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Happy Day of Love+
My Art [stories/illustrations/poems] involving Love
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=love
My Valentine's Day 2022 calligraphy gif + poem[read description]
Richard Murray Valentines day album 2020
https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-good-news-blog-stories-through-a-year/#findComment-849
Questions
What’s the most heartwarming piece of art you’ve seen from another artist in the community?
How is love represented symbolically in your life or in your culture?
Has love inspired you to create something? If so, share it in your comment and talk about how the feeling inspired it!
My Answer
https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1122131534/5189135618
Here is some synthography, AI art, I did honoring black female sculptors. I used DeviantArt Dreamup for each, tried to focus on their most popular work. I imagine the computer didn't know any but you get an idea of each artist.
Selma Burke
Prompt [ African American couple kissing happily, bronze bas relief from Selma Hortense Burke ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 1:1
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Augusta Savage
Prompt [ Elegant African American couple of the 1800s dancing happily, clay model from Augusta Savage ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 1:1
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Prompt [ happy ancient nubian couple praising the sun, bronze free standing sculpture from Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 3:4
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Edmonia Lewis
Prompt [ happily embracing black seminole couple, marble sculpture from Edmonia Lewis ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 9:16
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Faith Ringgold
moonlight, painted story quilt from Faith Ringgold ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 1:1
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Betye Saar
Prompt [ happily swimming African American couple, magical horizon, mixed media assemblage from Betye Irene Saar ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 3:4
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Beverly Buchanan
Prompt [ happy, laying on an old shack African American couple, old withered photograph from Beverly Buchanan ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 16:9
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Elizabeth Catlett
Prompt [ married African American farmers reaching up, onyx modernist statue from Elizabeth Catlett ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 9:16
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Ruth Inge Hardison
Prompt [ married African Americans kissing, sculpted portrait from Ruth Inge Hardison ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 1:1
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
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14 February 2026
This event began 02/14/2026 and repeats every year forever
Is the loch narr lovecraftian?
My answer
challenging question, the problem in modernity with lovecraft is his name has become synonomous with any literature or illustration that depicts, a potent or omnipotent god that may act negatively but more importantly has mystery to them. ala Cthulu. If you consider Zorastrianism, where the most potent divine is deemed a double natured god, then loveraft merely mirrored zorastrianism's god, which is from the distant antiquity. If you look at the hindu religion. It has more branches than christianity while never had a schism. What is my point? in hinduism, the divine, the brahman, is left to interpretation. A hindu can be a monotheist and another hindu a polytheist and both ways are not deemed correct or incorrect, but it is up to each individual to follow those ways. The responsibility is the adherent. The Brahman is functionally, from a christian historical lens, the interpretation of christ by the gnostics, whose main argument is that god/brahmin/similar names for divine nature can not be known, only interpreted. What does this have to do with Lovecraft? Lovecraft's gods or worldbuilding, shows entities that aren't confusing if your used to a hindu or gnostic christian approach to spirituality or religion. So, Loch Narr is arguably, hindu or gnostic as well as zoarastrian in reference, and all three of those heritages are older than lovecraft. I imagine he knew of all three. So challenging question. The simple answer is yes, because the Loch Narr has elements of characterizations in Lovecraft literature. The more even answer is, it comes from a longer tradition of complex divine beings
citation
https://discord.com/channels/1238281346833715283/1247320763661418587/1472358161594978388
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exactly, being commonly known has value. Lovecraft achieved that in his time. Look at Robert E Howard or Phillip k dick, the quaity in their writing was quality before comic books/films but it was wehn frazetta inked a comic book that conan grew in the common knowledge and then a little brilliant film by milius was made, and conan has made money howard could only dream of. Dick's works were always brilliants, but it took a little movie from ridley scott to expose the trasure trove and the rest is history. Dick's stories have made post mortem a ton of money. So, being commonly known as an artist has value. the envious artist calling it selling out, the honest artist call it luck. .... to ponzi your correct , the label ponzi scheme has become the wish of many people who invested poorly and want some way to reclaim. ... yeah personal accountability is a way to look at it, though, if i owned a media outlet, i would want what is communicated through my outlet to be honest, precise in wording. part of lovecratian and ponzi scheme is how often media uses terms uncaringly, not just poorly, but uncaringly, which demands the viewers be accountable to what media says, to rewrite, many media outlets don't act like they care they are trusted or want to be trusted but many viewers place levels of trust. so media can argue viewers need to be personally accountable, which is the truth but firms have to also be labeled low quality. I didn't say firms have to be accountable but firms , especially media ones need to be labeled + accept being labeled as low quality when they simply are. Twitter/ CNBC/FOx NEws/ Youtube are all low quality media outlets while the most viewed. I know freedom of the press or speech means they can't be blocked and it is up to citizens/viewers to reject them or accept them, but I think a label of low quality is warranted.
