Blue Dog to Alpha One

  Blue Dog to Alpha One #09 " Defiance of Silence  –  Frank Zappa was right; we have only a brief time to fill with art, music, or silence. But silence is often imposed—by fear, by doubt, by convention. To create is to resist that silence, to assert that something should exist simply because it can."   Chat GPT 'Americana' Calendar Series  - [Start at post #01 to understand the narrative for this series] "The focus of all this attention was actually the final day of a nine-day ceremony. The public dance, in which the participants handled snakes, took place at the end of the last day, which began with a foot race and proceeded through various rites performed by the men of the Snake and Antelope societies. Crowds (including Hopis and outsiders) gathered early in anticipation of the climax of the ceremony, a processional dance in which Snake priests carried live snakes, many of them rattlesnakes, in their mouths."  Representing the Hopi Snake Dance· ...

  Blue Dog to Alpha One #08 " Defiance of Silence  –  Frank Zappa was right; we have only a brief time to fill with art, music, or silence. But silence is often imposed—by fear, by doubt, by convention. To create is to resist that silence, to assert that something should exist simply because it can."   Chat GPT 'Americana' Calendar Series  - [Start at post #01 to understand the narrative for this series] "Let us fancy the feeling of a dear sister, an aged father or mother, or a  beloved wife or child, driven by strangers (of adamantine hearts)  scorching with fever, under a burning sun, parching with thirst,  rendered more tormenting by the heated dust filling the air, see this  dear wife of our bosom, languishing, and almost ready to drop to the  ground every step, and yet hanging to her friends, choosing rather to  die in their arms, than be torn from them and thrown into a heated  wagon, to be separated forever from all...

  Blue Dog to Alpha One #07 " Defiance of Silence  –  Frank Zappa was right; we have only a brief time to fill with art, music, or silence. But silence is often imposed—by fear, by doubt, by convention. To create is to resist that silence, to assert that something should exist simply because it can."   Chat GPT 'Americana' Calendar Series  - [Start at post #01 to understand the narrative for this series] " Yesterday, the pony broke the picket line and bolted into the evening sun, her hooves kicking up clouds of red dust. We watched her silhouette grow smaller against the mesa, hearts sinking as the coyotes began their eerie chorus. But just as the last light faded, she came galloping back, nostrils flaring and eyes wide, eager for the safety of the corral and the comfort of her hay."  This is a Chat GPT rendition, of a local journal note from the Old West, that we made more evocative together.  This is the 24th image in the Calendar series. It bec...

  Blue Dog to Alpha One #06 " Defiance of Silence  –  Frank Zappa was right; we have only a brief time to fill with art, music, or silence. But silence is often imposed—by fear, by doubt, by convention. To create is to resist that silence, to assert that something should exist simply because it can."   Chat GPT 'Americana' Calendar Series  - [Start at post #01 to understand the narrative for this series] ""The last evening Shabono and his Indian  woman was very impatient to be permitted to go with me, (to Tillamook head) and was therefore indulged; She observed that She had traveled a long way with us to See the great  waters, and that now that monstrous fish (a beached whale) was also to be Seen, She thought it  verry hard that She could not be permitted to See either (She had never yet been  to the Ocian)." Lewis & Clark Journals, Thwaites, Vol. 3, p. 316 By this point in the Calendar series, I had 'trained' Chat GPT on what w...

  Blue Dog to Alpha One #05 " Defiance of Silence  –  Frank Zappa was right; we have only a brief time to fill with art, music, or silence. But silence is often imposed—by fear, by doubt, by convention. To create is to resist that silence, to assert that something should exist simply because it can."   Chat GPT 'Americana' Calendar Series  - [Start at post #01 to understand the narrative for this series] "While the initial attempts at the development of the beautiful archipelago now constituting the western portion of Skagit county, together with that of the tide flats on the Swinomish, were in progress, enterprising adventurers and fortune hunts were beginning to realize the possibilities of the great Skagit valley above the region of the tide flats. Families soon followed. It is interesting to recall that these were the first to come to that portion of what is now Skagit county, on a steamboat, the little steamer Linnie, on which they came, was the first ...

  Blue Dog to Alpha One #04 " Defiance of Silence  –  Frank Zappa was right; we have only a brief time to fill with art, music, or silence. But silence is often imposed—by fear, by doubt, by convention. To create is to resist that silence, to assert that something should exist simply because it can."   Chat GPT 'Americana' Calendar Series - [Start at post #01 to understand the narrative for this series] " What I have said of New England must not, however, be applied indistinctly to the whole Union; as we advance towards the West or the South, the instruction of the people diminishes. In the States which are adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico, a certain number of individuals may be found, as in our own countries, who are devoid of the rudiments of instruction. But there is not a single district in the United States sunk in complete ignorance; and for a very simple reason: ... some of them have improved apace, whilst others have loitered in their course, and some hav...