Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Ī spī

* Using 'Spelled-checked' English.










Ī spī
Under a picture of a man who looks suspicious because his eyes are 'squinty' [squenty?], looking to the left, maybe at an electric light or flash light shining in his face...obviously not sunlight -- he appears to be wearing makeup...I write this impression because his lips are dark.








In the black and white picture, I think his lips look dark grey.

His eyebrows look bushy, maybe 'creeping' towards his forehead. His skin looks like pale powder is applied...Talic or Talcum power, or chalk...or maybe a woman's white waxy makeup.








He looks to be middle-age...there are lines (wrinkles) across his forehead. [My thoughts: What a Character!]

Around his neck is a white bow. He seems to wear a black jacket(?)...with a large collar which sticks up on the left side. His shirt looks light grey in the black and white photograph.
Underneath, the print mentions two names: Bela Lugosi and Tod Browning.
Is this a fact? Tod Browning is connected with a film entitled Dracula?

The text under the picture says Bela Lugosi as C. Dracula.





Does this mean B.L plays count Dracula?










I see another picture.
A male humanoid who seems to resemble a human male, except his hands (?) have long claw like fingers. Maybe longer than ten inches.
The male humanoid also appears to have longer than normal ears.






Elf like, pointed at the top. By pointed, I mean:













The male humanoid appears white in the black and white photograph. The face appears normal, like the facial appearance of a normal British-American, or pale British person. His head is bald. Other than the fingers and ears, he could pass as human... (IMOpinion) maybe a regular British citizen. He appears to be on something that resembles a ship...I see ropes and a wood plank...wood uprising









I would guess a ship. Maybe if I saw this person in real life with my own eyes, I would think...pale British citizen coming to America...creepy. I would probably hope he doesn't live near me. *Yikes*
The lightning appears natural. The male humanoid does not appear to have problems with sunlight...it appears like his face is half-lit by the sun's light...from the right...not noon, closer to sunset, In My Opinion.

Underneath the picture, I see 1 name: Max Schreck.
The film Nosferatu is mentioned. Is Nosferatu the name of a ship, or person?
The date 1922 is mentioned.













Is this a fact? Dracula is a novel written by the British author Bram Stoker?

Is this a fact? Hundreds were murdered in the 1400's by a man named Vlad Tepes? Near Transylvania? I find it hard to believe that 1 man can kill over 100 people...is this a legend, slander, or a fact?










I see a large B-L-A-C in black lettering, with red trim, followed by U- and L-A.
I will describe:
A man of a different color.
The man is golden-brown colored, with a wide and straight nose and short hair that does not lie flat or straight on his head.
Normal looking ears, with straight white teeth, and a longer tooth that looks like a wolf's fang.
His eyebrows look like they are creeping towards his temple hair line, his left cheek is covered in brown fur like hair, connected with a thin sideburn. Above his dark red lips, a thick line of hair.
The hairline above his forehead is not straight, from the left, it looks like a '^' or part of the letter "M" or "A" or, if seen from another picture, the letter "V."



He seems to be biting a pale lady with long lashes and pink lipstick. Her eyes are closed.









His eyes are open, and in the picture, he looks interested.
He wears a dark, mid-night-blue coat with elaborate celticish knots. His left collar is down. His shirt is white--bright like the round moon-like circle behind him visible through the blue and grey cloud in the night.








My vampire character Armand is a new type...a ʼnu vampīyər

He is good looking, tall, dark and very handsome.
Another handsome, heroic type found in Romantic paperbacks.

When my life was going tragically, I wanted something to perk me up. I no longer related to the sunny Romantic comedies still popular at the movies. Reflecting my more cynical attitude, especially my cynicism towards other people, who seem to always be misguided, ill-logical and cruel...I began a dark gothic poem...


a free-style American poem written in four parts.








If daydreams were


like film and books
the printed word
is like the sea...warm and wet,
shifting,
filled with seashells and starfish
maybe a few pearls.







Our eyes soak images off the page, imagining distant lands, poetic phases, philosophic winds, erotic stimulation or a virtual chance to encounter characters stranger than the reader will meet living safely near them, day-to-day.






