heat stroke returns! by (RFY) - The Holy Fool
Northwest weather is weird. One day, near 100 degrees (f), and the next it's raining and 60 degrees (f). Why not? Whatever... Let's do the art thing...
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13 May 2023
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"Blast Off" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Crayon and felt pen on construction paper, sticker collage, digital collage, with digital embellishments and color freaking.] Layers upon layers of nothing! HIT THE SWITCH!!! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/363
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"Channel Changing" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ultra fine point Sharpie on paper with digital embellishments and color.] Words....words.... Hardly anything worth looking at here at all! Jeeze... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/364
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"Monster Party (Postcard)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, brush pen, gel pen, paint pen, paper and cardboard collage, and packing tape on cardboard with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] This was a postcard that I made and decided to send to my good friend, Mr. O. (Do you know him? Great guy!) He CLAIMED that he enjoyed receiving it... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/365
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"Dinner Time" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] Context is overrated. Do you know what's happening here? Is this monster's NAME "Elvis?" Is the ghost of Elvis coming to eat with this monster?? We'll need to perform a séance and find out! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/366
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14 May 2023
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Happy Mutha's Day, ya Muthas!!!
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"Last Forever" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Crayon and felt pen on black paper with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] Will it? Will it last forever?? ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/367
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"Found Message" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen graffiti on wall found in the wild and photographed with my phone.] I know that some might find this word offensive, and I feel sorry (for them) if that is true, but I was amused when I spotted this message written on a wall outside of the Erebus club in Kelso, Washington, USA. Why? Why did someone take to the time to write this? What cryptic meaning are we went to discern from these letters (in black on a bright, yellow wall...) The purpose is obscure, but the experience of DISCOVERING the scrawl brought laughter to me and my three companions as we walked by, regardless of the intentions of the original author... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/368
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"Bad Thoughts" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing over close-up photograph of some holographic printed cardboard.] Sometimes I have bad thoughts, but what makes the Fool the true FOOL is my ability to feel sublime indifference and not act on any negative thoughts or emotions.... (Am I serious?) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/369
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"Lazer Knight" by RFY (HF)
[Ultra fine point Sharpie on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] The final surviving member of a once powerful order of knights, this creature has vowed to destroy humankind throughout the universe! Go get 'um, son! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://nftshowroom.com/gallery/richardfyates_back-to-primitivity_lazer-knight-by-rfy-hf
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"Typical" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ballpoint pen on notebook page (torn out of the notebook) with digital embellishments and color.] I love me some absurdity. A ghost who is very concerned with keeping the floors clean is nearly PERFECT absurdity!!! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/370
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15 May 2023
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"Raised on Radio" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Hand drawn artwork run through the MOSH machine.] Although this image looks MORE like the FRONTIERS album cover (by Journey) than RAISED ON RADIO, that phrase was the first one that came to mind while I was trying to come up with a title for this mess. It reminds me of TRON and U.F.O.s and Italian disco and '80's album covers... I like it... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/371
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"Two Factors" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen and brush pen on paper with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] Mathematically speaking, this is true. Psychologically, however, the universe is ever shifting and, therefore, the definition of "prime" is utterly in flux. KEEP PSYCH OUT OF MATH! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/372
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"Carnival Logic" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ultra fine point Sharpie, color changing marker, felt pen, glitter glue, sticker collage, paper collage, and packing tape on reclaimed cardboard with digital color tweaking.] Collage postcard that I made and either already sent to someone or have in a pile READY TO BE SENT to some entity or other... Physical art that will be sent through the mail, which has been remediated into DIGITAL ART that can be shared with EVERYONE, online, who might be interested to see it. And some individual (who isn't me) may even OWN this digital work, someday... If they've got the crypto to throw around! (Ha!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/373
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"outside. weird place." by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] I don't LIKE to go outside, except when I FEEL like going outside... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/374
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16 May 2023
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"backyardbjork" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ultra fine point Sharpie on textured paper with digital embellishments and color.] Why do I write all of these damn words? Am I writing for me? Am I writing for you? Can I be writing for both? These types of creations DO entertain me, both while I'm making them and, a bit later, when I re-experience them as finished objects. For me, they are worthwhile, and PUBLISHING these types of projects on a blockchain makes them available for OTHERS to enjoy, as well! (Or, if not "enjoy" then "experience," at least.) I enjoy the entire concept! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/375
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"Wicked Collab" by Felicity Echo Hanson & Richard F. Yates
[Oil pastel, felt pen, gel pen, cardboard and sticker collage, and tape on reclaimed cardboard.] I'm fairly certain that Felicity (my three-year-old granddaughter) was channeling some serious pagan vibes with this piece. Don't analyze it too closely, or it might suck you in! (I'm very pleased...) ---Felicity Echo Hanson (Toddler Terror) & Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/376
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"Balloon" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ballpoint pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] Many people draw stick figures because they claim that they are easy, but I mean, you've got to draw legs and arms, maybe even fingers... Who's got that much time! I just draw balloons! EASY! Not THAT is the way of SLACK! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/377
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"Selling is a Knife in the Gut" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ballpoint pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] Self explanatory, right? Those ghosts sure know what I'm talking about! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/378
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18 May 2023
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Today's playlist (for maximum effectiveness...)
[Approx. 1 hour, 13 minutes.]
(1)--- They Might Be Giants - "Buckle Down, Winsocki"
(2)--- The Lightning Seeds - "Pure"
(3)--- Beck - "Saw Lightning"
(4)--- Clarence Carter - "Slip Away"
(5)--- The Crickets - "Not Fade Away"
(6)--- Smashing Pumpkins - "Eye"
(7)--- Electric Eel Shock - "Rock and Roll Can Rescue the World"
(8)--- The Electric Hellfire Club - "Lucifer Sam"
(9)--- Josh Wink - "Evil Acid (Original Mix)"
(10)-- P.J. Olsson - "Visine"
(11)-- Space - "Me and You vs the World"
(12)-- The K.G.B. - "Space Cadet (Galactic Version)"
(13)-- Self - "So Low"
(14)-- Roky Erickson & The Aliens - "Creature with the Atom Brain"
(15)-- Fishbone - "Black Flowers"
(16)-- Gruesome Boys - "Mommy's Little Monster"
(17)-- The Future Sound of London - "Moscow (Remix)"
(18)-- Prince - "The Future"
(19)-- George Harrison - "Dark Horse"
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Goals for today: Get some artwork SHARED... Make it harder for the Universe to forget me...
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)