dates

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 17th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The forty-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) The Griot replies to Troubadour PrinceofFire 

3)The Blade Is Always Held

4)Continue the story of Sapphire's Desire

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Thoughts to a Palmetto Christmas

thirteen things for the last time

Tananarive Due wins LA Times book award

Miyazaki and the USA a view

National Black Cheerleading Championship

Anime's depictions of Europe, a short history

Weapons Combat League another round

CENTO Series episode 49

Something was terribly wrong

She is wired all wrong

What she needs

Is to get all wound up

After a few twists and turns

It will put a spring in her step

But when I lifted the lid

There was no music
https://www.deviantart.com/shewriteslovelypoems/art/Ballerina-2024-980453353

Something is stalking towards you.

.. you turn around...

you shake the door

The wall is cracking, the plaster is crumbling

A loud growl can be heard in the wall.

You unlock the door, go to the banister,
https://www.deviantart.com/malintra-shadowmoon/art/Scared-985859440
 

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 Griot replies to Troubadour PrinceofFire

a poetic response

to be part of a conversation

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2662&type=status

The Blade Is Always Held

a haiku

forum talk
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2663&type=status

Continue the story of Sapphire's Desire

a fragment

forum talk
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2664&type=status

DATES

april

28- moon runs low- closest to the south pole while farthest from the equator

29- mars neptune conjunction

Duke Ellington born

30- pluto moon conjunction

may

01 saturn is highest in the east circa 5:!5 am ;May Day

02

Leonardo Da Vinci spirit flew, 1519,  here is a work of mine based on a work of his

03 saturn moon conjunction,  ; pluto seem static in the sky 

Dale Davis, legally blind, 78 years old,  bowled perfect game in alta iowa 2008

04- moon on equator; mars moon conjunction; neptune moon conjunction

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Thoughts to a Palmetto Christmas

_{my thoughts}

Many artist found themselves adding a different aspect of their operations during the covid19. I admit I have been slow to embrace escapism but I didn't feel the same sense of loss during 2020-2022 as many others. 

Glad you are going in another path. 

On a literary note, when I think of "American Fiction" the film or the book it is from "Erasure" from percival e. I think a great contrast exist between writing in a new genre to placate to an old negative environment opposed to writing in a new genre to embrace a new positive aspect in one's environment.

good luck:) as always

^{to learn more about the book, use the following link}

thirteen things for the last time

What is one thing in your life that will never happen again?

Tananarive Due wins LA Times book award

say congrats in either place

Miyazaki and the USA a view

these are not my thoughts. I have a book from miyazaki and I have my own thoughts but this video has some interesting points

National Black Cheerleading Championship

enjoy and join the discussion

Anime's depictions of Europe, a short history

You may learn something about anime productions before the 1970s

Weapons Combat League another round

view the 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 16th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The forty-eigth 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)synthography sentiments

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Shirley reviewed by Movies That Move We

Kindergarten Cooking

Ki Khanga the role playing game

Notre Dame in recovery

Morgan Price of HBCU Fisk University 

Julie Bell on Monsters Madness and Magic 

a wooden hand

CENTO Series episode 48

Thanks for sticking with me,

I’m here for you too,

It means the world

And you know it too.
https://www.deviantart.com/kittysib/art/Gratitude-978318689
darkness that desires hearts to run into it's

brethren upon them. For the abyss is simply a

beckoning the many bewitched souls to sit with 

mention, so wont you jon me in this honey trap
https://www.deviantart.com/backjack-kitsune/art/Welcomed-by-darkness-981107026

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

synthography sentiments

Image

video

DATES

Faith Ringgold spirt flew

https://www.faithringgold.com/

forum discussion

 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10948-rest-in-peace-faith-ringgold/

A gallery of total solar eclipse images

my favorite

April days

• 21 Moon at equator
• 22 Moon cross path of sun in the sky, ecliptic

Earth Day

Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-earth-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=894  

Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-earth-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=895  

• 23 Full Moon pink moon
• 24 Mercury static in the sky ; founder of "old farmer's  almanac" robert b thomas born 1766

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Shirley reviewed by Movies That Move We

video

join the forum to talk about it

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10952-shirley-reviewed-by-movies-that-move-we/

Kindergarten Cooking

Ki Khanga the role playing game

from Mv Media atl

I am thinking about converting that to an electronic form in Black Games Elite. Welcome thoughts or help

Notre Dame in recovery

Well, I don't see a variance. No human made home is outside nature, while nature is always an element at the heart of any human home.... I will keep my reply brief because I am a long admirer of architecture/landscaping.  I will say this I have a strong dislike of dysfunctional architecture or landscaping. I dislike it to no end. 

