astrology

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 19th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The fifty-first of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem.  

2)Dystopian Springtime 

3) The SSS 

4) Guava 

5) Iyanu - schomburg black comic book festival 

6) My Sexy OC's to Coolbeaniebabez

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR.

The artistic life cliche

older age loneliness

Sylvia Moy

Grandpa Amu cellphone holder

Prince Mural in Atlanta

The MB's Song8

An interview with Sonequa Martin-Green

CENTO Series episode 51

There's a haunting in this restaurant. They're playing a song.

Nothing fulfills as before, but before wasn't great.

Honestly, before, how low did I rate?

Was it you all along? Or was it another ruse? Was I a mark? Am I a rube?
https://www.deviantart.com/shayafterdusk/art/Haunted-888747106
they all look worthless

the stars, 

A world away,

I’m left with what I lack.

and the moon
https://www.deviantart.com/saltandcookies/art/Something-I-Lost-966047400

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

Dystopian Springtime 

I thought, what will a springtime in a dystopia be. Not the dystopia coming at springtime. 

stageplay

Illustration- photomanipulation- referred to in stageplay

Poem- referred to in stageplay

forum post
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2676&type=status

The SSS 

Sub Skin Smiling is a Prospective Psychological Pageant stageplay. Think rorschach as a play.

forum post
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11001-the-sss-sub-skin-smiling/

Guava

If you  own or have any positive association to a black owned business please join Guava from Kelly Ifill 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2679&type=status

Iyanu - schomburg black comic book festival 

a writeup of Iyanu  panel on the Schomburg Black comic book festival
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10974-schomburg-black-comic-festival-2024/#comment-66966

the video

My Sexy OC's to Coolbeaniebabez

A while back, a fellow artist who I have supported through featuring, asked if they would like an image in their style and as I never take these chances to not create myself. I asked them if they would wait for me to create the character. I always planned to do multiple and let them choose. In a later newsletter edition we will see which is chosen if any. But I had fun, making these images of my OC's to be sexy:) 

Mimada -colored

mimada- coloring

1960s colored

1960s coloring

sharkbite colored

sharkbite coloring

DATES

12 - Mother's Day

Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-mothers-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=897  

Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-mothers-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=899  

13 - Uranus Sun conjunction

14 - Frank Sinatra died 1998 - I was not raised as nor am I a sinatra fan

I've got you under my skin
 

my way

15- 1928 mickey mouse first appeared for test screening of "plane Crazy"

17-Moon at Apogee

18-moon at equator; venus uranus conjunction; jupiter sun conjunction

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

The Artistic Life Cliche

I saw the following text, and I had issue with it. What say you? 

here is my reply

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10971-my-reply-to-an-artistic-cliche/

older age loneliness

What are your thoughts to people over sixty being lonely?

https://thiis.co.uk/age-uk-research-reveals-over-2m-older-people-to-experience-loneliness-at-christmas/

Sylvia Moy

do you know this woman?

Learn more about her

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10972-sylvia-moy/

Grandpa Amu cellphone holder

wooden multipurpose cellphone holder

Prince Mural in Atlanta

Do you know the artist? I was unable to find out who created this.

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2665&type=status

The MB's Song8

Song 8 ©1990 Rory Scott
Alfred Gatling - Guitar
Reynold White - Piano
James Swinton - Bass
Rory Scott - Drums & Percussion
special guest - Samantha Spiridellis (violin)

An interview with Sonequa Martin-Green

what do you think of her performance in discovery? I am a huge sisqo + burnham fan. Love avery brooks + sonequa martin green's performances. but if someone asked me what I will like to write. I Will like to write a story for the captain of the Saratoga in Star Trek IV portrayed by Madge Sinclair.

View the interview

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 18th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The fiftieth of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem.  

2)Memories of mirrors

3) Three poems unraveling one story

4) The Settlement - Jiausiku

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

 Artivism project with Shawn Alleyne

Approximate galactic mergings

KWL romance tropes episode

The art of manipulation

GDBee kickstarter

Chocolate Cage

Black Statian Award list

CENTO Series episode 50

I will have to tear away at that very last veil

no matter how far I've come

and face the truths that have kept us prisoner
https://www.deviantart.com/bronsrealm/art/Poetry-The-Veil-978707224

We do not remember

As if a sculpture etched, in our mind's

will not be used for pottery.

As if our swimmer's know, by bone -

heavy, to speed the sinking.

