Elfland's Workshop: [link]
Hello everybody, i recently formed a teamwork for my website, we offer different services from illustration to photography. I´m in need of animators to work freelance through the website, The client will contact me and i will contact you, i will charge the client depending on how much you want and i will get a 20% for the whole deal, because after all you would be working through my website. So i´m basically offering the chance to have an online portfolio of your work available to people looking for this service on the net. when the time comes i will contact you and i need you to work fast and be responsible with the deadline. i know a few of you need this opportunity and i need to offer this service to my clients right away. I also need sculptors who are interested in working through my website.
Send me a note or an email to info@elflands-workshop.com with samples of your work, location, age, and the minimum price you ask for a basic 5 minutes color animation in 2D or 3D.
there is the chance that i will need more than two animators in each field, if one cannot do it, i need other choices.
Good luck, hope to get some answers.
COMPATION
"Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages"
Thomas Jefferson
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights.
That is the way of a whole human being."
Abraham Lincoln
"Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality."
Dalai Lama
"If a man aspires towards a righteous life,
his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals."
Albert Einstein
"To talk goodness is not good...Only to do it is"
Chinese Proverb
"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless
is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life."
Albert Einstein
"At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society."
Arthur Conan Doyle
"The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different"
Hippocrates
"The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
Schopenhauer
"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions."
Mark Twain
"There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery."
Charles Darwin
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress
can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon
the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
Leonardo Da Vinci
"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
Pythagoras
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for
survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Albert Einstein
"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
Albert Einstein
"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Since all sentient beings are equal as my only son, how can I allow my followers to eat the flesh of my son? Eating meat to me is out of the question. I have never allowed, I am not allowing, and I will never allow this practice - I have strictly condemned eating meat in every way."
Gautama Buddha
"All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?"
Gautama Buddha
"People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn't cause suffering."
Dalai Lama
"One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them."
Martin Luther King
"All wholesome food is caught without net or trap."
William Blake
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
Immanuel Kant
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution.
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
Thomas Edison
"Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it. If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
Saint Francis of Assisi
"The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heaven"
Satan, in Milton's Paradise Lost
"Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them."
Denis De Roughement
"I am sometimes asked "Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?" I answer: "I am working at the roots."
George T.Angell
"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
James Russell Lowell
"What are we doing when we brainwash children in schools to cut open their fellow animals? Are we dangerously desensitizing them? Some of the most warped and blunted people I know are those who have gone through training of this sorts."
Richard D. Ryder
"They charge me with fanaticism. If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large."
William Wilberforce
"Even though Genesis says that God gave man dominion over all animals, we can also construe it to mean that He merely entrusted them to man's care. Man was not the planet's master, merely its administrator, and therefore eventually responsible for his administration."
Milan Kundera
"The [leisure] class might produce one Darwin, but against him had to be set tens of thousands of country gentlemen who never thought of anything more intelligent than fox-hunting and punishing poachers."
Bertrand Russell
"The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun."
Brigid Brophy
"Small animals, small children, young lives - they are all the same
as far as the need of protection and of gentleness is concerned."
Henri-Frederic Amiel
"If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner."
Anon
"Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise
have no claim to be serious moralists."
Stephen R. L. Clark
"Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places."
Charles Mayo
"In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but people of other tribes could be robbed or killed as one pleased. Gradually the circle of protection expanded, but as recently as 150 years ago we did not include blacks. So African human beings could be captured, shipped to America and sold. In Australia white settlers regarded Aborigines as a pest and hunted them down, much as kangaroos are hunted down today. Just as we have progressed beyond the blatantly racist ethic of the era of slavery and colonialism, so we must now progress beyond the speciesist ethic of the era of factory farming, of the use of animals as mere research tools, of whaling, seal hunting, kangaroo slaughter and the destruction of wilderness. We must take the final step in expanding the circle of ethics."
Peter Singer
"The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever."
Ashley Montague
"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?"
George Bernard Shaw
"Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them - without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us."
Dr Carl Sagan & Dr Ann Druyan
[Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, 1992]
"Some will take refuge in the old cliché that humans are different from other animals. But when did a difference justify a moral prejudice? When did those with black hair have a right to mistreat those with red hair...or even those with blue or purple hair...Surely the crucial similarity that men share with other animals is the capacity to suffer? Regardless of the number of legs or the woolliness of our fur, we can all suffer..."
