jiausiku

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 12th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The forty-fourth 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 Precipice

3) Center for Black Literature Highlights, day 1 +2

4)sign on a signpost

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Movies that move we reviews: Rustin, American Fiction, Color Purple

If you could have a pet--and you had time to give it all the love and care it needs, had the space, and had the necessary funds--what would your dream pet be?

Are you a Dune Fan? 

What grammar or punctuation rules do you struggle with?

Questions of Supermen?

Thoughts to the New Shadow that never was

Black Poetry you are feeling now

CENTO Series episode 44

so for better or for worse

for the next generation is in our hands

be they nuclear or diverse

and they move onto the next lands
https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Parents-982918450

this art generates pure bliss

that can leave the mind blown

putting skills to the test 
https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Gift-Art-984156376

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 Precipice

of the Jiausiku shadowowrlds  series
Author/Artist:  Richard Murray
 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Precipice-1033130281

stageplay

Ikwawezi in snowfur form

colored
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Ikwawezi-in-snowfur-form-march-madness-1033124804

coloring page

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Ikwawezi-in-snowfur-form-coloring-page-1033123230

tutorial to create

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Tutorial-of-the-Ikwawezi-in-snowfur-form-1033119449

Pandaj family character page
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Pandaj-Family-Coloring-Page-1033117291

Center for Black Literature Highlights

Day 1 highlights: Michael Eric Dyson

I saw Michael Eric Dyson live at the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, the following hold my thoughts

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66190

Day 2 part 1 highlights: Dionne Bennett, Levi Catoe, Russell Nurick

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66193

Day 2 part 2 highlights: Tiya Miles interviewed by Brenda M Greene

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66212

sign on a signpost

what would you put on the signpost?

DATES

Happy Belated March Equinox story

_{The March equinox is the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere while autumn in the southern hemipshere}

Story 1https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-march-equinox-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=878  

Happy belated Saint Patrick's Day story   

https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-eostre-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=889  

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Movies That Move We reviews: Rustin, American Fiction, Color Purple

Review of all three movies from Movies That Move We

I offer my thoughts in the comments

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10865-movies-that-move-we-rustin-2024-american-fiction-2023-the-color-purple-2023/

View the Color Purple Review below, but use the link for the others plus my thoughts

If you could have a pet--and you had time to give it all the love and care it needs, had the space, and had the necessary funds--what would your dream pet be? 

Hmmm I went with the tomato dog in the attack of the killer tomatoes cartoon. See, it isn't a dog, it is technically still a tomato , thus a plant. so it needs water and light BUT it barks and has some sort of permanent leaves that act as   legs to crawl about. I have no idea if it is male or female... or both, and what happens if it cross pollinates . I don't know if anybody else has read this far, as I rabble on, but what if the tomato dog cross pollinates with a pumpkin or a pomegranate or a watermelon. As long as I don't see any audrey signs I am good to go. And as a tomato it has to have seeds... but, as a tomato dog, what if it mates with a canine of sorts. I don't know if the tomato dog has .. um a penis or vagina but i will love to see it mate with a black belgian shepard wolf, imagine a burgundy belgian shepard tomato wolf. I have money right, land right. I don't know what will happen. IT could be my doom. The Fall of the house of Richard by the Burgundy Tomato wolf . Imagine the howl of the tomato wolf Yeah , my dream pet is the tomato dog , I have officially convinced myself

https://www.deviantart.com/writeddreams2reality/journal/Weekly-Community-Journal-146-1027766557

Are you a Dune Fan?

Did you know how Dune the book came to survive the magazine zone

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10866-name-a-black-story-told-in-magazine-format-that-you-want-to-see-as-a-book/

 What grammar or punctuation rules do you struggle with? 
 

