"'X' the Unknown (HiveBloPoMo #20)" by RFY (unHoly FooL)

Snork bonk wibble-dee bop. (It's like a magic spell set to disco!) Hey friends, I will be your guide to Holy Foolery for this freaky Saturday. I woke up at 5:30 A.M. today for no reason that I can fathom and was unable to get back to sleep. Weird! So today is going to be a tired day, but I can live with that. I'll just keep myself occupied with ARTZ!

But first, let's get some of that OFFICIAL stuff out of the way. We are now, If my date evaluating skills are accurate, two-thirds of the way thru the November #HiveBloPoMo challenge: 30 posts in 30 days. Of course, I, as a world renowned poet (of the absurd), have added this FOOLISH TWIST to my blopomo challenge: I am attempting to create a new haiku every single day of the month! (Technically, I write LOW-KU, which is low-brow haiku....) Here is today's contribution:

#020

The laughable myth
Of equality for all
Needs some magick help!

I am in a bit of a funk after yesterday's NEWS. (Best to avoid the NEWS, if at all possible. It's MEANT to be sensational, but not in a "RuPaul" good sort of way...) Despite the injustices in the world, I'm going to try my best to make the reality that I live in a better, more enjoyable, and safer place for everyone (thru sarcasm, mostly.)

And what better way to START my world improvement than thru ARTZ and PURDY PICK-CHERS and LAFFS!?! (Yes. I spell things wrong on purpose. I work at a university writing center, and I get sick of rulez that are always trying to keep me in line. What if I'm not FEELING like being in line? On the weekends, I can goof around. My apologies to folks who find this annoying or confusing. I'm not going to stop, but I'm sorry that you don't enjoy the goofing off as much as I do!)

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"In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Perfection is a Plague"

[Metallic marker, sticker collage, and food residue on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] Layers and smears and almost recognizable shapes. These are the things that dreams are made of! (Plus electricity!)

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/17

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"Abstract (11 June 2021 - C)"

[Ballpoint pen and packing tape on canvas book cover with digital embellishments and color.] It's abstract---meaning that the concept isn't condensed into a unified, visually recognizable image. The point here is mystery and insinuation. Can you GUESS what it means? (If so, then YES, that's what it means........to you!)

Tags: art, abstract, physicalplusdigital, digitalcolor, weird, abstractart, nfts, cryptoart

https://hicetnunc.art/objkt/544147

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"West of Forever"

[Digital drawing created with a no-longer-supported free app on my phone.] Out beyond the wastes, they roam, scavenging for food and ambushing anyone foolish enough to venture into their domain...

Tags: art, phoneart, digitalart, digitaldrawing, monsters, weird, humor, cryptoart, nfts

https://hicetnunc.art/objkt/544627

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"Shocked Face Collage"

[Sticker collage on blue cardstock with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] 'Tis the season for starting to panic. To paraphrase a little-know holiday film (made by the same guy who also directed the original BLACK CHRISTMAS!), we can already feel the Christmas noose beginning to tighten!

https://nftshowroom.com/richardfyates/gallery/richardfyates_post-apocalypse-artz-on-nfts_shocked-face-collage-by-richard-f-yates-hf

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"(Untitled Piece)"

[Felt pen on paper with digital embellishments, color, and psionic shirt-stiffening.] This appears to be a scene from inside somebody's neural cortex, but I can't tell from the wallpaper whose head it is...

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/18

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"Collision Course"

[Digital drawing created in MS Paint! (Using a shitty touchpad!)] This is not going to end well...

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/19

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Made a new playlist for ARTZ MAKING this weekend...

In case you can't read the image for some reason, here's what it says:

"23 SONG ARTZ CREATION PLAYLIST"

One. Brian Eno - "Needles in the Camel's Eye"
Two. Can - "Pinch"
Three. The Cure - "The Baby Screams"
Four. Split Enz - "I See Red"
Five. Cluster - "Umleitung"
Six. Book of Love - "Tubular Bells / Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls (Regan's House Medley)"
Seven. The Mothers of Invention - "It Can't Happen Here"
Eight. Paul McCartney - "Darkroom (04 Summer Tour Remix)"
Nine. Butthole Surfers - "Human Cannonball"
Ten. The Vibrators - "Automatic Lover"
Eleven. Metric - "Combat Baby"
Twelve. Killing Joke - "Snakedance (Youth 'Rattlesnake Dub' Remix)"
THIRTEEN. Seabound - "Digital"
Fourteen. Nitzer Ebb - "Control I'm Here"
Fiftenn. The Neon Judgement - "TV Treated (DJ Hell Remix)"
Sixteen. Cubanate - "Horsetrader"
Seventeen. The Sisters of Mercy - "Temple of Love (Extended Version)"
Eighteen. Slits - "Instant Hit"
Nineteen. Executive Slacks - "The Bus"
Twenty. Alien Sex Fiend - "Class of '69"
Twenty-One. Orbital - "Don't Stop Me"
Twenty-Two. The Prodigy - "The Heat (The Energy)"
Twenty-Three. Bunnydrums - "Little Room"

FUN!!!! (If anyone if curious about these tunes, I could do a podcast with them. Let me know...)

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"Cool Bloo"

[Digital creation (made in Publisher.)] What it says... "My art has been very busy lately. Thought I'd cool down for just a bit..." Yep. That's what I did.

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/20

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"Terror Chicken" by RFY & FEH

[Crayon and pencil on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] The collaborations keep rolling along. This is a co-creation with my granddaughter, Felicity, in one of my notebooks. (We make so much art [for fun] and my memory is so terrible that I can't remember where we were when we drew this or which book it's in. I could go look through my notebooks [I think I have three going right now, plus two for the toddler...so there are five that it might be in...])

You know what? It just occurred to me that you might not care about any of this! HA! Oh well. It's a monster chicken. What else do you need to know?

---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool) & Felicity Echo Hanson (Toddler Terror)

https://nftshowroom.com/richardfyates/collection/richardfyates_post-apocalypse-artz-on-nfts_terror-chicken-by-rfy-feh

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"Lo-Fi (B-17 Bomber)"

[Crayons, sticker collage, sticker lettering, and toy car on paper with minor digital embellishments.] There have been a lot of shitty books that have tried to act like instruction manuals for living, but I'm a fan of making my own rules. Here are a few... Rule number 1: Don't hurt people. Rule number 2: Crayons are cool. Rule number 3: Make shit. Now that's a recipe for a good life!

P.S. - This semi-series that I'm starting, the "LO-FI" images, are somewhere between photography, physical art, and digitized reality. They aren't meant to say anything in particular. I just like the way they look! ANTI-MANIFESTO.

https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/21

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There will definitely be more stuff tomorrow!

Later...

---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)