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03/31/2024 RMNewsletter
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
Poetry or more ebook by Richard Murray - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Poetry or more Poetry of the months or seasons , 2015 to 2017 text only" by Richard Murray available from Rakuten Kobo. Seasonal or astrological poetry from Richard Murray between 2015 and ...
Richard Murray Centos 2023 ebook by Richard Murray - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Richard Murray Centos 2023 a cento poetry collection" by Richard Murray available from Rakuten Kobo. A collection of Centos , poems made from the lines of other poems, with all source poems ...
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?
Ship Of Fools, Legend To Be audiobook by Richard Murray - Rakuten Kobo
Listen to "Ship Of Fools, Legend To Be Far into the future a journey begins" by Richard Murray available from Rakuten Kobo. Narrated by Richard Murray. Start a free 30-day trial today and get your ...
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/ship-of-fools-legend-to-be
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
The Mandala Sphere by HDdeviant on DeviantArt
I thought to myself, I will like to do something equirectangular. And I admit I changed my design two times, not because I didn't like the other two but my desires grew. So I wanted to make a ...
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 Holi 2024 by HDdeviant on DeviantArt
The Holi Mandala ContestAs the bleak mantle of winter is lifted, the world is painted in the colours of Spring. Holi, or the Festival of Colours, is a vibrant and joyous celebration of this ...
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/
Mandala Holi Entry for this invitational on deviantart www.deviantart.com/alexanderpaupoff/journal/The-Holi-Mand...
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53610956342_a421914e19_b.jpg
Mandala Coloring Page by HDdeviant on DeviantArt
Imagine if a tip jar is an arcade game that requires a dollar coin to play it every day in a month.. plus some experimental subscription goodies from time to time in the unknown future if you ...
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Mandala-Coloring-Page-1035234493
Mandala Equirectangular Frame by HDdeviant on DeviantArt
The Holi Mandala ContestAs the bleak mantle of winter is lifted, the world is painted in the colours of Spring. Holi, or the Festival of Colours, is a vibrant and joyous celebration of this ...
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
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.
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
Children of The Quicksands by RaySeb on DeviantArt
cover made for the book of Efua Traoré : "Children of The Quicksand " published by scholastic Winner of the 2019 Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition, Children of the Quicksands is a...
https://www.deviantart.com/rayseb/art/Children-of-The-Quicksands-923781275
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.
Akira Toriyama by Maijin-kakarroto on DeviantArt
Rest In Peace to the Godbody Akira Toriyama Sensei. He inspired me to draw, to get better, to take a loss and come back stronger. His Dragonball sagas truly touched the whole world, being introduced
https://www.deviantart.com/maijin-kakarroto/art/Akira-Toriyama-1029215615
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.
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
DeviantArt Seller: CompleteAlienation by team on DeviantArt
Meet one of our top sellers! CompleteAlienation sold over $31,000 on DeviantArt in under a year. Make money from your art! Explore all the ways you can earn simply by offering: Monthly ...
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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
03/03/2024 RMNewsletter
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
Poetry or more ebook by Richard Murray - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Poetry or more Poetry of the months or seasons , 2015 to 2017 text only" by Richard Murray available from Rakuten Kobo. Seasonal or astrological poetry from Richard Murray between 2015 and ...
Richard Murray Centos 2023 ebook by Richard Murray - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Richard Murray Centos 2023 a cento poetry collection" by Richard Murray available from Rakuten Kobo. A collection of Centos , poems made from the lines of other poems, with all source poems ...
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?
An Incomplete Labors of Judasa from a griot audiobook by Richard Murray - Rakuten Kobo
Listen to "An Incomplete Labors of Judasa from a griot From the Chronicle of The Four King from an edition of the Tarikh Rohoregens" by Richard Murray available from Rakuten Kobo. Narrated by ...
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/an-incomplete-labors-of-judasa-from-a-griot
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
A DAY WITH THE MASTER graphic from Richard Murray by HDdeviant on DeviantArt
House-of-Playwrights prompt www.deviantart.com/same-side/j... stageplay A DAY WITH THE MASTER by HDdeviant on DeviantArt Haiku LEAP OF FAITH 2024 by HDdeviant on DeviantArt VIEW MORE Pencils ...