Richard Ryder
"The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding physical pain as an example, for it is an interest that humans clearly share with other animals - those interests are to be counted equally, with no automatic discount just because one of the beings is not human."
Peter Singer
"I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ...[they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty."
James Herriot
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages.
Tom Regan
"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how
they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."
Anna Sewell
[author of Black Beauty]
"To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility."
S. Parkes Cadman
"My biggest dream in the world is for everyone to become vegetarian, so that there won't be any more suffering."
Alicia Silverstone
"When I was old enough to realize that all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like bullies would take control of younger kids in the school yard."
River Phoenix
"I believe that a vegan diet causes less suffering than a diet centered around animal products. Animals are sentient creatures with their own wills, and it seems wrong to force our will onto another creature just because we're able to."
Moby
"What do they know - all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
(The Letter Writer)
"I know in my soul that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy...You're just eating misery."
Alice Walker
"Not having known anything better does not alleviate the suffering of the animal. Its fundamental desires remain and it is the frustration of those desires that is a great part of its suffering. There are so many examples: the dairy cow who is never allowed to raise her young, the battery hen who can never walk or stretch her wings, the sow who can never build a nest or root for food in the forest litter, etc. Eventually we frustrate the animal's most fundamental desire of all - to live."
David Cowles-Hamar
"In point of fact, I am the very opposite of an anthropomorphiser. I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality and moral choice - and that is precisely why we are under an obligation to recognise and respect the rights of animals."
Brigid Brophy
"The church so hated these good people (the Albigenses - a "heretical" sect of thirteenth century France) whose Christ-like compassion was such a judgement on its own pagan and anti-Christian violence, that their vegetarian habits were not only represented as signs of a diabolical heresy, but were also used as a means to detect and convict them. For when prisoners were taken, sheep were led to them and knives were provided for their butchery. Those who refused to kill the animals were burnt at the stake, and the majority did refuse since to take sentient life violated the very basis of their faith."
Esme Wynne-Tyson
"To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts,
is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life."
Jon Evans
"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to
all living things, man will not himself find peace."
Albert Schweitzer
" If you could see or feel the suffering you
wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat."
Kim Bassinger
"How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur and feathers is beyond my comprehension..."
Joseph Wood Krutch
"To derive pleasure in being cruel is a very debasing matter. It shows a person to be unmindful of the sanctity of life and the meaning of life. There is something very foul and evil in the lives of men and women who delight in destroying helpless life, especially in what is known as "blood sports "
Rev. F.C.Baker
"Millions of animals are the victim of bloody and senseless torture in laboratories. Cruelty is an integral part of our food production system; animals are increasingly raised in over crowded and barbaric conditions and slaughtered hideously. Creatures of every kind die in leg-hold traps, by poison or clubbing to satisfy our desire for luxury apparel...and countless creatures, both wild and domestic, are killed each day by cruelties for which there is not even a name or a category. They cannot speak. We can. Those who are articulate must be the voices of those who are voiceless."
Richard Morgan
"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human"
Loren Eiseley
"Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as 'sentimental',
'impractical', 'womanish' etc., by those whose fun, profit or convenience was at stake."
Joan Gilbert
"What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to make the same judgement in the case of humans who are similarly deficient."
Tom Regan
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarian."
Anon
"Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity"
Rachel Carson
"The cannibal goes out and hunts, pursues another man and proceeds to eat him precisely as he would any other game. There is not single argument or a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism"
Herbert Shelton
"For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we will never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."
Henry Beston
"Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?"
Pierre Troubetzkoy
"People often say that humans have always eaten animals as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable the victims, all those dominated, oppressed and exploited. And it is the non-human animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned of all."
Henry Spira
"The cruel experimenter cannot be allowed to have it both ways. He cannot, in the same breath, defend the scientific validity of vivisection on the grounds of the physical similarities between man and the other animals, and then defend the morality of vivisection on the grounds that men and animals are physically different. The only logical alternatives for him are to admit he is either pre-Darwinian or immoral."
Richard Ryder
"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they
occur in laboratories and are called medical research."
George Bernard Shaw
"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear
of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected to the fate of men."
Emile Zola
"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism;
yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians,
for we feed on babies, though not our own."