Morgan Price of HBCU Fisk University 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10950-fisk-university-makes-gymnastics-history/

Julie Bell on Monsters Madness and Magic 

An interview

in Audio form

my questions 

• What percentage of women in the usa you think picked up body building through their husbands or significant others weights? 
• Did you ever draw a painting as if through a concave or convex lens ?
• Who is your favorite rock musician based on their guitar playing? male or female?
• Have you ever played a Joplin composition on guitar? Your son?
• Who is Boris's favorite european orchestral artist? 
• Someone said community college as a bridge into college or learning is underrated, what do you think? 
• Do you think the internet allows artists to move to different mediums or styles easier through exposure?

 a wooden hand

from concy_art

view it being made

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2653&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 15th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The forty-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) My four days at the National Black Writers Conference 2014

3) Valentine Nostalgia remake

4) Creative side Commercial

5) Haiku challenge

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

A new World Wide Web is needed?

Little Red Riding hood

Nicolas Felicano and the true nature of black law enforcers 

Chel

Black elected official potency in the USA

The Silver Maiden from the Thief of Baghdad

Law Enforcement Relatives

CENTO Series episode 47

Tes incartades ne sont que le début

Comme tout de toi me menace

Mais j’ai les hormones pleines de répliques

Tu es ma trouble saison

Présage les éraflures sur mes genoux

Your misdeeds are just the beginning

As everything about you threatens me

But my hormones are full of aftershocks.

You are my troubled season

Presages the scratches on my knees
https://www.deviantart.com/dario-l-art/art/Predateur-proie-979913192

A macabre dance between beauty and horror,

When we have evolved beyond our primitive nature,

We will create art that is truly new,

But instead, I got the same old thing. The same old recycled moonshine. 
https://www.deviantart.com/unearthlydemagogueai/art/Doomed-to-repeat-the-same-mistakes-976641179

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 four days at the National Black Writers Conference 2014

Day 1

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66190

Day 2 part 1

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66193

Day 2 part 2

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66212

Day 3

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66414

Day 4

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66507

Valentine Nostalgia remake

A video remake

Creative side Commercial

 I submitted my prose prose to inspire writers

Here is my entry

You may not have deduced through experience. You may not have been explained by another. But all art has a creative side commercial existence. The key for any artist is to comprehend through their life what they mean. What does the creative side the commercial mean? 

Haiku challenge

I wrote the following Haiku, admittedly in syllabic form, not morae form. And absent a seasonal word. 

The tears fell when light

walking on a grey prism

the night veils the life

my larger comment

https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1041493041/5128858413 

Challenge page

DATES

April

14- 1969 first game in canada- Montreal Expos vs St Louis Cardinals

17- Geraldine "Jerri" Mock 1964 first woman to complete solo flight around the world

18- Mercury Venus conjunction ; Banshee longest inverted roller coaster 4,124; Mason, Ohio, 2014

19- Moon farthest from Earth ,Apogee , in orbit around Earth

20- Jupiter Uranus conjunction

Photos of the Total Lunar Eclipse

https://www.flickr.com/photos/193485408@N04/53641041413/in/feed-1296-1712523722-3-72157721714263520

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lightparade/53640393882/in/feed-26704426-1712621357-1-72157721714478013

https://www.flickr.com/photos/98553355@N04/53640927911/in/feed-98521216-1712610517-1-72157721714448422

https://www.flickr.com/photos/grexsys/53641758714/in/feed-130036222-1712626436-1-72157721714484006,130036222-1712585182-1-72157721714352205

https://www.flickr.com/photos/husseinabdallah/53641265989/in/feed-3028051-1712610120-1-72157721714461578

A 360 degree sunset

https://www.flickr.com/photos/51110738@N04/53642024180/in/feed-51078599-1712631115-1-72157721714476657

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

A new World Wide Web is needed?

_{I asked the following question}

What function if any at all will DSNP have with EPUB? I comprehend that DSNP is a protocol, a rule set , and epub is a file format, a structure for data, a duplicatable structure for data. so Epub is a an object above the application layer while DSNP is designed to be a replacement for at least the application layer protocols and , I guess, at most the internet layer of protocols.
But I ponder can dsnp be accessed in an epub. I know an epub can utilize application layer protocols to connect to the larger internet and utilize data.
Is it possible for DSNP to be utilized through an epub, conceptually at least?
I admit in my mind I figure DSNP with its individual markers may not be usable through an epub as an epub has duplicate structure.
But I want to pick the brains of any project liberty developers who see this 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10935-my-question-concerning-epub-and-dsnp-openpulpit/

Little Red Riding hood

specifically a papercut of Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf or Rotkäppchen und der Wolf

Nicolas Felicano and the true nature of black law enforcers 

the proof that black law enforcers true nature is negative, as a community in the black populace, click the image or link below

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10937-nicholas-feliciano/

Chel
Here is a depiction of the character Chel from Road to El dorado by coolbeaniebabez 

I am just seeing early concept art of Chel, the character in Road to El Dorado from Dreamworks. The tragedy of assessing art that involves multiculturalism is you can not serve two masters. 
When you look at Native or Indigenous art from the commonly called in modernity American continent, you see that women plus men are depicted spare of heavy clothes, reflecting a common sense approach to fashion in the very humid/hot climated from modern day mexico to modern day northern peru or chile. 

