Austin, TX on the Map as Truly Devious City!

This is your captain speaking.
(For those who don't know, Angelo Sotira, aka deviantART's CEO.)

I just wanted to report on the truly devious nature of the folks in Austin, Texas, USA for those who weren't aware of this fact.

On March 9th, 2011 we held the most epic of deviantMEETs there, and I promised a site-wide blast about it. In the spirit of bringing deviants closer together all over the world, here I am keeping my word. Now, you realize this gives ALL OF YOU quite a bit of leverage for a side-wide HOT TOPIC'd blast when we hold a deviantMEET in your city, amiright?

Check out these shots…



Organizing this shot is always a treat, where I get to crowd-control and organize everyone into the frame. I love it! I did it in 10 cities for EPIC deviantART World Tour photos in 2009 with Heidi. She and I were hardcore reminiscing about it after this shot… We need to get out there for another World Tour; we miss you guys!!!!



Deviants came from all over the state to hang out with us…



…and when deviants get together, they do what deviants do… I LOVE walking around watching deviations of all types being made there and then…



A whopping 17 members of staff came out to represent, perhaps the most staffed deviantMEET outside of Los Angeles in the history of deviantART! We all got on stage and introduced ourselves, and then I addressed the topic of… WHY LLAMAS? Haha, you shoulda been there!



So much fun!



phlezk was so cool, man… He hung out and took photos and really made himself available, we really appreciated it!!  From left to right:


Heidi chris phlezk matteo spyed







The Bolt, aka chris.



scir filming the Meet with Corey. Thanks so much, man!! scir makes all of our killer videos like the About Us stuff, plus the Version Release videos and the Portfolio, Groups, and other ones if you've seen them! Canon 5DmII on a killer rig!! omg!!





The One... the Only… TheLaurenVerse with her pigtails… haha





It was matteo's birthday! So we got him all kinds of w00t!





At the end of the meet, AstroRobyn and I sat down to sketch. I drew some abstract stuff, she drew me!! AstroRobyn

Big thanks to StJoan who is AMAZING for working with the entire deviantART team to organize such an epic deviantMEET!!

And thanks sooooo much to all the deviants who traveled far or came out to support us. You guys are always inspiring and truly delightful to hang out with. We're looking forward to the next one!!!

Meanwhile, Austin, you guys are truly devious! We hope you'll continue your deviantMEETs in Austin! Check Texasdevmeet for updates!