The Settlement
StagePlay
COMING SOON
Haiku , theme frog
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1025939467
The Settlement graphic from Richard Murray by HDdeviant on DeviantArt
House-of-Playwrights prompt www.deviantart.com/same-side/j... Stageplay ? Haiku Frog poem by T. Naive d'Dheru by HDdeviant on DeviantArt VIEW MORE Pencils www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/g... Jiausiku
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Settlement-graphic-from-Richard-Murray-1025929540
Loose Dirt
Stageplay
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1025941727
LOOSE DIRT graphic from Richard Murray v2 by HDdeviant on DeviantArt
House-of-Playwrights prompt www.deviantart.com/same-side/j... Stageplay LOOSE DIRT by HDdeviant on DeviantArt VIEW MORE Pencils www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/g... Jiausiku ...
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/LOOSE-DIRT-graphic-from-Richard-Murray-v2-1025930195
We Left On The 11th ,Hope To Come Back On The 12th
Stageplay
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1025945711
Steel Gifts graphic from Richard Murray by HDdeviant on DeviantArt
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Steel-Gifts-graphic-from-Richard-Murray-1025931263
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Steel-Gifts-graphic-from-Richard-Murray-1025931263
The Journey of Sofie Wakten to become a witch
Stageplay
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1025949171
DArk Academia photomanipulation inspired by dark s by HDdeviant on DeviantArt
Story The test of a witch is to undo a magic done, for anyone can cast a spell but it takes true wisdom to undue one. The spell on the crown of Roland made with the blood of fifteen nephilim is ...
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/
Busker LEE HESTER, jazz man, on Market Street in San Francisco, CA on Saturday, 19 March 1992 by Elvert Barnes Photography March 1992 San Francisco Trip Tenor sax player Lee Hester, 70, concurs with
https://live.staticflickr.com/7468/15434187673_cdb90edec6_b.jpg
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
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
11/26/2023 RMNewsletter
Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading.
Welcome to the 48th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.
1) The twenty-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) Literary opposition to Gaza
3)Celebrating the Flickr x Black Women Photographers Grant 2023 Finalists and Recipient
Dates
IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR
Do you know what a machicolation does?
What does the standardization of grammar mean?
What is the lesson in the Palestinian?
Dark Academia
CENTO Series episode 27
A woman's third eye sliced by stagnant wind
Not an iota of regret
But I will always drown out the sound with the
Two pillars breaching heaven
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/Ta-An-Gra-Athraithe-Ni-Bhfuair-Se-Bas-969188947
That is a dream we work to make real because, like it or not,
These are expected reactions to creatures from the darkest pit
https://www.deviantart.com/shining-scribe/art/One-With-The-Shadows-972011448
If you are interested in reading my own lines, here is a collection
Poetry or more ebook by Richard Murray - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Poetry or more Poetry of the months or seasons , 2015 to 2017 text only" by Richard Murray available from Rakuten Kobo. Seasonal or astrological poetry from Richard Murray between 2015 and ...
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?
In The Hollow audiobook by Richard Murray - Rakuten Kobo
Listen to "In The Hollow a story read from mother to child" by Richard Murray available from Rakuten Kobo. Narrated by Richard Murray. Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first audiobook ...
I do calligraphic commissions
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1487995
Literary opposition to Gaza
your thoughts?
join a discussion
Celebrating the Flickr x Black Women Photographers Grant 2023 Finalists and Recipient
Photographer: Genesis Falls
Title: “Children at Play”
see all the black female photographers
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2525&type=status
DATES
November
- 26: Uranus+ Moon conjunction
- 27: Full Moon, Moon reflecting the light from the sun maximum
- 28: 1895 first automobile race held in the USA
The Chicago Times-Herald race
the route
the winning car
second place
the award
- 29: Moon largest angle from its center to the center of the earth and the equator while closest to the north pole; C. S. Lewis born 1898, author of the narnia series. I like the dawn reader best.
