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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 51st edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The thirtieth 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)Far West PHotomanipulation

3)Dark Horse Ring

4) The 16th Iq'o Ch'en 

5) Harvest Eternal complete

6) Pa Bones Hustlers Dice complete

7) La Muerta Barbie

8) The Myth of the Manhattan Mourner

9) What's god got to do with it ,lyric

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

GrayStar Innovations

from the house of Anouk Wipprecht 

Timecruisers

Ferro Fortis Aquila

CENTO Series episode 30

All the crazy people, where do they all come from?

Father Mackenzie cleaned up the mess 

All the crazy people, where do they all belong?

With a mop and some hot turpentine...
https://www.deviantart.com/chaosfive-55/art/Eleanor-Rigby-The-True-Story-977480296

As my love for you dies

as sharp and serious as a pistol in the eye
https://www.deviantart.com/fkataylor/art/Dear-Indiana-Daughter-977900427

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

Far West Photomanipulation

It took me a while but I figured out a way for my style of artistry to create in photomanipulation. I create collages. In that way I am making all the elements to add to the photomanipulation in one page. I wrote a larger story but I didn't share it.

Collage

Photomanipulation

Dark Horse Ring

For the adoptables I have figured out to focus on items of jewelry. All my designs, and through suing stock I can give them added texture. I explain the item in the post. 

Coloring page

adoptable

The 16th Iq'o Ch'en 

Another item. This was for a pirate theme. I did great research on the maya. Take a look at the adoptables description.

coloring page

adoptable

Harvest Eternal complete

I made the poem already. But I finished the typeface, and made the calligraphy. Enjoy.  The design was inspired by another artist work.

typeface

calligraphy coloring page

Calligraphy colored

poem

Pa Bones Hustlers Dice complete

I finished the dice and the poem but realized t lacked a tutorial. I made the object to be simple to draw but no one took a crack at it.

tutorial

My version

The Poem

:) for those who know

La Muerta Barbie

For the cursed costume Barbie, it took me a while to figure out what to do for the cursed costume. 

The Myth of the Manhattan Mourner

my first photo share, based on a ghoul placed outside a home near where i live. 

The Myth

It started as most mournful wives journey's begin, with death. For most wives, a husband or a child enter the spirit world absent the other. But, the Manhattan Mourner had both. And absent two she knew no other, and lived all alone. Her money must had been good cause she never was evicted. But, if you cry at the foot of her townhouse, to a love that is shared, she will grant you audience, and tell you what you need to end the shared sorrow. If the love isn't shared, she gains half of the life from each who don't share that fate would give. But no one knows what she does with the time?

Night

Light

What's god got to do with it ,lyrics

the image that inspired the lyrical modulation

Enjoy the lyrics

DATES

December

• 17: Saturn+ Moon appear on a vertical or horizontal line in the sky, conjunction
• 19: Neptune+Moon  appear on a vertical or horizontal line in the sky, conjunction; beware Pogonip, or frozen fog, in the western states of the USA
• 20: Moon's equator + Earth's equator are sharing the same space
• 21: December Solstice, beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere and shortest day+longest night, beginning of summer in the southern hemisphere and longest day+ shortest night. The sun appears to stand still on this day, reversing  direction afterward. The axis of the earth creates the largest angle with the plane/disk of the path of the earth around the sun. 

STORY 1 : https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-december-solstice-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=963

Story 2: https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-december-solstice-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=964

• 22: Jupiter+Moon appear on a vertical or horizontal line in the sky, conjunction; Mercury between the Sun and Earth, inferior
• 23: Uranus + Moon appear on a vertical or horizontal line in the sky, conjunction; A visit from St. Nicholas first published 1823

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

GrayStar Innovations

Introducing his robotic arm

https://oc.makerfaire.com/maker/entry/93/

from the house of Anouk Wipprecht 

See her work in action

testing

She is on instagram

https://www.instagram.com/anoukwipprecht/

URL
https://makezine.com/article/craft/fine-art/this-fashion-accessory-will-clue-your-peers-in-to-your-cognitive-load/

Timecruisers

Giant vehicles as if from a Jules Verne

URL - has video, do look
https://zagreb.makerfaire.com/maker/entry/192/
Official Website 
https://www.abacustheater.nl/nl/timecruisers-straattheater

Ferro Fortis Aquila

from Roy Tukkers

view in action

URL
https://eindhoven.makerfaire.com/maker/entry/719/

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 36th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The fifteenth 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)Coloring Page Sailor Medusa Birthday Treat

3) 3D Sailor Medusa Treat version 

4) Princess Candace in the Kingdom of Mirrors

5) Set sail entry

6) Week three workshop

DATES

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Technicolor marble run

Black Speak 

Shaina West

Jeeja Yanin

Blue Moon

CENTO Series episode 15

please, your honor, just let them be free

a love that common faith denies

it is their love that leads the mission

bright smiles and crinkled eyes

https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Gay-968664604

The machine...the last thing he sees through the

Quarters, and her stylish little dart-gun

On a routine mission in enemy territory...

https://www.deviantart.com/chaosfive-55/art/Random-Spy-Girl-Laundry-210226372

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

Coloring Page Sailor Medusa Birthday Treat

For an adoptable contest I utilized characters from Kuroshi-tenshi world. Sailor Medusa side Princess Tranquility. 

