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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 5th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The thirty-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) Jiausiku

3) weird fashion

4) DArk Soul photomanipulation

5)Dark Academia 

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

The Black South Need A Black Party Of Governance

Taraji P Henson tears

The ice concert

The horns in your brain

CENTO Series episode 37

Revealing that I’m the angel in the grave within

I quickly ran outside

Why? What’s wrong with me?

I feel a sharp pain within my soul

Being pushed hard back within

Years would pass as I keep trying

The door finally opens, now I’m allowed to leave
https://www.deviantart.com/ilia-mae/art/Angels-Grave-in-the-Garden-765982824

burnt offering

what i can’t do

acerbic tongue

what i am

downy plush and wooly warmth

what I am not. 
https://www.deviantart.com/tiger--eyes/art/in-three-two-one-956330905

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

Jiausiku

The Hotel

The image

The Play

Dawanga

The image

the play

The former employee

the image

shadowworld

Journey to a first time

the image

the play

weird fashion

Deviantart asked users to make a prompt of wierd fashion and deliver it to  its Dreamup art simulator but I had in my mind a better idea. Make a prompt and before you give it to a machine make your own work and then compare + contrast.

coloring page

colored page

textured

comparison

Dark Soul manipulation

element collage

photomanipulation

Dark Academia 

This is the first part. I was inspired by a selection possibility in the Dark Soul invitational above. Now I will write a story expounding on the tale.

Elemental collage

Photomanipulation

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

The Black South Need A Black Party Of Governance

and other issues

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2549&type=status

Taraji P Henson tears

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10731-taraji-p-henson-doesnt-have-the-solution-to-her-problem/

The Ice Concert

The Horns In Your Brain

developed by Steve Parker, the horns are connected to an electronic machine that reads brainwaves.

the video is from magic spoon productions

video

official page

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 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

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

Literary opposition to Gaza

your thoughts?

join a discussion

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10665-national-book-award-finalists-oppose-the-ongoing-bombardment-of-gaza/

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. 

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10571-aalbc-at-the-movies/

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?

Referral

Catalog from Glenat

https://www.calameo.com/read/000490875d8456fb8d14c?authid=GRW1zV0CDItX&page=1

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