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Time of the signs . . . sign of the . . .

The X factor . . . ?                                                                                  X marks the spot. 2024 Note. - The events described below started unfolding to me in June 2022.  It was in Bill Fay's song - Time to wake up now - where he sings that it is "time to feed the birds - and hope they feed you too - for you need them, more than they need you." I knew that the line in that song was true, its just that I never knew just how true true was. I love animals, and my wife and I decided we should donate some of our sales from our artworks to the local animal shelter here in Monroe County, Alabama.  It was all fine well and good to donate to the shelter. It was great to know that the animals were to feel the benefit of the donations, yet indirectly it set me to thinking that there was more to it than that. Something was missing and something was gnawing at me I guess you could say. I am one of those people who studies things, ponders things and medita
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Kings Heath - Reimagined - part three.

Still Life Jimi Hendrix - 'Winter Still Life' - 10 x 8 inches oil on board. Pink Floyd - 68 - Syd Barrett. Acrylic and pencil on paper. 12 x 5 inches approx   Alternative York Road - Kings Heath 1967 - [ or not ] Above - so, after the previous post that got me thinking about Silver Street, York Road, Alcester Rd Sth etc and how it would be if Jimi Hendrix did do an impromptu 'concert' in Kings Heath - seeing as he was at the Ritz and not playing officially there that night. Maybe he'd spill out and over into the street somewhere? Well, anyway - it made for an interesting flight of fancy for a fleeting moment or two. Those fleeting moments have been a surreal platform for my imagination thats lingered now for over 56 years or so! Time Flies! Alan G Brooks Kings Heath - Reimagined - part two
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Kings Heath - Reimagined - part two.

 True story this one.  It was 1967 and I had just been to the swimming baths. It was cold and typically English weather - plus I think it was well on the way to Christmas too. I could be wrong about that one - but it is not particularly important to the story so - let's move on. I was in Silver Street at the Fish and Chip shop. Getting some nosh to stave off the hunger that swimming had brought on. Also - fish and chips are much better after you've had a swim - and it's a bit of a ritual anyway. So, I bump into an old school friend out side the shop. He was a guitar player and getting involved in all of that. Guitars hadn't totally got me yet - but it was all around - and it was 1967 too! I wasn't prepared for the statement that unfolded next. My friend told me that Jimi Hendrix was here last week in the road next to the chip shop and where we were standing. York Rd where the Ritz ballroom stood. This place had the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Pink Floyd - yo
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Kings Heath - Reimagined

                            So - I'm getting bits and pieces together of Kings Heath so as to make a story about it. It'll be my story and it will all be the absolute truth. I know it will be the absolute truth because I will be making it all up myself! Bottom line is a lot of great things happened in - on - and around Kings Heath. Trouble is I only found out about many of them a little too late, it seems. So, the big one was my being a little too young at the time to appreciate the Ritz Ballroom in York Road. To find out that such a magical place existed and pulled in the likes of the Beatles, The Kinks, Moody Blues, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd - and more, is staggering. They all played there in the sixties. Just up the road from where I lived and 'grew up.'  So I thought I'd get involved in all of that past and hot rod it all up a bit. Not that a line up of bands  like the above need hot rodding or embellishing in any way at all. Just stay tuned  and you will see w
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Now and Then -

 This or That is . . . Now and Then [Alan G Brooks 2018] ---| implanting of machine forces into humans |--- Man will, in time, manage to implant the death-forces in man, related to electrical and magnetic forces, with external machines. He will then be able to direct his intentions, his thoughts into the machine. ( Rudolf Steiner, Individuelle Geistwesen und einheitlicher Weltengrund, November 25, 1917, Dornach "Monskeeto" - Mosquito / Monsanto Alan G Brooks 
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Music, Metal - and more Music

 Music - Metal - Prog Rock I have put up some more pieces on my website that are sci fi and music themed.  I am settling in to work again after settling in to the new house. I am taking commissions again in music, sci fi and fantasy related art - cover art, logo design - the works. Back in the saddle is - [I guess] - what I'm saying - so Onwards and Upwards and back to it. See you there - gallery  Alan G Brooks Design
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Studio

photo - Becky Brooks We bought a farm house and are renovating it. I have spacious room upstairs for three studios. Becky has a building / Barn / that we will renovate and turn into a work area / studio / and workshop[s] for her. Plenty of room for our dogs and cat to run and explore - next door to us have horses and hounds, cows and you name it - our other neighbor's the same. All of this is very exciting and I am never forgetting that this is all about having the best place for us to create in. I have wanted to dedicate and get involved properly in my work for way too long. Now I can. Now I am. Stay tuned as I update the site with updates to house and home - and more importantly - show the artworks that are forthcoming from this new beginning. New adventure. Onwards and Upwards Alan G Brooks Becky Brooks
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