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

Welcome to the 31st edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The tenth 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)What is some advice you would give to a new artist?

Dates 

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

The Entertainment Industry Is Going The Way Of The Automotive In The USA

Why Kechant Sewell left the NYPD

Lackadaisy Rhapsody

Calligraphy Journey

KWL science fiction

Black leadership preaching

CENTO Series episode 10
Are you really happy, my dear moon?

are you satisfied with your day?

so all alone in the night

covered by your glow's splendor

Bist Du manchmal einsam, mein lieber Mond?

bist Du zufrieden mit Deinem Tag?

 so ganz alleine in der Nacht

überdeckt durch Deines Scheines Glanz

https://www.deviantart.com/lovelybird2022/art/poetry-art-dear-moon-917116853

perceive in order to comprehend

truly have appreciation for the maker and

again

https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Symmetry-965485637

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

What is some advice you would give to a new artist?

Was asked by RTNNightmare, and the following is my answer.

Try to always remember the difference between the creative life side the commercial life of an artist.
The creative journey is eternal. There is no time or place or judgement that can satisfy the artists creative destination. 
The proof will be in your future, when you make some heavy lauded work. Take two year after said work is lauded, and you will be more creatively unsatisfied with said work than two years ago.
The commercial journey is mortal, is straight forward. The goal is to make money using your art. The audience taste is the determinant. The ability for your work to get outreach is more important commercially than the work itself. 
Remember to find communities online that enjoy the art work you do or may enjoy it. You are just starting so commercially you don't have a name to be recognized so you must go to the people who may find your work interesting. 
The media tools will not direct them to you.

You have to try and comprehend and embrace that duopoly. Some, including artists, will tell you that the commercial goes hand in hand to the creative but that isn't true. And that isn't a negative. 
Jean Michel Basquiat< streetart>
Philip K Dick <writer>
Penny and the Quarters<music>

All of these people posthumously found commercial success that they were not even remotely close to when living. Does it mean that when they were alive their work was crap or creative garbage. No, creatively it was fine as all work is creatively fine. But commercially, it wasn't good enough. The sad truth is that audiences tastes change, work gets outreach it never had and then can come a horde of money.

An Example of my work

RTNNightmare post

DATES

• 30th- Moon runs low, smallest angle compared to the south pole; henry ford born 1863 
• 31st -1928 roar of JAckie, the Metro goldwyn Mayor lion first heard on screen

AUGUST

named for Augustus Ceaesar- august means to grow; Perseid meteor shower 11th and 12th- best seen after midnight; circa 20th Venus rises before dawn to become a morning star; 27th Saturn reaches opposition, in the sky to the sun,  and brightest of the year

• 1st- Lammas day- originally meant to honor the first fruits of the harvest <remember all of the oldest human traditions come from the farm> and later added to the christian calendar to honor the eucharist ; Full Moon- called sturgeon moon cause the sturgeon are caught easier now ; 1793 meter length first defined 
• 2nd- Moon at Perigee- closest to earth
• 3rd-Saturn Moon conjunction; 1923 Calvin coolidge sworn in as president by his father
• 4th- Neptune Moon conjunction ; 
• 5th- Moon at Equator; Toni Morrison died 2019 - what is your favorite book of hers?

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

The Entertainment Industry Is Going The Way Of The Automotive In The USA

Fiscal Capitalism in the USA has always been about cheating. Fortunes made from stolen land, forced labor, auniversal illegal allowances, auniversal murder of competitors, dysfunctional financial trading systems all served and serve to grow and maintain the wealth of a certain group, not to invite competition or share wealth in the USA's history and in modernity to the global system the USA manages. And it isn't all doom and gloom for the USA. Western Europe, Korea, Japan  plus many others all require the USA to protect them from countries with true militaries. So the last bit of the Entertainment Industry <music/sport already went before film>goes the way of the automotive/electronic/real estate industry in the usa as dominated by foreign actors allowed by an open market that other countries with true militaries dont allow in their borders. The question is, with nothing but being a police man to most of humanity outside the usa while machines are able to do most uncreative jobs, what industries will be left in the usa for humans? and,.. will they be enough? 

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Why Kechant Sewell left the NYPD

If you want to know, go to the following

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10417-why-kechant-sewell-left-the-nypd/

Lackadaisy Rhapsody

A rhapsody is a musical form where improvised or spontaneous bridges between musical segments not aligned to each other is made as one song. The original rhapsody was the person who interwove epic poems to speak, as epic poems are long and need improvised bridges.

I was referred to this example by the following

Calligraphy Journey

 the title of TheOneWithBear ManHua, Sunshine Through the Willow Tree.

