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richardmurray

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  2. based on Girl from Jamaica Kincaid https://richardmurrayhumblr.tumblr.com/post/728165222399000576/narrative-writing-workshop-with-betts-week4 for more work consider the following https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2447&type=status
  3. #Africa, a continent of 54 countries and a population of about one billion people, accounts for just 3% of global GDP and global trade. How important is #Africa in the #global scheme of things? Discuss… https://twitter.com/osasuo/status/1700500796813529458 Your Thoughts, please place in comments my answer https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2446&type=status
  4. topics Cento poetry series , round 16 Bayonetta - super smash bros. collage Lifewriting podcast with Tananarive Due side Steven Barnes, how to write horror Left handed tutorials Sudowoodo in the rainforest for a positive cause If You Made It This Far: Lego salmon, Making the engine to traverse the planets, Haitian fables from Chevelin Pierre, Headscents to provide aroma with artistic flair, Calling all Black Female Photographers to apply for an opportunity https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/06/09/10/2023-rmnewsletter.html
  5. September 1, 2023 We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Jason Reeves a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below. Jason, we’re thrilled to have you sharing your thoughts and lessons with our community. So, for folks who are at a stage in their life or career where they are trying to be more resilient, can you share where you get your resilience from? When you grow up using the change from food stamp purchases as your weekly comic shop money, you learn to make do with a little. You can become very calculating. You learn to save up money, time, and even energy to overcome obstacles. Quiet as its kept, coming up poor builds a kind of conservativeness and a savvy that can navigate you around any ‘No’ response. Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you? It’s crazy looking back on it. For real, I just wanted to draw superheroes. I just wanted to draw fight scenes and folks that launched themselves into the air and jumped off roofs. I wanted to draw people that saved people…and strangely enough, they saved me. I’m Jason Reeves and 133art is my publishing company. It started out as a freelance illustration business and I’m proud to say we’ve had some distinguished clientele over the years: HASBRO | Esquire Magazine | USA Today | Upper Deck | Wizards of the Coast | Heavy Metal Magazine | Frontline Detroit Coalition | MV Media | Scholastic (…just some friendly flexin’). But I’m most proud of what it is now: 133art Publishing is A Black owned imprint enlisting and co-creating with comic folks who have a passion for storytelling and are dedicated to showcasing the depth and complexity of the Black comics experience. Fresh and unique storytelling, that’s the real flex. Myself and a growing community of Black creators have grown our own corner of the comics industry affectionately thought of as Black Comix. I get to watch as it becomes fruitful and see my peers come into their own as their own work blows up. We’re having fun and I still feel like the grind has just started. There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on? Building a business from scratch is no easy feat. As a self-taught artist, I’ve had to navigate the worlds of sales, marketing, and printing to establish my comic book brand, 133art. Collecting clients for freelance or printing jobs doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a continuous effort to put yourself and your work out there, network, and pivot when things aren’t working in your favor. One of the biggest struggles in the indie comics industry, and for 133art specifically, is finding your audience. When I started out, I knew I wanted to create content with Black leads and heroes, but I had to figure out who would be interested in buying that content and where to find them. Social media has been a key marketing tool for me, with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Peep Game Comics, and my website 133art.com being my go-to places. But in-person events like Black Indie Comic Conventions have been even more effective at drawing in potential customers. MECCA Con in Detroit, Black Comix Day in San Diego, Black Comics Arts Festival in San Francisco, Sol-Con in Ohio, the Black Comics Fest and the Black Comics Collective in New York are just a few of the events where I’ve been able to showcase my work and connect with fans. But there’s still more work to be done. Wider distribution into bookstores and comic shops is the next step, and it will take time and effort to crack that nut. Building something up from scratch takes perseverance, patience, and a willingness to take things one step at a time. And as I continue to learn and grow, I’m excited to see where the next steps will take me and my brand. Awesome, really appreciate you opening up with us today and before we close maybe you can share a book recommendation with us. Has there been a book that’s been impactful in your growth and development? Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture. By John Jennings and Damian Duffy. It was my introduction to the wider Black Comix community when I was starting out. If the amazing art inside doesn’t hook you the bios of some of the best comic creators and artists on the planet will stoke the fires of your creativity. Many of the luminaries within its pages, who still inspire me today have become cherished friends and peers. Its one of those books that I can crack open to reinvigorate me and remind myself why I’ve taken this journey. Contact Info: Website: https://133art.com/ Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/133artpublishing Image Credits Photo 7 Credit: Michael Young II/NerdSoul Photo 8 Credit: HRDWRKER/ CAAMcon URL https://boldjourney.com/news/meet-jason-reeves/
  6. If you are willing to share use the following link https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2439&type=status
  7. Checking Errors https://www.theodinproject.com/lessons/foundations-understanding-errors
  8. Once I made a plushie form of a pokemon for a positive donation to make a wish. Here is the link to my work, can you find it in the image above? https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Bedtime-with-Sudowoodo-plushie-944022157 Now, to make positive donations to the nature conservancy, I created another. When the collab image comes up I will post it, for now, you can see mine. https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Sudowoodo-in-the-rainforest-Color-981132583 I also have Dedenne, and i already figured what I will do, but I will create next week. It is writing time:) Also, if you are feeling a strong pokemon vibe, i made a sudowoodo in random colors. https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Sudowoodo-random-colors-color-981133324 Hopefully when I am done , per my planning, the last months of 2023 I can focus on black games elite doing something similar or involved likewise.
  9. Your New Favorite Action Couple Filled With Magic Productions is excited to announce our next project, The Newlyweds: Blood at The Altar. On their wedding day, a couple must battle their guests for their marriage to survive. The film is a proof-of-concept for a feature film trilogy that establishes the origin story of this new kick-ass couple. It is written and directed by Lucien Christian Adderley and Richard 'Byrd' Wilson -- aka The 89Writers. Their work can be seen on television shows such as David Makes Man and Tyler Perry's Sistas. The film is produced by Moon Lee Ferguson and executive produced by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Moonlight and creator and executive producer of HBO's David Makes Man. Amid the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike, we, as filmmakers, want to keep creating and challenging ourselves without asking Hollywood for permission. As independent filmmakers, we rely on our community for resources. We are launching our Kickstarter on Friday, September 8, 2023 to get this project off the ground. We value and thank you for being on this journey with us since 2019. We are dedicated to continuously making magical stories in underrepresented worlds. Please consider following us on Kickstarter and supporting our campaign when it launches. Follow on Kickstarter URL https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/89writers/the-newlyweds-blood-at-the-altar?ref=clipboard-prelaunch Filled With MAgic posts https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?&q=filled with magic&quick=1&author=richardmurray&search_and_or=and&sortby=relevancy
  10. When the entire collaboration is finished this image will be complete. Do you see where Bayonetta is? The Following Are Links To My Bayonetta but before a little poem Mistress Cherry, quite contrary How does your spellbook grow? With shapeshift ghouls and summon'd tools And so my spellbook grows Bayonetta super smash bros collab part https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Bayonetta-super-smash-collab-2023-Color-980504646 Bayonetta coloring page https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Bayonetta-super-smash-collab-2023-BW-980503498 invitation https://www.deviantart.com/ry-spirit/journal/Big-Smash-Bros-Art-Collab-974447631
  11. From Tananarive Due Our new #Lifewriting Podcast is up and it's about my favorite topic -- WRITING HORROR!!! (Episode 85) What do I mean when I tell writing students to find what scares you and "turn it up to 11"? Watch this video for a great example from GET OUT. Steven Barnes and I chop it up! Check out the full podcast wherever you get your podcasts - if it's not up yet where you listen, here's the direct link: https://dcs.megaphone.fm/SBP9688647486.mp3?key=1b1857581b05fea2550a1b6f91f45526&request_event_id=f8345c7d-d1e9-4dc2-bb29-819ba1155484 Lifewriting Site https://www.realm.fm/shows/lifewriting-write-for-your-life If you can not hear I wrote notes. Sorry no transcript https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2434&type=status
  12. Well, I define Black Greatness, absent any desire to influence another's definition, as contentment. I think when Black folk are happy, nothing like it exists anywhere else in humanity.