We do not remember
https://www.deviantart.com/maggotsx/art/Memories-by-the-Lake-959383727

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

Memories of mirrors

join the discussion or view video
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2667&type=status

submission 

video

Three poems unraveling one story

The challenge was  simple, three poems as part of one story. You need to read them in order: PRivate Eye, Woman, Secretary

The Private Eye

The Woman

The Secretary

The post to discuss on AALBC

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2674&type=status

and the invitational

https://www.deviantart.com/xyron7777777/journal/Week-4-Folder-Open-AND-Poetry-Challenge-1044434074

The Settlement

A play of original matrimony

forum discussion
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10991-the-settlement-from-richard-murray/

DATES

May

5- Moon is closest to Earth, perigee + Moon is moving south to north to the path of the Sun in the sky, the ecliptic

6- Mercury Moon conjunction

7- New Moon + Venus Moon conjunction

8- Jupiter Moon conjunction+ Uranus Moon conjunction

9- Mercury greatest elongation in the sky 26 degrees west

10- 1908 Anna Jarvis organized Mother's Day observance at Andrews Methodist Episcopal church, Grafton, Virginia 1908

11 Moon highest above equator, rides high ; Mamertus christian saint day , first of Three CHilly Saints Pancras is second, and Gervais is third

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

 Artivism project with Shawn Alleyne

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2654&type=status

Approximate galactic mergings

in four billion years the galaxy once called Milky Way will collide with the galaxy once called andromeda, completely, if you are not scared read on

explanation from nasa
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-shows-milky-way-is-destined-for-head-on-collision
from earthsky
https://earthsky.org/space/earths-night-sky-milky-way-andromeda-merge/

KWL romance tropes episode

enjoy the forum talk 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10968-kwl-romance-tropes-episode/

The art of manipulation

The source of the image  you see was made with computer programs but it took 42 hours of touchups to get the source of the image you see to the image you see. Human art is still needed.

GDBee Kickstarter

she earned over 1000 preorders and still time for more

the link to the kickstarter or to discuss the artist is at the following

Chocolate Cage

You take a balloon, if you have skill form it into a shape. 
Then melt chocolate. Your preference as chocolate comes in many forms. But I think you can even melt simple hershey bars. 
Then put the melted chocolate in a funnel , wait for the chocolate to be in a melting state like syrup or honey, not a liquid state. 
then open the funnel's spout and spread the chocolate in a pattern about the balloon
Then wait for the chocolate to cool. 
then once cool, pop the balloon and a chocolate cage:)
 and you can add things to the chocolate like nuts or other things for different flavors. 

referral

https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1035682822/5125780174

thought on a creative writing degree

Black Statian Award list

I realize I have never seen a list of awards concerning the black populace in the usa that are federalwide. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 17th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The forty-ninth of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem. 

2) The Griot replies to Troubadour PrinceofFire 

3)The Blade Is Always Held

4)Continue the story of Sapphire's Desire

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Thoughts to a Palmetto Christmas

thirteen things for the last time

Tananarive Due wins LA Times book award

Miyazaki and the USA a view

National Black Cheerleading Championship

Anime's depictions of Europe, a short history

Weapons Combat League another round

CENTO Series episode 49

Something was terribly wrong

She is wired all wrong

What she needs

Is to get all wound up

After a few twists and turns

It will put a spring in her step

But when I lifted the lid

There was no music
https://www.deviantart.com/shewriteslovelypoems/art/Ballerina-2024-980453353

Something is stalking towards you.

.. you turn around...

you shake the door

The wall is cracking, the plaster is crumbling

A loud growl can be heard in the wall.

You unlock the door, go to the banister,
https://www.deviantart.com/malintra-shadowmoon/art/Scared-985859440
 

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

The Griot replies to Troubadour PrinceofFire

a poetic response

to be part of a conversation

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2662&type=status

The Blade Is Always Held

a haiku

forum talk
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2663&type=status

Continue the story of Sapphire's Desire

a fragment

forum talk
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2664&type=status

DATES

april

28- moon runs low- closest to the south pole while farthest from the equator

29- mars neptune conjunction

Duke Ellington born

30- pluto moon conjunction

may

01 saturn is highest in the east circa 5:!5 am ;May Day

02

Leonardo Da Vinci spirit flew, 1519,  here is a work of mine based on a work of his

03 saturn moon conjunction,  ; pluto seem static in the sky 

Dale Davis, legally blind, 78 years old,  bowled perfect game in alta iowa 2008

04- moon on equator; mars moon conjunction; neptune moon conjunction

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Thoughts to a Palmetto Christmas

_{my thoughts}

Many artist found themselves adding a different aspect of their operations during the covid19. I admit I have been slow to embrace escapism but I didn't feel the same sense of loss during 2020-2022 as many others. 

