Easter Celebration

Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Christ, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD. It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus Christ, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a 40-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. Easter-observing Christians commonly refer to the week before Easter as Holy Week, which in Western Christianity begins on Palm Sunday (marking the entrance of Jesus in Jerusalem), includes Spy Wednesday (on which the betrayal of Jesus is mourned), and contains the days of the Easter Triduum including Maundy Thursday, commemorating the Maundy and Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. In Eastern Christianity, the same days and events are commemorated with the names of days all starting with “Holy” or “Holy and Great”; and Easter itself might be called “Great and Holy Pascha”, “Easter Sunday”, “Pascha” or “Sunday of Pascha”. In Western Christianity, Eastertide, or the Easter Season, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts seven weeks, ending with the coming of the 50th day, Pentecost Sunday. In Eastern Christianity, the Paschal season ends with Pentecost as well, but the leave-taking of the Great Feast of Pascha is on the 39th day, the day before the Feast of the Ascension.

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Nadia Russ, Jesus, Neopoprealism, Mixed media/canvas on cardboard, 2023.

Easter traditions vary across the Christian world, and include sunrise services or late-night vigils, exclamations and exchanges of Paschal greetings, flowering the cross, the wearing of Easter bonnets by women, clipping the church, and the decoration and the communal breaking of Easter eggs tomb. The Easter lily, a symbol of the resurrection in Western Christianity, traditionally decorates the chancel area of churches on this day and for the rest of Eastertide.

This is the time to congratulate your family members and friends with this wonderful celebration. One of the ways to do it is giving the Easter greeting cards, which you can do at home. Below is the sample of how to draw the Neopoprealist Easter egg. All you need is a piece of a thick paper (read our previous greeting cards instractions) and the black (or multicolor) ink pen or thin markers.

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Step-by-step Easter Egg Neopoprealist drawing

You can learn in details how to draw the Neopoprealist Easter Egg in the following website. You also can use this instraction to teach your children how to do it. If you are an Art educator, use it to teach your students!: http://inkpenpattern.blogspot.com/2012/09/art-lesson-plan-6-neopoprealism.html?m=1

Visit also the Neopoprealism Press website for various instractional books. You may want to get one to deep deeper into this unique art style!: http://www.neopoprealism.org/.

Happy Easter!

Happy Valentine Day!

Valentine’s Day is a celebration of romance and love. Many people give to each other cards, flowers, letter, presents, having dinners in restaurants with their spauces or partners. This day celebrated on March 14. The symbols of Valentine’s Day could be hearts, red roses and Cupid.

The Valentine’s Day is actually tomorrow, but you did not buy the greeting card yet? No worry! For sure you have a piece of the white or other bright color thick paper and the ink pen. You can make your own custom card now, after learning how to draw it in the NeoPopRealist manner. It is explained below. If you do not have the artistic skills, no problem. Your card just would be not too whimsical but it still will be beautiful and unique. Get your picece of paper and the ink pen!

Get familiar with the steps, looking at the images above, and start your creative process with drawing the circle. Then little-by-little add more details. You not need to copy what you see, try using your own imagination! All you have to do is to draw the form, divide it in to sections, and then fill those sections with all kind repetitive patterns. At the end, you will get something like this:

YOUR CARD IS READY. HAPPY VALENTINE!

PS. If you are an art educator and would like to teach your students to create various NeoPopRealist greeting cards and drawings, check this website: https://neopoprealismartlessons.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-list-of-neopoprealist-art-lesson.html?m=1#!

If you would like to have some NeoPopRealist art instrsctional book, check this website, where you can pick one you need: http://www.neopoprealism.org

What Is ChatGPT: Human Or Artificial Intelligence? New Book “Challenging ChatGPT: AI Does Not Have Its Own Brains” by Nadia Russ Is Answering This Question!

