"Still Alive (31 May 2023)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

Let's play!!!

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21 May 2023

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"Still Alive" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Ultra fine point Sharpie on paper, photography, layers, digital embellishments, color, and drawing.] I'm here to tell you, folks! There IZ life after the bird app! The interesting thing about breaking serious habits is examining why I developed them in the first place. In this case, I was using the social connections from the birdie bots to try to SELL more shit. Now that I've broken away from that drive, I'm free to just MAKE SHIT again! Hooray!!! Stuff gets weird and wild when it's not about making a buck! Ha!

In that spirit, here's a FREE ART for you to do with as you please (if I know who you is...) Sell it, remix it, burn it, send it to someone you love (or hate), or just send me a note as a work of art! (It's the joy of TEZOS! Inexpensive distribution!!!) Stay in touch!!! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/425

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I finally got around to making an OFFICIAL blog site for the MUSEUM OF POSTCARD ART, which is the collection of postcards that Mariah and I have been collecting since 2020... (Do YOU remember 2020???)

https://museumofpostcardart.wordpress.com/

Not a ton ON THERE yet, but I can at least get STARTED sharing the collection in a "piece by piece" manner!

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"At Enchanted Forest" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Ultra fine point Sharpie on paper with digital embellishments and color.] Drawn and written while sitting on a bench at Enchanted Forest, in Turner, Oregon, USA. We had a lot of fun that day, but I'm old and have to sit around and watch a lot. (Watching and observing is more fun, for me, than riding on rides!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/426

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"Pretzel Logic" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Felt pen, gel pen, paint pen, brush pen, and metallic marker on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] Hallucination caused by me sitting for a few minutes with several drawing utensils within reach. (What a shame this had to happen...) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://teia.art/objkt/824009

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1 Jun 2023

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"Transmission from Nowhere" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Felt pen on construction paper with digital embellishments and color manipulation...nearly, color erasure.] Is it a naturally occurring phenomenon or a cryptic message? We don't know...yet... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/427

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Today is HIVE POWER UP DAY! I didn't have much LIQUID HIVE, but I powered up all that I had: 8.465
This brings me to 8,056.593 HIVE POWER. Not too bad... (Not, like, millionaire status, but it's all from consistent effort and time...)

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"Twistin' the Day Away" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Photographs taken with my phone and "animated" with a free app on my phone. Phone art, I guess.] That's Mariah and Felicity being grandma and grandkid. Then there are two images of the t.v. remote that I inexplicably stood on its end, and it remained standing for several minutes (ghosts), and then a couple shots of Minerva the cat being unhappy because nobody is petting her... That is all... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/428

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

[Crayon on construction paper with minor digital color tweaking.] When I hit my head, this is what I saw! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/429

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"Paper Towel Art" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Felt pen and brush pen on paper towel with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] This ancient artifact was unearthed beneath the sink in the bathroom attached to the guest bedroom. Archaeologists estimate the age of the piece as between 12 thousand and 140 billion years old. (There is some controversy in the true date of the creation of the work.) It appears to be a prophecy about... ack, uhmmm... Stop! How did you get in here!? There is a monk trying to stab m........ ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/430

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"Ions of Dirty Shoes" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Ballpoint pen and crayon on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] There is no message. There are no shoes. Quit trying to rely on PURCHASES for happiness. Words are just noise. We MUST HAVE CHOCOLATE MILK!!! Clean your shoes. Only the shoes deserve love. ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/431

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"Evil Grumpkin" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Digital drawing created in a no-longer-supported, free app on my phone.] What the HELL are YOU looking at? (Some grumpkins are nice, but not Gerald. He's a dick...) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/432

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"Getting Organized" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Crayon, felt pen, and color change marker on construction paper with digital embellishments and color.] I don't know... This is a...drawing, or maybe I spilled something on the paper and a few faces appeared? I'm not sure. I like it, though! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/433

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3 Jun. 2023

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Have you ever gone 36 hours without internet??? It was INCREDIBLE! No t.v., no posting to any blockchain, no podcasts... I'm thinking that internet is quite an all encompassing THING now 'o' days. Even my phone didn't want to work very well without the WIFI connection. How strange... There was a time BEFORE I had internet access, and I didn't miss it, but NOW... Modern life REQUIRES connection. (I could still read some of my PAPER books, I guess, but is that ENOUGH now??)

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Yesterday, when I couldn't play online, I decided to spend a few hours making a new pirate radio show. Here are the details:

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When Mariah is out of town, I just sit and listen to music all day... She doesn't go out of town (without me) very often! Today, however, I've got time and tunes... Let's have some fun!

Holy Fool Radio #2 (The Asshole Review!)
Approx. 38 minutes and 53 seconds! (Gosh!)

[Nonsense intro by Richard F. Yates & Felicity Echo Hanson]

---Moderator - "Night Fright" from Midnight Madness
---Robert C. Wayne / Gary Hoffman - "Get Away from Here" from Scary Sound Effects: Nightmarish Noise for Halloween
---Alice Bag - "77" from Blueprint
---Celtic Frost - "Mexican Radio" from Into the Pandemonium
---Money Mark - "Push the Button" from Push the Button
---Bennet - "Norway Wife" from Super Natural
---Kon Kan - "Arts' in D Minor / Harry Houdini (Justin Strauss 12" Remix)"

[Primitive bumper by Richard F. Yates, Elise C. Yates, and Cheeze the Cat]

---Kim Fowley - "The Trip" from Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, Vol. 2
---Los Campesinos! - "The International Tweexcore Underground" from The International Tweexcore Underground - EP
---Jurassic 5 - "Swing Set" from Quality Control
---Fear - "Disconnected" from The Record
---Black Randy & The Metrosquad - "Down at the Laundrymat" from Pass the Dust, I Think I'm Bowie
---(No Artist Listed) - "Heavy Metal Rules, All That Punk Shit Sucks" from Hot Curly Weenie Vol. 2

THAT'S IT!!! Hope ya'll had some fun! Don't forget, if you enjoy these tracks, please consider PURCHASING them from the artists, either as physical items or from a digital download site, like BANDCAMP, where the artists get a chunk of the profits. Streaming services don't pay artists very well, and they stop YOU from owning anything! If you can't pay your bill, then suddenly, BAM! You got no music!!! Support the artists and do YOURSELF a favor!

---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

LINK (to listen for yourself):

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"Like Yogurt..." by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[Ballpoint pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] It just felt STRANGE... The whole entire room just pulsed and twitched and jiggled... And it smelled like yogurt. I wanted to run... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/434

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I hope y'all have a good time! I'll be back pretty soon with more ARTZ and WORDZ and maybe even some TUNEZ! Catch you then!!!

---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)