Robert Louis Stephenson
"We recognise, I hope, our special responsibilities to the aged and infirm, towards the sick, the mentally subnormal and the physically handicapped. We say that such sentient creatures that are less able to care for themselves deserve our special care and support. The same argument applies to children - and we as adults claim we recognise special duties towards them. If this is so, then why do we not recognise our special duties towards individuals from less clever species?"
Richard Ryder
"It is in the battery shed that we find the parallel with Auschwitz....To shut your mind, heart and imagination from the sufferings of others is to begin slowly, but inexorably, to die. Those Christians who close their minds and hearts to the cause of animal welfare, and the evils it seeks to combat, are ignoring the fundamental spiritual teachings of Christ himself"
John Baker, Bishop of Salisbury
"To be true to the logic of Animal Liberation entails considerable alteration
to the structure of human society. Not only should we stop eating animals and
experimenting upon them, cease hunting them in zoos or hunting and trapping them
in the wild, we should also perhaps, put them on an equal footing with children and the
mentally handicapped in the eyes of the law"
Richard Ryder
"What is it but deliberate massacre when tens of thousands of tame, hand-reared creatures are every year literally driven into the jaws of death and mown down in a peculiarly brutal manner? A perfect roar of guns fills the air; louder tap and yell the beaters, while above the din can be heard the heart-rending cries of wounded hares and rabbits, some of which can be seen dragging themselves away, with legs broken, or turning round and round in their agony before they die! And the pheasants! They are on every side, some rising, some dropping; some lying dead, but the great majority fluttering on the ground wounded; some with both wings broken and a leg; others merely winged, running to hide; others mortally wounded, gasping out their last breath amidst the hellish uproar which surrounds them. And this is called 'sport!'"
Florence Dixie
"True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence
and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation."
Joseph Addison
"It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals"
Brigid Brophy
"The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, faithful animal
race, form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history."
Edward Augustus Freeman
"There will be no justice so long as man will stand with a knife
or gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics. We plow under habitats of other animals to grow hybrid corn that fattens our genetically engineered animals for slaughter. We make free species extinct and domesticate species into biomachines. We build cruelty into our diet."
Jim Mason
"I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual development to leave off the eating of animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came into contact with the more civilized."
Henry David Thoreau
"We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions, and organs as our own,
and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food, therefore, if he eats meat,
he participates in taking animal life for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."
Leo Tolstoy
"Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become."
Edward O. Wilson
Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge
We are all made with the same universal matter, different shapes but the same matter, so to eat an animal is the same as to eat a human being. There is no difference whatsoever, never was and never will.
I just cannot understand the moral difference between eating an animal or a person, muscle is there, flesh is there, blood is there, tendons, bone, pain, suffering, distress and wanting to live. I do not accept that something will die by my own hands or support the practice of butchering, hunting, caging, torturing and killing. I just cannot let something so awful condemn my soul, i am not this, i am no killer, i wont make others suffer for my own selfish being. A tree will give you fruits, in them you will find the seeds you can plant and this way life extends and supports itself and you are but a link and life can sustain endlessly. You cannot cut off a cow´s leg and wait for it to grow again like a plant will do. What an atrocity it is to even feed a pregnant cow to eat her baby later when is born. The mere thought of eating a Cadaver disgusts me to a point i cannot explain. We teach little children to love teddy bears, furry bunny toys, Hello Kitty, Bugs Bunny, and read stories where animals are the main character, but then we make them chew on a piece of dead animal. Can you kill an animal with your own bare hands? see the blood, feel it struggling in your grasp, scream, kick while you gut it or slash it´s throath? I bet you can´t, because in the end you know it´s wrong.
Fabiola I. Vargas.
Cyclone Nargis has torn up Myanmar/Burma, and there's also a huge earthquake in China. As Eva Hopkins wrote in Linsner.com, "That's pretty apocalyptic for a span of 9 days. Gaia is angry with us. Make sure your insurance is up-to-date! Though they don't usually cover acts of God(dess).
Now they're beginning to assess the damage & casualties. It boggles the mind."
And it really does.
