Put your head down, get your shoulder into it, and PUSH. That's how we move shit...
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13 Jun. 2023
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"Die at Work" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ballpoint pen, felt pen, and sticker collage on notebook page with digital embellishments, collage, drawing, and color.] Propaganda piece meant to suggest a course of action for those who know the movie REPTILICUS... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
P.S. - The is going to be released as a CHEAP THRILLS work: 23 editions minted for only 0.13 #tezos each! (So cheap!)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/459
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14 Jun. 2023
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[Posted to Typed.art]:
I like to read. Do you read? You should read. We could read together! Let's read...
If you've read more than that section above, you'll maybe know that I don't sleep super-well (despite all the pills), so I spend a LOT of time at night reading... Here is a list of all the stuff I've finished reading since my LAST list of stuff that I've read:
---10 Apr. '23. Finished reading:
McLuhan, Robert. RANDI'S PRIZE - WHAT SCEPTICS SAY ABOUT THE PARANORMAL, WHY THEY ARE WRONG & WHY IT MATTERS. White Crow Books. (2019). (Originally published in 2010).
---19 Apr. '23. Finished reading, for the FIRST TIME!:
Keel, John A. THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES. Tor. (2012). (Originally published in 1975).
---23 Apr. '23. Finished rereading:
O'Neil, Dennis (author) and Alex Toth (artist). THE WITCHNG HOUR. #1 DC. (1969).
---29 Apr. '23. Finished reading:
Peterson, Shawn. PEZ - FROM AUSTRIAN INVENTION TO AMERICAN ICON. The History Press. (2016).
---30 Apr. '23. Finished rereading:
Hill, Joe (author) and Gabriel Rodriguez (artist). LOCKE & KEY: WELCOME TO LOVECRAFT: VOLUME 1. IDW Publishing. (2008).
---1 May '23. Finished reading:
2eyes2u. "Spamartifacts (pdf)" SPAMART PARTY. (2023). https://objkt.com/asset/KT1LK2gCsgs7poxiWzjed5KSGCod4hHTpgR6/3
---4 May '23. Finished reading:
Hill, Joe (author) and Gabriel Rodriguez (artist). LOCKE & KEY, VOLUME 2: HEAD GAMES. IDW Publishing. (2009).
---5 May '23. Reread:
Nakamoto, Satoshi. "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" (PDF). Bitcoin.org. (2008, I think).
---11 May '23. Finished rereading:
Hyatt, Christopher S., Ph.D. (editor). REBELS & DEVILS - THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LIBERATION: THIRD REVISED EDITION. The Original Falcon Press. (2013). (Originally published in 1996).
---16 May '23. Finished reading:
---17 May '23. Finished reading:
Vaughan, Brian K. (author) and Fiona Staples (artist). SAGA, VOLUME ONE. Image Comics. (2012).
---23 May '23. Finished reading:
Tezuka, Osamu. ASTRO BOY VOLUME 5. Dark Horse Manga. (2002). (Stories originally published between 1957 and 1960.)
---27 May '23. Finished rereading (yes, again):
Wilson, Robert Anton. COSMIC TRIGGER - FINAL SECRET OF THE ILLUMINATI. Hilaritas Press. (2016). (Originally published in 1977).
---11 Jun. '23. Finished reading:
Long, Simon. AN INTRODUCTION TO C & GUI PROGRAMMING. Raspberry Pi Press. (2019).
---12 Jun. '23. Finished rereading:
Gorightly, Adam. SAUCERS, SPOOKS, AND KOOKS - UFO DISINFORMTION IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS. Daily Grail Publishing. (2021).
---13 Jun. '23. Finished rereading:
Aidalro. TOILET-BOUND HANAKO-KUN VOL. 1. Square Enix Co., Ltd. / Yen Press. (2017). (Originally published in Japanese in 2015).
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I have fun reading! Will it make me a better person? Will it make me MORE than a person? Let's find out together!!!
What have YOU been reading? Let me know, yo!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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"Da Da Da" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] The Universe is in balance. Or NOT in balance. The skulls go UP. The skulls go DOWN:::: There is a balance, but not of the type humans recognize... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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"Strobing Art Supplies" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Photograph taken with my phone, phreaked with the MOSH-machine, and animated with a free app.] This is a pile of craft and art supplies sitting on a folding table under a tent in our backyard. I was DRAWN to take a photo of it. Then I messed with the photo. NOW, the image looks more like how I saw it to begin with!!! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/461
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"Listening Skills" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ballpoint pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] I just like it! The colors turned out really neat, the fragments or language are weird and nonsensical, and it makes me happy! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/462
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15 Jun. 2023
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I've updated the MUSEUM OF POSTCARD ART blog. There are now 36 cards from the collection shared on the site. Slow progress...
https://museumofpostcardart.wordpress.com/
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[Posted to Typed.art]:
Here's a thought... I've written serialized stories before for various blogs, but I've never tried making a serialized story, SPECIFICALLY, as cryptoart. In a sense, ALL of my artwork is serialized psycho-biography, but people shouldn't be expected to understand that from a cursory exploration of my silly cartoons or wordart pieces. What an innocent reader COULD get is if I explicitly stylized a number of cryptoart pieces AS a series of "connected" stories. Knowing ME like I do (or knowing the "Author" within me,) there is little chance that this will be a typical fiction tale. It's more likely to be a FREAKY, horror comedy with psychologically disturbing yet cartoonlike nonsense at its core... (WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW, THEY SAY...) I kinda like this idea. I should make it into a PLAN...
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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"Beat Up Zombie" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Mechanical pencil on paper with digital embellishments, drawing, and color.] You've got to HAND it to this zombie. He's taken a lickin', but he's still out there moaning and eating brain! Good for you, zombie!!! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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"Ghost Sign" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital photograph taken with my phone of a metal sign found on a wooden fence in Enchanted Forest amusement park in Oregon State, USA. The fence is exposed to the ravages of Pacific-Northwestern weather, so you know the sign has had a HELL of a time!] I tweaked the colors a bit, but not too much. Kinda creepy, right? ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/464
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"Stabby is a Bad Guy" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Blue gel pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] That's not a nickname. His parents CALLED HIM STABBY! They knew (but they did nothing to stop him when he was young and powerless...) Now, we ALL must suffer. ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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16 Jun. 2023
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Why do I do this??? I mean, I'm just an old, broken-down grandpa, sitting in a room in the Pacific Northwest who can write a bit and draw a bit less, yet I inflict my cartoons and strange word choices on the world just about every dang day... Who is MAKING me do this? What am I hoping to achieve? I don't know.
But I do it...
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"Is It Hopeless?" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ultra fine point Sharpie and crayon on paper with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] What is the purpose of your art? I enjoy making stuff, but it also works as a buffer. I can emote and gush and weird out on paper in a way that wouldn't be quite as acceptable if I were to do it vocally. I mean, I DO say odd things in public, but most people think I'm just being silly...and I am, I suppose... But on paper, I get to do things like THIS! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/466
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"It Tasted Just Like" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] That ghost is TRIPPIN'! (I hope Snake can talk him down before anything BAD happens!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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That's it. The world keeps moving on. Do your thing...(or be destroyed...)
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
richardfyates@proton.me