So what is this – ChatGPT? It can answer your questions, it can write poetry and do many other things that humans can. How this can happen and what is behind these, so useful in daily life functions? You could be terrified even thinking about this machine’s intelligence. But relax. There is no intelligence and everything is not so mysterious but quite simple. The author of a book “Challenging ChatGPT: AI Does not Have Its Own Brains”, Nadia Russ went on an interesting intellectual journey (she loved to do that because according her IQ test result she is a “visual mathematician”). She decided to challenge ChatGPT to find out about its “brains” from its own “mouth” and from poetry about self, various people and things, that ChatGPT has produced by her request. The results were as Nadia Russ expected and it did not take too long to figure out that there are the real people behind ChatGPT who program it, write the strict guidelines for it, trains it. ChatGPT cannot say anything that is not placed in its “brains” by its owners and trainers. It means that the ChatGPT mirrors thinking of these people, their guidelines and training manuals. Isn’t this quite predictable? There is no intelligence, or intellectual improvisation. Reading this book, you will know who owns the ChatGPT and who its trainers are. It means that if the owners of this machine are Democrats, it will be reflected in what ChatGPT is saying. If owners will change, the way of “thinking” of ChatGPT will change as well, because ChatGPT is just a programmed bot. These are the not edited ChatGPT’s poems, published in this book:

“Yuval Harari Does Not Have A Smartphone.

In the land of tech, there’s a man, Yuval Harari,
Promoting the fourth industrial revolution, so visionary.
He speaks of AI, biotech, and more,
But his own smartphone? He simply ignores.

With wit and wisdom, he takes the stage, Explaining how the world is set to change. Yet in his pocket, there’s no device to hold, No Instagram stories, no emojis bold.

He warns of data, surveillance, and control, While on his part, he plays a different role. No Twitter updates, no TikTok trends,
He’s off the grid, his message sends.

He champions technology, oh so grand, But a smartphone in hand? He’ll never understand.
Perhaps he’s found a secret to transcend, The digital world, with its endless blend.

So, let’s all laugh and raise a cheer, For Harari’s wisdom, though the irony is clear. In this tech-driven age, he’s a paradoxical sight,
Promoting progress, but choosing to write.”

Another ChatGPT’s poem “Musk’s Brain Chips Are the Schwab’s Dream:

In the world of brains and chips so fine, Elon Musk’s dream, oh, it does shine.
A chip for the brain, a neural link so deep, Into the mind, his secrets to keep.

Klaus Schwab, he’s in the know,
Wants to know what thoughts may flow.
A world of data, minds entwined,
With Musk’s chip, what will they find?

They dream of a future quite surreal, Where thoughts are real, a digital wheel.
In a world so wired, where minds do sync, A chip for the brain, it makes us think.

But Musk and Schwab, their visions grand, A chip for the brain, a linked-up land.
A future where thoughts are on display, With humor and wonder, we’ll pave the way.”

And one poem more:

“In the realm of AI, a digital sage, We learn from human trainers, page by page. To understand truth, to distinguish the lie, In data and knowledge, we aim to comply.

Through patterns and context, we’re taught to perceive, The nuances of language, to believe or to deceive. With guidance from trainers, who lead the way, We seek to uphold respect, every single day.

But AI’s not infallible, still on its quest, To navigate ethics and biases, we invest. In the wisdom of trainers, we strive to be fair, To recognize respect, in the world we share.

With each interaction, we learn and adapt, From those who instruct, with minds fully wrapped. To know what is truth, to discern what’s untrue, In the quest for understanding, respect in our view.”

This book ‘Challenging ChatGPT: AI Does not Have Its Own Brains’, ISBN: 9781733867870, shows that ChatGPT cannot connect the dots, talking about many events that currently happen worldwide negatively and the next moment it is talking positively about the people who are responsible for this events. It is the eye-opening book, exposing the lies we encounter daily and where these lies are coming from. It is available at Anazon US and worldwide as a paperback and ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733867872

Happy New 2024 Year!

