richardmurray

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The fifty-second of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem. Mother of the Wasteland- photomanipulation 

Fractal Lens - fractal generator on Black games elite 

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR: WCL - CPU Opponents Update ; mechanical woven origami ; Book of Clarence from Movies that Move We ; Toulouse Lautrec showing ; Cheynader q&A ; hilarious trick from a wife ; jesse washington 1916 

URL
https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/10/05/19/2024-rmnewsletter.html

An interview with Alexis Brown [ https://www.flickr.com/photos/199339334@N08/ } who is a member of Black Women Photographers [ https://blackwomenphotographers.com/] 

My favorite question and answer
What type of gear do you use?
The primary tool in my photography arsenal is the Sony A7iii camera body. When it comes to shooting events, my preferred lens is the Rokinon 14mm AF. This choice is complemented by the use of a direct flash along with a modifier. The combination of this lens and lighting setup not only allows me to capture the essence of events but also proves invaluable in maximizing space, transforming even small venues into expansively immersive environments.

the photo i chose in her feature I liked most 

 

URL of the question and answer side photographic feature
https://blog.flickr.net/en/2024/05/10/behind-the-lens-with-alexis-brown/

@Tesa considering the modern financial markets have so many uncontrolled/manipulated/manipulative sectors, it goes without saying

from the contest

As a person of color, how do you represent your utopia in writing?  This can be done through poetry, prose, short-story, fiction, non-fiction in 500 words or less. 

Writing hint: Do you have a special place in nature that you like to go to? Do you wish you had/dream of a special place in nature? Is there something you love to do outdoors? Do you have a story of a time outdoors when something special/magical happened?

from me

I submitted mine already , you only have till the end of the 15th of may. 

URL

https://amsterdamnews.com/reflectionssubmissions/

Try out this fractal visualizer. A simple program, but version 01

 

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The fifty-first of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work.  

Dystopian Springtime 

The SSS 

Guava 

Iyanu - schomburg black comic book festival 

My Sexy OC's to Coolbeaniebabez

Dates- astrology +astronomy

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR: The artistic life cliche , older age loneliness ,  Sylvia Moy , Grandpa Amu cellphone holder , Prince Mural in Atlanta , The MB's Song8 , An interview with Sonequa Martin-Green 

URL
https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/10/05/12/2024-rmnewsletter.html

 

she has many ahead of her, did she say her reasoning , i didn't click on the video

IYANU

 

weaving West Africa wonder into animation 

12:30 - 1:30pm

 

A- Roye Okupe

B- Kerri GRant

C- Dawud ANyabwile

D- Blerd Girl [host]

 

D- Introduce A, B, C

 

D- How did series come about
C- Most exciting crowd. It came as a love letter to my daughter. Wanted to share fantastical stories of Nigeria . Came out during 2019 right before covid. Highest grossing book on kickstarter.

 

D- What did you think when you first saw the novel?
B- Shared to her by a freind . Love the lead female's powers
A- Proud of Roy and shout out to artists on the team. 

 

D- Did you work on any story boards, your comic experience
A- He has done storyboards for films/television . When you go into animation this is his first time being a director. You have to think acting and lighting and motion. He likes some African martial arts.

 

D- Whar are images
A- did it in photoshop. Shout out to Darnell Johnson . They now do everything in a program called storyboard pro. An animatic. IT is choppy , bot fully , but a voice track, so we can see episode. 

 

D- What is writers room in Inayu like compared to others
B- all writers rooms are different, didn't have time as in others. This is unique like no other. Showrunner very organized. THis is little different than prior, for a little older audience. A little more serialized. Had to be extremely collaborative.

 

D- Show some of series . Is she older in the book?
C- no same age as in the books

 

D- What? 
A- before storyboarding , character design. Comprehend a whole team exist. It isn't just me. Make expression sheets, props, others work on autenticity. Another design team gets colors, lighting. 
C- IT is hundreds of people, people in Nigeria, South Africa, different parts of Europe, UA, ASia. He felt it was important to have voice actors. He wanted Nigerians talking like Nigerians in a show about Nigerians to a global audience. So nollywood voice actors have all the roles. 

 

D- Explain Inayu's powers
C- He was inspired by Avatar, a little in the natural power set. Unnatural charge object. Natural charging plants like swamp thing. Supernatural essentially combinating. Each power she has to master. Her supernatural power requires empathy. 

 

D -Who are Biyi and Toye
C- Biyi is sort of a scoundrel, young hansolo. Toye is a bookworm. His father is strongest warrior but he wants to be an engineer. He has to prove to his father he can do it his own way.