- 30: 1st solar eclipse recorded in europe. Ireland 3340 b.c. [ https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/first-solar-eclipse-in-the-world ]
IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR
Do you know what a machicolation does?
learn below
What does the standardization of grammar mean?
the introduction
This is a time of much division. Families and communities are splintered by polarizing narratives. Outrage surrounds geopolitical discourse—so much so that anxiety often becomes a sort of white noise, making it increasingly difficult to trigger intense, acute anger. The effect can be desensitizing, like driving 60 miles per hour and losing hold of the reality that a minor error could result in instant death.
Read more, click the image or link below
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2493&type=status
If unconvinced I said the following about the film, The Intruder
the movie was a financial failure but Roger Corman admitted this was an art film, which he was able to barely afford, but he wanted to do. Comprehend this movie had to be a loser. Shatner's character didn't die? the rich guy of the town wasn't convicted of some crime. The black guy didn't become a hero. The truth is, the intruder speaks to the truth of alof of interracial situations in modern humanity. It is the same as the pawnbroker with rod steiger.
The populace in the usa: white black or other, likes convenience. Likes narratives. Any art that goes against narrative is rarely liked. If the matrix ended with neo being killed and the system rebooting and then in some far date in the future, the sun returns and the machines don't need the matrix for power, that would bea downer. audiences like a set narrative.
What is the lesson in the Palestinian?
Notice I didn't ask about their relationship to jews/zionists/israelis. The Palestinian at once time circa 1947 had a situation that had two main problems for them.
1) Their country was governed by an outside force, the united kingdom of britain
2) A set of immigrants with ever growing support from The United States of America- the most powerful military among the college of human governments on earth circa 1947 plus said united kingdom wanted into their country.
The lesson is straightforward: never accept foreign control + never accept immigrants who don't share your heritage plus culture. If you do these two things you end up like the palestinian in israel as well as the native american in the usa.
Don't be a fool.
Dark Academia
The following is a question and answer I gave concerning the Dark Academia artistic theme.
Do you have any favorite pieces of media that fit the dark academia theme?
I can't say the following film is most beloved or most favorited by me, but I like the films: "the covenant" ... I recall an old legend, I do not know where it is cited online, I read it offline. The old legend, told my way, says that in spain, under a mound somewhere, is a gateway to a classroom. In this classroom, a negative spirit teaches all the students spells pertaining to shadows. The students live there and at the end of the course, the student with the worst grades must stay , their soul locked their forever.
How do you feel about dark academia as an aesthetic? Would you incorporate elements of it into your art or everyday life?
In my mind dark academia and the modern goth artistic movements are similar. I am an open minded artist so I don't have any biases to any aesthetic. I am not one to dress in it, but it is fine if someone else does. I know people offline who are goth or have a similar taste. In terms of my own work, I can't recall anything that is dark academia. But I have written quite a bit. I have written work that deals with people learning magic and doing negative things but I don't see that as dark academia. Just learning negative magic or powers doesn't equate to dark academia for me. IF so, then every sith student in star wards is an example of dark academia and I don't see it that way. I think the larger environment has to bound to the darkness. Having house slytherin doesn't make harry potter dark academia. Now, a story about Durmstrang, the rival school to hogwarts, that teaches the full spectrum of dark magic <if you want me to write something, message me>
Share dark academia art in your comment, whether you made it yourself or a favorite artist did!
I realized I have little to nothing in my deviantart galleries that fits dark academia... here is what I think fits, I am open to read your thoughts on whether you think it does or does not:)
the following is some art of mine I think is Dark Academia, what say you?
Glasses 22 Witchtember 2022 by HDdeviant on DeviantArt
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https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Glasses-22-Witchtember-2022-930487371
Referral
Art Feature: A Guided Tour of Dark Academia by team on DeviantArt
Dark academia is an aesthetic that I was dying to make a feature for, and what better month to do it than October? It's featured as an aesthetic in so many different mediums (books, movies, art ...
https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/Art-Feature-A-Guided-Tour-of-Dark-Academia-985975538
Catalog from Glenat
https://www.calameo.com/read/000490875d8456fb8d14c?authid=GRW1zV0CDItX&page=1
04/30/2023 RMNewsletter
Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading.