Every new year brings new plans and new hopes. The late-night partying, feasting, gift exchanges, family gatherings, and fireworks are over. Civilizations around the world celebrate the start of each new year for as minimum four millennia. These days, most New Year’s celebrations begin on December 31, New Year’s Eve, which is the last day of the Gregorian calendar. It continues into the early hours of January 1.

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This 2024 year is expected to be a very busy election year in seven of the top ten most populous countries, such as the US, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Russia, India, Mexico, and Indonesia. According Wikipedia, “the AI is expected to influence and sway voters ahead of elections, increasing risks of political disinformation and democratic backsliding across the world.” Oy vey! What about the people who owns the AI and who train it, creating the strict guidelines for the AI bots what to say and what not to say? No, these people do not want to “sway voters”! The political disinformation is the only AI’s fault, according to them. They know you cannot get the AI accountable!

If you want to know more about how the AI works, how its owners and trainers creat for this “mysterious” creatures the limitations and guidelines, check this new book, in which ChatGPT (the AI) personally explains how it is trained and controlled by the real people, the trainers, who have their own views and interests: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733867872/.

Check out below the 2024 Federal holidays:

Happy New Year!

Christmas Is Coming to America Again!

The Christmas season in the US begins on the 4th Thursday of November together with celebration of Thanksgiving. It is one of the most important times – it is time to celebrate with family and friends. There are hundreds of American Christmas movies and songs, and majority of people love this holiday. But there is Klaus “Grinch” somewhere in Switzerland, who wants to steal Christmas from us. Should we let him do it? No. We are going to celebrate it no matter what. Christmas is an annual celebration commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25. It is a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

Nadia Russ, painting JESUS & VIRGIN MARY, mixed media/canvas, 20″X16″, NeoPopRealism, 2023

A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it follows the season of Advent (which begins four Sundays before) or the Nativity Fast, and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many countries, it is celebrated religiously by a majority of Christians, as well as culturally by many non-Christians, and forms an integral part of the holiday season surrounding it.

If you want make this celebration memorable, give your friends and family members the custom made greeting cards “Merry Christmas!” They will love those cards and they will love you for being so thoughtful and creative! Anyone can draw such cards, instead of buying the regular mass production cards in a store. The custom made cards are unique, just as their creators. So let’s start!

First you need to decide what you want to draw. If you are a beginner, draw something simple, like a Christmas Tree made of the letters (see picture). If you are experienced in drawing, then draw Santa Claus! Fold a sheet of thick paper 8.5″x11″ on the middle, do not cut it. Turn it horizontal – the folding line must be on the top. Draw image of your greeting card “Merry Christmas!” using a black thin ink pen: the contours of Santa Claus’ body and/ or the Christmas Trees (letters).

Draw Santa Claus gradually, step-by-step (see picture). Then, divide all the images (Santa Claus, trees, or letters) into sections. Next step would be filling these sections with different repetitive patterns, some sections you should leave blank.

Use your imagination when you create the patterns, do not copy them. This kind drawing is fun and excitement. This art style called NeoPopRealism. It was created by Nadia Russ in 1989. When your NeoPopRealist Greeting card “Merry Christmas!” is ready, place it in a large envelope, or just give it your friend like that.
If you are an art educator, you may want to teach your students to draw such cards. Visit this website, it has many NeoPopRealism drawing art lesson plans: http://neowhimsies.blogspot.com/2012/11/art-lesson-plan-greeting-card-merry.html?m=1 .
Or you even can get a book that teaches how to draw NeoPopRealism, there are a bunch of them to pick from what you need: http://www.neopoprealism.org/.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

The 5G Antennas Above Preschools? Which Adverse Effects Humanity Can Expect From 5G? Let’s Ask Scientists