I want to speak on how grammar plus punctuation are approached. 
Louis 14th , or another french monarch if I am wrong, made the first french, labeled, standard.  
Why? There was a time in France where the people in the various regions spoke so many versions commercial or communicative purposes were stymied. A modern example I can give is a few years ago the coach of the english women's flag team stated the women come from so many different places , in modern england, that they have a hard time comprehending each other talking together on the pitch. So they use the standard english to communicate to each other.  
Grammar rules or punctuation rules in any language in all of human history are made and enforced to improve communication or commerce among a set of humans. 
Sequentially, don't treat said rules as the essence of writing but a ruleset. No different than the equation of a line: value in one axis equals the slope of the line multiplied by the value in the axis perpendicular  to the intercepting value in the one axis. 
You have the right to forget a rule. That is why they have rulebooks. Take your time , go through your work, and make the changes if need be. Use a reference book. Use the various electronic tools if accessible. 
But, As Zora Neale Hurston or Robert Burns prove, in opposition to commerce or communication, creative purposes do not require said commonly accepted grammar or punctuation rules. Both of said artists have work that was and is deemed negative grammatically or punctuation wise because they don't fit the commonly accepted standards. 
I end with, listen to Writed, use or apply the commonly accepted rules of the written word. They are mostly known or accepted. They do aid in making communication or commerce better. But, if you creatively wish to go another way, you are free to or not erroneous in doing so. Just be willing to accept many may or will chastise your creative work because it doesn't embrace said rules.
https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1028537409/5121061562

Questions of Supermen?

I answer the following two questions

• IF discovery channel takes your name out of a container of random writers names, and gives you the chance to do a superman movie. Describe your film in one sentence?
• LEt's say Discovery channel chose you and not tae nihis coates to do a black superhero movie, what will the superhero be and describe it in one sentence?

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10870-questions-of-supermen/

Thoughts to the New Shadow that never was

_{the following was a comment to the following video concerning the work of tolkien not finished}

The beginning of the New Shadow reminds me of Ivanhoe from Walter Scott. Ivanhoe at its heart is a book about two whose bloody merger will become one. The beginning of New Shadow suggest one who is becoming two. 

Did Tolkien ever write a story about the Haradrim or sothyrons? I know of characters but never heard of a story tolkien wrote.

To your final question, I am surprised no one in fanfiction has tried something. Tolkien has so many fans and so many fans are writers. 

Black Poetry you are feeling now
what is some favorite black poetry, I share some of mine
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10847-still-i-rise/?do=findComment&comment=65884

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 5th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The thirty-seventh 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) Jiausiku

3) weird fashion

4) DArk Soul photomanipulation

5)Dark Academia 

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

The Black South Need A Black Party Of Governance

Taraji P Henson tears

The ice concert

The horns in your brain

CENTO Series episode 37

Revealing that I’m the angel in the grave within

I quickly ran outside

Why? What’s wrong with me?

I feel a sharp pain within my soul

Being pushed hard back within

Years would pass as I keep trying

The door finally opens, now I’m allowed to leave
https://www.deviantart.com/ilia-mae/art/Angels-Grave-in-the-Garden-765982824

burnt offering

what i can’t do

acerbic tongue

what i am

downy plush and wooly warmth

what I am not. 
https://www.deviantart.com/tiger--eyes/art/in-three-two-one-956330905

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

Jiausiku

The Hotel

The image

The Play

Dawanga

The image

the play

The former employee

the image

shadowworld

Journey to a first time

the image

the play

weird fashion

Deviantart asked users to make a prompt of wierd fashion and deliver it to  its Dreamup art simulator but I had in my mind a better idea. Make a prompt and before you give it to a machine make your own work and then compare + contrast.

coloring page

colored page

textured

comparison

Dark Soul manipulation

element collage

photomanipulation

Dark Academia 

This is the first part. I was inspired by a selection possibility in the Dark Soul invitational above. Now I will write a story expounding on the tale.

Elemental collage

Photomanipulation

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

The Black South Need A Black Party Of Governance

and other issues

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2549&type=status

Taraji P Henson tears

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10731-taraji-p-henson-doesnt-have-the-solution-to-her-problem/

The Ice Concert

The Horns In Your Brain

developed by Steve Parker, the horns are connected to an electronic machine that reads brainwaves.

the video is from magic spoon productions

video

official page

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