Buttnekkiddoodles

Orvieto. Did the layout and developed the buildings on site. Got to Milano and finally decided to switch from Fountain pen and Pitt Pen Markers to watercolor and lay in the landscape and clouds. Quite the clutz and a bit tight with that medium but this is the year I make a game effort to get comfortable with a medium I am really moved by and in the hands of so many artists I admire can have real zest.

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   It was extraordinarily enjoyable to return to Orvieto after 46 years since I first saw it. The majesty of the cathedral, Maitani’s facade, a the great, great frescoes by Luca Signorelli were as astonishing as when I first stood before them.

 
Cab ride from the airport in Florence to our BnB with a lively conversationist for a cabbie.

 
Looking up at the bluffs from the Etruscan Necropolis. We stayed at an BnB a block behind the tower on the crest. I first visited Orvieto as a 24 year old art student at The University of Texas in Austin. I’ve been yearning to return to my favorite Italian hilltop city. When Rome was sacked in 1527, the Pope took up residence here for some time.

To those who’ve followed me for years, as well as people more recently showing interest, I think you’ll notice I have not been posting with regularity.

The reason being that it has come to be an arduous Drag to post on this platform. Slow. S-s-s-loooooow. sssssssssssllloooooooooooww.
As molasses in January. I try numerous times to download images from my files and more and more, the image does not move to where I can enter it into a new post. So I try again. And again. Super frustrating!! It might take 3-4 attempts over 9-10 minutes. Then I later find the image is now located in my library once for each number of times I tried to get it entered. WTF!

Another frustration is the whole new game of key words. Hastags just don’t seem to get it done. What, there aren’t key words or key phrases used in my meta tags?? Baloney.
Worked in the past but NOW I need to pay some pro to help me build a following. Well, I ain’t gonna do it! More Baloney.

I wrote to the support team that their new algorithms and sluggish posting process was chewing up an undo amount of this “creative”’s time. Inefficient processes and mysterious algorithms do not help me spend more of the time I need, which is to make the work I’m trying to post on this platform.
The response was to discontinue dialogue.

I also find the Comments section closed at times. Why is that?! I don’t close it myself.

As a result, I used other platforms to show my work and my numbers on my WordPress admin site show I’m withering on the vine.
This is happening on a number of social media platforms. If this cannot get improved I may throw in the towel after 15 years of posting on WordPress. We’ll see.

Thanks in advance for following me if this all comes to a halt. I’m super pissed with many of the social media platforms, but my infrequency of posting is a clear sign of my frustration with the nerds who manage WordPress and the programmers who write the algorithm codes. This site is not easy and smooth to use. In fact, it sucks.

The future will see what comes of this.

-Don Colley – Butt Nekkid Doodles

Some travel sketches from my flight with G Babe to Europe.