus 269, to the Fiction Page!  You must check out Just Another Public Stoning at the Fiction Archive!  Woooo!!

GORGON:ART NEWS

Well, guys n' gals, it's been a damned good run. 

First off, I wanted to thank everyone personally for being so kind and for continuing to upload their art and stories to us at the G:A Group site, and in some cases, mailing them to me directly.  As some of you know (and have been nice enough not to point out daily), it's been a loooong damned time since I did any major updating here.

I could throw out my usual cache of excuses for that: work, school, creative burnout, computer problems, the fact that the HCP didn't have the splash I was hoping it would... You've heard those before, likely, at some time or another.

But the simple truth is that I've been enjoying going a little more mainstream with my art and writing.  Doing up character commissions.  Learning to model in 3D.  Hanging loose.  Oh, I still do up statue-based art and work diligently to try to open up others' minds to the fetish.  But now, there's just not the sort of thick-willed drive and dire need to make this place run that there used to be. 

Before the computer upgrade, as JMD will be happy to relate, I was doing work on one of the most ambitious projects I could have come up with... a multi-issue 3D Hub City-based comic miniseries that would have made the whole Cat-Gem deal look wussy by comparison.  We were talking about it daily, I was doing some art that was flat-out dropping his jaw, and together we had a story that people would be talking about for months to come.

And then my computer went in for an upgrade, and it was three months before I got all my software back into some sense of normalcy.  And ever since then, when I was pretty much left invalided-- art-wise-- for most of the spring, my life's become so tied up-- with my job, with other creative outlets, and with life in general-- it's been impossible to focus wholesale on this site the way it needs to be focused on to succeed the way we started.  Some of that probably comes from the whole 'Strike While the Iron's Hot' mentality.  The planned series me and JMD had bandied about died stillborn, pretty much.  C'est la Vie, again. 

I also lost a lot of drive when I saw how few people even bothered to register at the HCP gallery I worked for weeks on.  I should have probably known better.  We're a basically anonymous group.  But after having months of over a hundred responses at the group, I just thought, this time it'll be different.  That's not laying blame, by the way, on anyone but myself.  I have all these big visions that tend not to pan out or land with a soft, wet, pulpy thump instead of the gargantuan splash I envision.

So what's in the future here?  Really, that's up to y'all.  I'm gonna keep updating here and there, clearing out room at the Group for all of y'all to continue posting when you see fit, until Yahoo deems it necessary to pry it out of my cold dead hands.  And I have no intention of letting my subscription to the webspace lapse, so this site will be here as indefinitely as anything on the web ever is.  So it's not like the GA group or website is going anywhere soon.  Keep on enjoying it, and I'll do my best to keep on updating it. 

And, hell, maybe I'll be back in the game soon.  No one can really tell.  But even if I'm not, I can always look back at this and smile, remembering a time when I felt like-- for a short while-- I helped to make a difference.  That's all anyone can ask.

- ArgoForg
New Year's Eve
2005
 

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