Glad you are going in another path. 

On a literary note, when I think of "American Fiction" the film or the book it is from "Erasure" from percival e. I think a great contrast exist between writing in a new genre to placate to an old negative environment opposed to writing in a new genre to embrace a new positive aspect in one's environment.

good luck:) as always

^{to learn more about the book, use the following link}

thirteen things for the last time

What is one thing in your life that will never happen again?

Tananarive Due wins LA Times book award

say congrats in either place

Miyazaki and the USA a view

these are not my thoughts. I have a book from miyazaki and I have my own thoughts but this video has some interesting points

National Black Cheerleading Championship

enjoy and join the discussion

Anime's depictions of Europe, a short history

You may learn something about anime productions before the 1970s

Weapons Combat League another round

view the video

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 16th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The forty-eigth of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem.  

2)synthography sentiments

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Shirley reviewed by Movies That Move We

Kindergarten Cooking

Ki Khanga the role playing game

Notre Dame in recovery

Morgan Price of HBCU Fisk University 

Julie Bell on Monsters Madness and Magic 

a wooden hand

CENTO Series episode 48

Thanks for sticking with me,

I’m here for you too,

It means the world

And you know it too.
https://www.deviantart.com/kittysib/art/Gratitude-978318689
darkness that desires hearts to run into it's

brethren upon them. For the abyss is simply a

beckoning the many bewitched souls to sit with 

mention, so wont you jon me in this honey trap
https://www.deviantart.com/backjack-kitsune/art/Welcomed-by-darkness-981107026

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

synthography sentiments

Image

video

DATES

Faith Ringgold spirt flew

https://www.faithringgold.com/

forum discussion

 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10948-rest-in-peace-faith-ringgold/

A gallery of total solar eclipse images

my favorite

April days

• 21 Moon at equator
• 22 Moon cross path of sun in the sky, ecliptic

Earth Day

Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-earth-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=894  

Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-earth-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=895  

• 23 Full Moon pink moon
• 24 Mercury static in the sky ; founder of "old farmer's  almanac" robert b thomas born 1766

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Shirley reviewed by Movies That Move We

video

join the forum to talk about it

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10952-shirley-reviewed-by-movies-that-move-we/

Kindergarten Cooking

Ki Khanga the role playing game

from Mv Media atl

I am thinking about converting that to an electronic form in Black Games Elite. Welcome thoughts or help

Notre Dame in recovery

Well, I don't see a variance. No human made home is outside nature, while nature is always an element at the heart of any human home.... I will keep my reply brief because I am a long admirer of architecture/landscaping.  I will say this I have a strong dislike of dysfunctional architecture or landscaping. I dislike it to no end. 

Morgan Price of HBCU Fisk University 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10950-fisk-university-makes-gymnastics-history/

Julie Bell on Monsters Madness and Magic 

An interview

in Audio form

my questions 

• What percentage of women in the usa you think picked up body building through their husbands or significant others weights? 
• Did you ever draw a painting as if through a concave or convex lens ?
• Who is your favorite rock musician based on their guitar playing? male or female?
• Have you ever played a Joplin composition on guitar? Your son?
• Who is Boris's favorite european orchestral artist? 
• Someone said community college as a bridge into college or learning is underrated, what do you think? 
• Do you think the internet allows artists to move to different mediums or styles easier through exposure?

 a wooden hand

from concy_art

view it being made

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2653&type=status

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 13th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The forty-fifth of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem.  

2) Mandala Sphere

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Questions to writing and things written

What book do you propose for a questionable literary summary?

Children of the Quicksands from Efua Traore

Akira Toriyama Thoughts

why does Tiktok unite so many legislators , not the people, in the usa?

Success on Deviantart
A true story of law enforcement in the usa

CENTO Series episode 45

round and round the detectives go

but one by one, they disappear

smoke and mirrors obscure their views

and the bodies they'll never find

it's a glamorous profession
https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/Disappearances-984767753

Engrave your soul's manifesto

where the lies can not distort it

Forging truth to a razor's edge

That the lies may feel it's bite
https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/Sharper-than-Steel-984982103
 

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

Mandala Sphere

On deviantart in celebration of Holi, a mandala contest happened. But in my mind I thought, wouldn't it be cool if I connect the imagery of mandala which means circle, Holi, which is a festival of colors, with Equirectangular art. I admit I had another more intricate concept drawn but I used the latter concept of four mandalas cause I felt it represented the cyclical nature better. I already admit, when I do this again sometime in the future,  I will change the background each mandala to be a different place.  respecting the two hemisphere concept. 

