"Living Forever Ain't Easy" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

Let the nothing parade begin!

Still happy to be home from vacation and NOT having to be on an airplane again anytime soon. (I HATE flying.) Being in my own house again is great! I'm free to be me, and ME am an ART MAKER. Stuff like these:

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"Racehorse" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Digital drawing created with a no-longer-supported, free app on my phone.] This horse usually wins the its races - cuz if it DOESN'T win, it tends to EAT the horse (and jockey) that beats it. Hasn't lost a race in quite a while! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

P.S. - This is my FIRST piece in the SATURNALIA SALES EVENT! All 1 of 1 pieces (released from now until Dec. 31st, 2022) will have a THREE TEZOS price tag! These prices won't last forever, though! In the NEW YEAR (2023), they go back up to 13 tez each for unique works!!!

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/838

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"Center of the Fake Town" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Digital photo!] I took this photo from a sitting position while waiting at a fake train station. I'm going to give the BIG D designers this: They have an eye for composition. Honestly, I even love the light echoes and slight blur. Good stuff! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/839

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"Semi-Abstract Figure" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Felt pen on textured paper with digital embellishments and color.] I think I saw this guy when I visited a chalkboard in Frisco once. (Did he follow me into the 3D world?) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/840

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"Sick Smile" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Liner pen on reclaimed cardboard (a cut-up food carton) with digital embellishments and color.] This is why I don't draw smiles very often. They always turn out looking evil! (Who knows why?) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/841

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"Home (Nov. 2022)" by RFY (HF) & FEH (TT)

[Felt pen on paper with digital embellishments and color.] Collaboration with my three-year-old granddaughter, Felicity. I finished this piece AFTER returning home to our rain soaked, haunted house (with rotting pumpkins from Halloween still lining the front porch.) MAN! It sure is nice to be home!!!! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool) & Felicity Echo Hanson (Toddler Terror)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/842

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"Vote 4 A.I." by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Liner pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] It's ELECTION DAY in the wild and wacky United States! (I voted by mail, which is something that a certain political party thinks I shouldn't be allowed to do...) Humans, in my opinion, have LOST the ability to make rational decisions, and therefore, I recommend that everyone VOTE for any local Artificial Intelligence candidates that might be on the ballot. Let the machines make the decisions from now on, since people seem unable to make them on their own! Thanks! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/843

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It's been a couple weeks since I shared some of my new art acquisitions! (Hard to believe... But I was out of town for a full week, and I didn't have access to my crappy, old laptop!) Here are some pieces that I've grabbed in the last few weeks - since mid-October or so and going forward.

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"eyes on the pink i" by morse.as.art

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1Me8ij2hYqgmhrSrRBXpDHjMNmVHtRqMJk/61

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"the_artist_inside_a_nightmare_punk_rock_dark_alley_of_the_mind_mental_spam_propaganda__" by Ernesto Asch

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1HG7m9VK5D2nSgtA1BhhMYyg56PiMdbBXL/0

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"SPAMfinition" by Ernesto Asch

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1HG7m9VK5D2nSgtA1BhhMYyg56PiMdbBXL/1

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"ATHLETIC EFFORTS" by deandradecarlos

https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/790960

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"aqua boy kills vampires in alien city" by paulasauruss

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1Lo76PiTUerc1pzf2pYQqzvv4UxFZoNwrg/13

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"Grifter (Pumpkin), 2022" by zamartist.tez

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1VasHVRTHX7yXqHYpigaLwFtHsaYdnYYva/12

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"Strange Faces #005" by zamartist.tez

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1RogxCRYse5XpttsiM25Z6sSh9SXf3gEdc/4

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"Silk Scream, 2022" by zamartist.tez

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1GXzj3ferN69ktCkaFWYd1UXwk15Anuz1G/6

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"SPAM PUNK #50" by unknown (I think it's Jay Delay!)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1AhxrS8AzJFrZ3Wap4sPD2aqeBzRbmWKax/49

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"attack of the skeletons army" by ardie menggambar

https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/786747

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Let's get back to the HOLY FOOL's SATURNALIA SALES EVENT artwork!

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"Yo Ho Ho (And a Bottle of Rum)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Digital photograph taken with my phone on a certain ride in a certain place.] This photograph was taken just as a lightning strike effect occurred on the ride, and despite the fact that I did not manipulate the photo after the original snap, the lightning flash caused some kind of natural GLITCH effect! Personally, I really like the look! (And so does my wife!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/844

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"Cattle" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Liner pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] BRANDED! BRAIN DEAD! Don't be asleep at the wheel... Know what the symbols mean. Don't follow the other cattle into the slaughterhouse... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/845

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"F I R E" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Digital drawing created in MS Paint on my crappy, ancient laptop using a horrible touchpad! (We use what we have at hand! Ha!!!)] Is this an elemental being? Is it an inverted jellyfish? Is it, perhaps, an oil barrel tossed by a gorilla into a furnace that has somehow become sentient? We'll let the scholars decide... (I'm just trying to keep my fingers from getting burned...) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/846

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"Folk Horror (3D)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Photograph taken with my phone at my younger daughter's house. The image was eventually run through the MOSH-machine to give it that digital "3D" effect.] When NATURE is left unchecked - even for just a few minutes - she begins to TAKE BACK the property that WE (as foolish humans) believe belongs to us... (So naïve...) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/847

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"Found Poem (9 nov. 2022)" by FEH (TT) & RFY (HF)

[Sticker collage and liner pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] Hanging with my granddaughter, today, she took a sticker out of a book, tearing it in half as she did. I happened to notice that the letters that were still attached to the chunk of sticker that Felicity removed from the book could pretty easily be read as a nonsense / sound poem. I got to work, placing the sticker on a small chunk of cardboard, adding some ink marks, photographing the piece, and then coloring it with a no-longer-supported, free app on my phone. I don't know... I LIKE IT, at least, but the poem is actually Felicity's creation. Wooo! ---Felicity Echo Hanson (Toddler Terror) & Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/848

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That's probably enough for this post! Hopefully, you'll join me again in the future for the NEXT ADVENTURE!

---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

P.S. - Sorry if you read this whole post looking for the keys to immortality (based on the title.) I just like nonsense, and the possibility of living forever seems highly nonsensical to me...