Degenerative Arthritis Davey Do

Thank you all for your empathy, well-wishes, and interest!

Trish said:
I hope you can continue to do your art which, I think is great :)
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Oh Trish. Thank you for your compliment, and if I could not do my art, I would be a miserable, lost soul.

In dealing with the major life crisis in my life, I've had people & God to buoy me on, and since my art is God's gift, I thank the Universal Soul every day for that gift.

Thirty plus years ago when I made a commitment to do art every day, I wrote, "Make everything art", so life's joys and pains have always been an inspiration.

Belinda bought me a really cool black cane last Autumn when this Auto-Immune Thing first reared its ugly head and it couldn't have been better had she bought me a big black Harley Hog. However, I found crutches are more comfortable in motivating with this hip pain, and I kept a set in the basement rafters obtained after a knee surgery, again 30+ years ago.

The crutches are not as cool looking as the cane, being a dull gray color, so I set out to spiffy them up some with black & white paint:



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Again, I thank you for your involvement.
 
I am sp sorry you suffer from this. While I share your problem…I do not generally have all the pain. I think my mind is too simple. Hooe ypu find something that gives you some relief. Soon.
 
Davey Do said:
Thank you all for your empathy, well-wishes, and interest!



Oh Trish. Thank you for your compliment, and if I could not do my art, I would be a miserable, lost soul.

In dealing with the major life crisis in my life, I've had people & God to buoy me on, and since my art is God's gift, I thank the Universal Soul every day for that gift.

Thirty plus years ago when I made a commitment to do art every day, I wrote, "Make everything art", so life's joys and pains have always been an inspiration.

Belinda bought me a really cool black cane last Autumn when this Auto-Immune Thing first reared its ugly head and it couldn't have been better had she bought me a big black Harley Hog. However, I found crutches are more comfortable in motivating with this hip pain, and I kept a set in the basement rafters obtained after a knee surgery, again 30+ years ago.

The crutches are not as cool looking as the cane, being a dull gray color, so I set out to spiffy them up some with black & white paint:



Again, I thank you for your involvement.
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Sincerely, I look forward to seeing your posts.

I have many hobbies and, without them, life would not be the same so, I know exactly what you mean. "Make Everything Art" is a great approach to life. I hope the pain meds help x
 
@Davey Do
While doing some standing up exercises I heard a faint voice say "How's Davey Do?" I think it was that Edward Beecher dude. I missed an earlier opportuninty to wish you well. God knows I wanted to. :) Political forces captured me for a week, obsessively. I hope that you are getting on OK. Through rain, thunder, lightning, snow, heat, traffic, and a marching band our art must get through. As god is THE witness, we never stopped. Thank you for being an inspiration to the group here. You are to me. Attitude my son...you got it. And now a message of "who knows"! :)

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THAT was one uplifting post, @Paco Dennis! Thank you for your inspirational words and well-wishes. And, for the entertainingly humorous GIF! Oh, to be able to throw my crutches down and dance like the Old Dude in the animation.

My response may read like a rubber-stamped response, but please be aware your words hit home with me: "God is the witness" and "we never know".

God has allowed me to be blessed more times in my life than I am able to reckon or count, even though at times of "rain, thunder, lightning, snow, heat, traffic, and the marching band" I have felt abandoned by The Almighty, but it all came in the wash.

My art, my gift from God, has never failed to buoy me through life's trials and tribulations and art keeps me afloat now, and your words, Paco Dennis, are the sweet hope of Spring.

Thank you.
 
Davey Do said:
A big THANK YOU to @Paco Dennis for inspiring a new animation technique!



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I do believe you are now well on your way to a much healthier future. Just don't go too fast, or you will get hurt. Hurting is a bummer. It can steal our attention away from what inspires us. So for your next addition to your exercises. ( keep on dancing :) ), add a few moves in there...lets see. Ok...this is called "Clear my path". It can be added when you are dancing. :)

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Paco Dennis said:
I do believe you are now well on your way to a much healthier future. Just don't go too fast, or you will get hurt.​
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I first read this this morning while drinking my coffee with some skepticism, Paco Dennis, but I must now humbly admit that you are spot-on. Decreased pain, no pain meds for a few days now, less use of the cane, and a willingness to desire to do more is the proof in the pudding. I shall heed your warning, Kind Sir, and titrate my physical actions prudently.

I've done a couple of sets on the universal, will wait and see how my body responds, and then go from there.

