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 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 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/