2025 Solar Culture painting

Jan. 10, 2025. I just received the 48" x 48" wood panel to start the project. I just ordered the Gesso. The annual show will be called "Rejuvenation". Submission time is the first week of March and the opening night will be Saturday, March 15 from 6 to 9.
Brainstorming for the piece:

>Scribble and put paint until something begins to emerge.
>Have Pia make a "cyber punk bartender scene" with AI.
>Divide the area into some number of squares... like say 30. Then paint one of the squares a day.  

>Make something with Perchance.

>Make something with Nightcafe.
>Talk to the AI as a way to brainstorm ideas.

>Meditate with the painting.

>Begin painting and then change my mind later.
>Begin painting and let the chips fall where they may.

>Write about what Im going through or what im interested in and then find ways to represent those things with imagery and symbols.

> Write ideas on the theme of "Rejuvenation", then come up with imagery and symbols for that.

>Lots of creative and unique faces swirling in a techo-psychedellic mess!

NAC Philosophy

 

Absurdism | How to Party at the End of Meaning
Nov. 26, 2024

Plato | Theaetetus
Nov. 29, 2024

Meno - The Socratic Dialogue by Plato
Dec. 1, 2024

Gorgias - The Socratic Dialogue by Plato
Dec. 2024

Plato's Dialogues - Euthyphro
Dec. 2024

Neuromancer: The Origin of Cyberpunk | A Horrifying Dystopia
Dec. 2024

Symposium (Eros) By Plato
Dec. 13, 2024

Ion by PLATO

Dec. 28, 2024

Monthly bills

NAC Monthly bills '24'

$362.88 - 1/2 Toyota- Chase Checking - 1st.

$500.00 - Rent - Cash - 1st.

$80.00 - 1/2 Geico - Capital One - 4th.

$90.00 - Interest - Capital One - 6th.

$40.00 - Interest - Best Buy -7th.

$50.00 - Interest - Chase Freedom - 8th.

$24.99 - Youtube - Capital One - 16th.

$106.22 - Cox - Capital One - 18th.

Total = $1,224.10   ($612.00 every 2 weeks or $306.00 weekly)

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Money needed by each account monthly

$500.00 - Cash.
$50.00 - Chase Freedom.
$725.76 - Chase Checking.
$350.00 - Capital One. 

   

dream

 I dream of towns with brick buildings, cafes and shops, winding streets and rolling hills. Places I've been but dream enhanced. Bellingham, Fairhaven, but the city planners were elves and faries, built with mystery and magic.

Artist Names

Pino Daeni, Luis Royo, Tom Bagshaw, John William Waterhouse Jean Giraud and Philippe Caza,

Alex Hirsch - cartoon 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Hirsch

Alphonse Mucha - art nouveau

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Mucha

Amanda Sage 

ethereal, wispy figurative 

https://www.amandasage.com/

Ben Bocquelet 

 cartoony concept art, 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bocquelet

Bernie Wrightson 

comic book, horror comic 

https://www.berniewrightson.com/

Canaletto 

art - oil painter c. 1719-1768 - known for precisely depicted and evocative views of the city - architecture  

https://www.canalettogallery.org/

Caspar David Friedrich 1798-1840   

https://www.caspardavidfriedrich.org/

Claude Monet  

https://www.claudemonetgallery.org/

Dan Mumford  

https://www.dan-mumford.com/

Dan Witz

https://danwitz.com/

Edward Hopper

https://www.edwardhopper.net/

Ekaterina Ermilkina  

super fabulous abstract scenery.

https://www.ermilkina.com/

Ferdinand Knab

Gerald Brom

Greg Rutkowski

Guido Borelli

Gustav Klimt

Gustave Doré

H.R. Giger

J. G. Quintel

James Gurney

Jean Tinguely

Jim Burns

Jordan Grimmer

Josephine Wall 

enchanting detailed mystical imagery - acrylic paintings, ceramics -fantasy imagery inspired by surrealists and romanticists

Julia Pott 

illustration, animation

Kandinsky, Wassily

Kelly Freas

Killian Eng 

illustration, comic book-ish 

Leonid Afremov

Martin Johnson Heade

Max Ernst

Mehmet Keskin 

trending on artstation digital art figurative

Moebius aka Jean Giraud

Pablo Picasso

Pendleton Ward

Pino Daeni

Raphael Santi

Rebecca Sugar

Roger Dean

Simon Stålenhag

Stephen Hillenburg

Steven Belledin

Studio Ghibli

Tamara Di Lempicka

Thomas Kinkade

Tim Burton

Van Gogh

Wadim Kashin

Wes Anderson

WLOP

Zdzisław Beksiński

Peter Gric

DANIEL MERRIAM

Followed AI Artists

Followed AI Artists

PiaMedea Digital Artist
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/Piamedea-Digital-Artist