Mandala Sphere explanation
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/The-Mandala-Sphere-1035238848

My Mandala Holi 2024 flat
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Mandala-Holi-2024-1035234983

Mandala Sphere Holi 2024 equirectangular -click to view it properly

https://www.flickr.com/photos/monsignor_klaatu/53610956342/in/dateposted-public/

Coloring page
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Mandala-Coloring-Page-1035234493

Tutorial guide
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Mandala-Equirectangular-Frame-1035233886

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

DATES

March

31st- Newfoundland became Canada's 10th province 1949

April

1st Easter

Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-eostre-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=892  

Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-eostre-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=893  

3rd : Neptune Venus conjunction; Pluto Moon conjunction

4th-North Atlantic Treaty signed 1949- NATO

5th- Mars Moon conjunction

6th Saturn Moon; Ricard Coeur de lion  died 1199

Note

8th- total solar eclipse

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Questions to writing and things written

I asked the following questions

• Z) To the growing populace in humanity who do not read books and by extension, don't read much, are video learners, what is the financial opportunity for the writer?
•  5) The holodeck in star trek the next generation was technologically possible in Star Trek the original series while the culture of the federation in said original series opposed the purpose of the holodeck, thus no holodeck in the original series [barring special effects limits or capabilities in the 1960s]?
• #) Does literature need its own protocol, like HTTP? 

What are your answers? I give details to the questions origins at the following

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10874-a-question-and-questions-and-a-question/

What book do you propose for a questionable literary summary?

_{Questionable defined as  "how on earth did this published", "why are people reading this", "what decisions even made someone think this was a good idea", etc.} 

It took me a while to think, it was in the back of my mind, but I have a book, I want to roast that I have never read. I admit, it makes perfect sense to me how it got published, why people read it, or the decisions that made it a good idea. My reason for the roasting is the following book claims to be ancient when it is not and that lie to me, warrants the roasting. 
I admit I myself have written a similar work, but with one key difference, I didn't suggest my book is ancient. My book which is in the same genre as the following book is admittedly modern. It is interpretation. 
The book I wish to roast is
is drumroll!!!.... 
The Book of Mormon
This book was written in 1830 and is suggested to be ancient text transcribed into english. That is a lie. And while there are many books I don't care for I don't think they warrant the kindling, but this. 100% for me. 
https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1029005156/5121377453

_{why I found this question difficult}
ahhh well, I have submit a blank page:) 
In my writing journey I try to comprehend the positive in every book. 
I can easily admit, I have negative views toward a number of books: uncle tom's cabin,  imitation of life ,  king james bible , chandler harris's the tales of brer rabbit , and twilight :) is included in the list but I can't bring myself to roast. 

https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1029005156/5121375176

_{what financially successful terrible writing may say?}
well someone say's terrible writing concerning at least  50 shades of grey ,  it is very profitable so it conveys something about the modern readership.  Maybe the modern readership is willing to pay for content that would get a failing grade through scholarly review , this even connects to   computer generated art from human prompts. Maybe the modern audience at least in the anglophone is becoming less judgmental and more willing to extrapolate from words what they want to see or accept blemish in images that convey most of what they want to see? I can be totally wrong of course.

https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1029005156/5121395359

Children of the Quicksands from Efua Traore

illustration by Rayseb

excerpt at the following link
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10881-children-of-the-quicksands-from-efua-traore/

the cover

Akira Toriyama Thoughts

I recall being in school and i loved to draw, but I was raised in a different artistic heritage so i was surrounded by friends who drew, fellow child black artists, and  they all drew dragon ball. I was talking about tintin and sunman. totally alien to them. So, Toriyama's cartoon was a gateway into the arts for many black artists in my offline life. 

 I have never drawn anything dragonball related. Seen it for years , like some of the toons. 
To toriyama, he is fortunate, it is the most fortunate artists who gets to make a work that inspires so many strangers while making one generational wealth to loving ones once their spirit flies. 

https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1029262088/5121421750

why does Tiktok unite so many legislators , not the people, in the usa?