Books were similar to mini-vocations...or like what virtual realities may one day become...you really don't travel at all (unless you are reading in a car, plane, or on a train or subway), or reading a film's subtitles.





The reader of fiction only imagines...virtual realities are often like dreams.
I imagine man's mythical past, like a story. I can picture people around a fire at night, sharing stories. Entertained because they are bored after their daily work is done.









Whispers from a male with a fur around his shoulders
orange sparks caught on warm winds...
Satisfied companions
Large Moon.

This spirit, this type of life, and sharing, pleases.






















Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Cī-bər (image)


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Do Angels Sing Copyrighted Songs?

I had a discussion with a knowledgable adult male about the Internet.

I mentioned that I am the type who would use labeling, like placing 'copyright protected' labels, or a copyright symbol on my poetry.



I justified this by compairing online 'writer communities' to 'group living' amongst YOUNG (yet good-looking) single people.

When I lived in a household with hungry guys, I would label my food.

IMO, this action is like labeling a new bag of Doritoes with a label that would read :





My Property - DO NOT EAT! [signed, the writer]or

IF YOU EAT MY FOOD -- YOU WILL PAY ME (I am not a free grocery store!)


IMOpinion, labeling objects is a way to let innocent people know...THIS IS NOT Community Property...The owner is claiming this object...you can't just do what you want with my stuff!



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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Part II: Copyright Or Don't Copy At All.

To Copyright More Or Tu Copy Right Less?

(Part II of this Blog series about copyright restrictions.)




Are Copyright Restrictions More Restrictive?

I did my own personal research using the books in my
'ho-mah lī-brair-ry'.

I noticed changing copyright information and restrictions.

In a book by A. Haley and Mr. M. X, printed (I think) around 1964, the book's copyright information mentions the rights of the publisher, reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Other than publishing information [published by a division of Random House Inc], the only other information mentioned was about the cover of the paperback book...for some reason, if the book did not have a front cover, than according to the print, the sale of the book may have been unauthorized.

It is implied that a coverless book may have been reported as damaged...with neither the author, not the publisher receiving payments for the 'damaged but sold' book.

I remember working in an Independent Bookstore.
The manager instructed volunteers to remove the cover of the unsold magazines or journals.
I was told the publishing company did not want to pay for the return of the unsold magazines, (think weight), yet the publishers wanted to know the total count of the unsold magazines...the manager was suppose to (I believe) resend the magazine covers of the unsold magazines back.

Since people (especially book-lovers) spent hours looking through the magazines, I doubt stealing was what the average person, with hours 'to kill,' was planning.

Volunteer bookstores (that I have worked in) are closer to a 'commie library' than a real bookstore with books to sale, profits to make and people to keep employed.

[ BTW - By the way, I never sold a damaged and month old magazine to any person.]

In a book pulished, I think, around 1982, the copyright information is scant. It had the same 1 sentence I read before (in the book published around 1964). The Authors and Publishers rights are reserved. This information was followed by publisher information.

The Publisher's Note included  information I had read before when watching a film or movie...

  This [media] is a work of Fiction...
The Publisher stresses the imaginative work of the writer or creator in creating names, interesting characters, or imaginary places.
The Publisher's Note I read, left the impression that any similarities the fictional work may have to actual people, events or locations are coincidental.

In the inside of a book printed around 2003, by T. Morrison, the same one sentence message is reprinted...Authors and Publishers rights are reserved.

In a book printed around 2000, the publication states that the publication may not be:

- reproduced (no part)
- saved
  or
- sent
  (not electronically, not by photocopying, nor audio recordings or  scanning.)

Except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the States Copyright Act or, after having obtained permission, or by other authorized method of authorization.

A pamplet at one community college warns students and other readers to be cautious... although allowed to use the photocopying equipment, they should be careful of violating the authors copyright protected material.

Warning are helpful.

Although still in the dark, I am a bit better informed. The gothic literary Collection that shocked me when I read it's copyright restrictions,  does provide instructions for citing Gothic Literature.

The series seems to acknowledge students who quote directly from their publications and gives students a generic format for citation in the footnote section.