Neil Collins
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/neilcollinsartist


Bera
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/Berenice



greatday4everyone
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/aihobbyist



bob
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/bobbobette



Silverbloom
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/Silverbloom



OneWayscale
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/OneWayscale



The Weaver
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/Theweaver



Cris
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/ChipsNC

Raveighen

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/Raveighen

Gorglemorg

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/Gorglemorg

Igor Skoglund
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/iskoglund

Prompts

"UHD, C4D, UE4, Artgerm, WLOP, Yoji Shinkawa; highly detailed epic photo of anthropomorphic fox hacker programmer, cyberpunk, sci-fi, extremely detailed, Kodak Ektar, sharp focus, Brom and Vincent di Fate, elegant, 50mm lens, Hyper-Realistic, Hyper-Detailed, DSLR, Cryengine"

"human turning into abstract art at edges of body” James Jean, Peter Mohrbacher, Anna Dittmann, fluid acrylic, liquid detailing hypertextured, intricate, Octane, 32k 3D, depth, Kaluta, accurate features,hyperrealistic. Artgerm, WLOP. Hideo Kojima. Scenic beautiful gorgeous. Brightly colored, hyperdetailed, intricately detailed"

"steampunk pyromancer woman, ornamental halo, black clothes, corset head and shoulders portrait,32 resolution concept art portrait by Greg Rutkowski, Artgerm, WLOP, Alphonse Mucha dynamic lighting hyperdetailed intricately detailed Splash art trending on Artstation triadic colors Unreal Engine 5 volumetric lighting"

"head and shoulders portrait, 8k resolution concept art portrait by Greg Rutkowski, Artgerm, WLOP, Alphonse Mucha dynamic lighting hyperdetailed intricately detailed Splash art trending on Artstation triadic colors Unreal Engine 5 volumetric lighting"

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"Liquid"

"human turning into abstract art at edges of body” James Jean, Peter Mohrbacher, Anna Dittmann, fluid acrylic, liquid detailing hypertextured, intricate, Octane, 32k 3D, depth, Kaluta, accurate features,hyperrealistic. Artgerm, WLOP. Hideo Kojima. Scenic beautiful gorgeous. Brightly colored, hyperdetailed, intricately detailed" seed: 2171106917

"Egyptian goddess, insanely detailed and intricate, beautiful face, long black hair in fine braids, elaborate necklaces, amulets, precious stones, malachite, lapid lazuli, carnelian, highly intricate, hyperrealism delicate detailed complex colors, by Tom Bagshaw, , Beeple, Todd McFarlane, Ralph Steadman,"

Weight: 1   Save

"vibrant colors, by Tom Bagshaw, Asher Brown Durand, Beeple, Todd McFarlane, Ralph Steadman, Anna Dittmann, Dan Mumford, Magali Villeneuve, Christoper Lovell, pre-Raphaelite, no hands intricately detailed hyperrealism photorealism 64 megapixels Kodak Ektar beautiful elegant magnificent meticulous"

Weight: 1   Save seed: 122737926

"symmetrical face, perfectly proportional face, hyperdetailed, head and shoulders portrait, stunning lava Godess, Magical, Hyperdetailed Epic Masterpiece; Complex, Royo, Rutkowski, Greg Olsen; Bagshaw, Chevrier, Ferri, Kaluta, Victor Adame Minguez, Diego Gisbert Llorens, Mucha, WLOP, Anato Finnstark, HDR, Eldritch, colourful" seed: 1430382876

"Watermelon face head and shoulders portrait, 8k resolution concept art portrait by Greg Rutkowski, Artgerm, WLOP, Alphonse Mucha dynamic lighting hyperdetailed intricately detailed Splash art trending on Artstation triadic colors Unreal Engine 5 volumetric lighting" seed: 1173797559

"water head and shoulders portrait, 8k resolution concept art portrait by Greg Rutkowski, Artgerm, WLOP, Alphonse Mucha dynamic lighting hyperdetailed intricately detailed Splash art trending on Artstation triadic colors Unreal Engine 5 volumetric lighting" seed: 793926022

"Lightning storm over a finely carved basalt monolith, background lush mossy covered pine forest Epic cinematic brilliant stunning intricate meticulously detailed dramatic atmospheric maximalist digital matte painting heavenly sunshine beams divine bright soft focus holy in the clouds" seed: 480056051