Original Chel concept

https://twitter.com/TheMediaMines/status/1765236390185328957/photo/1
referral
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/road-to-eldorado-chel-character-design

Chel in either form isn't a grand fashion distance from what an indigenous woman living in mesoamerica where cortez landed will wear. Chel will look farthest from history  wearing a hooping skirt. 
I think taking out the steamy sex scenes was good simply because too often females not white european are always deemed desiring the white european male in film, de facto. But, I do think an argument can be had to needing welcoming lust from a short/wide hipped woman in general , definitely a woman not white european. I can't recall a female animated character who is short/wide hipped being embraced as an object of beauty. The problem is, you can't do both.
Jessica Rabbit is a singer in a lounge who has one purpose, to entertain the guests, human or toon, while all male, with the fantasy of her wanting them in song and audience play. Jessica Rabbit isn't sleeping around, and she is trying to save her husband with various other activities. Chel wasn't given as well as scenario as JEssica Rabbit but the way Chel looks allowed her to , if given a story chance, a similar role, which i think would had served the intention of showcasing an uncommon female character as an object of desire. 

"...Initially there were some steamy love scenes and saucy outfits designed for Chel, the love interest in the movie voiced by Rosie Perez. ...In addition to mellowing out the romantic scenes, the animators redesigned the clothing worn by Chel. The movie now has a PG rating....Meanwhile, some in the Latino community who have seen the film have objected to the curvaceous outline of Chel, saying she is yet another example of the “hot and spicy” native....Meanwhile, some in the Latino community who have seen the film have objected to the curvaceous outline of Chel, saying she is yet another example of the “hot and spicy” native."
referral
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-mar-29-ca-13654-story.html

Black elected official potency in the USA

A Black Party of Governance is the only solution for black communal gain in spite of the non black in the usa. The question is will the black wealthy in the usa give up on the multiracial peace plan or support what is needed for the financially poor black majority? 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10751-these-black-mayors-arent-powerless/#comment-65005

The Silver Maiden from the Thief of Baghdad

Law Enforcement Relatives

a black man Ruffin was falsely  accused and convicted but lost fourteen years of his life after law enforcement plus legal system failures.. But his biological father was a law enforcer in the precinct that originally acted wrong in the first place. What is the value of Black law enforcers? 
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2579&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 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The forty-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) March challenge

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Introducing marcia williams

tiktok reality

Screenplays with thoughts from William Shatner aside

Cute library from writeddreams2reality

Posse from Movies that Move We

What is in your kitchen?

A day in Harlem through time

CENTO Series episode 46

a blessed treasure of earth and sky

whether grind, soak, peal, or simply apply
https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Herbs-985412517

the Sun can't see her mirror,

you'll always understand why,

but she's waiting for something,

Self-respect and self-awareness,

A history that writes itself when it's all okay.
https://www.deviantart.com/7evid/art/In-Between-977310841

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

March Challenge

from the AI challenge group

View video at the link

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2640&type=status

and if you are a Sarah Jessica Parker fan

the following is a video of works for a challenge by pgrainbow of deviantart

DATES

Happy Belated Birthday Toshiro Mfune, april 1st

Janus Films trailer

the original trailer

never forget Winnie Mandela , april 2nd

never forget bill Withers, april 3rd

never forget isao takahata, april 5th

https://archive.org/details/grave-of-the-fireflies_202311

never forget Lorraine Graves, , April 1st

At least she got to see Misty Copeland

https://www.dancetheatreofharlem.org/

April 

• 7 :  Moon at Perigee; moon at equator; Venus Moon conjunction; neptune moon conjunction
• 8: New moon, solar eclipse; moon from south to north of the ecliptic; mercury moon conjunction

A solar eclipse , shadowing, from on a planet occurs when a moon is between a star and said planet. A total socal eclipse is when the alignment of a moon and a star is such that  said moon completely blocks out the sun.  The reason why this is a total  is it is a new moon while also crossing the ecliptic, which is the path of the sun in the earth's sky. 

• 10 : mars saturn conjunction; jupiter moon conjunction;  uranus moon conjunction
• 11: Moon in inferior, between sun and earth
• 12Gary Soto born 1952

Oranges 1983 is from him

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=35513

• 13: Moon rides high, largest angle between equator and north pole. 

