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| Friday ๐ |
I know Friday is half way over but, I’m here! ๐๐
I am here on this blog because I enjoy it, and that is reason enough for me. Perhaps I inspire others in someway, but I’ll probably never know. I’ve only missed one day since I started blogging which I find amazing. I’m consistent with my commitment I made and that feels good. So whatever you may find yourself doing on any given day I hope for you to find some good in it, some personal joy, some reminder of belonging to something greater than it may seem.
I’m going talk a minute about music. To inspire others to purchase some as well. It is bandcamp Friday afterall and it’s been awhile since they have done it. Bandcamp Friday waives their fee so any money given goes to the artist 100%. It’s such a great place for that reason. I have left Spotify, at the beginning of the year, as it seems like it is not the place to support on these days, they really don’t care much and I’ve got strange vibes from them via email as well. My intention was only ever to help other people be seen. So I have returned back to iTunes where I pay for the streaming, but I also like to pay for a stream on bandcamp as well as occasional physical cd or vinyl copies of music. You never really know how long these places will exist and your best bet is to get a copy to listen to if you really like something, just incase the grid goes down or whatever. I do enjoy buying a song here and there from many people instead of a whole album if I only have like five bucks to spend, so I like that I can do that somewhere and people actually get paid something. I have recently purchased some older music not being made anymore from other people. So I’m slightly behind on picking up brand physical copies of newer music I like. I have to catch up ๐ฎ๐จ๐ .
Music I’ve purchased in 2026 in cd or vinyl
Entwine (I’ve been collecting the whole discography) Painstained, Dancing under glass, Dieversity, Fatal Design, the treasure from within, a time of despair. Still need Gone
Evil Mothers- Spider sex and car wrecks CD
Theatre of Tradgedy- Aegรญs CD
Azam Ali- Elysium for the Brave CD
Shiny toy guns- III CD
Charon- Downhearted and Tearstained Vinyls
Physical books are also a great idea for the same reason, and they are getting the chop if you’ve not heard. It is like a new age of book burning only they are being uploaded and shredded. So bizarre. Ai is supposed to inspire, a tool, a hint, enhance even as a piece of the work but not the entirety. Not take over, replace or eliminate art and information. I don’t want to go down that road, it’s a slippery slope topic right now and it’s on fire because the slope is lava and it’s on a volcano. The Ai it is not going anywhere it comes with the age, but it won’t replace a human long as the human doesn’t give up.
For an example my gif above. This one it isn’t actually Ai, I used a real picture and used a premade template background and through on a CGI animation. CGI is a program created by an actual artist they allowed you to use. I never typed in anything to have a computer create something, but did use an app that also supports Ai. So it is complicated. I’m not trying to profit from it though. It is for my own personal use. Also I do know how to digitally illustrate also and make handmade art too.
I don’t know what are your thoughts on royalty free cgi, templates, overlays and IMovie sounds. Is it not art enough? Should I feel like shit because I created it? I really don’t know sometimes. Stuff like that is just for fun for me.
Well I’m going to spend a couple dollars on bandcamp now, I’m really stuck in that mid 2000-early 2010s era of music at the moment on iTunes and what I listened to then.
*not affiliated with bandcamp or any other music platform