But what I really want to do is to thank you again, Paco Dennis, for inspiring this new form of animation. After following a script with the Lovejoy Story, I was desiring to do more spontaneously abstract animation. The first GIF you posted of the Old Dude throwing away his crutches and dancing opened the door. Someone edited part of the dance sequence with additional animation and I was intrigued.

In an attempt to emulate the movements of the second GIF you posted, this animation was created:



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Davey Do said:
I first read this this morning while drinking my coffee with some skepticism, Paco Dennis, but I must now humbly admit that you are spot-on. Decreased pain, no pain meds for a few days now, less use of the cane, and a willingness to desire to do more is the proof in the pudding. I shall heed your warning, Kind Sir, and titrate my physical actions prudently.

I've done a couple of sets on the universal, will wait and see how my body responds, and then go from there.

But what I really want to do is to thank you again, Paco Dennis, for inspiring this new form of animation. After following a script with the Lovejoy Story, I was desiring to do more spontaneously abstract animation. The first GIF you posted of the Old Dude throwing away his crutches and dancing opened the door. Someone edited part of the dance sequence with additional animation and I was intrigued.

In an attempt to emulate the movements of the second GIF you posted, this animation was created:



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That one is GREAT!!!! :)
 
Hey Davey Do. Great work you’ve been doing. I’m glad Dennis has been about to help you. Dennis is great with computers. He helped me with my musical software.

Dealing with arthritic degeneration is difficult. It’s so painful. I hope you find ways to help relieve the pain. I’ve got arthritic generation in my tailbone and right foot. It’s very painful.
I broke my tailbone as a teenager so had it there for many years.
 
In my workout this morning I used the newest Davey-Do exercise video. Put on some dancable music and bopped around for about 15 min. It was great. Pain...what can ya say? I have become increasing involved with the subject as I have added years to my chronology. I expect that it will most likely continue. Oh, well.

DD I didn't intend that you start changing the theme of your story to exercising. :) It probably won't hurt, but we must continue with the adventures of Dr. Lovejoy. Just curious. Have you made any You Tube videos with the Lovejoy story? I might have an easy way to make them.
 
Thank you for your continued interest and involvement, @Paco Dennis, as it is a good part of my morning coffee and wake up routine.

The hip pain was father severe upon arising this a.m. and I found that doing a hula-hoop motion while steadying myself with the cane decreased the discomfort. Not your fifteen-minute bop, still yet a therapeutic experience.

Also, thank you for the Lovejoy reference, which presentation has been shelved due to my condition, planned to be taken off PRN. I've played around with audio in animations, Instagram, and YouTube, but found I was losing the focus of creation & enjoyment and was becoming too much like work. I love the simple media of clay, paint, and other plastic analog art stuff and endeavor to do so spontaneously, so to answer your short question with a long answer, no, I've posted nothing on social media.

I shy away from social media for several reasons, the most important being its design to provide immediate external validation, which once is one's goal, is addictive as meth or cocaine. Sharing my art on a few select websites feeds my monkey, and communicating with a virtual friend like you, Paco Dennis, is icing on the cake.

Thanks!
 
Davey Do said:
Thank you for your continued interest and involvement, @Paco Dennis, as it is a good part of my morning coffee and wake up routine.

The hip pain was father severe upon arising this a.m. and I found that doing a hula-hoop motion while steadying myself with the cane decreased the discomfort. Not your fifteen-minute bop, still yet a therapeutic experience.

Also, thank you for the Lovejoy reference, which presentation has been shelved due to my condition, planned to be taken off PRN. I've played around with audio in animations, Instagram, and YouTube, but found I was losing the focus of creation & enjoyment and was becoming too much like work. I love the simple media of clay, paint, and other plastic analog art stuff and endeavor to do so spontaneously, so to answer your short question with a long answer, no, I've posted nothing on social media.

I shy away from social media for several reasons, the most important being its design to provide immediate external validation, which once is one's goal, is addictive as meth or cocaine. Sharing my art on a few select websites feeds my monkey, and communicating with a virtual friend like you, Paco Dennis, is icing on the cake.

Thanks!
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Your personality is a pleasure to engage with. I have a similar feeling with sharing the art that I made years ago when active. I have it scattered about, but have nothing that I have promoted in any way other than putting out the raw data. I don't keep refining. One or two takes is about my sweet spot. For me is has been a way to set the spirit of what I was experiencing with musical tools. It was fun to just create. Profit has not been involved either. How do you keep fit enough with your hands to create detailed stuff. My hands gave out eventually to the point of being nuisance.

I tried changing the style of my playing,. but never felt a connection with my muse. Now the muse visits all the time in myriads of ways. I like that. :)
 

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