"the shot of a spheric treehouse, by Ismail Inceoglu, Yana Toboso, Victo Ngai, Hayao Miyazaki, Ruan Jia, digital illustration, digital artwork, hyperdetailed digital painting, triadic colors, vibrant colors, close-up, unique composition, masterpiece, photorealism, hypermaximalist, complex, award-winning" seed 3068342359

""Dark horror alley, 8k resolution concept art portrait by Todd McFarlane, Artgerm, WLOP, Alphonse Mucha dynamic lighting hyperdetailed intricately detailed Splash art trending on Artstation triadic colors Unreal Engine 5 volumetric lighting"" seed 191837324

"Beautifully lit epic shot of a nature in a beautiful glass box within a glass box. Maximals, ethereal, complex, beauty, Hyper-detailed, 8k, photorealistic, intricate masterpiece, by Andrzej Zulawski, by Ruan Jia, by Alayna Danner WLOP, Gregory Manchess, James jean, by Android jones," seed 1160273266

  

2021 Dividends

Dividend Calculation: 

Dividend yield percent  ÷ 100 x current share price = dividend payout per year.

Monthly Dividends:

ARR: 12.4%    

#1... $0.10 per share payout. $83.00 to own 10 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

QYLD: 11.93%

#2...$0.202 per share payout. $99.01 to own 4.95 shares and get payout of $1.00 per month.

AGNC: 9.48%

#4...$0.12 per share payout. $109.42 to own 8.33 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

DX: 9.32%

#6...$0.13 per share payout. $119.23 to own 7.69 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

PFLT: 8.85%

#10...$0.095 per share payout $137.05 to own 10.52 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

PSEC: 8.59%

#9...$0.06 per share payout. $135.33 to own 16.67 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

BRMK: 8.56%

#5...$0.07 per share payout. $117.43 to own 14.29 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

SCM: 8.07%

#7...$0.1133 per share payout. $121.45 to own 8.82 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

NUSI: 7.93%

#13...$0.1587 per share payout. $153.88 to own 6.3 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

KBWD: 7.37%

#11...$0.1369 per share payout. $139.96 to own 7.3 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

HRZN: 7.28%

#12...$0.10 per share payout. $153.00 to own 10 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

SDIV: 6.83%

#3...$0.10 per share payout. $108.90 to own 10 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

LTC: 6.89%

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JEPI: 6.62%

#8...$0.4623 per share payout. $129.79 to own 2.163 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

DIV: 5.80%

#16...$0.0927 per share payout. $233.19 to own 10.79 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

MAIN: 5.74%

#15...$0.215 per share payout. $201.81 to own 4.65 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

GAIN: 5.10%

#14...$0.075 per share payout. $199.07 to own 13.33 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

PGX: 4.87%

#17...$0.0569 per share payout. $241.12 to own 17.57 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

O: 4.19%

#18...$0.2465 per share payout. $270.26 to own 4.06 shares and get a payout of $1.00 per month.

DHS: 3.77%

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Quarterly Dividends:

IVR: 11.95%

NYMT: 10.34%

BKCC: 9.69%

VOO: 1.81%

ICLN: 1.06%  (Semi-annually)

SPHD:  ?

NAC pix can draw one

https://pixelcanvas.io/@-16133,-12522

Yang2020 pixel canvas

Yang pixelcanvas

https://pixelcanvas.io/@-16172,-12328

nice simple house

5732 E Mabel St, Tucson, AZ 85712



$178,500
2 bd1 ba1,366 sqft

>south facing back yard.





>huge living room.
>sliding glass door to back yard from living room.

Spacious Living Room opening onto back yard. Has room for both doing art and also hanging out on couches, watching movies at night, reading etc...

Space for aquaponics system on back porch with fish pond partially in living room. Fish have ability to go indoors or outdoors.

buddha face

Drawing

"Bernie or Bust"

I see a country completely divided and at war with its self. I notice republicans who have an intense hatred for "liberals". I also notice a vast amount of democrats who have an intense hatred for Trump, for anyone who supported Trump and for conservatives. I notice democrats, liberals and progressives wallowing and reveling in this hatred, taking extreme pride in anger and hatred for the "enemy". Justified, self-righteous hatred.