It took half of year for my fellow calligraphist to make the electronic brush as well as practice the forms.

Calligraphy comes in many forms but usually is a measure between legibility<the ability to read> side figurability <the ability to see an image>

For example, the following is the tughra or signature of Sulemain the magnificent of the Ottoman empire

 One can tell it is writing but it isn't meant for those that know the signs of arabic. It is designed to show an image, figurability.

In parallel TheOneWithBear's example below is no less craftwork, or calligraphy, but is meant for more legibility.

LINK TO THE VIDEO

TheOneWithBear deviantart

The following is an example of my calligraphy

KWL Science Fiction

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10432-for-science-fiction-writers/ 

Black Leadership Preaching

I hope this is comprehensive enough

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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 30th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The 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) My First Photomanipulation 

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Working with pencils

The Impact of the dark Tony Jaa

NATO and the war to come

The Man From Earth

Comprehending Race

CENTO Series episode 9

Through barren forest and icy lands

Fiercer than wolves that prowl the night 

Her arms, a fortress embrace so tight

https://www.deviantart.com/hippiedragonmama/art/Fortress-Of-Love-962689659

You give me always a helping hand

Without to have the feeling it hurts

I'll say for now to you good bye

https://www.deviantart.com/cartoonmotions/art/The-thing-that-make-me-smile-960950117

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

My First Photomanipulation

I used three warrior images from my own craft with the photo, which is from the photo source of the contest creator

DATES

• 23rd : moon on equator
• 24th : Marvin the Martian debuted in 1948 bugs bunny cartoon Haredevil Hare
• 25th : Moon from north to south of the Ecliptic, the path of the sun in the sky 
• 26th : Mercury side Venus conjunction, alignment in the visible sky ; 1788 New York becomes the 11th state to accept the US constitution . 
• 27th : Peggy Fleming born 1948, only winner of a goal medal for the usa in the 1968 olympic winter games, her compulsory figures I CAN'T FIND IT-IF YOU CAN DO TELL her free skate LINK

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Working with pencils

Love the 1896, no cover for dust

The Impact of the dark Tony Jaa

In asia the word black is never used for black asians, but the word dark is used

and what is the labor environment in china like or why is fast and furious popular in china?

NATO and the war to come

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2380&type=status

The Man From Earth

See the film for free and join in the multilog

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10402-my-favorite-movie/

If you want to see my thoughts as i watched the film, which can be akin to a huge spoiler reel, use the following link

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2381&type=status

Comprehending Race

Here is a partition of a quote, the complete is at the link at the bottom of this sector

You and others seem to think phenotypical race is or can be substituted for biological race. Again, each type of race has rules. Gender race <male/female/hermaphrodite>isn't based on the air. it is based on sexual organs within members of the same species. biological race<human/cro magnon/bluejay/tigershark/fern> isn't based on the sea. it is based on the variance of the dna molecule between species. phenotypical race<black/white> isn't based on the stars, it is based on appearance which is derived from elements of the dna sequence... between members of the same species. Linguistic race<anglo/latin/sino/bantu> isn't based on fire. it is based on the language someone speaks most effectively. Geographic race < african/european/asian> isn't based on the sun. It is based on the geography of where one's ancestry comes from. 

You and others seem to think, very erroneously, that discussion or concepts around phenotypical race can justify or prove that members of the same species are not members of the same species.  Who told you that? 

Yes , white europeans have tried to use and still try to use and do legalize to suggest or had laws stop that suggest phenotypical race or geographic race can can lead to a determination of a different species for humans with an appearance other than white or a geographic root other than european. But, that is merely a false conclusion that they used their military power to instill.  But that doesn't mean that any two  members of the same species are the same.   They are not. Similar? yes. Identical or essentially identical or near identical? 100% no. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10404-tell-me-whats-wrong-with-this-story-and-picture/#comment-62001

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 29th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The eighth 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. 

DATES

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Joseph Bologne

Malenga Mulendema 

Films from Rosie Mbakam

Shacarri Richardson

Artistic Truth

CENTO Series episode 8

Showing feelings of love vastly grown.