What am i doing to start helping? There's more to do but i started with:
I nearly watch TV or light a room at night, just the one i need, i do most of the laundry by hand to save water and electricity, i already got used to it, no dryer or dish washer, no blender, i don´t even iron my clothes, i´m teaching my daughter some agriculture and hydroponic methods, i go shop with the same bag always and ask the people on the supermarkets to do the same so we wont carry gazillions of plastic bags home, i buy organic food, wont eat meat anymore and wont support fast food restaurants anymore, i don´t buy make up because it´s pointless, make up wont make me the person i really am and most of them test them on animals, if not on USA and Europe anymore, they do it in China, i switched to natural medicine, i walk all i can instead of catching the bus, ( 5 to 7 kilometers a day ) i don´t use the car unless for an emergency and i´m in the process to buy land to make a reforestation project and teach people how important this is, i believe most of my art will have this theme from now on in a way or another, and we just eat what we need, all that pleasure we need to be fighting for is causing too much damage, so yes, perhaps i want to eat this or that or go drive instead of walk, but we cannot afford destroying the only place we can live in, we cannot move to another planet and we are reproducing like rabbits, from now on, the entire world is more important than my desires and my own dumb self. We cannot be that selfish anymore, we are a group of people and we must find the way to get along.
I was even thinking about having another baby but that wont happen. I wont bring someone who might multiply his or her family members from two to 20 in 50 years. All of this might seem dramatic but Drama is what is happening right now, right now, even when we are sitting behind the screen doing our daily stuff as if all those things were happening to someone else in another galaxy, no, this is happening to us, all of us, and it will reach each one of us at some point and i wont sit there with crossed arms waiting for someone to fix everything.
This is scary and we must do something.
We already got the news that there wont be enough rice for my country in three months because all of this is a mess.
fuck, there´s so many things we don´t need, and we might have the right to screw our lives, but not other people´s lives just because we want all this crap to fill our empty spirits, collecting stuff we wont really use, spending money on serious stupid things.
People might say, but we have to move on, life goes on all that crap, yes life goes on but it wont if we keep like this, the warning signs have been here since 1960´s and people just cover their ears and eyes and pretend everything´s alright.
So, start doing something about it or get ready to get screwed. Fight for Life, fight for your home, fight for your planet, how ridicule this is? To fight against ourselves because we are eroding our own land? DO SOMETHING! We cannot just go to sleep at night after watching TV as if nothing is wrong. I don;t want to create a panic attack on someone but perhaps this is what we need so we actually stand up and react, we are numb! And we are Dumb. WAKE UP!
For all the Witches, Wizards out there, start rituals to send our positive energies to the rest of the people and cover Earth with white light.
If you pray pray! pray with love, ask God for an answer, ask God to make people realize what we are doing and give them strength to start doing something at once.
If you Meditate, you know what to do.
Anyway, please CONNECT, let's make Art that promotes a change please, you are all so talented, please use your skills to do something, to promote recycling, nature protection, animal protection, a simple way of living, a less fake image, promote friendship, respect, group support, group work, we are a group, we are not alone here, make art to promote the love for nature and people, to promote alternative ways to get energy, even if it's a small hint on a piece of art, manip or photography, try to share and communicate with people and help make a change in people's way of thinking. Please please please please please, i beg you all, do something please.
You know what we are doing? imagine someone getting beat up and killed just next to your table at a restaurant and you just keep on eating or drinking your coffee. We can't ignore the kind of monsters we are and how we are consuming everything like a virus. So instead of getting angry with all of this and hating people for it, change your mind, change the way you feel, start being positive, and if you are one of those emo kids that has no idea what your future will bring, you have a task if you want to, instead of embracing death thoughts and romanticize pain ans loneliness and self pity, use your influences, your contacts, your music, your fashion and all you can, your emotions too to voice these things out to people on the net instead of writing about how sad all this makes you feel and how you want people to get screwed for once. Be a warrior, not a painful whine that ecoes all over the place please.
People,
If you don' t care then please step aside and make room for the ones that truly care, we will change things, we are warriors, we have a voice and we are strong, i don't want my life to be wasted while other's need our help and need information. I don' t have money but i have a computer and internet and i will do all i can to promote a change in people from now on. I do not wish to discuss with people who do not agree with me, i don;t have time to spend on these discussions, i rather talk with people who want to do something. If you have news about alternatives and new discoveries that can help this work and make a change, please share it with me and i will pass it on to everyone i can. 

































