PsychoVoyager

Full disclosure: I'm not the "manliest man you've ever seen," nor is this song/vid about me walking out of a closet (though I was hoping to finish this during the most hilarious Pride month ever. I took note of a weird social media meltdown last year-ish, in the so-called "manosphere" space. Apparently, a masculine influencer had been caught in activity that some of his followers and detractors found... unsavory. The song isn't about the influencer, but the amusing way horseshoe theory applies to "manliness." I remember my dad trying to explain the Village People to me and thinking, "really?" "Macho Man?" "In The Navy?" "Come on, man!" Used a number of AI tools to construct the video, Stable Diffusion Deforum notebook, Kaiber.AI, app.runwayml.com, Adobe for the free use of a couple of their cartoony puppets, and edited with my own vids (some used to construct other images) in KDenlive.

Song recorded in Reaper (DAW), video put together and edited in Davinci Resolve, with visuals produced by a Pixel phone, AI generated images; ArtFlow, Kaiber, RunwayML, Synclabs, with cross-pollination between apps for some images/video. Invideo for AI generated narration voice and mini-documentary, plus stock licensed stock footage. Music is me, plus synthesized background vocals via Synthesizer V. Anything I forgot I'll add as I remember.

I used Invideo A.I. for a previous project, "We Know Nothing," generating a script, voice, and stock video footage. Coming to the end of that month's subscription (no particular use at the moment), I "created" a short piece on the oft-used pejorative, Bumbaclot. In my youth, I'd heard the term "Bloodclot" or "Bloodclart" (latter spelling seen on an anti-Trump sign a few years ago) when friends of mine would mock Jamaican accents. Being of Jamaican and Haitian lineage, I'd somehow never heard this term from family or associates from the island. Asked my dad about it, and he simply said "It's not a nice thing to say." I dropped the subject. Currently, it seems bumbaclot is far more popular than bloodclart, and I see it over-used by Jamaicans, here, as was the "N-word" not that long ago. A recent exclamation by a co-worker inspired me to use what remained on my account on this subject. I may, or may not repurpose this film at some some future time. https://ai.invideo.io/

Bookshelf porn without the bookshelves. Gave some relief to my bedroom bookshelf which was overcapacity. Opportunity to talk random comicbooks.

A public speaking exercise, using the Elegant Teleprompter app on Android. Take 4 of 6.