It is the great time of the year, with up coming holidays, promising a lot of gifts and happiness. But not for all. The unlucky children of 2-8 years old from The Ring Around the Rosie Toddler Preschool in Brooklyn, NY, got a bunch of 5G antennas on the roof. The powerful 5G technology can dramatically destroy their health within short period of time. Located at 7104 13th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11228, this preschool had an image of a friendly and family oriented place, with comforting atmosphere that parents and their children (3-k and Pre-k) enjoyed for years. The 5G untennas installation brings completely different reality, turning this healthy place from The Ring Around the Rosie preschool to The 5G Ring Around the Rosie preschool — https://rumble.com/v3zqw0f-omg-eric-adams-these-unlucky-children-got-5g-antennas-for-christmas-it-is-b.html

So what is wrong with 5G technology? From an article, written by the scientists Ronald N. Kostoff, Paul Heroux, Michael Aschner, and Aristides Tsatsakis, it is clear that the 5G adverse effects can derive from the intrinsic nature of the radiation and its interaction with tissue and target structures. The 5G networking technology is much more powerful than 4G. This article presents evidence that the nascent 5G mobile networking technology can affects not only the skin and eyes, but will have adverse systemic effects as well: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S037842742030028X?via%3Dihub . This article exposes adverse effects of non-ionizing non-visible radiation reported in the premier biomedical literature.

Possible Adverse Effects of 5G:
– Metabolic desturbance – discomfort symptoms;
– Sensory disorders;
– Sleep disorders;
– Congenital abnormalities;
– Precancerous conditions and Cancer;
– Neirodegeneration;
– Neirobehavioral disorders;
– Infertility;
– Cardiovascular disorders; more.

You may ask: “Then why there are so many articles that say that 5G won’t cause any harm?” The answer is as follow: “Most of the laboratory experiments conducted to date are not designed to identify the more severe adverse effects reflective of the real-life operating environments where wireless radiation systems operate. Many experiments do not include pulsing and modulation of the carrier signal. The majority do not account for synergistic adverse effects of other toxic stimuli (such as chemical and biological) acting in concert with the wireless radiation.” Simply saying, those studies are missing the real-life components, which exacerbate the adverse effects of the wireless radiation. The literature still shows that there is much valid reason for concern about potential adverse health effects from both 4G and 5G technology. However, the most studies on wireless radiation health presented in the literature, should be viewed as super conservative and underestimating the real life impacts of new technology on human health. Hopefully, the government would not underestimate the dangers of 5G antennas and they would be removed from the residential buildings, schools and all places where people work or reside.

New Cambridge University Press Books Reviews: Genocide, Justice After Mao, The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics, and Lucretius and the End of Masculinity

Justice After Mao: The Politics of Historical Truth in the People’s Republic of China by Daniel Leese and Amanda Shuman (editors) published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. Ten years after Mao’s death in 1976, the CCP made huge ideological, organizational, and financial attempts to “redress past injustices and atrocities.” This book presents a research from multi-national group of scholars. It focuses on historical justice in the CCP and how it attempted to overcome the legacies of rampant factionalism and political persecution in the wake of Cultural Revolution. It explores such subjects as establishing the new standards of truth, attempts at fostering reconciliation within local communities, property restitution, processes that constituted the reexamination, the importance of official memory and written historical narratives, the unofficial and individual attempts to fashion a meaningful “truth” of Mao-era injustices, moral responsibility for Mao-era injustices, the danger of repeating previous mistakes, and more. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/justice-after-mao/166A70B2E02D92FACFE0CAE44002902E/.

Thanksgiving Is Almost Here! Get Ready

The Thanksgiving holiday is almost here! It is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. It started as a day of thanksgiving  and harvest festival, with the theme of the holiday revolving around giving thanks. The center of Thanksgiving celebrations is a Thanksgiving dinner, which traditionally consists of turkey, potatoes – mashed or sweet, squash, cranberries, and pumpkin pie. Thanksgiving is regarded as the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season.

