Artz and music. There are a lot of words below, so I'll keep this intro short! (ENJOY!!!)
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"Zot Zot Zam" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, colored pencil, Sharpie, and mechanical pencil on paper with digital embellishments and color.] I'm not sure what this piece means, and thus... I've decided to try to give it away for (nearly) free. I'll mint 23 editions, and I'm only charging 0.0023 tezos each! How about that? ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/712
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"Karl - The Ever Present" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Photograph of the dang cat that won't leave me alone with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] Ever have a cat that ALWAYS has to be near you...? Preferably ON you? I've got one. This photo is from a few days ago, but as I type this, the cat is currently laying by my feet. I don't know why... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/713
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"Stop (24 sep 22)" by RFY (HF)
[Felt pen, liner pen, brush pen, and metallic marker on paper with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] Sometimes an abstract is just an abstract. I don't always have a meaning in mind. The drawing is only a record of hand movements and color interaction. (How mysterious is that!?!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://nftshowroom.com/gallery/richardfyates_post-apocalypse-artz-on-nfts_stop-24-sep-22-by-rfy-hf
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"Creepy (5 sep 22)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen and plastic wrist-bracelet on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] This is a mixed media collage. I think it's funny. (I'm easily pleased.) I like the color bursts and the texture. Just the right kind of pointlessness. ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/714
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"Message from the Underworld" by The Weirdos
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"Unreasonable" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, paint pen, and liner pen on tinted paper with digital embellishments and color.] I'm dying for #trashtober to start, so this is a wee bit of a preview. The LAWS of trashtober are simple: make cool shit; (spooky is always cool, right?) Here's an almost spooky piece for a spooky price! (Only 0.13 tezos each!) Limited editions available!!! (Only 13! Grab quickly if you want one!) Let's make this the spookiest, most entertaining season of all time!!! Muu ha ha hahaaaaa! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/715
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"Putting in the Work" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital painting over recycled digital painting.] I don't know how many layers deep this piece is at this point. I just know that I'm happy with the look. Yeah. The work... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/716
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"Rothko Built a Church" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Paint pen, felt pen, and brush pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments.] Rothko built a church to house his artwork with benches and dim lighting and atmosphere out the wazoo... I'm leaning more towards a "24 hour, Drive-Thru, Church of the See-Thru Elvis Alien Baby and Fortune Telling Hut" than a proper church. All artwork has an optimal setting for viewing, in my opinion... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/717
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"Blite-Brite Gallery" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, liner pen, and mechanical pencil on reclaimed cardboard over plastic light toy with digital embellishments.] It's not a very large gallery, but the famous Blite-Brite is quite unique in its layout. (The owner is a bit of a weirdo, though!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/718
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"Toddler and Fool" Zine (Sept. 2022) by Felicity Echo Hanson & Richard F. Yates (HF)
[Gel pen on reclaimed cardboard, photographed, and digitally collaged into a zine.] Images by Felicity Echo Hanson & Richard F. Yates. Text and editing and photography by Richard... (He's a control freak.) THIS IS TODDLER ART! Eight solid pages of scribbles! (Plus one boring page of words...)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/719
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"Cosmic Rays" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] The planet is constantly being bombarded by particles from outer space, and some of these particles screw with my computer! Makes me so angry!!! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/720
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"Signals (Teal)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on paper with digital embellishments and color.] Dreamtime explorer. (Not very good at it, as he seems to be missing everything.) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/721
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From a "text-to-speech" recording, last night before bed. (Included just because! I like weird stuff):
"Hey me I'm talking into this machine right before bed because the lights are off and I can't write anything so I'm getting ready for sleep and I'm gonna try and record thoughts before bed and I'm gonna record what I try and record what I dream in the morning if I dream of you in the night so let's let's if this works see this is an experiment I'm going to do some reading before I fall asleep but I don't but too long cause I drink a bunch of rum so I'm tired but I've been reading a John Keele book called 8th world [The 8th Tower - I looked it up!] rates something It's about ultra terrestrials it's pretty good hes a good writer even if I don't necessarily believe everything he says but OK so this is me writing notes to myself on my phone that I can add to my journal tomorrow and then we'll try and get to when I sleep tonight I'll try and remember to record what I dream in the morning I do have a journal by my bed so we'll see if that works ok thanks for stopping by me me..." Amost incoherent! Love it! Think of it as bad poetry. Maybe that will make it more entertaining...
Back to the artz...
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"Smiling Cyclops" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments, color, and moshing.] Not all of my monsters are smiling... In fact, most of them tend to frown. This little dude, for some reason, seems a bit too pleased with himself... (Can't be good!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/722
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"Still Alive" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen, brush pen, felt pen, paper and sticker collage, and packing tape on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] Hand-made postcard that I put together and mailed to a friend of mine! (Interestingly, he sent a note to my wife asking if there was a "decoder" available to make sense of the piece! HA!!! (Nope. It's all nonsense!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/723
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"Happy as a Clam..." by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, crayon, liner pen, and pencil on notebook pages with digital embellishments, layering, and color.] How happy, exactly, is a clam? ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/724
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"Fearless Beast" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen on reclaimed cardboard over orange, glitter paper, with digital embellishments and color.] Monsters are sure funny. This little beast isn't very tall (just under a meter), but he is fierce, so don't mess with him!!! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
P.S. - Time for some #cheapthrills! I'm making 23 of these beasts and (practically) giving them away! (For only 0.013 #tezos each!) ((Inflation!))
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/725
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"Headache (25 sep 22)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing created with a free app on my phone.] I woke up with a nasty headache a few days ago (you might say a "splitting headache." This was my attempt at capturing the experience. ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/726
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That's it for the art! There are a handful of songs below that I've been enjoying laterly. See if you dig 'um!
LATER!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
P.S. - Be excellent to each other...
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The playlist for today:
---Crime and The City Solution - "The Adversary"
---Ted Leo / The Pharmacists - "Six Months in a Leaky Boat"
---Ultra Vivid Scene - "Mercy Seat"
---Clarence Carter - "Slip Away"
---George McCrae - "Rock Your Baby"
---The Farm - "All Together Now"
---Butthole Surfers - "Human Cannonball"
---Brent's TV - "Superwoman"
---Big Black - "Heartbeat"
---Bennet - "Mum's Gone to Iceland"
---The Cure - "Harold and Joe"
---Fulflej - "Microwave"
---Enon - "Daughter in the House of Fools"
---Bauhaus - "Telegram Sam"
---Hammerbox - "Size of the World"
---Ofunwa - "It All Begins Here (Oneiric Vocal Mix)"
---William Orbit - "Water from a Vine Leaf (Underwater Mix Part One)"
---Rise Robots Rise - "Flowers & Birds II: The Return"
---Alec Empire - "The Ride"
That's about it, folks!
