This pictures is called "Sick" !!!
[Drawn in MS Paint on a shitty touchpad on an old laptop...]
I've been writing lots of stuff lately. Some if it has been published (on Hive, on Twitter, in PDF files), but not all. (I have journals and notes and freewrites and junk, besides my published stuff...) I really do enjoy writing. I've also been reading a lot and listening to tons of music. I'm ENJOYING my life. Is that bad? Is that hedonistic? According to some philosophies (particularly religious ideologies) enjoying your own life is evil. SINFUL. I'm a sinner...
But I'm also a shamanic skeptic. (I've been to the Land of the Dead and come back, but I also don't believe in the Land of the Dead!) I know that time is limited. I know there are good things that CAN happen in this life - in this world.
If I love watching crappy "ghost" videos on YoooTooob, shouldn't I? (It's research! I'm a writing guy and an art dude, so I get my ideas from reading and watching shows and listening to podcasts and music. These ideas and stories and sounds crawl into my head and roll around, and then my BRAIN-GUY (the person on the inside) feeds on these things and uses the energy to make WEIRD STUFF, like these words... and like these ART pieces... Yah?
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"The Eye Threatens!"
[Digital drawing created in MS Paint!] How is it asking ANYTHING if it doesn't have a mouth???
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/252
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"Sux Bux"
[Ink on paper, digital collage, with digital embellishments and color.] Some people are deeply concerned about the value of their currencies, whether fiat or crypto or whatever... With SUX BUX, you never have to worry, because this stuff is only worth negative one! ("Negative one what?" you might ask, but that's silly. Negative one nothing, of course!) If you're worried about value, just buy one of these, and know without a doubt that it's utterly worthless! (Breathe easy...)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/253
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"Proper Direction"
[Ink on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] This is a journal segment from around 2020. I write AND draw in my little books, and then take a photo and color them digitally. It's fun, fun, fun!!! (I'm also a fan of Dada poetry, which is worth reading if you're into weird stuff!!!)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/254
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https://turntable.fm/restless_music_for_minds
Tunes (I put together a quick playlist for listening / working / writing purposes):
---Pink Floyd - "Interstellar Overdrive"
---The Dickies - "Paranoid"
---The Five Blobs - "The Blob"
---Psychic TV - "Good Vibrations"
---T.S.O.L. - "Suppose They Give a War and No One Comes"
---Pinhead Gunpowder - "Big Yellow Taxi"
---X-Ray Spex - "Warrior in Woolworths"
---Queen - "Staying Power"
---Hum - "Stars"
---Belly - "Super-Connected"
---Bad Brains - "I Against I"
---John Lennon - "Stand By Me"
---Lionrock - "Lionrock"
---UFOFU - "Legendary Microwave"
---Skinny Puppy - "Sleeping Beast"
---Super Heroines - "Children of the Light"
---Devo - "Gut Feeling"
---Bitch'n - "Sad Clowns"
---Danielle Dax - "Big Hollow Man"
---Sukpatch - "Honky-Tonk Operation (Full EP)" !!! (Oops! I was just trying to play "Lake Funt Property!" Track #2!)
---The Cure - "All Cats Are Grey"
---Fad Gadget - "Collapsing New People"
---C.C.C.P. - American - Soviets (The Cameron Paul Remix)"
---Messer Chups - "Christopher Lee vs. Bruce Lee"
---The Neon Judgement - "Tomorrow in the Papers"
---LCD Soundsystem - "Seconds (Electric Lady Sessions)"
---The Human League - "Crow and a Baby"
---Fingerprintz - "Jabs"
---Men Without Hats - "Antarctica"
---Think Tank - "A Knife & a Fork"
---Two Little Boys - "Stylophonia"
---Miss Kittin - "Professional Distortion"
---Sonic Youth - "Dirty Boots"
---Close Lobsters - "Nature Thing"
---The Chemical Brothers - "One Too Many Mornings"
---Dead Can Dance - "The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove"
---Meat Beat Manifesto - "God O.D., Pt. 1"
---Zeromancer - "Send Me an Angel"
---The Flesh Eaters - "Digging My Grave"
---The Sinister Ducks - "The March of the Sinister Ducks"
---Ultravox - "White China"
---Double Trouble feat. Rebel MC - "Street Tuff"
---Araknofobia - "Arachnophobia (I Want You)"
---Tenacious D - "You Never Give Me Your Money / The End"
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Work is a four letter word. (I've written that many times.) I love just chillin' out and listening to tunes. Good fun! (Fun is good, but GOOD FUN is super-fun!)
I suddenly had a flash of anger over the idea of "investing" in art. (It was irrational, but I'm not always rational, so that makes sense.) For me, "investing" is about accumulating "wealth." ART, however, is not as important for economical value but for the EXPERIENTIAL value one gets from making / viewing / interacting with a work of art. LIVES are essentially meaningless, until the individual living the life CREATES a story for themself. The quality of art that I most connect with is the ability that an interesting image or written work or song has to conjure a story that I can weave into MY OWN tale.
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Look... In terms of existence, how much of what you DO (and think) is based on artificially constructed expectations delivered by society. What are your motives? How much of what you do is programmed vs free will??? (We will discuss these concepts...) (Someday... Eventually...)
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"You Are Only Coming Thru in Waves"
[This is a much shrink-a-fied version of the gif so that it can upload to Peakd!]
[Hand drawn digital art run through the mosh mixer!] It's kind of hypnotic, ain't it... Yeah... Suppose you stare at this for hours... Eventually, a hand is going to come out of the screen and try to grab you (we all know it's true...)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/255
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"xx16"
[Digital drawing created on my phone.] This is an early digital drawing for me, I'm thinking right about the time my wife bought me my first smart phone. (I resisted for a looooong time.) Fun colors. Kinda abstract. Just weird, really...
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I don't know what else to say right now. Thanks for visiting!!!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://linktr.ee/richardfyates