Alta (Piratess Friday) Murphy
Entrepreneur – Artist – Digital Creator –Peninsula Pirate – Queen of Patience in Public Education – Remote Support Ninja – Believes life is too short to not maximize your potential
Alta’s Education and Goals
Piratess Friday is the online personal brand created by Alta Murphy for the purpose of creating and selling art and influencing personal expression in other entrepreneurs. Currently her projects include creating content for YouTube, copywriting, blogs, and other social media platforms at Peninsula College.
Alta has spent well over 20 years in customer service and tech support both on-call and remote and is currently furthering her education by working on two degrees at Peninsula College simultaneously: Business Entrepreneurship Foundations AAS-T and Muti-media Web Communications and Design AAS-T with the intent of pursuing a Bachelor of Management and providing tips for other small business startups or employment seeking individuals.
CO-OWNER OF OLYMPIC TV & TECH
A small business focused on smart-home integration, entire property security camera coverage, customer tech and cord-cutting education, and bringing professional Starlink installations to remote internet locations. Her husband Michael used to own Master Printer’s in Springfield providing all printing for Branson Missouri and has helped propose and design major marketing plans on the printing side for Frito Lay, Anheuser Bush, and Tyson Foods. After selling the company they have spent the last 25 years working together in tech support and telecommunications, traveling, and installing cable, fiber, DSL and wireless radio point to point.
How She Got here
Piratess Friday set out with her family with her inheritence of $10,000 to Washington from Iowa with the goal of reaching the “Blue Hole” of Sequim for smoother and less drastic weather conditions, establishing a new house, and business platform. She used the funds to travel and live off the land for a long voyage visiting a lot of historical landmarks and museums along the way to enrich the history homeschooling lesssons of her child Dennis. Then used the rest of the funds to buy a 40 foot wooden yacht for her family to live on until housing became avaiable there.
She established herself in a tech support job and went back to school with the help of Worker Retraining at the Peninsula College to refresh her 25 year old accounting degree and study modern business, art, and marketing.
Get In Touch
Piratess Friday is always open to new ideas and collaborating, affiliate marketing, product reviews, and private project offers. See something you like? Don’t hesitate in reaching out to piratessfriday@gmail.com
Where is this blog going for me?
My piece – “Happy to See you!” I like to paint from photographs and I took one of a really old piece at a thrift store in Port Orchard or Port Townsend called “Little Charlie” by Marty Goldstein that both myself and my boy enjoyed because I thought repainting the dog would be fun and I was right. I cannot find the original photo I took but here is the piece:
This is precious to me because every stroll and minute I get to introduce my kiddo to art and broaden his horizons is a blessing to me. We had just began our Washington adventure and completed the long trek from Iowa with only $10,000 that I had inherited from my mother. The voyage in the pop-up camper was a long one as we took months to carefully use the funds for museums and educational history stops over the year we traveled. We wanted to follow things like the Pioneer Trail and we visited places like the B Nuclear Reactor and dinosaur exhibits so that our kid could “experience” history and not just look at pictures in a school. It took us a year of campsites and fishing to make the money last, and we were pretty confident our skills would be useful for employment when we settled.
We were fortunate enough to find a 40′ wooden boat to live on when we arrived to avoid the high local rentals while we re-entered the tech industry. This was from one of the first quaint little local places we visited.We discovered the sculpture was part of a “Harvey dog series” and the whimsical bronze pieces have been bringing joy in pediatric cancer wards since 1995 Marty Goldstein Bio — The Artist (theartistllc.com)Links to an external site.. My kiddo had a cauliflower tumor above his front teeth when he was about 5 and thankfully it was removed as benign, but my father passed of multiple cancers from being on one of the original ships in WWI passing through after the bomb dropped and so I decided this sculpture deserved a comfy dog bed after standing so long. I pictured “Charlie” would be happy with this and created a way to “shadow” the tail so that it looks like it’s wagging and happy. I hope when people see my painting that it makes them smile and gives them a little happy “boost” because how upset can you be with a tail wagging at you? I plan to use the “movement shadow idea” I have created in future paintings for sure and I do not know enough about painting and have never taken any art or painting classes, so I am not sure if this “movement thing” can just be my own painting style? Or if this has been done before? I did learn to add some motion to my digital art last quarter with the motion blur and may look into other ways to add “action” digitally. I love to photograph things that can move like this little octopus here, maybe I will take him places:
UPDATE: Concept: FANTASY DIGITAL VACATION planned by me : I took the little white anenome pic I had into AI first… and when he stepped into AI he was duplicated as the all powerful version behind him which had him drive to a new underwater planet. His other real life companiions began to arrive and break the veil between worlds…
