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

Welcome to the 31st edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

1) The tenth 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)What is some advice you would give to a new artist?

Dates 

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

The Entertainment Industry Is Going The Way Of The Automotive In The USA

Why Kechant Sewell left the NYPD

Lackadaisy Rhapsody

Calligraphy Journey

KWL science fiction

Black leadership preaching

CENTO Series episode 10
Are you really happy, my dear moon?

are you satisfied with your day?

so all alone in the night

covered by your glow's splendor

Bist Du manchmal einsam, mein lieber Mond?

bist Du zufrieden mit Deinem Tag?

 so ganz alleine in der Nacht

überdeckt durch Deines Scheines Glanz

https://www.deviantart.com/lovelybird2022/art/poetry-art-dear-moon-917116853

perceive in order to comprehend

truly have appreciation for the maker and

again

https://www.deviantart.com/rtnightmare/art/Positive-Feature-Poem-Symmetry-965485637

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

What is some advice you would give to a new artist?

Was asked by RTNNightmare, and the following is my answer.

Try to always remember the difference between the creative life side the commercial life of an artist.
The creative journey is eternal. There is no time or place or judgement that can satisfy the artists creative destination. 
The proof will be in your future, when you make some heavy lauded work. Take two year after said work is lauded, and you will be more creatively unsatisfied with said work than two years ago.
The commercial journey is mortal, is straight forward. The goal is to make money using your art. The audience taste is the determinant. The ability for your work to get outreach is more important commercially than the work itself. 
Remember to find communities online that enjoy the art work you do or may enjoy it. You are just starting so commercially you don't have a name to be recognized so you must go to the people who may find your work interesting. 
The media tools will not direct them to you.

You have to try and comprehend and embrace that duopoly. Some, including artists, will tell you that the commercial goes hand in hand to the creative but that isn't true. And that isn't a negative. 
Jean Michel Basquiat< streetart>
Philip K Dick <writer>
Penny and the Quarters<music>

All of these people posthumously found commercial success that they were not even remotely close to when living. Does it mean that when they were alive their work was crap or creative garbage. No, creatively it was fine as all work is creatively fine. But commercially, it wasn't good enough. The sad truth is that audiences tastes change, work gets outreach it never had and then can come a horde of money.

An Example of my work

RTNNightmare post

DATES

• 30th- Moon runs low, smallest angle compared to the south pole; henry ford born 1863 
• 31st -1928 roar of JAckie, the Metro goldwyn Mayor lion first heard on screen

AUGUST

named for Augustus Ceaesar- august means to grow; Perseid meteor shower 11th and 12th- best seen after midnight; circa 20th Venus rises before dawn to become a morning star; 27th Saturn reaches opposition, in the sky to the sun,  and brightest of the year

• 1st- Lammas day- originally meant to honor the first fruits of the harvest <remember all of the oldest human traditions come from the farm> and later added to the christian calendar to honor the eucharist ; Full Moon- called sturgeon moon cause the sturgeon are caught easier now ; 1793 meter length first defined 
• 2nd- Moon at Perigee- closest to earth
• 3rd-Saturn Moon conjunction; 1923 Calvin coolidge sworn in as president by his father
• 4th- Neptune Moon conjunction ; 
• 5th- Moon at Equator; Toni Morrison died 2019 - what is your favorite book of hers?

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

The Entertainment Industry Is Going The Way Of The Automotive In The USA

Fiscal Capitalism in the USA has always been about cheating. Fortunes made from stolen land, forced labor, auniversal illegal allowances, auniversal murder of competitors, dysfunctional financial trading systems all served and serve to grow and maintain the wealth of a certain group, not to invite competition or share wealth in the USA's history and in modernity to the global system the USA manages. And it isn't all doom and gloom for the USA. Western Europe, Korea, Japan  plus many others all require the USA to protect them from countries with true militaries. So the last bit of the Entertainment Industry <music/sport already went before film>goes the way of the automotive/electronic/real estate industry in the usa as dominated by foreign actors allowed by an open market that other countries with true militaries dont allow in their borders. The question is, with nothing but being a police man to most of humanity outside the usa while machines are able to do most uncreative jobs, what industries will be left in the usa for humans? and,.. will they be enough? 

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Why Kechant Sewell left the NYPD

If you want to know, go to the following

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10417-why-kechant-sewell-left-the-nypd/

Lackadaisy Rhapsody

A rhapsody is a musical form where improvised or spontaneous bridges between musical segments not aligned to each other is made as one song. The original rhapsody was the person who interwove epic poems to speak, as epic poems are long and need improvised bridges.

I was referred to this example by the following

Calligraphy Journey

 the title of TheOneWithBear ManHua, Sunshine Through the Willow Tree.

It took half of year for my fellow calligraphist to make the electronic brush as well as practice the forms.

Calligraphy comes in many forms but usually is a measure between legibility<the ability to read> side figurability <the ability to see an image>

For example, the following is the tughra or signature of Sulemain the magnificent of the Ottoman empire

 One can tell it is writing but it isn't meant for those that know the signs of arabic. It is designed to show an image, figurability.

In parallel TheOneWithBear's example below is no less craftwork, or calligraphy, but is meant for more legibility.

LINK TO THE VIDEO

TheOneWithBear deviantart

The following is an example of my calligraphy

KWL Science Fiction

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10432-for-science-fiction-writers/ 

Black Leadership Preaching

I hope this is comprehensive enough

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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 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter 

I offer others questions and my answers concerning Valentines Day. And Carnival is alive and kicking in Brasil. Are you ready for your local variant?  I offer others questions and my answers concerning Black History Month. I will love to know your answers, remember you can guest comment. If you want to read the 590 page civilian complaint review board assessment to the NYPD in 2020 read above IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR. 