Although I don't know how to cite written work when posting a Blog, or what ri-printed criticism is, I feel better about my gothic literary experiences.


11-0-1-11




Sunday, April 1, 2012

Copyright Or Don't Copy At All

Is it my imagination, or has copyright restrictions gotten stricter?

At my local community college, while browsing around the Gothic Literature books, I discovered information that gave me a shock!


Technically, I was not allowed to make photocopies of the material from the Gothic Literature books.

Paraphrasing from a similar copyright section, found in the beginning of a book

...No part of this publication may be reproduced, saved in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or through any means, whether electronic, mechanical, or by photocopying, audio recording or scanning, except as permitted under sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act...


This is shocking! Am I allowed to quote from the Gothic Literature books, a multi-volume set found in the Reference section of the library, at the community college?

Uninformed students (or older book-readers) may believe they have the natural rights, when gathering information, to photocopy book pages if photocopying will help them organize their notes for research or "academic" papers.

These consideration being put temporarily aside, I hope to answer my questions in this blog.

* Are the copyright restrictions more ri-strictive now, and if so, are there reasonable reasons for greater restrictions?

* What does Section 107 and Section 108 of the United States Copyright Act say?

* Are greater copyright restrictions a response to changing technology and Internet piracy?


Is the underlying message (sent by book and film makers and publishers) : Don't copy at all.


Authors note:
This Blog Article can be read at blogger.com under 'The Vamp Challenge'.
Feel free to respond (comment in the comment section).
Do not copy this article, unless you properly attribute your sources.
Individual research can be attributed to oneself.



Saturday, September 17, 2011

Blue An-Jay writes Armand

[A Sunny Day]

2010 Dear Armand,

I am writing you because I had an idea. I wrote a letter to Lucifer, the "fallen rebel archangel," whom some people call the Devil. In the Dictionary, it says that Lucifer is the morning star, from the Latin root Lucifer,meaning "light bearing". Under 'Devil', the Dictionary reads: The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star. I wrote to her! Yes, I connected Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, (also called Aprodite, her Greek name), with Lucifer, the morning star. I know Armand, I've never been off this planet, except when I was in an airplane. I've only looked up to the heavens on clear days and clear nights -- still, I like the spirit of myths. I like personifying the morning star as if the stars were a beautiful woman...touching my life line...inspiring my life and dreams. Lucifer could be a female, a 'star' player in the heavenly game, a rebel angel. A symbol of love and beauty... Attraction? Do you like this idea Armand, my dark vampire friend? I also looked up Satan (sounds like Say-tan), which seems to have a Hebrew orgin. Is the color tan associated with light? Surely not Sunlight.

Anyway, I sent my letter up, via, balloon.
Nibbles and Bites!
~Blue An-Jay





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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Blue An-Jay writes a Letter to Lucifer

Dearest Lucifer,

I'm sending you this letter the only way I know how. I 'm told you are the most beautiful one, and I am guided by your love of freedom and form.

I ponder the language I hear, words and their meanings...

Are there black Angels where you are?

In the dictionary, the work black is defined as "soiled, dirty; thoroughly evil: wicked; expressive of condemnation or discredit; invoking the supernatural and esp. the "devil." More definitions follow, "Gloomy, Calamitious: marked by the occurence of disaster, Sullen, Hostile."

When I look up into the night ski, black looks like a beautiful man, with stars in his eyes. I come from a family of "black" dark-skinned people. People I may not see in the dark, like my white tea candles, I can't see, in a black room...without light.

I've heard there were White Angels.

Are they clear? As in "free from color?"

In the dictionary, the word "white" is defined as: "marked by upright fairness; free from spot or blemish: free from moral impunity; innocent; Favorable, Fortunate, or passionate (~ fury...I think of white fire...like lightning).

Nothing like the white people I've met on this planet, the tan, pink or snow colored people with their multi-colored hair, and eyes [ Excluding the innocence, found in children].

I know I've seen rainbow reflections from Sunlight...and sometimes on clouds.

If this letter can not reach you, I will continue to cherish freedom, form and beauty especially when I watch the free birds, playing in the ski.

Love, Blue An-Jay.


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