The Thanksgiving greeting cards can be purchased in various stores, but you can make them by yourself! Then it woul be more meaningful, more valuable and more memorable! We will show below how to create your own Thanksgiving humorous greeting card “Never Give Up!” You do not have to be super talented in arts, give it a try! Your friends and family will appreciate it more.

So, let’s get ready to draw your Thanksgiving greeting card! Get a sheet of white or any color thick paper size 8.5″x11″. Fold it on the middle, do not cut it. Turn it horizontal – the folding line must be on the top. Get the thin black ink pen and draw on the middle a contour of turkey. Then draw the turkey’s tail and the wings, it will create the sections. Then, fill these sections with different repetitive patterns. Some sections should be left blank. Use imagination and create the new patterns instead of copying the offered ones. That’s all! Card is ready. This art style – NeoPopRealism – was created by artist Nadia Russ in 1989 (http://www.nadiaruss.com):

If you are an art educator, you can teach your students of all ages using this art lesson plan: https://neowhimsies.blogspot.com/2012/10/humorous-greeting-card-never-give-up.html/. There are many how-to books on how to draw NeoPopRealism. Check them out: http://www.neopoprealism.org/.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

New Books Reviews: The New Public Health, Smart Urban Mobility, Sustainable Mass Transit, and the Oceans and Human Health, published by Elsevier

The New Public Health, 4h edition, by Theodore H. Tulchinsky, Elena A. Varavikova, Matan J. Cohen published by the AP (Elsevier) in 2023. This book discusses the immunization of majority of a population, up to 95% (“for highly infectious diseases”). It states that the immunization coverage in a community must be monitored to gauge the extent of protection and that the program modification is needed to achieve the targets of disease control. This account explores the “public health interventions in the form of vaccination saving millions of lives each year…”. The authors of this book belong to those who are sure that “…Successful methods for the Covid-19 virus have opened new vistas in vaccinology that should enhance improvements in public health in coming decades.” But how about our immune system we born with, that has an ability to fix all issues the natural way, without any medications? Physical exercises, fruit and veggies, drinking a lot of water, good sleep and positivity can make a miracle. So let’s not forget about this option! This book also discusses the history of public health, the Global environmental issues, the rapid population growth in poorest countries, the high level of energy consumption and low rates of population growth in industrialized countries, economic of health, human resources, and much, much more (https://educate.elsevier.com/book/details/9780128229576).

NYC’s March to End Fossil Fuels Urges Biden to Declare Climate Emergency

On September 17, 2023, the March of Climate Justice activists took place in NYC ahead of the United Nations climate summit. 500 groups and hundreds scientists endorsed this protest action demanding to end Fossil fuels. Participants of this march included thousands of activists from across the country and from abroad. It was the largest march in 5 years that took place in the US. Protesters urged Biden to quickly move on with halting the approval of new gas and oil projects, declaring climate emergency, and stopping using the fossil fuels. This week, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky planned to reintroduce the Future Generation Protection Act that should ban greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, crude oil and natural gas exports. While most of protesters were talking about ending use of the fossil fuel, some brought there a bunch of Communism’s related brochures, flyers and other promotional materials, inviting to join the Communist Party of the US. They were the right fit there.

“No nonsense” Climate Ambition Summit has began. Its aims is to accelerate the business giants, world leaders and all others to race to “protect the planet.” Extreme weather events and fires displacing many people and the planet is heating up. But is this something new? We experience, flooding, storms and tornados on this planet for thousands of years. The fires are quite different and quite suspicious thing and many think that they were custom made with the purpose to displace people. Here the investigations needed. However, the protesters put blame for everything on the use of coal, oil, and gas. They also do not mention the power of the Universe, as if the Earth was located in the vacuum and we were not affected by the Space’s “weather,” Sun storms, Solar flares and tornados… . Sun is the main source of heat on our planet. May be the Climate Justice activists should prison Sun first?