  13. @Troy yeah, i know too well, but if we all in aalbc can make this corner of the internet a place of some uplifting online, that is worth something
  14. @Troy I did answer. You suggest I did not. ok. I have never considered myself wiley.
  15. @Pioneer1 Fair enough, I think you are foolish wasting your energies drilling it into others, as you say. I oppose that way of supporting your views. I am 100% certain the christian wars against muslims , commonly called the crusades, were in the past largely and are in modernity partially based on religious race. Moreover, the history of religious conversions throughout all humanity but especially in the time period in europe before what i call the european global imperial age, is a clear sign of extreme negative bias used through racial , religious race, standings. In the merchant of venice, the play from shakespeare, Shiloh is barred from his community for that conversion. If anything ,clarence thomas's treatment by the black community in the usa in modernity shows a much more lenient racial environment to one deemed a traitor than in the past. But the point is, it doesn't matter if another thinks race had nothing to do with the crusades at all. You are willing to drill but I don't need everyone to stand with my positions or views. Well, you call the modern catholic approach, the catholic church used to be a very strong proselytizer, ineffective, but I counter that correct label with another, while positive, honest. Let people come to you on their own. Even though I preached in this very post I will try my best to stop preaching/prosyletizin/selling I don't want or need to preach/prosyletize/sell anymore. and though not easy in the usa, a country of preaching, i will try And to my multitribal approach to the tribes in our village, since you love it, have fun preaching pioneer:) @Troy I didn't miss your question and I thought I answered it. I prefer neither. I have my own path/position/views. I am glad you both have yours. You use the word plausible, many able to be praised or applauded. I applaud or praise neither, but I don't like prosyletizing nor do I try to aid prosyletizing. you and pioneer can have all that. And yes, I will in the future fall into prosyletizing, but I try to exit out as fast as possible.
  16. @Troy yeah, fair enough. Only one element of your reply lead to my confusion, not the whole thing. But I comprehend your position more completely now. Same thing, pioneer's position I comprehend like your's. Neither of you are the same frequency or wave structure as mine, but that is fine. I comprehend you both, that is more important than agreement or similar thinking. @Pioneer1 focus your energies on building side those who share your position on race. The question I have to you is what do you want? do you want to preach to black people who do not or may not share the position that you side many other black people have concerning race? Or, do you want to build upon that view? If nothing can be built then people will come upon the position or they will not, but no need to proselytize
  17. cool @Greg Thomas will you keep us updated on your creative journey to that contest in this forum?
  18. @ProfD fair enough, I comprehend your position. Many black people in the usa want a certain respect for the black journey in the usa. @Troy and in each time i used the word white it was signifying a phenotypical group in humanity. To be fair none. I wasn't knocking your source. It came to the conclusions you have said or alluded to before in this community. I jump to conclusions based on the consistency of your own replies from what I have read in this forum in topics concerning race. It has nothing to do with chatgpt. All I can say to chatgpt is the machine's answer sounds similar to your own, which is fine, no problem. as least I have no problem with it.
  19. @ProfD The black community in the usa will be better when all in it comprehend, that black people have the right to desire away from the usa. Your words remind me of WEB Dubois who spoke ill against Marcus Garvey in court. PRofD, I know black people , Black ados, who left the usa and are happy. You may not realize it, but your words are very limiting, but in a key way. What you have to comprehend is that history doesn't have to have one interpretation. We all know events in history but assessing those events, that doesn't have to be uniform and even though the usa populace is the king of training mass opinion, you have to realize , the history of black people in the usa allows for both a pro + anti usa position. Not one but both. Remember, when the usa was founded black people fought for and against it, simultaneously. So... do what you want of course, but keep trying to push the usa as a homeland to all black DOSers will always fail. Anyone can search history and find evidence that many, sometimes most, black dos forebears never wanted that. @Troy In my comment to you I said But by your own words you asked a computer program built by humans full of biases, which demand imbalance You didn't even ask the same question I did. I didn't speak on white racism. I spoke on racism. But your correct. I comprehend your opinion on race. I am no longer confused to your view on race. I am opposed to it of course. But I do realize going forward in this community, whenever you comment on race , where your arguments come from.
  20. @Pioneer1 barbados christ church st ann's. you have to buy tickets

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