Links
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2423&type=status

3D Sailor Medusa Treat version 

click the image to interact to the 3d version

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2424&type=status

Princess Candace in the Kingdom of Mirrors

A still image from her journey. Can you find the following answers in the work

• What did the Ganyok, PRincess Candace's familiar - a shell snake, do?
• How many enemies to the Glass order are thrown from a tower?
• How many Glass Order knights are injured?
• What are the Glass Order trying to do with the falling Peincess Candace?
• How many mountains are to the west?
• How many cages were put in the Queen of Glass's house by the antagonist?
• What jewelry does the antagonist wear?
• Where is Prince Menelik, to the side of Princess Candace holding the egg or not?
• How many birds are in the sky?
• What is the purpose of the cyclops?
• How many boats are visible?
   

Set sail entry

I enjoyed this invitation a lot. I went through many different designs before I settled on the following.

Week three workshop

She asked all to name a place you love and name 3 public plus 3 private elements about said place. I listed a few potential places but one was resounding.

I applied the Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Experimental

DATES

SEPTEMBER

Venus is brightest of 2023 circa 15th,16th of september look to the eastern horizon. Mercury highest in the sky on the 6th of september..

• 3 Moon cross south to north of the ecliptic- the path of the sun in the sky; Mort Walker born 1923 He started chronicling the journey of someone september 4th 1950

Before said journeyman enlisted he teased

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2020/08/28/celebrating-beetle-bailey-at-70/

• 4 Jupiter Moon conjunction Jupiter appear static in the sky
• 5 Uranus Moon conjunction
• 6 Mercury inferior, between Earth and Sun ; Louisa Swain of Laramie Wyoming first woman since 1807(in New Jersey) in the USA to legally cast vote 1870
• 7 Georgia Gibbs sang the Hula Hoop song on the Ed Sullivan show 1958 Video Link
• 8 Moon rides high, highest above the equator

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Technicolor marble run

from Gertjan Adema + Freepik

Black Speak

Someone on AALBC, Troy, , made an argument against my use of words. And I realized that the problem hasn't been in this instance or times before with others, that word use was different between me side another black person. The problem was I was unwilling to succumb to the majority in the black community in such an elemental aspect as language. And it connects to other aspects. I wonder how many Black people in Black groups in the USA oppose other Black groups in the USA merely cause they are the minority? The word democracy means rule of the people. But the people always rule. The question is, do the majority rule? When is individualism allowed, when the individual joins the majority only? All Language warrant management over time. Why? Cause sooner or later an individuals language can be damaging to a populace and can become a groups in said populaces language. Where in it can only lead to doom cause you can't bridge languages by definition opposed to each other. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2402&type=status

Shaina West

introducing

Jeeja Yanin

A nice speech on this female martial artist and one movie she was in entitled, chocolate

Blue Moon

Called Blue cause it is rare, not cause of its true color. Super for the proximity of the moon to earth..

The following is the august 2023 blue moon,  waning super moon of 2023, the next waning super moon will be in the gregorian year 2037

URL 
https://flic.kr/p/2oZqv4c

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 25th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The 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)Juneteenth

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Cornel West 2024

The unsettling from Aragorn

Dedicated Love

CENTO Series episode 4

There grew a sweet communion

To rise, linking limb and bough

In bonds of imperishable love

https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/A-Charming-Friendship-960645761

A technical strategy of the dark ages

The fear and violence was filled in concrete

An empire was built to manifest the good

https://www.deviantart.com/redsterfish/art/Blackest-Night-954174551

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? 

This is a little trick, if you don't know the Ship Of Fools motif

I do calligraphic commissions

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

JUNETEENTH

I present a poem

Brah Soul Sun

To all my gens, having

a similar pele

listen to our hene

Brah Soul Sun...

reach to all thing, sempre

and some art

And an audiobook

And here is an excerpt if you need for the poem, the Ancestral Tree

Now , if you don't know. Juneteenth represents freedom of all Black people in the USA but historically, June 19th reflects a moment. 

HeadQuarters District of Texas

Galveston Texas June 19th 1865.

General Orders

No. 3

The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, “all slaves are free.” This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.

The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.

By order of Major General Granger

F. W. Emery

Major A. A. Genl.

now if you want coloring pages or more poetry or more information concerning Juneteenth use the following link

A review of various topics concerning Juneteenth

I quote: Community is what got the land back. So, yes, the family won, but the community did not.

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Cornel West 2024 candidacy, what is positive or negative 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10336-cornell-west-the-peoples-party-and-the-problem-with-third-parties-in-the-usa/

Aragorn and Masculinity quietly

Dedicated Love

from Marlena side Klepetan

Official film

referral

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

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE HIGHLIGHTED WORK OF 2022

here is a last entry , it is used as the cover photo for this post