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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 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 35th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The fourteenth 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) Around The Moon In 80 Risings

3)Week 2 of Bettsfic writing workshop

4)Artist that inspired me

5) Important info for all independent writers 

6) Screenwriting Workshop

DATES

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

A Couple That Stretches Together Stays Together

Harlem of Yore

Do you say what you really want if empowered?

How To Build Your Own Wearable Valkyrie Robot?

Accessibility Interview

CENTO Series episode 14

Because it means they are finally free

Something to celebrate, encourage and praise

Their existence in this world a sign

That deities above would not create

https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Inclusivity-967583479

All the people in the grocery blush

shouting about a unknown guy

fly forward and backward !

Others say that this scene is real criminal

https://www.deviantart.com/redsterfish/art/Around-the-Freezer-967696417

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

Around The Moon In 80 Risings

The introduction

The Photomanipulated work for Olgola's invitational, the story connects.

Week 2 of Bettsfic writing workshop

Main post where I describe elements of me paying attention in the week and developing a story concept based on it

Poetry based on things i paid attention to

Stageplay, using the character of Sarah from Innocent Little Margaret , having elements from the Pay Attention

What artists has truly inspired you, pick one? 

asked by RTNightmare

August Wilson, the playwright. He wrote the play Fences which was made into a film with Viola Davis side Denzel Washington. I also saw those thespians on stage.

why has august wilson inspired me more than other artists who have inspired me? 

I must first say I can make this comment book length on why. But, I will focus on how August Wilson inspires me in an uncommon way. 

...

Art in all forms or fashions is unbounded in what humans can create/intake from it. Unfortunately while inevitably, all art is influenced by the relationship humans have to each other. Art from individuals in a human community that is subservient to another human community can become trapped in or show shackles from the reality beyond the individual imagination. 

August Wilson's plays are clearly set in Black communal spaces in the usa, but are not devoid the presence of potency from the white community in the usa. While the black characters or their space is not caricatured, an exaggeration, nor is the potency from whites outside of black spaces caricatured. 

Finally, the resulting message, all art has messages <yes, even the absence of a message is a message> , doesn't pigeonhole the spectator whether Black or non Black into a guided mindset. 

All my words above are give a short explanation to the difficulty in making art that publicly involves race while not caricaturing any race or guiding the mindset of those who ingest said art on how they shall think. 

The audience is not a fool, no one is, we all know the world beyond the individual imagination, whether we like it or not. 

But seeing with my own eyes, various peoples who clearly share different opinions, leave a theater with the same mindset they came in while experiencing a story that is specific and in every element relates to the various battles or histories outside the theater. 

That is not common for artists. 

To be blunt, Barbie from ruth handler, for colored girls from Ntozake Shange , Huckleberry finn from mark twain, various films from spike lee, the little mermaid films from disney... a long list of highly acclaimed beloved art, doesn't allow for interaction by all races without caricaturing a race or trying to massage minds to change while being clearly racial in design. 

That unique quality is what August Wilson was able to achieve as a writer and that ability to achieve a unique quality puts the spirt in me to achieve different but just as unique qualities in my own craft. 

https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/status-update/Welcome-back-to-another-Hype-978968851

Important info for all independent writers 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10484-how-ai-generated-books-could-hurt-self-publishing-authors/

Screenwriting Workshop

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10494-ten-writer%E2%80%99s-secrets-to-breaking-into-hollywood-from-tananarive-due-steven-barnes/

DATES

• 27th - Saturn in opposition, meaning it will be opposite the sun at day break , look away from the horizon
• 28th - Pluto Moon conjunction ; Uranus appear stationary in the sky
• 29th- Goodyear tire and rubber company initialized, names after Charles Goodyear, a self taught chemist, who earned a patent for vulcanized rubber < us patent # 3633 ; https://web.archive.org/web/20150714081931/http://www.dpma.de/docs/service/klassifikationen/ipc/auto_ipc/us3633a.pdf > ; John the baptist beheading is honored. non biblical accounts say John the Baptists was more communal leader than spiritual leader, which led to his demise <Josephus> If true and John taught Jesus what was JEsus's movement?
• 30th - Saturn Moon conjunction, appear aligned in the sky; Moon at perigee, closest to earth, shortest distance to the center of the earth in the moon's orbit about earth; Full Moon, called a Blue moon from the phrase "once in a blue moon" as it is rare to have two full moon's in one month, the moon can appear blue in certain conditions, also called a supermoon when a full moon happens while the moon at perigee, close to earth. The moon is visibly widest at perigee in the sky, smallest at apogee. Same with the sun which is largest in the perihelion, smallest in the aphelion.;  Jacques Louis David born 1748

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..

• 1st - Moon on equator ; Neptune Moon conjunction
• 2nd - Venus appear stationary in the sky; JRR Tolkien spirit flew 1973

I Sit And Think 

from JRR Tolkien

I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall never see.

