Rustypuppy

I wrote this last year, but…

Rustypuppy — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:06:04 GMT

I wrote this last year, but tis the season, so welcome to my Nostr version of the Night Before Christmas poem. 🎅🎄

If anyone wants to create a performance or read it on their podcast, please tag me, I’d love to hear it! 🫂

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A Visit from St. Nostrolas / The Night Before Christmas
- Adapted by Rustypuppy from a poem by Clement Clarke Moore

Twas the night before Christmas, when all in the house
Were quietly sleeping, except me and my spouse.
The relays were placed by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nostrolas soon would be there.

The plebs were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of zapping danced in their heads;
And mom on her Android, and me on my Apple
Had just settled by the fire to listen to its crackle.

When out in the street there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the couch to see what was the matter.
Away to the door I flew like a flash,
And undid the lock to see who had crashed.

The moon shone brightly upon the ice and snow
Giving all things around a silver-toned glow.
When what to my searching eyes did display,
But eight tiny nostriches pulling a sleigh.

With an open protocol that cannot be bossed,
I knew in a moment he must be St. Nost.
Better than X or the Book of Face,
He called to all to come and embrace:

It’s global, it’s social, it’s decentralized;
It keeps identity private from corporate eyes.
Get your nsec and npub and client and go,
write all your notes and help the Nostr to grow.

None can tame it or trap it or make it stop.
Decentralization is the way to adopt.
So up to the housetop the nostriches flew
With the sleigh full of NIPS, and St. Nostrolas too —

And up on the roof, I heard through the snow,
The scratching and tapping of each little toe.
As I closed the door and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nostrolas came with a bound.

His body was covered, from his head to his foot,
By a large, thick cloak, all tarnished with soot.
A bundle of boxes he'd flung on his back,
Gently he withdrew them and began to stack.

His eyes, what color? Were they mismatched?
His face, a glimpse I never did catch.
But I saw a smile, the gentle lift of a cheek,
And I suddenly felt the world become far less bleak.

Then he shimmered and his cloak changed color.
Astonished, I realized he was now another.
Again and again: five, ten, twenty -
St. Nostrolas was not one, he was many!

The spirit of developers, working all the time;
He’d brought us their gifts for far less than dimes.
He gave a nod of his head and the thumbs-up sign.
I sighed in relief; everything would be fine.

He spoke not a work, but finished his work
Connecting all the relays ... was that a tiny smirk?
He turned to me, gave a two-fingered salute,
Then stepped on the hearth and flew up the chute.

He sprang to his sleigh, gave his nostriches a cry,
And they ran off the roof and into the sky.
But I heard him exclaim, as he disappeared from sight—
“Sovereign freedom for all, and to all a good night!”

#nightbeforechristmas #poetry #poem #christmas #nostr #grownostr #nostronly #artstr

I’m so excited/grateful/relieved…

Rustypuppy — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 22:08:08 GMT

I’m so excited/grateful/relieved to finally share with you the first (as far as I know) Nostr art & poetry collaboration!!! Sacred Peak and I have been working on this for months and the PDF is ready for you….

KAIROS: The right time, season, or opportunity. A collaboration between artist Rustypuppy and poet SacredPeak that explores the resonance between eight digital collages and their inspired rhythmic words.

PDF available for purchase now with fiat or sats. Print version available in December.

To purchase the Kairos PDF for $2.00 USD, please go here: https://heidi2524.com/b/pIwsk

To purchase the Kairos PDF for 2100 sats, please go here: https://creatr.click/jurRl

All proceeds split evenly between the creators of this #nostronly project.

Less than 40 copies of the print edition will be available. If you'd like to reserve a copy, please comment/DM me (Rustypuppy). Payment will be due in December for $5 USD/5,000 sats plus shipping. Delivery before Dec. 24th is NOT Guaranteed.

#myArtPoetryCollab #art #artstr #🖼️ #rustypuppyart #collage #digitalcollage #poetry #artbook #poetrybook #nostr #sellingforsats #grownostr #plebchain #merch #pdf #ebook

Best kind of Wednesday…

Rustypuppy — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:51:35 GMT

Best kind of Wednesday

#art #artstr #poetry #poetstr #nature nostr:note1w8kmt7dez25p48jgfylzf38tzerw6qa730rz3mx6dru5mycnp4es967hl6

I like to have some kind…

Rustypuppy — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 20:13:25 GMT

I like to have some kind of structure for my art projects and collaborations. Usually this means defining the art supplies/media and a theme or topic.

For #myArtPoetryCollab project with Sacred Peak , I search for lists containing words related to Time. Putting all those words in a spreadsheet resulted in 832 entries. Then I took out the duplicates and phrases and ended up 339 entries. Then I went through, one by one, and left the ones I liked, resulting in a 211 word list.

This list will be used to pull the titles for the digital collages that will end up in our ebook of art and poetry.

#art #artstr #artprocess #poetry #rustypuppyart

Poetry and art - Nostr creativity abounds…

Rustypuppy — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:10:30 GMT

Poetry and art - Nostr creativity abounds

#art #artstr #poetry #poetstr #grownostr nostr:note1fuguhzh3q6v98c8cvk5ta7uv9674ws7fy26p78saw9zkx6zn79equp0s34

TL;DR - I’m working on…

Rustypuppy — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:55:59 GMT

TL;DR - I’m working on an art & poetry ebook with Sacred Peak 🎉

Putting this out there because I’m extremely excited about this collaboration. Also, unlike other social media, I’m comfortable sharing my creative process here, in its messy glory, and want to do that with this project.

Books about creativity say to play around, be expressive, take risks, explore …. but there are few example of what that actually looks like available. Most artists do not want to show the piece they spent 10 hours on only to throw away, yet those hours and that piece are valuable if for no other reason than you find out what you don’t like to have in your art (been there, done that).

So, on and off over the next few months, I’ll be posting about #myArtPoetryCollab if you want to follow along and see how it turns out. 😁

#art #artstr #poetry #rustypuppyart #grownostr

I prefer stories to poetry, but…

Rustypuppy — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 17:51:47 GMT

I prefer stories to poetry, but Mary Oliver’s work resonates with me. This one feels very Nostr.

#poem #poetry #maryoliver #nostrlife
#grownostr #poemstr #happymonday