Relax. Don't do it. When you want to go to it. Relax. Don't do it... Frankie say...
Here's some stuff!
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11 Mar. 2023
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"Phantom" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color removal.] These things are hard to see, but they're even harder to photograph!!! (I got lucky!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/188
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"Mini-Mani" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Crayon and felt pen on plasticized paper plate with digital embellishment and color.] Some manifestos are complex (even genuinely confusing), but not this one. I am of the opinion that this one is pretty straightforward... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/189
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"Hash-Tag" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] Oh man! This is so symbolic! FANCY! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/190
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[Posted to Typed.art]:
"DAY 84
I had fun with yesterday's experiment, but I SECRETLY only shared HALF of it! This is the second section...
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---Character: Fizzle Westenrod IV - Wealthy Moron
---A dream in the night of a scream on the phone and a terror more powerful than common sense. He melted from the fear.
---Apples cause zombiism
---FreeSkull
---'Where's the flashlight?' he said - the panic rising in his voice...
'I didn't pack a flashlight! Did you?" she yelled back. The stomping and growling outside the tent continued to circle their thin bubble of protection.
'Damn it... If we had a light we'd be fine,' he said.
'Could we pretend?' she asked.
---Always wanted to tell a story about a creepy hotel. What could be more bizarre than a termporary abode? New guests almost each day... WEIRD!
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Thus we come to the end of another "forced writing experiment" entry. The only way to get whatever you're working on written is to WRITE IT!
Later!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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12 Mar. 2023
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"Eyes in the Night" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] When you think you're alone, resting peacefully through the night, be aware that there are always EYES watching you from the apparent darkness... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/191
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"Spelunker" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen and paint pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] Digging in a cave! Watch out for CAVE MONSTERS! (They might look like weird, fuzzy bugs with no eyes!!! You never know!!!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/192
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"A Flash of Vision" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on cardboard over photograph of glitter dumped (accidentally) on a wooden table zoomed in until it's blurry, with digital embellishments, color, and layers!] And then, like a FLASH, the idea struck me! (It apologized immediately, and claimed it will watch where it's going more thoroughly in the future...) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/193
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"Go To Sleep!" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ultra fine point Sharpie on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/194
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[Posted to Typed.art]:
"DAY 85
I've been making the ARTZ lately, but I'm also feeling that the currents are shifting. (The mood on TWEETERZ is hostile and unruly - and the universe feels on the verge of a new collapse.) Meanwhile, I'm being pulled towards text as a creative medium again (but oddly NOT away from images. A mixture of the two seems to be a happy place for me at the moment.) (If clever, one can lie both with words and without!)
I'm also unthrilled with sales lately, almost to the point where I'm thinking about flipping the universe off and just BLASTING my ARTZ to the heights of [value] madness. Why the SMURF not? I'd rather something not sell for 101 tezos than not sell for 1 tez...FUG IT! And by the way, it's not selling out if you don't expect anyone to buy!!!
Here's the funny thing, I enjoy the MAKING way more than the selling. Money is stupid. There are (it's true) things that I need, like food and electricity to play my music and maybe one or two other odds and endz, but that's about it. Mariah (my WIFE) and I have been watching videos on apocalypse farming lately, and Mariah and Frank (my older daughter) started working on the garden yesterday. (That's food handled) And I've also been pricing hand-crank / solar generator devices, so that maybe someday I won't need money even for electricity or food! (Neat! Fuck society!) I just want to be free...
I might be going to hard in this direction. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood. Who knows?
Anyway, I'm going to keep making my weird, bad artz, and I'll keep putting them up on the various platforms that I've been using so that people can ignore my work at their leisure. The artz will still accumulate in my "gallery" spaces, and who knows, maybe someday peeps will arrive in these virtual space and look at my wares and go, "Why not?" and buy a couple bits. Either way, I'll still keep going, doing my thing, and talking to non-human entities that visit me in my head! (We'll sing songs and draw pictures and pretend we're not tired and underwelmed with the world...) Got it? Yeah? We good? Sure...
LATER!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)"
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[Posted to my stupid Tweeterz page]:
"RADICAL REALIGNMENT OF THE STARS. PRIORITIES SHIFT. FOOLISHNESS MAGNIFIES.
Hand crank emergency light activated! #art #fool"
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"In Another Life..." by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ballpoint pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] In a different life, I tried really hard and got lucky and had all the breaks and got super rich, and then I did a bunch of drugs and died of an overdose... But I had fun, right? Is that better? ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/195
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"11,000 Days (All at Once.)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, crayon, and colored pencil on construction paper with digital embellishments and color.] After the ritual was complete, time meant nothing. It had lost its grip on him...but he had also lost his anchor to any singular moment of existence... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/196
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"Zombie Crush" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color subtraction.] You have to sew my mouth shut, real real tight... Dark magic brings the strangeness!!! Before and AFTER... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/197
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13 Mar. 2023
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[Posted to Typed.art]:
"DAY 86
Had myself a semi-traumatic morning. I took notes (cuz of course I did) and made some artz about it (but you folks won't be able to see those here in the world of TYPING-ONLY... I'm pleased with this...) Here's a transcription of my field notes:
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'Sitting in a waiting room. The HORROR... (Getting old isn't fun, but I suppose it's better than the alternative.)