For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

A Couple That Stretches Together Stays Together

from zohameanslight

Harlem of Yore

1930 Harlem, I think circa 135th street madison

Enlistment into Ethiopia, which is why Ras Tafari commonly called Haille Selassie publicly offered land in Ethiopia in Harlem afterward. Ras Tafarians from Jamaica took the chance but it was meant for Black Harlemites.

Do you say what you really want if empowered?

From said time in Harlem to now, many black people in the USA suggest they want a world of equality but is that true? I argue many groups in the USA, not empowered, don't want equality, simply want to replace white/christian/heterosexual/men... but is that a negative desire, now that is the question?

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2397&type=status

And, the difference between race and bias. Do you know it? 

Let me explain

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2401&type=status

How To Build Your Own Wearable Valkyrie Robot?

from 小芊枫 XiaoQianFeng

a presentation as a comic con

Extra treat

for you predator fans

Accessibility Interview

My Thoughts

I thought about accessibility. If accessibility was considered from the beginning of most processes it would undo alot of the schemes/scams/ aspects of entertainment/social media/wesbites or other. 
For example, I like the mandolorian show from Disney. If someone is blind and they can't see the Mandolorian maybe they have an audio read version available. So they can hear each episode absent commercials. But imagine if you are listening to an on demand film, like Godzilla,  like from TNT of the warner bros group in Discovery. Imagine you hear:"this thing killed my wife!, have you ever had bad bowels, Well try..." The commercial break is by default a terrible element. For someone who can only hear they are bound to hear a commercial where those with sight can mute and move on and come back. 
Accessibility if engineered optimally will delete many methods of commercialization in entertainment or media through electronic means. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2416&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 14th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter . A closing thought on Women's history month in the U.S.A. from a heterosexual male.  Shani and the shadow in the Richard Murray Tip Jar. Some dates in April. In, IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR, a question and answer from Jasmine Marie of Black Girls Breathing. South Side Home Movie Project 3/29/2023 webinar review. 

My Closing Thought on Women's History Month

I will start with the unimportant line, women's history is all year round. Women's history proves, an individual woman, a sole woman, one woman alone, can achieve anything. I repeat, history prove a female individual, girl or woman, immature or mature, can achieve anything, even against any level of male dominance. But history displays the biggest challenge in the community of women is growing greater as a group aside the community of men. The female collective in the last three centuries hasn't been able to overcome male dominance. Comprehend, dominance isn't evil. Sometimes the older are stronger than the youth. Sometimes the muslim are stronger than the christian. Sometimes the farmers are greater than the soldiers. The point is, in humanity, some communities are on a positive upswing while others are on a downswing, all the time. This is humanity. Females, girls plus women, need to figure out how to have a collective upswing. As a heterosexual man, women's strength doesn't frighten me or lessen me. When any other is stronger than you, if you want to be stronger than you have to become that. The challenge isn't a threat, it is merely a reality you make yourself. And, if you have no desire to be stronger than another, then you don't, and that is completely fine. But if you want to be stronger than any other by any measure, then the challenge is merely there.

Shani and the Shadow

A Upendi style poem. In my notes I have this as Shani and the Lion series. Where Shani goes from town to town. Facing a Lion that changes forms. If you like this story, maybe I will do another. The complete tale is linked as an audiobook below. An excerpt is available on Tiktok or youtube below.

April

• 6th- full pink moon
• 11th- Jupiter+sun conjunction ; mercury greatest elongation to the sun 20 degrees east. Mercury will be the highest in the sky but note Venus above Mercury.
• 12th- Charles Gayler received patent for fireproof iron chest 1833 < https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/cases/4631 >
• 14th- Dr. Harry Plotz learned the cause of Typhus , announced 1915
• 18th- 1923 original yankee stadium opened, the yankees played at the polo grounds , in harlem, the stadium of the new york giants before
• 19th- Death of oldest known spider, a trapdoor, 43 years old, in 2018
• 20th- New Moon ; Annular Total Eclipse , visible over australia
• 22nd- Earth Day
• 23rd- First Youtube video , me at the zoo, uploaded 2005 < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_at_the_zoo > 
• 24th- spain declared war on the u.s.a. 1898
• 30th- U.S. department of Navy created 1798

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Questions and answer with Jasmine Marie of Black Girls Breathing and the Salem Witch trials with stacy schiff

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10194-about-salem-and-mental-health-give-it-a-look/

All questions and answers

https://postitforward.tumblr.com/tagged/black%20girls%20breathing%20x%20tumblr

prior from Jasmine Marie

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2285&type=status

Medgar Evers Wife 

A relative of Jeannete Foreman

Webinar with south side home movie project started by Jaqueline Stewart, my review of elements while experiencing.
Positive Black life in home movies. 
Women and History in home movies.
A 1940s party
Community tagging using an interaction between Jeanette Forman side Justin Williams
Oldest Black Home Movie in their collection

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2300&type=status 

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