Sunday is for cleaning house. And folding clothes. And (if there's time) ART. I'm gonna art...
HERE ARE SOME ARTZ! (In the past AND today, which will be the past, very soon.)
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9 May 2024
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"Are in the Chill" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] The sound was sickening, but the bruise looked good on him! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1T3ZVm8fTSSPi2joKDLaU1scVNFQcnGCA6/167
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"Thrilling Adventures" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing created with a no-longer-supported, free app on my phone.] I think this is either a landscape for some unprobable psychogeography, or it's a nightmare from a Tetris game... Could be both, to be honest... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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"Grunge?" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen and gel pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] What IS grunge? Is it a look? A sound? An era? A style of clothing? What makes it different from "punk" or "rock" or "garage" or "metal" ??? I don't know... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1T3ZVm8fTSSPi2joKDLaU1scVNFQcnGCA6/168
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"Some Kinda Bird" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on paper with digital embellishments and color.] This seems to be some kind of bird. I say "seems to be" because I can't PROVE that it's a bird. It might be a demon or a bug in a costume or a puppet or an actor. I refuse to commit to any diagnosis! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1T3ZVm8fTSSPi2joKDLaU1scVNFQcnGCA6/169
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10 May 2024
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My mini-review of Ripley's Believe It Or Not! #69! Will I KEEP it, or will I be willing to trade it away?? (Do YOU believe it?!?)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/keep-or-nfm-015-104014400
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"Night Antics" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, brush pen, gel pen, and colored pencil on paper with digital embellishments and color.] When all good people are asleep and dreaming, WE come out to play! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1T3ZVm8fTSSPi2joKDLaU1scVNFQcnGCA6/170
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"Devolve into Happiness" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] You can just be what you are. You can work and pay taxes and grow old and buy the new gadget and die and fade... That's what you can do... OR PERHAPS THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE!! (Perhaps...) We can help, if you really want it... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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11 May 2024
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"What is the Objkt?" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, paint pen, gel pen, brush pen, metallic marker, and colored pencil on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] Happy to bring up ambiguous questions and never even attempt to answer them! People need to flex their own heads to keep them from sphericalizing... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1T3ZVm8fTSSPi2joKDLaU1scVNFQcnGCA6/171
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"Snake-Like Syd" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, gel pen, liner pen, brush pen, and chalk marker on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color manipulation.] It was born a puppet, but when struck by malicious solar rays, SYD metamorphosed from a little kid puppet into a SNAKE-LIKE little kid puppet... SPOOKY! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1T3ZVm8fTSSPi2joKDLaU1scVNFQcnGCA6/172
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12 May 2024
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"5:05 PM (I'm Tired)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen and felt pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] Ingestion of chemicals for medical / mental purposes is an uncomfortable balancing act. I don't die of a stroke from anxiety and horror, but I don't have the energy to keep up with all the youngsters. I'll be an punk rock, skater, mystic weirdo in my head (and in my notebooks), and just try to remember what it was like to catch gnarly air at the skate park or fall asleep in front of the bassbins at a rave, just before dawn! Jah mon? ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1T3ZVm8fTSSPi2joKDLaU1scVNFQcnGCA6/173
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Yesterday, I went on a crash course, and binged all nine videos in the legendary YoooTooobs project: LOCAL 58. It was brilliant! I can't believe I've lived this long without watching these wonderful, artistic, creepy-ass little videos! (I even made it through the entire "SPECIAL PRESENTATION" video, which is about 30 minutes of extremely slow moving, almost Warholian / Lynchian, tedium. VERY ENJOYABLE, if you have the patience... Watch the videos!!! Great shit!
https://www.youtube.com/@LOCAL58TV
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"Too Unethical for Words" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, liner pen, brush pen, crayon, color change marker, and colored pencil on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] Something of a mood experiment. There's no REASON at play here, just chaos... Chaos and color... NEXT! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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"Dead Dude?" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Acrylic, glitter, and fluorescent paint on reclaimed cardboard with digital color manipulation.] So many questions! Was it a living corpse that we saw when we opened the door, or just someone with a horrible sunburn? Either way, it was TERRIFYING! Gosh!!! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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I am poor, but I am enthusiastic. I am unskilled, but I am relentless. I am unrefined, but I am indifferent. I am monstrous, and that makes me happy!
DO THE ARTZ!!! It's how we BE.
[Image is from 2013, when all the world was young and ignorant!]
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"Opt Out (It's a Shame About Ray)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] How well do you know that good, ol', "college rock" music? Back in the early '90s, Lemonheads put out a fantastic record called IT'S A SHAME ABOUT RAY, and the title song is STILL one of my favorite cuts! That's probably why the phrase ended up in my notebook... Not that weird! Wah ha ha ha!!! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1T3ZVm8fTSSPi2joKDLaU1scVNFQcnGCA6/174
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13 May 2024
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Happy Mothers' Day, yesterday!
(Stolen from FaceBoot...)
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Monday. Laying on heating pad cuz I'm old and broken and haunted. Typing thoughts. (Did they exist BEFORE I started typing? Do they exist AFTER?) I'm not so sure... Perhaps you can help me...
Perhaps not!
Enjoy the week. Avoid the light. Avoid the light. Avoid the light..... Avoi...
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://www.patreon.com/richardfyates
[Patreon has a "group chat" function, now. It may be entertaining to "chat" in that PROGRAM. We will connect. We will learn to avoid the light together. Perhaps...]