Happy Besooned Valentine's Day

What medium or style of art are you most obsessed with?
None, I am not obsessed to any medium or style of art. But the art I will like to be satisfied in creating that I am farthest from is literature based games. But I am romancing it, so to speak.

What love-themed artwork(s) do you believe are the most powerful, and why?
I will say love songs are the most powerful from love themed artworks. Why? At their best they are a blend of two heart felt passions wrapped in one. 
The words when best, have a comprehension that can be sung by a mute lover through their eyes or a lonely yearning person calling out in isolation. 
But, when a vocalist is at their best, they can utilize the words to emit frequencies that massage the doubts or dismissals from one who has no memory of a loving touch or provide paths for memories in the wind to re-enter the silverhaired. 
Unlike the film, the song need not be seen. 
Unlike the painting, the song touches the body. 
Unlike the book, the song has a voice when one can't imagine it on their own.
If you are interested in some love songs, consider the list in the following work, I suggest Nat King Cole, Fly Me To The Moon

Has love or obsession inspired you to create a work of art? If so, share it in your comment and talk about how the feeling inspired it!
Yes, love has inspired the following work. I am a private person. It is a gif + poetry, click to see.

If you will like something to color for Valentine's day consider the following version, please share with me if you do

If you want to listen to the poetry , I offer the following

Referral Page
https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/Heart-to-HeArt-Share-love-for-Valentines-Day-944781878
 

Carnival 

Salvador Carnival begins on the 15th and ends on the 22nd

And honoring Yemanya never ends, Odoya Iemanja!

Video is available at the link below

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2227&type=status
 

BLACK HISTORY MONTH Q&A

What Black artists have inspired you, and what about their work do you find inspiring?

For writing: Zora Neale Hurston+ August Wilson+ Dwayne McDuffie

For drawing: Jean Michele Basquiat 

For sculpting: Dahomey sculpture artist , Edmonia Lewis

For dance: Sammy Davis Jr, Gregory Hines, Michael Jackson

For photography: Gordon Parks

For Music: Louis Armstrong, Marvin Gaye, Sweet Honey on the Rock, Sade 

I have more but they came first to mind

Zora Neale Hurston for cognizing the value of Black Art that was being forgotten or lost during her own time, while creating art that cherished an aspect of the Black community that wasn't as in favor as other black artist or white owned media cared for.

August Wilson for the way in which Black communal life is presented complexly while unaffrontingly, I find too many Black artists write Black people as weapons. 

Dwayne McDuffie for influence on Milestone and his width of imagination.

Basquiat for his unique art way and being a fellow New Yorker, surviving for a time, the life of an artists, which can be tough

Dahomey sculpture's for an art work I like a lot they made and it is poignant to me personally.

Edmonia Lewis for never quitting while having two elements of herself that she had to accept met various resistance, and her cleopatra is magnificent.

Sammy Davis jr for how multitalented he was while always a dancer at heart

Gregory Hines for how he always presented tap dance in a street way

Michael Jackson for making dance mandatory in musical acts after him

Gordon Parks for how long it took him to begin to make it, in his 40s but he never stopped trying and reached out creatively when he did, not settling

Louis Armstrong for being relevant artistically while watching his art form change/grow/morph throughout his entire life

Marvin Gaye for telling it like it is with his art

Sweet Honey on the Rock for the soul in their voice

Sade cause she never forces the sound. 

I have many Black artist I am inspired by. 

I hope I can do as they did to me to someone else Black.

What are some of your favorite artworks that depict African American culture?

The People Can Fly written by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Dianne Dillon. Virginia Hamilton in the spirit of Zora Neale Hurston kept alive stories that many Black homes had forgotten on their own intention. And she rewrote them lovely. Leo Dillon cause working with his white wife, Dianne, they just had a great sense of making art that didn't seem imitative but was accessible in intent to all. 

A few private works in my home. :) 

In what ways do you think art can be used to foster understanding and appreciation across cultures?

Art by default is messages from one or many individuals about their heritage<what they carry > or culture < what they grow> to whomever access it. 

I argue that art is meant to convey, the comprehension or appreciation some want art to instill in those who access art must come from the accessors themselves. 

I like the works of Ravel or the marches of the national socialist part of germany. But neither of said artful acts is why I don't attack french people or why I don't concur to the Nazi party. 

Art unfortunately is asked to be the peaceful bludgeon and that is unfair. 

The best way to utilize art is to allow art, the freedom of art. Said freedom will generate art work that you may oppose or dislike heavily, in my case Birth of a nation by Demille. But, it exposes the truth of the communities that create them. 

And rightly or wrongly, the truth is the beginning to any peaceful comprehension or appreciation between any, even if said duo is never reached in part or whole by one who access art. 

If you are interested in my writing , consider the following

enjoy my interpretation of a mascot for deviantart

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IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR

Title: Ariel Artist: RaySeb

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Title: Blackity Black Artist: Coco Michelle

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Title:  A Champion <The artist said the sword is enchanted obsidian> Artist: GDBee

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It's about trust y'all

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

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If you live in the USA do you know when the state you live in passed the 14th amendment? 

The 13th amendment made slavery illegal except in incarcerations or prisons. But, the 14th amendment guaranteed the rights of all citizens or other persons in the usa. Note all other persons extends to criminals or illegal immigrants or civilians. 

The 14th amendment was proposed on June 13th 1866, New York State passed it in January 10th, 1867

Women abused in the military

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My Reply to his speech prefaced by thoughts on his time

The 12th was the Lavagem de Bonfim in Salvador

Bonfim is another name for Oxala or Obatala