21 Dec. 2025
Humans are coming over to eat food today. I'll allow it, as long as I don't have to speak! (Ha!) (The joke is that I am making DEMANDS. I know I have no control... Ha!) Anyway... Solstice is today. Beginning of the COLD season... (Reminds me of the NORMAL season, here in Washington State!)
What about you? How you been???
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14 Dec. 2025
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"The Entire Persona" by RFY (Holy Fool) & RSRW
[Felt pen, brush pen, paint pen, and crayon on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] Exploring behind the persona is part of EMBRACING the persona. At least, that's what my one-year-old grandson told me... I can dig it!
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1TfjJZJesW4YEUvBmYZJx5rerFaFXxPjBc/197
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16 Dec. 2025
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Sharing my recent ARTZ and photographs and the goodness of CHAOTIC-TODDLERHOOD! Yeah...
https://richardfyates.neocities.org/PAGE0182
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17 Dec. 2025
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"Singing the Song" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
Howdy peeps and personas! My name is Richard F. Yates, and I am an old guy from the Pacific Northwestern United States. I'm a full time grandpa who does THE ART. Funny thing about ARTZ, maker-types are rarely content to just MAKE. There also exists a desire to SHARE creations, like the parents that parade their children in front of cameras for talent shows, EXCEPT without so much HORROR because most of my ARTZ aren't CONSCIOUS-OF-SELF.
I do my sharing in a variety of ways: Online on blogs and galleries and distributed databases, and thru the MAIL (postcards, zines, and mail-art), and in the PHYSICAL World (again, zines and postcards and paintings and stuff that I leave or show in places like coffee shops, book shops, and at parties, shows, and bar-b-cues!!!) Yes, I use some crypto platforms, because these are great places to share in an inexpensive way to a global audience, and I even receive the occasional "tip" when a stranger or online friend drops a few quarters on my art! Good damn stuff!!! (I don't make "a living," but I make enough to keep using the platforms, particularly TEZOS and HIVE. Plus, there IS a little ego boost when someone says, "Cool piece! Here's a buck!" Yeah...)
Make a change in the world by CREATING SOMETHING and letting it loose! That's how we do it!!!
---Holy Fool (Dec. 2025)
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1TfjJZJesW4YEUvBmYZJx5rerFaFXxPjBc/198
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"I'm the Driver" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, gel pen, and colored pencil on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] Writing and drawing are METHODS / TECHNOLOGIES that I use for THINKING. (Put it on the page and LITERALLY see it from a different perspective... Then color it with a glitter gel pen to make it cooler!)
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1TfjJZJesW4YEUvBmYZJx5rerFaFXxPjBc/199
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"Day-Walker" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] Insomnia is a nasty friend. It makes the party more interesting, but you can hardly keep your eyes open the next day. ("Now I'm Feeling Zombified!")
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1TfjJZJesW4YEUvBmYZJx5rerFaFXxPjBc/200
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"Body Artz" by Riot Shane Rowdy Willard & RFY (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, liner pen, and black light flashlight on paper, foot, and carpet...] Riot and I have a good time with art supplies. We've made ARTZ out of our everyday lives! (You should too!)
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1TfjJZJesW4YEUvBmYZJx5rerFaFXxPjBc/201
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"Misery Loves Telephone" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, brush pen, gel pen, colored pencil, and glitter pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] I'm not certain, but I think this is a goblin who is spouting a prophecy of world misery, or some similar thrilling event. Feels likely...
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1TfjJZJesW4YEUvBmYZJx5rerFaFXxPjBc/202
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20 Dec. 2025
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Speed reading is for jerks! (Reading list and memes...)
https://richardfyates.neocities.org/PAGE0183
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"Stone Faced and Freakin' Out" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments...] Don't quote me, cuz my memory is TERRIBLE, but I BELIEVE this was a "single-line" drawing... It's a portrait of a rock monster having a deeply emotional moment...
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1TfjJZJesW4YEUvBmYZJx5rerFaFXxPjBc/203
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"Psychic Warfare" by RFY (Holy Fool) & RSRW
[Felt pen, gel pen, colored pencil, crayon, and sticker collage on reclaimed cardboard with minor digital embellishments and color tweaking.] Being new to ARTZ, Riot needs practice. Things like holding a pen, applying enough pressure with a crayon or pencil to leave a mark, and determining where to add an element to a collage are skills developed with practice. We do A LOT of practicing!!!! (Personally, I love mixed media work...)
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1TfjJZJesW4YEUvBmYZJx5rerFaFXxPjBc/204
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We do what we're told!!!! ENJOY!!!
[Program or be PROGRAMMED!!!]
Later!
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P.S. - All of my stuff in this post is CC0, Creative Commons, and can be used by other folks for whatever they wanna do with it. If you want to say where you got the raw, that'd be cool! Anything that AIN'T mine, ain't mine to give away... END OF LINE...
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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