You can answer here or in aalbc
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10883-tiktok/

Success on Deviantart

_{the ever ongoing dialog war in art communities concerning computer simulated art through human impetus}

_{some thoughts}
part of this is financial right? I think all of us are being short in not mentioning how much money has been earned and the truth about what it means. as i said elsewhere, artist can tell when the market has changed and regardless of how the law goes, the market has changed. With these tools, the average person will not be interested in getting a human artists because for no money they can get a computer to make a satisfactory simulation or better. The reason fewer people played instruments in humanity was recorded music devices. Did recording music devices tell humans to stop? no. but once humans realized the musicman job at theaters/pubs/community events was leaving thus the money to do the art was leaving they didn't continue performing for free nor did latter generations have the inspiration of so many musicians to pick up and start using instruments. so, this is the reality. The future will have more artists, yes for those who read this far artists, who speak to a computer and get results. Yes. And this is coming from a undisputed traditional artists, look at my gallery if you have doubts. So, the future is here. In 50 years in the usa. most artists will create through said means. But traditional art will not die, i imagine people will pay for traditional artists to create traditionally. Traditional art has markets but they will get tighter. And for me, while I wish I made 12,000 on deviantart in 2023 with my poetry or calligraphy , i am not bitter nor scared. I will keep creating as long as i can, even if few to none want to buy. 
https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1032405910/5123375808

I want to say, AI art is very popular everywhere, those people I know offline who are artists who use it prove it to me. AI art is here. But I Think you are correct. People miss the amount of touch up work with synthography that goes on though I add as a logician, at some point, the computer will not make as many mistakes. The star trek holodeck is the goal and i know it is achievable. It doesn't mean I can not whittle wood in my spare time 
https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1032405910/5123377063

I will speak as a traditional artist, check my gallery if you think I am lying.
I know synthographers or what I like to call magic paintbrush users and I accept it 100%. . 
Will people become accustomed to using prompts like star trek on the holodeck with that volumetric display? yes. 
Will this mean less fiscal opportunity for traditional artist? yes
Does this mean any traditional artists is hindered in continuing to create their art? no
Always Be Creating 
https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1030743741/5123385908

A true story of law enforcement in the usa
read it if you dare
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2615&type=status
 

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 11th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The forty-third of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem.  

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Et Tu Internet with Troy Johnson of AALBC

Can Computer programs commonly called AI 3d print?

Make a Basket With Paper

Make Gigantic Froebel blocks

A short history of Black art in the usa by blacks 

Zodiac Embroidery Light

Multicolor spray can

CENTO Series episode 43

 Eat thy pudding and meat, and go slide to the Beat

When the snot-gurgling UbbaPOOT stinks up the veldt

To go skinny-dipping in the BLLAHDT!
https://www.deviantart.com/chaosfive-55/art/AbSoLuTe-FrAbBlEtOgGaH-902302406

One two! one two! and through and through

the scent of grubs blazed over flame

and stewed awhile in thought

prepare those astral grubs my lass

 they chortled in their joy

well seasoned were the horogroves 
https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/Poppywocky-982013718

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Et Tu Internet with Troy Johnson of AALBC

Troy Johnson speaks on the internet and websites

See the video

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10844-troy-on-google-amazon-ai-social-media-and-black-entrepreneurship-on-the-web/

Read my reply

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10844-troy-on-google-amazon-ai-social-media-and-black-entrepreneurship-on-the-web/?do=findComment&comment=65856

Can Computer programs commonly called AI 3d print? 

the following is an image of results

read more to find out

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2601&type=status

Make A Basket With Paper

Make Gigantic Froebel blocks

https://makezine.com/projects/ginormous-froebel-blocks/

A short history of Black art in the usa by blacks 

I think the black populace in the usa has never had time to settle on a lot of things and this means we settle more as individuals in various things.... I wrote a reply to this article with my views fledged out

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2602&type=status

Zodiac Embroidery Light

from Becky Stern

URL- full instructions
https://makezine.com/projects/this-zodiac-embroidery-lights-up/
Download embroidery pattern
https://beckystern.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/zodiac-embroidery-patterns.zip
Download Circuitry pattern
https://beckystern.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/zodiac-embroidery-circuit-diagrams.zip

Multicolor spray can

A long development process from Vitaly Tesh
URL
https://makezine.com/article/craft/fine-art/many-colors-one-spray-paint-can/

Video

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 10th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The forty-second of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem.  

2) Poetry for Joe Biden's state of the union speech

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Christina game from Dualmask

What is an art medium you appreciate but don't practice, and why?

Proof the War on drugs was a lie

Who are some of your favorite women artists?

