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Listen to the buzz... Rhythm and buzz...
[Felt pen on hand. Not a real skull.]
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"22 July 22" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Words originally composed in the backyard using Word, then transferred to Publisher so I could make it a PNG file.] Flexing the imagination. If you don't use it, you lose it. Why is the rum gone? (Tragically, based on a true story...) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/463
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"Red Headed Vampire" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ballpoint pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] His skin was ALREADY sensitive to sunlight. Now, jeebus! He can't even look at a picture of a sunny beach without scorching! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/464
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"Teztrash Trashposter 2022 (With Holy Fool Contributions)" by Many Folks
[Digital collage.] Several folks have already contributed to this image (created for #teztrash 2022), and Stellabelle posted a suggestion on the Tweeterz that folks should download the image, contribute to the nonsense, and mint to keep it going! I'm keeping it going! (I added the UFO, the Moon, the Snake, and the "Lust" tattoo on Goatee Woatee... ["Goatee Woatee" is from a song by Warlock Pinchers...]) And now, YOU need to keep it going!!! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool) and MANY OTHERS!
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/465
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"Drop of Blood" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing created on my phone!] Microscopic view of some animalistic blood! (Such fierce corpuscles!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/466
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"Portrait of a Deity" by RFY (HF)
[Various pens on paper with digital embellishments and color.] They are rare in our modern world, but whenever I see a deity in the flesh, I ask if I can draw a portrait of them. This is Karlheinz, the god of parking lots and parking meters. (He's more active in larger cities than in the small town where I live, but I go to Vancouver from time to time, and that's where I met him! Decent guy. Told me about a great bakery on Mill Plain Ave!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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"Shameless" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing created in MS Paint on my crappy, old laptop!] This monster don't give no shits. Not one. ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/467
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[Mental health is nothing to mess around with. Take it seriously.] (Sorry, but that needs to be said from time to time...)
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Here are a number of ARTWORKS that I have collected in the recent past... Very recent, in some cases...
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“the oracle” by psychedemon
https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/760470
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“NYC is so TRASHY!” by moxarra gonzalez
https://objkt.com/asset/KT19yaHCyi3BmVzZ9jvBmAnajShkSzYCDaJi/0
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“LOVE TO TRASH” by The Moking Bird
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1Uz5V2NQ8f8jRfp2iHp7n5JoTBaGm9cQrK/9
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“trash art #1” by Empress Trash
https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/760335
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“Stuck in a Trash Loop” by FelixFelixFelix
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1Rnbq8XpcGQDeohqfcmVEi98MPFixidRZP/11
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Back to some artz by me... Cuz why not???
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"Backyard Witchery" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Hand drawing, photography, layers, moshing, and magick.] I hereby invoke the Spirits of Happiness and Creativity and Chillthefuckout and beseech them to grant me a boon. Give me your influence, and I will create arts in praise of your DOMAINS. Do we have an accord? ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/468
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"Squid" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] It's a squid... I think. (They usually have lots of eyes, right?) I'm sure it's fine... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/469
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"Trepidatious Reputation" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, paint pen, chalk pen, metallic marker, glu-stick, and glitter on black construction paper with digital embellishments.] I'm not 100 percent sure what's happening here... Might be a terminal sneeze? Perhaps it's a spell taking physical form as the energies manifest? We might never know for sure... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/470
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It is currently Saturday evening (for me.) Today was a tough one. I tried to combat the difficulties with art and humor. It sort of worked a little bit, but now my back hurts. (These may not be related.) Flesh and blood. It doesn’t always function so well for me.
Tomorrow is Sunday. (This often comes directly after Saturday.) I do not believe that we (my wife and I) have any particularly obligations tomorrow. It MAY need to be a day of rest. (Not “rust,” which is different.) I’ll probably still work on drawing – maybe – or reading... Or...
I’m not much of a prognosticator.
We just ate Mexican food at a sit down restaurant. For three people, it was $100.00. If #tezos is at about $1.50 right now, then I would need to earn 66.666 tezos to cover the cost of that ONE meal. My average tezos art sale is between 0.0023 and 1 tez per item... That’s a LOT of selling that I’m gonna need to do before we can eat again! (Ha!) It’s a good thing that I’m not doing this for a quick buck! (Or to pay for dinner.)
So, here’s an interesting question (to me): If not for the money, why do I bother to put artwork (and blog posts and zines and postcards and radio shows and all that other junk) OUT THERE into the media-verse?
I mean, it wouldn’t hurt my feelings if something sold for $50 or $100 dollars (USD) every now and then... In fact I have sold a number of works through MakersPlace for the equivalent of $100 to $300 each (in ETH at that time) over the last two years or so, but the money is not my PRIMARY MOTIVATION.
Mainly, I like to make stuff. I like to make it and share it with other folks. Sometimes, the other folks are amused, and they toss me a shekel or two, but I’m primarily using BLOG POSTS and CRYPTOART PLATFORMS as ways of sharing / publishing my works for a larger audience. Considerably larger that just AT MY HOUSE. (Most of the people who live with me are sick of my shit, already, anyway. I need a fresh audience to annoy!)
So that’s what I do! Or WHY I do, I guess... And, for the most part, it’s still fun – even if some days are tougher than others.
KEEP MAKING SHIT!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool) (Filling the Void with nonsense for FIVE DECADES!)