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Introducing marcia williams

enjoy the photographers works

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10906-marcia-williams/

an example of her work

tiktok reality

_{I commented to the video below}

exactly, in my memory, tiktok is the first social media website not owned in the usa to have a dominant share of usa traffic. I can't think of any other website that wasn't usa owned with such a presence in the usa. The internet isn't the usa's, but the usa wants all major social websites to be owned in the usa or by the usa's allies. 

Screenplays with thoughts from William Shatner aside

I provide my thoughts on screenplays or stageplays utilizing William Shatner's response to an interview with another as support. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10907-segments-of-an-interview-with-william-shatner/

Cute library from writeddreams2reality

Posse from Movies that Move We

question, have you ever seen a black cowboy space film?

Video review by clicking below

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10912-posse-review-from-movies-that-move-we/

What is in your kitchen?

I searched my favorites, other artist work,  plus my own work with the words BAKE or COOK? 

I found the entries at the following URL. 

A day in Harlem through time

Look at the changes of the area of the famed photo in time

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10926-in-front-of-a-harlem-brownstone-195819962023/#comment-66392

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/

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

Welcome to the 8th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The fortieth 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) Valentine's Nostalgia

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Google Lumiere

mlk jr said

Jeffrey Wright first actor nod reaction

The truth of voting

art is magic ,for science or knowledge can always be reduced to what can be comprehended, a part of art is always the imaginative unknown

CENTO Series episode 40

 Inside his shell his softness cried.

The crab scuttles across the sand,

It's hard shell shining in the night,
https://www.deviantart.com/ariya-sacca/art/The-Crab-975481401

Alchemist of the alphabet

Forming spells

A grimoire waiting to be filled
https://www.deviantart.com/carpevesperum/art/Written-Magic-976011048

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

Valentine's Nostalgia

I made a video book or gifbook based on the idea of valentine's nostalgia, from thefulcrum. They said think outside the box, so I thought, let's use the first european valentine letter as prompts to a computer simulation system. I had to break it up. I used deviantart dreamup to make three images for the first stanza while three for the second stanza. Then I used an art style common in the time of the poetry for each image. I chose the image that fronts the gif. But enjoy it all below. Read the description for more detail.

gif

video

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Google Lumiere

It is a text to video application, not ready for mass consumption. But in github already. 

If you want to read more

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2582&type=status

mlk jr said

a video of wisdom from the late great martin luther king jr. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2593&type=status

Jeffrey Wright first actor nod reaction

Jeffrey wright speaks on his earliest thoughts to knowing he was on the oscar roll for his performance  in  American Fiction

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10803-jeffrey-wright-reaction-to-first-best-actor-oscar-nod/

The Truth Of Voting

Instances in the usa have displayed the truth of voting

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10829-the-truth-of-voting/

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 7th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The thirty-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.  

Happy Belated Valentine's Day

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

stage vs spare vs real

Blacks in hawaii

couples classes fantasyfitnessmd

Continental Black American Unity

CENTO Series episode 39

 Heaven's been breached

lit up in neon

The empire of gold

Reborn again, the incorporated
https://www.deviantart.com/rjbg/art/FADE-INTO-BLACK-974750724

You can 

take away

what 

I was

in the first

place

I am not

within 

your chapel

and I would

do it 

all over

again

the path

of patience

and 

understanding

should do
https://www.deviantart.com/beyondcomplacent/art/Your-chapel-965514808

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

Happy Belated Valentine's Day

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10831-happy-valentines-day/

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

stage vs spare vs real

Stage fighting or performance fighting is one thing/ dueling with protection and rules is one thing so called real life fencing/ but the third is sword fighting in lethal situations. The problem with modernity is the lack of comprehension  that sword or spear or club or non projectile weapon fighting was a standard part of war, a standard operation on the field. the gun is the standard field weapon today but when the non projectile weapon was the standard that created another class altogether. In the past on a battlefield one may not have all the armor, may be sick, may have an injury, has no rules , these elements in my view, make the discussion of theatrical fighting versus what I will call weapons sparring limited. Compared to true non projectile weapons combat, theatrical fighting or weapons sparring are lacking. Duelling is about violence. I think sparring isn't about violence. Sparring is about athletic skill or achievement or nonviolent learning. Theatrical swordplay is about entertaining. One of the speakers mentioned the film "the duelist" but the same director made a film called "the last duel", and in it, it showed the duelling of war. In the film the duellist you have the dueling that led to many european fantasies, the closest thing to duelling in war in peace. But the purest duelling is violent, messy, tricky, really warlike.

Blacks in hawaii

Do you know anything about Blacks non native to hawaii? 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10746-blacks-in-hawaii/

couples classes fantasyfitnessmd

Antoinette Williams

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10769-couples-classes-from-antoinette-williams-fantasyfitnessmd/

Continental Black American Unity

What unites all black people in the american continent whose descendents from 1500s to 1800s were mostly enslaved?

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10827-what-event-unites-all-black-americans-read-my-description-before-you-answer/

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