Her heavy hips shifted and swayed where she seated,

Maeve said, “No, like this,”

Maeve reached a white hand, touching

"We fit together like a hand in a glove"

https://www.deviantart.com/white-rose-brian/art/Gustavo-s-Special-Night-964736804

Though friends all tried to warn her

Her heart was stolen by the fae

From the rooftops merrily 

Brushed aside and lost

In through her window he did dance

And oh, his beauty charmed her

https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/Chimney-Sweep-Visual-Version-855690630

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

DATES

• July 17th-  New Moon
• July 18th- Nelson Mandela born 1918; First Muharram begins at sundown; Moon is surrounded by Venus + Mercury from now till the 20th 
• July 19th- Mercury moon conjunction; 1848, first women's rights convention in the USA at Seneca Falls <DEclaration of Sentiments ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Woman%27s_Rights_Convention.jpg > < Frederick Douglass said : Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence ; full text->  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Sentiments#Opening_paragraphs > 
• July 20th- Moon at Apogee, furthest from earth; Venus moon conjunction; Venus stationary, appear still in the sky; 
• July 21st-  Mars Moon conjunction; Pluto at opposition, meaning opposite the rising sun in the sky <difficult to see>
• July 22nd- St Mary MAgdalene  < yes, the wife of Jesus > 

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Joseph Bologne

video review from movies that move we  and my thoughts 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10400-chevalier-review-on-movies-that-move-we/

Uptight 1968

a film with Ruby Dee, and an uncommon perspective to black militancy in the usa

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10393-the-film-uptight-1968/?do=findComment&comment=61815

Malenga Mulendema 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2378&type=status

Films from Rosie Mbakam

https://artetcinemas.over-blog.com/2023/07/mambar-pierrette-4.html

Sha'Carri Richardson 

wins her first USA National

Artistic Truth 

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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 28th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The 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) Violet the Pantheress illustration

3) An Incomplete Labors of Judasa

DATES

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Disney's Blackish

40+ Double Dutch

Sammy Davis jr on racism

No We is a complete Family

Mrs. Parkington and the lesson of inheritance or fiscal capitalistic honesty

Happy birthday Brock Peters

CENTO Series episode 7
from the oldest times to the deepest seas

within these sturdy high castle walls

the easiest place to rest thy head in dreams

https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Interior-964406043

Few travelers dared to pass,

New victims were always found...

The people locked their doors each night

To chop those dead-heads down

As Countess Barbara came outside,

An expert on witches and their ways--

A bottle of Holy Water

To fill the town with dread!

https://www.deviantart.com/chaosfive-55/art/Countess-Barbara-s-Madness-214991064

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

Violet the Pantheress illustration

For the secret santa group on deviantart < LINK >,  all the participating members are given a secret  work of art they need to create in a given time. I was given work by  Olivertheplayer < LINK > . I selected Violet Pantheress and chose to make a still cartoon in light of the original pink panther film plus the pink panther cartoon while making Violet Pantheress the center of attention.

Below I made a coloring page and after that a colored page, which was presented in the group. 

Questions:

• Can you describe the story in the image, any of the characters in the distance? 
• Do you know what The Little Man, the pink panther's nemesis is up to?

Hint to characters:

• the owner of the restaurant is given by name?
• She is also waiting to be served, notice her head?
• Her hair?
• He is wielding something? 

Have fun!:) 

The Coloring Page

The Colored Page

Please share your colored page any time

An Incomplete Labors of Judasa

This began as a DTIYS, from an artist named Tofusenshi. But I saw an opportunity to do a lot more. I made a calligraphy, but I wanted to see how my calligraphy style coincided to a art side poetry form I learned from an artist known as Barosus. But I also wanted to see how I can utlize the PDF ability of Deviantart.

Well to the creativity :) 

The audiobook is the following

Here is the literature. It will be cool if deviantart allow embedding of their pdf, cause I like the way PDF's ae displayed on deviantart.

The Coloring page, remember if you do it to show me.

An excerpt on youtube

To see excerpts from tiktok or tumblr, use the following

 https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2374&type=status

DATES

• 10th-Moon south to north of the ecliptic- the path of sun in the sky
• 11th- Jupiter Moon conjunction- US Marine band established 1798< The oldest professional musical organization in the USA> They played for every president except Washington. WAs started by an act of congress in the John Adams administration.
• 12th- Uranus Moon conjunction
• 13th- first season of the Stratford festival, north america's largest european theatrical company, based in Ontario , 1953. The city of Stratford gave a grant of 125 US dollars to the founder to investigate.
• 14th- CXST- the civilian space exploration team  rocket GoFast of 2014 reached a record for a non government or corporate rocket by reaching 385,800 feet 117.6 kilometers 73.07 miles or speed of 3580 miles per hour or 5800 kilometers an hour; Bastllle Day is a lie and the February Revolution is more impotant than the october.
• 15th- Moon has the largest angle above the equator. ;

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Disney Blackish

It took the author forever to make a point that truly mattered in my view. Said point was read books. I am glad she said it especially cause she is a black immigrant woman. I have repeatedly said for many years, as a DOSer male I was raised with black fiction in book world. I didn't need black panther made, I didn't need princess and the frog made, I didn't need the lion king and to be blunt, I had negative critiques from all those films before they came out. And I don't need similar film projects in the future.