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It is interesting, the question says, overrated movie that everyone loves... that part invalidates most films. I can't think of a film everyone loves and no work of art is truly overrated because all art has those who love it. Gone with the wind or Birth of a nation or king kong or ... star wars or lord of the rings were not loved by everyone and are evenly rated by those who love it, as well as evenly rated by those who do not. I argue the question is dysfunctional. Yes, millions didn't get lord of the rings, and millions didn't get gone with the wind, and millions didn't get birth of a nation. Now if the question was, movie that everyone I know loves, but I just don't get... now you have an even question. A small enough everyone, and no false sense of rating, so that it doesn't have an automatic millions of people not getting it regardless of the movie you choose, or an uneven assessment of ratings when people rate all art as they feel about it. And my answer to the adjusted question is I don't know:) I can see why any film, ANY FILM is loved I can see why any art is loved. If anything I argue the artists who can't see why a work of art is loved is hurting themselves as an artist. You have to have an open mind to comprehend the eternity that is art. ... I will make another adjustment, movie that everyone I know loves, that I wish didn't and why? To that end I can answer. I get the lion king 100% , I don't think it is falsely rated. But I wish people I know didn't love it. It is a beautiful animation, simple, a little crude, but an uplifting story, has fun. I just wish it had humanoid characters instead of the nonhumans. I have aesthetic desires. Call them biased, negatively or positively, but they are true for me. If I was in control of disney, which I am not, the lion king has humanoid characters. the princess and the frog has a human princess the whole movie and the male lead is a frog. And comprehend I 100% get the lion king or the princess and the frog. I think they both have lovely elements. Both have for me, lame elements. but that is art
Wanna know one of the changes when Murphy was hired? The love interest went out the window.
Just thought you should know.
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On this date in 1984, "Beverly Hills Cop" premiered in Los Angeles.
In 1977, Paramount executive Don Simpson came up with a movie idea about a cop from East L.A. who transferred to Beverly Hills. Screenwriter Danilo Bach was called in to write the screenplay. Bach pitched his idea to Simpson and Paramount in 1981 under the name "Beverly Drive", about a cop from Pittsburgh named Elly Axel. However, his script was a straight action film and Bach was forced to make changes to the script, but after a few attempts the project went stale. With the success of "Flashdance" (1983), Simpson saw the Beverly Hills film as his next big project. Daniel Petrie, Jr. was brought in to rewrite the script and Paramount loved Petrie's humorous approach to the project, with the lead character now called Axel Elly, from Detroit. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer claimed that the role of Axel Foley was first offered to Mickey Rourke, who signed a $400,000 holding contract to do the film. When revisions and other preparations took longer than expected, Rourke left the project to do another film.
Sylvester Stallone was originally considered for the part of Foley. Stallone gave the script a dramatic rewrite and made it into a straight action film. In one of the previous drafts written for Stallone, the character of Billy Rosewood was called "Siddons" and was killed off half-way through the script during one of the action scenes. Stallone had renamed the lead character to Axel Cobretti, with the character of Michael Tandino being his brother and Jenny Summers playing his love interest. Stallone has said that his script for "Beverly Hills Cop" would have "looked like the opening scene from 'Saving Private Ryan' (1998) on the beaches of Normandy. Believe it or not, the finale was me in a stolen Lamborghini playing chicken with an oncoming freight train being driven by the ultra-slimy bad guy." However, Stallone's ideas were deemed "too expensive" for Paramount to produce and Stallone ultimately pulled out two weeks before filming was to start. Two days later, the film's producers, Simpson and Bruckheimer, convinced Eddie Murphy to replace Stallone in the film, prompting more rewrites. Besides Stallone and Rourke, other actors who were considered for the role of Axel Foley included Richard Pryor, Al Pacino, and James Caan.
Murphy, John Ashton, and Judge Reinhold improvised most of their comic lines. Literally hundreds of takes were ruined by cast members, actors or the director laughing during shooting. During the "super-cops" monologue, Ashton is pinching his face hard and looking down in apparent frustration. He is actually laughing. Reinhold put his hand in his pocket and pinched his thigh really hard, trying to prevent himself from laughing.
my thoughts
hahaha I knew you would mention that:) In defense , look at the amount of rewrites this project took on. I don't deny that the white writers took out the love interest when eddie came in, ala eddie murphy's desire for love interest in boomerang and coming to america, but you read what stallone wanted to do... part of me can imagine stallone's. bless karl urban for his judge dredd. The reality that it took all of these rewrites and development drama for murphy to get the job is telling in itself.
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well concerning the issue of black heterosexual activity in films , the issue is not about one film right 🙂 it is about patterns or lack thereof . In the case of films financed by whites in the usa, a pattern displaying an absence of black heterosexual activity in films financed or written or directed by whites is clear to see. And can only be denied by the dishonest. You know my thoughts, the question is always how to fix problems. In my view only black produced films will provide the width of black characterizations that is absent in white produced films. I don't think white produced films will ever expand black characterizations in any robust way. In one film here or there? yes, but not enough to ever make a pattern.
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