 

D- Ekun m was ekun your favorite? 
B- Ekun will be everyone's favorite. He is a giant cat. 

 

D- she needs a blue plushie
C- He doesn't speak but you can express. He wanted him to matter in a way

 

D- What is more difficult
A- relative to artist. Some specialize in humans, some nonhumans but people on the team. You don't want to try to be the everything. LEt that person shine, that is directing. 

 

D- How many times we have seen bad black hair?
C- Every single frame we look at the hair. It is cliche to say representation matters. Simple things like two tone color hands. 

 

D- What has the afrocentric details on the development of the show
B- Really fortunate to work on two shows to care about how it looks
C- we also take black men's hair seriously

 

D- In image every single word has to 
A- animation guide
C- xheets to time but movements. It is painful to make things proper. 

 

D- Let's talk about fighting style
A- in the show we incorporate different; donbe- north nigerian; capoeira angloe- making a mash up mythological yoruba land. Mashup to make adventure

 

D- Tell us about these images?
C- Yoruba is his tribe but Iyanu has lost all concept of her past and she learns she has the power of the gods
This is done about, thank Gordon Akban and Lionforge- the president of many firms talk alot about diversity behind the scenes. Very few did it. They took risk to make C executive director. To allow representation of his culture.

 

D- How does that work? the coordination
C- IT is difficult. We have been on meetings where the time is imbalanced. Everybody on team  Iyanu is dedicated to excellence. Once your dedicated you deal with sacrifices. 

 

D- first look
C- Inayu get lessons from Orole. HE wanted to show different shades of Black people, the darkest isn't always bad.  Art director put trees that only exist in Nigeria.[ another image] Inayu powered up. He felt he wanted agency , he didn't want her to be reliant on boys but a character [another image] 
B- We wanted to show a complex character [ another shot] 
A- showing details [another shot]

 

Question and Answer

 

Q- what about music?
A+C anybody know afrobeats

 

Q- screenwriter- how hollywood is run on the business side
D-Lionforge is a black owned company [ https://www.lionforgeentertainment.com/ ]
C- I created my first animated short in 2008 created second in 2012 when he took it before Black Panther. It has taken me 12 to 15 years to get to this point. Part of the reason we take this so seriously, we don't want someone else to take 15 years. You have to believe in yourself. People witha desperate desire to do this believe in themselves. I starter here, my first table was at Schomburg 2015. I had flyers and no book.

 

Q- How many seasons?
D- definitely one season

 

Q- Web animators role in the production
D- Lionforge is in charge of all things, all projects get freelancers.

 

Q-if someone wants to make animation like this, get started
A- start creating. He knew few independent black comic creators. He went to LA and on wild thornberries . I wouldn't do this if I wondered how you do this. He got a phone call near homeless, manifestation begins in the mind. I has been over 30 years. Stay on your path. But do it because you love it. 

 

Q- There are alot of people who aren't in their 20s but for those who are older where do they go to get guidance? where do you go?
B- Black women anime [ https://www.facebook.com/blackgirlswatchanime/ ].. Afro anime... PEople can show projects. Lionforge is not that old but putting together things , young people can participate in. MAny things are accessible
So we can try
C- some of the people he works with now, he met in conventions, you never know what will come from these connections

 

Q- How do you write characters, not too similar
B- all characters seem familiar. Her unique way is how does a character talk, start there. What is their function in a story, then group brian.
 

A question of who is the wealthiest through a prospective psychological pageant P.P.P. 

Title: The S.S.S.
Author: Richard Murray 
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1049984281

Title: Peppy's Cafe just before
Author: Richard Murray
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1049231711

 

topics

1) The fiftieth of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem.  

2)Memories of mirrors

3) Three poems unraveling one story

4) The Settlement - Jiausiku

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR :  Artivism project with Shawn Alleyne , Approximate galactic mergings , KWL romance tropes episode , The art of manipulation ;GDBee kickstarter , Chocolate Cage , Black Statian Award list

URL
https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/10/05/05/2024-rmnewsletter.html

https://www.deviantart.com/lilacphoenix/art/MerMay-25-off-Sale-10-for-merfolk-1047331133

Title: The Settlement
Author: Richard Murray
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1048148238
 

 

 

 

 

ah cool, will share

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@Chevdove in history there are always many like this, it isn't a big deal in that, no one , not even those who study history their whole lives know all who are important in their particular field of study in history

 

@Troy that is a black woman with the cigarette:) get them eyes checked man

 

1) The forty-ninth of the Cento series.  A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem. 

