Hey folks. I'm making art as time rolls continually forward! I want to work with words more. (I USED to write quite a lot, but I'm going to have to RELEARN the techniques...) Meanwhile, let's look at some pictures...
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"Mood Vertigo (Moodier)"
[Felt pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments, color, and moshing.] Anxiety is pretty high right now. Even with the pills (which tend to make me tired. Now, I'm anxious AND tired...) Hooray! At least I can draw funny looking cartoons still...
Sold!
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"Atmospheric Pressure"
[Digital drawing over heavily moshed, old, recycled artwork.] He wasn't sure if the creatures he was seeing where "real" (existing in the environment he suddenly found himself in) or hallucinatory (existing only as mental images with no connection to this strange world.) Either way...they were badly drawn. (And so was he! That's what makes it funny!)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/388
Sold!
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"St. Vulture"
[Ballpoint pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] He tries his best to keep the natural world clean (by eating rotting flesh that's littered across the land.) St. Vulture has a yucky job, but he performs it with humility and grace!
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"Fortune Cookie Dreams (Pink)"
[Fortune cookie fortune over photograph of a tree that was knocked down in a recent windstorm with digital embellishments and color.] Dreams are funny. (Actually, most of my dreams are horrifying...) I think this fortune meant "dreams" to be something more like "aspirations" or "goals." I, however, am into the PLASTICITY of language and meaning. You into that? Follow your dreams (unless they're horrible!)
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"Bird (In a Maze)"
[Ink on notebook page over recycled, moshed digital image with digital embellishments and color.] The BIRD has a question for you, and if you answer it, then... If you don't answer it correctly, I'm afraid to tell you what will happen...
P.S. - This piece is a RECESSION RESISTANCE TOOL. I'm making many editions (101) and releasing them for very not much dough (0.1 Tezos each), so that folks can have fun and enjoy themselves even if ya' broke!!! N-JOI!!!
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/389
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"See in the dark..."
[Digital drawing created in MS Paint on my ancient laptop.] I'm not sure what's happening here. Am I suggesting that a fist can see? Do this creatures fingers have eyes? I don't know... Whatever!
P.S. - This is another RECESSION RESISTANCE artwork! I want lots of folks to have a chance to buy art, even during the crypto crash and economic downturn! High print run, low price, fun art, and (eventually) happy FIRE GODS when I burn the unclaimed editions! EVERYONE WINS!
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"Explorer"
[Digital drawing created on my phone!] The creature KNEW that somewhere out there (or IN there) was a happy place. A place full of art and music and donuts! The creature knew and WOULD find it!
P.S. - Yep, this is ANOTHER RECESSION RESISTANCE ART! If you know someone that needs help finding their happy place (with donuts), send them one of these!!!
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/390
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"Wreckoning"
[Ballpoint pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] This is word art, or something. Thrills... Fun?
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[13 June 2022]
There are thoughts and there are movements. These are not mutually exclusive.
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https://turntable.fm/if_pigs_could_fly_anything
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---Split Enz – “I See Red”
---fIREHOSE – “Brave Captain”
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The workings of an organized brain are completely foreign to me. I’ve lived my life on the far side of normality (at least as I’ve come to conceptualize it.) As a kid, I believed in things that most people my age hadn’t even heard of – and as I got older, “reality” took most of those things away… Can I put them back now that I’m OLD?
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---Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band – “My Human Gets Me Blues”
---Man 2 Man Meets Man Parish – “Male Stripper (Original 12” Mix)”
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Fighting with the word processor. It wants to capitalize things that I don’t want capitalized, and it’s just DOING it – without asking! (Rude.)
I just watched a cat get a paper bag with some twine for a handle stuck around it’s head, and the cat flipped out and ran around the house, knocking stuff over and scaring all the other cats (we have SIX in here with us...) (too many), until the bag ripped enough and the thing fell off. Drama!
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---Wire – “Blogging”
---Passion Fodder – “I’d Sell My Soul To God”
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I used to enjoy “flash fiction.” I called it “very very very short stories.” Let’s see if I can do one of those again:
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Harold grimaced. He flexed a flaccid arm muscle, cried, and slipped off the balcony, landing with a splash in the pool three floors below. The four men sitting around a wicker table playing cards barely looked up. Harold floated in the pool, fully clothed, for a few minutes, fighting to keep his now wide-awake head above water. He made his way to the side of the pool, pulled himself out, and walked (sloshing) out of the courtyard and into the history books!
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---Bob Crosby and The Bobcats – “Big Noise from Winnetka”
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It’s not a great story. It’s not the worst story I’ve ever written, but it’s not great. Might be fun to try to write a terrible story... A MORE terrible story. Let’s see...
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Axelrod Flemming tiptoed on the roof of a bus that was traveling east at sixty miles per hour. Bump! Axelrod Flemming never tiptoed again...
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So... That story leaves a lot to the imagination. That’s good, right?
I don’t seem to have the same skill with writing as I did when I was younger... Imagination is gone, and my flexibility with language is WAY out of practice... I need to work on that.
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---C-Bank – “One More Shot”
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Hooba skooba am kingdo be pomppa doe! I refuse to be limited by CONTENT or CORRECT grammar and punctuation. I control the horizontal.
Ham is dead pig. I looked the animals in the eyes, and most of them looked worried. (Not the chickens or turkeys, though, because they’re little dinosaurs...) I don’t tell other folks what to do because I only have the right to control myself, but at some point, a few years ago, I stopped eating mammals... Is that weird? I’ve “slipped” a few times since then, but since it’s MY conviction (and not some rule set by an outside force), I TRY to follow it as often as I can.
I need to brush my teeth and get ready for bed...
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---Skinny Puppy – “Tear of Beat”
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[14 June 2022]
My granddaughter will be here in a few minutes. I’m babysitting today. We USUALLY make some fun drawings while she’s here. Let’s hope today is in keeping with historical precedent.
Meanwhile, I’ve published a new #FREEBIE art work. 23 editions for zero TEZOS (which is a cryptocurrency.) Why free? There are a couple of reasons: 1. I like giving stuff away. It’s cool that someone wants something that I’ve created. 2. Some folks just grab the freebie and disappear, but SOME people look at my gallery and grab one or two NOT FREE pieces while they’re snooping around! (Loss leader!) I hope this doesn’t make me a capitalist creep, because my goal isn’t fabulous riches or making people pay more for an item than it’s worth. I’m just a guy who likes making stuff and gets pleasure out of seeing other folks jive with his creative wavelength... (Why third person?)
ART is fun!
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"Performance Art"
[Crayon and felt pen on colored cardstock with digital drawing, embellishments, and color.] It's time for a new FREEBIE!!! I hope you folks enjoy this piece, cuz I'm actually pretty happy with this one. I think the colors work well together, and the composition FEELS pretty good (to me)! I'm minting 23 editions and setting them loose upon the universe for ZERO TEZOS each!! And, I'm going cc0 (creative commons) with this piece - just like all my other stuff! Have fun!
All GONE!
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"Wuf Wuf"
[Ballpoint pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] We have been told that all dogs go to Heaven, so what's up with this pooch? (Is it not a dog? Or is that not Hell???) Fun! Fun! Fun! (I have to move again soon, like this weekend, so I'm not thrilled. Maybe, after this final move, we'll be able to SETTLE DOWN and relax... Finally...)
I'm releasing this piece as another RECESSION RESISTANCE ARTWORK! 101 editions for super-cheap: 0.1 tez each!
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/391
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That's probably plenty of nonsense for this post! Hope you folks are hanging in there!!! LATER!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)