People love to fight an enemy. Fight, fight fight!! If the "enemy" was some small group of "evil" people then its possible this intense hatred MIGHT be somehow useful. But when people are so passionately hateful of roughly half of America, I ask how this can possibly be constructive. I also ask if a president like Sanders or Warren can heal this problem of polarization and hatred? I really don't see it. These candidates are popular specifically because they have "fought" for so long against the conservative enemy that people are the left is so in love with hatred. They have gained popularity partly because they talk about economic inequality but also because they have fanned the flames of hatred for one half of the country against the other. I don't see that as a winning scenario.


When I see Andrew Yang talk, I notice none of this rally to fight against anyone. I hear about policies, solutions that address issues that matter to me, economic inequality, poverty, technology and our human future. I hear him talk of a vision for the human race that is a "Star-Trek economy" where people are not required to work at a job to justify their right to exist, but instead people are guaranteed a baseline to meet their needs as a right of citizenship. Energies can be spent on bettering one's self and doing what one is passionate about. This is the vision of the future to fight for. It is worth all of us spending our entire lives fighting for, regardless if any of us ever see the fruits of that fight. That is the vision. It is a futuristic vision, not a nostalgic vision, looking back to some idealistic version of the 1950s when every American had a good factory job and could afford to have 2.5 kids with a good union job.


Yang's main slogans are "Humanity First" and "It isn't left or right, it's Forward". Notice it is "Humanity" first, not some tired rhetoric about the middle class. This is what the Universal Basic Income achieves. Universal Basic Income was something that Bernie was in support of until the very moment that Yang started running and all of a sudden Bernie abandoned the idea, claiming in a fatherly way "we are not going to do that". Instead, Bernie proposed the Guaranteed Federal Jobs program directly to shoot down UBI. What will that program do to help an artist like myself? I have all but given up on my dream of art and work at a call center because 'the market' has decided my art to be of no value in actual dollars. And Bernie's solution? A few extra dollars an hour at my call center job (soon to be automated). If I become unemployed, I can do artwork? No, "We need road workers, child-care workers, our bridges are crumbling, a job supplied by the government for every American who wants to work". I am insulted by the idea.


As for healing the country, and doing so while also defeating Trump:
"It isn't left or right, it's Forward", Yang can do both of these things in a way, I don't see coming from Bernie or Warren. At the last debate the candidates were asked "Who is a friend you have that people might be surprised about?" Yang began talking about "Fred" the trucker. Fred Ramsey is one of my friend's on Facebook and is an ex-Trump supporter who has voted republican all of his life. He has now switched his party to democrat to vote for Yang. Fred has made many videos about how because of Yang, he has learned "it isn't immigrants taking our jobs, it is automation". Fred talks about how he began to realize that every human deserves a basic standard of living via the UBI. This is a conservative who is now spouting human rights and equality for all. All the while, so many of my so called 'progressive' friends and family members have come out against UBI and begun reverting to 'work ethic' mantras. I am on 5 or 6 different social media YangGang groups where I see thousands of comments from Yang supporters and the story is the same over and over, Trump supporters and conservatives who have realized that anti-immigrant fear is not needed, that the UBI can be a right for all Americans, regardless of work status, that no one needs to live in poverty and struggle- right along with the tens of thousands of democrats, progressives and socialist-leaning Yang supporters. There is no shame, no hatred in the Yang Gang. We all want Humanity to move forward with automation and UBI. There are no human enemies or the fanning the flames of hatred toward half the country.

10/28/2019

"The only candidate that represents the poor and working classes is Bernie Sanders."


This is a false statement. What policies does Bernie have to help the homeless and unemployed (the actual poor)? Why did Bernie flip flop and abandon true humanitarian values via the Universal Basic income? Policies that stress the need for people to work in order to justify their right to exist are capitalist under a thin mask. No one can claim to care about the poor and homeless and also be against the Universal Basic income. I am sick of "work ethic" rhetoric. "Bernie has been saying the same thing for 40 years." Untrue, but also insufficient. The world has changed in 40 years, the world has changed in ten years. We need modern solutions that the old have shown they are not willing to provide. To be ruled over by well meaning people in their 70's who cannot keep up with the times, who cannot boldly face the changing reality of poverty and the modern world as a whole is unacceptable.


As an actual "poor person", unlike the vast majority of Bernie supporters (middle class and above), I will not let this go. Universal Basic Income is the only policy that recognizes the rights of citizens simply for being alive, SEPARATE from a "job". The time has come for this idea. I have no respect for a politician who does not support Universal Basic Income. How can anyone sit in their luxury home, ride their airplanes, live their comfortable lives and be against this idea? To ideologically tie a basic standard of living to a job is not radical or egalitarian.