settlement

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 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/