Welcome to the 18th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter. Enjoy the Calligraphy of the Aevemor character, created by TheBootesArtVoid . Some more thoughts to Tituba of Salem. Do you have or had you in the past an imaginary friend... I made an imaginary spirit animal, his name is Phillipe Saddletear. In the, IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR: lower the damn rent in NYC, a review of Cooley High, Polaroid week, SpringFlowers tag.
Calligraphy Commission for the Aevemor Character from TheBootesArtVoid
I enjoyed this alot, as I do all my Calligraphic work. It is my uncommon style. As a writer or drawer I like the ability to do both worlds and calligraphy is that. It is the border between said creative worlds and thus where I am very comfortable as a multimedia artist. I made quite a few sketches and other work, which I will not share. I am still trying to get to the place where I let the public in on my processes. It is not that I am afraid or think negatively of it, as much as , I like creating quietly or privately. I am not one who can draw or write online. Anyway, enjoy and if you color yourself, please do so, and I will like to see it.
Colored Version
Commission TheBootesArtsVoid 04-26-2023 color by HDdeviant on DeviantArt
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Commission-TheBootesArtsVoid-04-26-2023-color-960000846
The Aevemor microcalligraphy commission in color from TheBootesartvoid by RichardMurray akak Hddeviant
Coloring Version
Commission TheBootesArtsVoid 04-26-2023 b/w by HDdeviant on DeviantArt
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Commission-TheBootesArtsVoid-04-26-2023-b-w-960001249
The Aevemor microcalligraphy commission in black and white from TheBootesartvoid by RichardMurray akak Hddeviant
Phillipe Saddletear
I admit he began more hawkish but I watched a hummingbird show, sequentially, things changed. The eye patch and mechanical talon was from the first sketch. Maybe he talks. I don't know. This character is young. I know the contest said imaginary friend, but I don't have that. And I believe that living beings: plants/fish/humans/the earth can connect to each other naturally. So... let me make up a imaginary spirit animal that isn't what in my heart my spirit animal looks like:)
Phillipe means lover of horses, but he is an avian. So at the last minute I gave him a last name.
Coloring page is after the color version.
Imaginary friend color 2023 by HDdeviant on DeviantArt
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Imaginary-friend-color-2023-959899729
Phillipe Saddletear in color
Coloring Page
Imaginary friend black and white 2023 by HDdeviant on DeviantArt
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Imaginary-friend-black-and-white-2023-959899481
Phillipe Saddletear coloring page
IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR
Half of the people in New York City don't have the ability to afford basic needs.
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Cooley High from Movies That Move We
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuZPXKUAFmQ
Polaroid Week
https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2318&type=status
SpringFlowers tag on Deviantart
url: https://www.deviantart.com/paulneptune/art/Spring-Life-917127665
search the tag: https://www.deviantart.com/tag/springflowers
Congratulations to Simone Biles side husband
01/29/2023 RMNewsletter
Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, wherever you are reading.
Welcome to the 5th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter
Happy Year Of The Rabbit
To any Black reader whose forebears were enslaved in the usa a question of what will you do if you got some of what is owed you? And to all artist ponderences on what will happen to Deviantart and the usage of computer programs to generate graphical content based on text prompts.
新年快乐 ( xīnnián kuàilè )
Happy New Year
It is the year of the Rabbit
The following are photos from Sulamain Ellison at a festival and art from cited individuals, plus a half surprise
Here is the part surprise, for those who know , it was bound to be presented
Click the video below to hear+ see but if you want the original the following is a anchor LINK
The film
And if you are more into serials
BUT WITH ALL THIS TALK OF RABBITS... it is also the year of the cat!
Black Descended of Enslaved May get reparations for Reconstruction and post reconstruction periods like the failed war on drugs, what will you do if you were given five million dollars?
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Deviantart has been sued, so I wonder what that will mean for the website where I host alot of my art and have great art connections
Some Book Reviews from Thistle and Verse
At the end of every newsletter entry this month I will post the 2022 year in review
2022 Art Summary - Richard Murray's Newsletter
January The Construction of Holiday Rex audiobook The Construction of Holiday rex Gif + Poem in text February The Last Flail Audiobook The Last Flail gif + Poem in text March Ship Of Fools, Legend ...
https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/01/2022-art-summary.html