Relief from Mary Ann Ozurumba

Frederick Douglass view on the constitution's role in slavery in the usa

First Black Female Owned Marijuana Business in Brooklyn

CENTO Series episode 42

on ships across the universe

many new sights to see

amid glistering crystalline stars

in the vast technological lands

clashing blades of light
https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Science-Fiction-Sci-Fi-981641377

All our empires of vanity erode and crumble down

And every moment now is precious

Reminding me that all is spiraling toward entropy

Am I an inch closer or is my dream bucolic fantasy
https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/Toward-Solstice-981624443

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

Poetry for Joe Biden's state of the union speech

I made a poem in reply to Biden's 3/7/2024 speech.  Did you write anything or create anything involving said speech? Share in here or on the AALBC page.

Title:  Biden's Pulpit
Author: Richard Murray

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10869-thoughts-on-joe-bidens-state-of-the-union-speech-2024/

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Christina game from Dualmask

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/452-christina-game-updates-from-dualmask/

What is an art medium you appreciate but don't practice, and why?

glass blowing, i have seen it many many times, but it is not cheap, you really need to have a house. it isn't something to do in an apartment. I wouldn't even accept working a kiln in a loft.  but glass blowing is lovely, figurines from it. really a lovely art, the light, photographers in a glass blowing shop always have fun. 

https://www.deviantart.com/moonbeam13/journal/Watercolor-Wednesday-1025866594

Proof the War on drugs was a lie

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2597&type=status

Who are some of your favorite women artists?

Growing up Zora Neale Hurston, Billie Holiday,Josephine Baker, I have many favorite female artist in various genres. 

What historical contributions by women do you think are underappreciated or should be highlighted?

Well, I think it must first be said that in the usa at least women have been vital members of every organization. PRotest movements/non violent movements, government law, a woman made the foundation of medicare in the fdr administration the first woman to be in a presidential cabinet if I am correct, Anyone correct me if I am wrong, sporting popularity, disney- many inkers were women whose names were not uttered as much, film , in the silent era there were more female directors than the early sound era, so... undervalued or in need of highlight is many. I will now answer the question and say, in the world of streetart,I think a number of female streetartist never get mention. I don't remember a few of their call names. But there you have it.  

Share your favorite artwork by someone who has given you strength!

I Will share lyrics from Sade:) and her band.
....
I always hope that you remember
We'll never really learn the meaning of it all
What we have is strong and tender, so hold on
In the middle of the madness
When the time is running out and you're left alone
All I want is you to know that
It's strong still, can't pull us apart
Nothing can come, nothing can come
Nothing can come between us (Nothing can pull us apart)
Baby, nothing can come, nothing can come between us
Nothing can come between us
I always hope that you remember
What we have is strong and tender
In the middle of the madness, hold on
So it truly is a good thing
And I always wanted you to know
There is always this, and this is everlasting, hold on
It's about faith
It's about trust (Yeah, yeah)
It's about faith (Ooh yeah)
It's about trust
Nothing can come, nothing can come
Nothing can come between us
Baby, nothing can come, nothing can come between us
Nothing can come between us
Can come (Nothing can come)
Nothing can come
Can tear (Nothing can come between us)
Can pull (Nothing can come)
Nothing can come
Us apart (Nothing can come between us)
Can come (Nothing can come)
Nothing can come
Can tear (Nothing can come between us)
Can pull (Nothing can come)
Nothing can come
Us apart (Nothing can come between us)
Can come (Nothing can come)
Nothing can come
Can tear (Nothing can come between us
Can pull (Nothing can come)
Nothing can come
Us apart (Nothing can come between us)
 

My showcase
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Women-s-History-Month-2024-1026545107
 

Showcase

https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/Womens-History-We-Can-Do-It-1009653759

Relief from Mary Ann Ozurumba

I have seen this artwork for years and never saw it properly cited. I call this a victory.
 

Title: Relief
Artist: Mary Ann Ozurumba - marianas_art
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2598&type=status

Frederick Douglass view on the constitution's role in slavery in the usa 

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/456-1860-frederick-douglass-%E2%80%9Cthe-constitution-of-the-united-states-is-it-pro-slavery-or-anti-slavery%E2%80%9D/

First Black Female Owned Marijuana Business in Brooklyn

read more about it

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10861-nycs-nypd-cost-the-city-and-state-alot-of-money-but-should-it-be-more/

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 9th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The forty-first of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem.  

2) A Day With The Master

3) The Settlement

4) Loose Dirt

5)We Left On The 11th ,Hope To Come Back On The 12th

6)The Journey of Sofie Wakten to become a witch

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Let us continue the Mace Windu story?

