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Some time ago, I discovered a few of my NURSERY CRYMES dolls had been rather naughty behind my back! Apparently, on the 8th of August last year, they climbed from the cabinets, sneaked out of the flat, out of town, travelled over the sea to Dublin, Ireland, and played at the Festival of the Chariots Benefit Gig charity gig!!!.
I found this out by lucky accident when doing a Google search on my images. I recognised their promo material immediately, it being created by myself for one of the YouTube videos - 'And Dolls Shall Rise'. Furthermore, the advertised link to the 'band page' was none other than the NURSERY CRYMES page on Facebook!!! I did, of course, click on it and, lo and behold, it was a genuine link to the page I created!!!
I interrogated them, but none made any admissions. However, due to reactions (fidgeting, pinking up and casting glances to each other which they thought would go undetected) some certainly put themselves in the frame. Now, there may well have been others, roadies and dancers and all, but just who and how many culprits there were I could not tell. Subsequently, they managed to persuade the festival advertisers to remove their promo material and 'band link' from the website - www.festivalandgigguide.ie - but it was too late, I had seen it!
Initially, I kept a very watchful eye on these dolls after what had been revealed, lest they got into their heads to take off on a world tour!! However, I did strongly suspected something else was being planned because rather a lot of whispering was going on in the aftermath. But, time passed as it always does and my attention went elsewhere, especially since nothing further caused alarm - not, that is, until a package arrived on the doorstep.
That morning I was up earlier than usual, otherwise this package may well not have been intercepted. Not only was there the above promotional picture with a crafty little band name change, but four recordings!!!!!!
So, it transpired they had been busy all those months composing music and laying down tracks in some secret recording studio, the location of which remains a mystery. After gasping for breath in astonishment, I played through each of the recordings. It only took a few moments before my feet were tapping and head bobbing, and in my enjoyment I forgot to be shocked, or even cross. What resourceful and talented little creatures I had created!!
At the sound of giggling I turned to see three or four little dolly heads peeking around the door. "Happy Mothers Day", they chorused, grinning from ear to ear.
In the fevour of artistic creativity these dollies forgot their pain, their troubled spirits were soothed and they have put something in the world which did not exist before ... and the world is surely a better place for it.
DEDICATED TO ALL ABUSED CHILDREN - PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE!
All songs composed, played, recorded & mixed by NC Dolly Band.
Visit the NURSERY CRYMES branch fo my website www.nakthag.com - www.nakthag.com and give them a listen!
RETURN of the DOLLIES!
I haven't been here for a while on account of being very busy producing and publishing Tarot decks. I now have eight to date: SINGING SERPENT TAROT; DECADENT DREAM TAROT; The KHAOAMUSICA Tarot (featuring four pieces by NC Dolly Band on the music CD); TAROT of SIDNEY SIME; TAROT of KAY NIELSEN; TAROT of HARRY CLARKE, TAROT o AUBREY BEARDSLEY and soon to be released, OGHAM MOON ORACLE. All of these can be seen on my new website dedicated to Tarot and Oracle, NAKTHAG TAROT STUDIO.
I now begin a new project to add to this list. The project, entitled NURSERY CRYMES The Oracle, consisting of a fully illustrated book with photographs and drawings,
A MUSICAL TAROT!
So ... I instigated a project bringing visual artists and musicians together to create a unique Tarot deck, music CD and book package. It is called The KHAOAMUSICA Tarot and is still a project in process, but does have a website where its progress may be followed (link above). A strange experience as I do not know the other participants personally, for we have come together on the web, and I have only a vague idea of what the remaining visual and musical submissions might be like. It is exciting and also little nerve wracking.
As it stands to date, NC Dolly Band will have four tracks on the album, and I will have a total of nine cards in the
SINGING SERPENT
Sometimes a project gets abandoned, not always because the steam or enthusiasm for it wanes, but due to outside circumstances beyond control. Three -four years ago I started to create a Tarot deck and it had to be shelved for a while, despite only fourteen designs short of the full 78. This wasn't my first attempt at the Tarot. Indeed, I have begun a few times over the years, never getting beyond seven completed cards. My earlier designs were full colour paintings, highly detailed and somewhat elaborate. Over time the designs have been purged of the extraneous and simplified, and painting has given way to ink drawing. Recently, I got back to
TRIAL AND ERROR
The last couple of months have been a somewhat nightmare. I do not have vast experience of making videos and have no one to advise as to the more technical details such as transference from program to program, codecs and all, so it has been endless hours of doing, testing and re-doing. I had to start all the artwork and so forth from scratch and compile anew. I have watched countless YouTube tutorials and followed advice only to find that, in my case, little was relevant and had to be discarded.
What I am trying to do is create a compilation which may be shown in galleries, and even submitted to a TV station, after this was suggested by a fr
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