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40+ Double Dutch

I know so many Black females who Double Dutched, I am saddened this didn't start decades ago but at least it is now.

URL  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qJP0KOqzgRU

Sammy Davis jr on racism

Full Transcript plus Video

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2370&type=status

No We Is A Complete Family

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2369&type=status

Mrs. Parkington and the lesson of inheritance or fiscal capitalistic honesty

Watch the complete film

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2371&type=status

Happpy Birthday Brock Peters

Enjoyed his performance in The PawnBroker, prefer it to the one most people think of in the usa

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the image above is circa 1:12 

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

Welcome to the 27th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The sixth 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) Witches Pendant 3D Model

3) Bulwer Lytton

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Dreadful Tales issue 45

Start a writing business from Kobo Writing Life

Fiyah Mag Issue 27

Happy belated birthday Richard Matheson

Animaltroniek

Grief in SFF from Thistle and Verse

In memory of Rod Serling

Black Education in the USA was never...

CENTO Series episode 6

And the banshee lilts her lamentations

trembling trees bow their hoary heads

and nature is anointed in tears of grief

for the lord of the land dies this night

And the banshee lilts her lamentations

https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/Lamentations-962954635

Won't you share an enticing cup of tea

And I will admit I madly giggled

Steeped in ambient impossibilities

What a great old time was our repartee

https://www.deviantart.com/barosus/art/A-Great-Old-Time-964168685

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

Witches Pendant 3d Model

It all began with a Witchtember, a daily art prompt challenge, entry. The prompt was necklace. Where I made the following. Can you tell the spell of the pendant or the meaning of the Banners of Arms? Maybe you can guess the names of the two clans.

Then, arcencieldigitalart made a 3d contest and so I made a coloring page, do show me your colors?

and with said base I made the 3 d model. It seems embedding from sketchfab isn't working in over-blog. So you have to click to experience the image volumetric. 

Do you think I need to do the whistling blade next?

Bulwer Lytton

I submitted my one sentence. I thought about it for a while. Even though they allowed multiple entries. I wanted to be more honest and give one sentence one go. I chose a story I am working on that makes me laugh as the inspiration. It ended the 30th of June so the time has passed to submit but they invite annually since the 1980s. Have at it next time. 

DATES

• 2nd-> Moon rides low, largest angle beneath the equator of the earth Thurgood Marshall born 
• 3rd->Full Buck Moon, for the deer. Dog Day's Begin, originally corresponding to the summer solstice
• 4th->Moon closest to earth- perigee; Conjunction pluto side moon
  • Belated Flag day story https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-flag-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=905
  • Belated Juneteenth story https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-juneteenth-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=908
• 6th->Sun farthest from earth, aphelion ; Saturn side Moon appear in a straight line, vertical or horizontal in sky, conjunction
  • Aphelion Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-aphelion-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=923
  • Aphelion story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-aphelion-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=924
• 7th-> Venus greatest illumination in sky
• 8th) Moon at Equator ; conjunction- Neptune side Moon

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Dreadful Tales issue 45

Start A Writing Business From Kobo Writing Life

https://kobowritinglife.com/2023/06/26/how-to-start-your-writing-business-so-youve-published-a-book-now-what/

Fiyah MAg issue 27

https://fiyahlitmag.com/2023/06/01/issue-27-carnival-toc-cover-art/

Features include:

The Spirit of Bois – a short story by Karyn Díaz

Capsule of Souls – a short story by Dexter F.I. Joseph

Petunia – a short story by Lerato Mahlangu

Sentience – a novelette by Nkone Chaka

 Cover illustrated by Manny Edeko.

Happy Belated Birthday Richard Matheson

His first sale was to the story, Born From Man and Woman

a sequel to the story was written by another writer , while Matheson was alive, and is titled:

She Screech Like Me

ANIMALTRONIEK

And for more tech magic

Here is a $20 project that can turn a can into a musical toy which can be used to aid an instrument

click the image

https://makezine.com/projects/a-can-full-of-tone/

Grief in SFF from Thistle and Verse

My Answers to the questions

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2361&type=status

In Memory Of Rod Serling

his spirit flew in 06/28/1975 

some clips from A Passage For Trumpet

if interested a story overview

Black Education in the USA was never...

bad. Black people, the community or most individuals, are simply financially poor and that comes with a reality no quantity of knowledge can undo.

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10373-education-another-venue-where-black-people-have-been-dysfunctional-to-ourselves/

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