Black Magic

Introducing Ayesha Kazim

black cuteness

CENTO Series episode 41

 These are the lives of Those Whom We Have Lost

And may their stories told serve as reason how

Their deaths now confirming our darkest fears

These are the lives of Those Whom We Have Lost
https://www.deviantart.com/jcsolis-lit/art/Those-Whom-We-Have-Lost-Poem-974826712

we are the last kiss from the goddess,

we are torn skin of the faint young sun,

we are jewels in the crown of midnight,
https://www.deviantart.com/winter-unseelie/art/Jewels-970443101

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

A Day With The Master

stageplay
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1025934041
poetry
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1025937253

illustration

The Settlement

StagePlay 
COMING SOON
Haiku , theme frog
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1025939467

Loose Dirt

Stageplay
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1025941727

We Left On The 11th ,Hope To Come Back On The 12th

Stageplay
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1025945711

The Journey of Sofie Wakten to become a witch

Stageplay
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1025949171

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Let us continue the Mace Windu story?

I provide a pitch, what say you? 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10830-do-you-have-a-sotry-for-mace-windu/

Showcasing Photographer Elvert Barnes

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10860-a-showcase-of-photographer-elvert-barnes/

Black Magic

decomposing, recomposing pencil trick

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2Bel-Ypn-0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

How commonly called AI art and I stand

I will start with the pot and then do the honey,yes that is reverse. 
For those that fear the writing on the wall about the ability of all to express their imagination in various forms, with ever growing precision. it is here. Not all in humanity are online or own a powerful enough computer, most don't in fact. But, for those online or who can afford, the way in which a human artist is needed is going to change, and as in all labors it will not be sheparded or guided well but will be chaotic and messy as all labor changes in the usa in particular are. 
Pot closed.
Now two big drops of honey. 
First,  people who can have embraced these advanced computer brushes. And they are getting not just in illustrations but in literature what they want to see. The human imagination is infinite, it has not lessened and these tools will allow an expanse of imaginative displays. 
Second, I talk to people in other parts of humanity, not just the usa. outside the rich parts of humanity a respect or liking for non electronic craft is strengthening so, for those who may feel like the walls of the traditional artists are closing in, i argue they are not but you need to get to the audience and in the usa or richer places in humanity, we are living at the beginning of a different taste in how art shall be consumed. 
As for myself, i simply create the way i do for the reason i started when a child. I enjoy it. I have never been in competition with another artist. I simply create and use the gain in experience to learn.
As for my relationship to synthography or what I said elsewhere in these comment,  work through advanced computer brushes  , it is inexperienced or young. I probably will never put my own literature or illustrations into the machine to determine something new. But, using old poetry and then playing with various art styles was fun so I imagine I will do more of that with these contests in the future. But I don't know, we will see. 
 https://www.deviantart.com/wrath/journal/The-V-Day-Nostalgia-Challenge-was-amazing-1025382667

IN AMENDMENT
yeah and that is why in my entry i had the gif style. To show people how you can use literature to get some idea and then use art styles through the names of artist themselves to garner various results, some quite pretty..... I have said the following elsewhere. We already know what  synthography is, it is called the holodeck. You know on the enterprise or elsewhere in the star trek universe from the next generation onward, when someone wants to relax, they go to the holodeck and say
"computer, show me a bar on earth , new orleans, in the late 1800s during carnival , filled with black pirates from tortuga in haiti from the 1600s as customers" and then the computer makes a scene the person is standing in and then they say " add a platform for a singer and make it a young ella fitzgerald supported by the louis jordan band" and then more changes,and the they say "run program" we in modernity are not there yet, but the google ai text to video is the first step there. That is all these is. It doesn't mean , ala the same show star trek, people can't do hand craft like in star trek insurrection when the people on that planet where no one ages because of the rings spend hundreds of years as apprentices learning how to sew intricately. I think people in the usa at least already know what ai art will become but it never occured to them that star trek was also right about the money working out differently. PEople in star trek do pay for holodeck programs , they are called holosuites so...  even though I am a traditional artist I comprehend this tool easily.  https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1025382667/5119706605

Introducing Ayesha Kazim

a black female photographer, enjoy her galleries

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10833-photographer-spotlight-ayesha-kazim/

What are your thoughts on rejection? How do you think it can help... if there is a silver lining?

 
happens to all artist eventually.  I think rejection has different intensity levels based on who gives it. In my home, people have judged , not even, not the right color , similar. But, outside my home, in my presence, people have said , his work is crap. I have had work win entry in some things, not win entry in most. But, the key is not having a home where rejection is the standard. I think all artist eventually can climb over the bridges of rejection outside the house. But in the home, i think it is devastating to have certain kinds of rejection. I know dancers/singers who grew up with , to be blunt, rejectors in the house. I can't go into grand detail. But, my point is I don't think I will have the confidence or the patience in myself if not for the support of the home. And I have seen those who didn't have that and it can be really tough. MAgazines/publishers is one thing but the home is the worst. 

https://www.deviantart.com/writeddreams2reality/art/WWW-63-Querying-Rejections-1025802759

Black Cuteness

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10842-just-black-cuteness/

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 8th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The fortieth of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem.  