2) The Griot replies to Troubadour PrinceofFire 

3)The Blade Is Always Held

4)Continue the story of Sapphire's Desire

Dates

IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR : Thoughts to a Palmetto Christmas ; thirteen things for the last time ; Tananarive Due wins LA Times book award ; Miyazaki and the USA a view ; National Black Cheerleading Championship ; Anime's depictions of Europe, a short history ; Weapons Combat League another round

URL
https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/10/04/28/2024-rmnewsletter.html

 

 

 

https://www.schomcom.org/schedule

 

 

 

 

The First Black Female Captain of Star Trek to lead a series. She is not the first to be present. The first female captain + black female captain was played by  Madge Sinclair in Star Trek 4 , the voyage home. 

 

 

 

from Charles Jeff Wade

 

My cousin, Sylvia Moy. She saved Stevie Wonders career writing songs for The Key of Life Album. Berry Gordy was going to Dump Stevie when his voice changed from the Boy Wonder to Maturing Young Man. Stevie spoke at her funeral crediting her for Saving him.

Sylvia Moy - 1939-2017

Prolific Motown Records producer and songwriter. Wrote over 180 songs, with Grammy nominations, 20 BMI Awards

Biography

Moy grew up on the northeast side of Detroit with her eight brothers and sisters, performing on pots and pans to keep themselves busy and musical. Once she reached school, she played jazz and classical, but found her true place behind the scenes at Motown Records.The first woman at the Detroit-based music label to write and produce for Motown acts, she is probably best known for her songs written with and for Stevie Wonder. According to Berry Gordy’s autobiography To Be Loved, Moy was directly responsible for the label keeping Stevie Wonder. Gordy wrote that, after Stevie’s voice began to change as a result of puberty, he was going to drop him from the label. It was then that Moy went to Gordy and asked “if she could come up with a hit for Stevie would he reconsider;” he agreed. Her first writing success came with “Uptight (Everything’s Alright),” which she co-wrote with fellow SHOF inductee, Henry “Hank” Cosby, after hearing Wonder improvising on piano. Moy wrote lyrics to the song, which she conveyed to Wonder by singing into his headphones one line ahead as he recorded. In 2006, when Moy was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Wonder made a surprise appearance at the ceremony to perform “Uptight” for his former collaborator.Among the subsequent hit singles Moy wrote and/or produced while at Motown were Stevie Wonder’s “My Cherie Amour,” “I Was Made to Love Her,” and “Never Had a Dream Come True;” and “Honey Chile” and “Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone” by Martha and the Vandellas. She also co-wrote “This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)” with Holland-Dozier-Holland for the Isley Brothers; and “It Takes Two” with William “Mickey” Stevenson for Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston. She was the first female to have the title of “record producer” at the label, and one of the busiest and well-known songwriters of the time.Moy went on to write the theme songs for many television shows and movies and eventually earned six Grammy nominations and 20 BMI awards. She made a solid investment in the future of the arts when she co-founded the Center for Creative Communications, also known as “Masterworks,” which trains young adults in the field of telecommunications and media arts.Moy died of complications from pneumonia in Dearborn, Michigan, at the age of 78.

my favorite black female written song is man in the mirror

another negative image for me, an artist paints the picture of tv father's throughout his life.

I love my father, he is a king for me and his wife, my mother. 

I never cared for nor needed a tv black father, and to be blunt , I find tv black father's all poor in many ways.

MY REPLY

I want to say, in my home , I was always supported growing up, I still am now. My parents , both  , came to all my poetry shows, painting shows. Uncles/aunts/friends of the family all supported me, never said ,i can't do or won't do or some negative else.
I know I am being very personal or selfish, but not all creatives were told by numerous people "to be realistic"  which is really not about realism but about financial prudence. In the USA this stems from the financial reality of fiscal capitalism. 99% of all artists don't find adequate financial revenue through art, common knowledge, thus the "get real" speech. And in the black populace in the usa, being an artist is 99.99% financially incapable of adequate revenue earning. 
I was supported by those in my home or my clan or in school. And I  am black and went to schools with mostly black teachers til college. And I admit I went to college through federal money, never any debt.  
I just have to say, not all creatives have the personal history of the naysayed artist the turbulent. My only negative in my art life is I haven't reached the commercial quality I will like but I am getting there. 
I can only hope that I can find the kind of community I was born in , cause sadly, the community I was born in doesn't exist anymore. And I will like to raise a child in a community like the one I was raised in which doesn't exist in the usa anymore.  

THE CLICHE

I don't know the author but I had to reply

I made a list, please help

 

 

 

GDBee  got over 1000 preorders for her book:) congrats and if you can get in, go for it

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/astroladies/dreams-artbook-by-gdbee-art/description