Weird dreams last night. As is often the case, the setting was from my past (T----'s house in C----------), but a number of people were there that never appeared there IRL (in real life.) And there was something vaguely poltergeistish going on.
Yeah... Very strange...
'What could my brain be trying to tell me??? [Odd geometric doodle here]
'This could take up to two hours, according to the paperwork. Can I kill that much time with just a pad and pen?
Any other thoughts for now? Mariah wants to eat after this, if she's not too groggy... (Sounds okay to me.)'
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Luckily, all went well, and Mariah and I did eat food before driving back home; (I know social media types go for the whole FOOD thing, so I'll comply: I had a black-bean burger...) THEN we took a nap, which was also good! Now, after dinner, I'm going to work on shoving my extremely expensive art into people's faces (and snicker to myself knowing that nobody is going to buy it, so I can secretly keep my punk-rock self happy by claiming that what I'm doing is the opposite of consumer culture! You can't sell out if nobody's buying!!!) LATER!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)"
[Original handwritten notes.]
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"Eye in the Sky...Plague" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ultra fine point Sharpie on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] Anxiety art. Rough morning for somebody with severe phobias. Horror.... Horror..... This was my attempt at alleviating some of the anxiety... (It was not entirely successful.) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/198
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"How You Doin'" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, brush pen, and paint pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color manipulation.] I think this piece is a serious critique of the current economic system (or systems) that cause humans to lose all their hair and not get to eat cupcakes and milkshakes for every meal... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/199
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"What Lies Beneath" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ultra fine point Sharpie on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments, color, and layers.] A deep and frightening question that all of us have pondered on dark and shivery mornings... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/200
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14 Mar. 2023
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"Specter of Worry" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Oil pastel on orange cardstock photographed over my old journal with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] I've been haunted lately. Perhaps, once the proper sacrifices have been made, the entity will ease its anxiety inducing behaviors... Or... Who knows... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/201
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"Delicious Demon" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing created in a no-longer-supported, free app on my phone!] The Sugarcubes were an underrated band.... Even though Bjork went on to fame and fortune, the Sugs need to be rediscovered... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/202
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"Floral Ghost Scene" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Oil pastel and water color on paper with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] Nature is a big bunch of yuckiness. Stuff trying eat other stuff. Everything turning into dirt and mud. Poor little ghost is probably afraid his sheet is going to get stained if he goes out there! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/203
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"Recycled Pop Arts" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Found cardboard, hand cut, photographed, and digitally manipulated to remove the color and soul.] Image vs reality. Conspicuous vs inconspicuous. ARTS vs not-arts. This piece is all of these. (Plus, if I get sued, I'll get some media exposure. Maybe I'll wear a pink wig in all of my press appearances and people will think I'm crazy! I think it's a good plan!!!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/204
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[Posted to Typed.art]:
"DAY 87
I don't have to explain myself, but I frequently TRY TO. I would guess that these jaunts down INTENTIONALITY LANE are more for MY use than for other people's entertainment. When I write things out, this gives me a chance to determine if they make sense. Much of what I do is nonsensical, but that's not the point. The point is that writing IS thinking. Ideas and emotions and predictions and song snippets smash and swirl through my brain constantly, and (coupled with the noises from OUTSIDE my head) it can be difficult to stop and concentrate long enough to formulate any specific thought.
Writing, however, is thought CRYSTALIZED. The ideas have to be formed enough to put into words and the words have to be sculpted into proper syntactical units in order for anyone (even me) to understand the meaning. For instance, "a;lknsd f;oiawpeoi flasdfm ;alj" isn't WORDS. It's just my fingers striking random keys. No meaning there to be found (unless it's injected by the viewer. But putting together meaningful words in a readable order is difficult. It takes effort and thought and at least enough quiet to get the concepts out of the brain and onto the paper (or keyboard) or whatever...
I used to write a lot, but I don't anymore. Interestingly (for me), THIS "forced writing project" has lasted longer than any of my previous attempts. I'm not 100 percent certain why I've kept this going when at least three (probably four or five) other attempts have only lasted a couple of weeks. There must be something about this publication method that clicks with me, at least at the moment.
Anyway, that's today's thoughts. Maybe, if I can get my brain to function again, I'll try to work on more FICTION for a future entry... If there IS a future!!!
Later!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)"
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Is that enough for this post??? How do I know for sure??? Let's just say, done...
---RFY (HF)