2) Valentine's Nostalgia

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Google Lumiere

mlk jr said

Jeffrey Wright first actor nod reaction

The truth of voting

art is magic ,for science or knowledge can always be reduced to what can be comprehended, a part of art is always the imaginative unknown

CENTO Series episode 40

 Inside his shell his softness cried.

The crab scuttles across the sand,

It's hard shell shining in the night,
https://www.deviantart.com/ariya-sacca/art/The-Crab-975481401

Alchemist of the alphabet

Forming spells

A grimoire waiting to be filled
https://www.deviantart.com/carpevesperum/art/Written-Magic-976011048

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

Valentine's Nostalgia

I made a video book or gifbook based on the idea of valentine's nostalgia, from thefulcrum. They said think outside the box, so I thought, let's use the first european valentine letter as prompts to a computer simulation system. I had to break it up. I used deviantart dreamup to make three images for the first stanza while three for the second stanza. Then I used an art style common in the time of the poetry for each image. I chose the image that fronts the gif. But enjoy it all below. Read the description for more detail.

gif

video

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Google Lumiere

It is a text to video application, not ready for mass consumption. But in github already. 

If you want to read more

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2582&type=status

mlk jr said

a video of wisdom from the late great martin luther king jr. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2593&type=status

Jeffrey Wright first actor nod reaction

Jeffrey wright speaks on his earliest thoughts to knowing he was on the oscar roll for his performance  in  American Fiction

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10803-jeffrey-wright-reaction-to-first-best-actor-oscar-nod/

The Truth Of Voting

Instances in the usa have displayed the truth of voting

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10829-the-truth-of-voting/

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading. 

Welcome to the 7th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The thirty-ninth of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem.  

Happy Belated Valentine's Day

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

stage vs spare vs real

Blacks in hawaii

couples classes fantasyfitnessmd

Continental Black American Unity

CENTO Series episode 39

 Heaven's been breached

lit up in neon

The empire of gold

Reborn again, the incorporated
https://www.deviantart.com/rjbg/art/FADE-INTO-BLACK-974750724

You can 

take away

what 

I was

in the first

place

I am not

within 

your chapel

and I would

do it 

all over

again

the path

of patience

and 

understanding

should do
https://www.deviantart.com/beyondcomplacent/art/Your-chapel-965514808

If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection

Or if you prefer to listen,

here is a recording with art, can you tell the Cento I made of my own work in the art? 

I do calligraphic commissions

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995

Happy Belated Valentine's Day

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10831-happy-valentines-day/

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

stage vs spare vs real

Stage fighting or performance fighting is one thing/ dueling with protection and rules is one thing so called real life fencing/ but the third is sword fighting in lethal situations. The problem with modernity is the lack of comprehension  that sword or spear or club or non projectile weapon fighting was a standard part of war, a standard operation on the field. the gun is the standard field weapon today but when the non projectile weapon was the standard that created another class altogether. In the past on a battlefield one may not have all the armor, may be sick, may have an injury, has no rules , these elements in my view, make the discussion of theatrical fighting versus what I will call weapons sparring limited. Compared to true non projectile weapons combat, theatrical fighting or weapons sparring are lacking. Duelling is about violence. I think sparring isn't about violence. Sparring is about athletic skill or achievement or nonviolent learning. Theatrical swordplay is about entertaining. One of the speakers mentioned the film "the duelist" but the same director made a film called "the last duel", and in it, it showed the duelling of war. In the film the duellist you have the dueling that led to many european fantasies, the closest thing to duelling in war in peace. But the purest duelling is violent, messy, tricky, really warlike.

Blacks in hawaii

Do you know anything about Blacks non native to hawaii? 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10746-blacks-in-hawaii/

couples classes fantasyfitnessmd

Antoinette Williams

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10769-couples-classes-from-antoinette-williams-fantasyfitnessmd/

Continental Black American Unity

What unites all black people in the american continent whose descendents from 1500s to 1800s were mostly enslaved?

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10827-what-event-unites-all-black-americans-read-my-description-before-you-answer/

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/345-richard-murray-creative-table-3/