Almost half way through the year, and have had fewer freelance illustration gigs than have had for the last fair few years. Not that that matters any more to me. I have lots of my own trips, music, animation and comics to fill my time with.
Maybe I have finally, really, retired?
I think there are a few reasons for this.
1. Googles change from a search engine to an advertisement delivery platform, means no one can find anything any more.
2. Googles AI search front end makes up replies and doesn't direct people to websites any more.
3. People are probably now trying AI to generate their logos rather than than paying an illustrator/graphic designer.
4. Google is constantly making up new excuses why the webpages that have been indexed for the last 17 years don't comply any more.
5. I expect with the new ANALYTICS requirement that site visitors have to agree to the tracking or not, and me just making ALL pages DENY TRACKING without asking the user at all, get down ranked in search.
I can see from our website stats that visits are way down for people actively looking at logo and illustration samples, and the SPAM email for Improve your SEO with AI is now way, WAY up.
There is also so much AI generated waffling junk on YouTube and Websites the usefulness of the internet has been greatly diminished for the majority. Nothing I can do about any of that.
The other thing now seems to be everybody else has a YouTube channel, podcast and livestreams all the time.
It has been a problem for awhile that real information that should have been a paragraph on a website, probably on Reddit at the moment, or blog, has become a 30minute video, of most meaningless waffle. But that is the general problem with Social Media. So much noise with so little value, but enough for the uncritical masses. And everyone is like that sometimes.
All distractions.
To come up with your own original stuff, you need to be away from engagement distractions. Just thinking. I suggest instrumental music doesn't harm and doesn't distract in the same way.
Got to say traditional commercial media is terrible too:
Always with the spin.
But recent good news has been that both Canada and Australia rejected Fascism in their elections. Good to see. Despite the Murdoch owned media in Australia saying in the lead up it was a sure thing the Fascists will have any easy victory!
I am our cats human. Not the other way round. And for him we made a trip yesterday afternoon to the other side of the tracks, near SUMINODO Station Osaka as that is where the best cat groomer we have found is now working, after being local for years. An hour trip each way. Our cat had developed a rather nasty clump of tangled fur, in his very long coat he could not clean up himself and we couldn't cut off, so we decided he needed a short cut for summer, as we had done previously. Most places only trim dogs, not cats.
SUMINODO is an area that is being redeveloped, that isn't well off. There was a volunteer driven place for free kids meals for down and out families. Very different from where we live.
We had to wait 2 hours for our cat's cut and wash so walked around the area, then spent some time in a STARBUCKS. Nearby we later found a Holly’s Café, Doutor Coffee and a Zetteria. Zetteria is what Lotteria now is. I found STARBUCKS annoying as the BGM was way too loud and I couldn't hear what my wife was saying. I hate loud BGM, but isn't a problem if I am by myself and have headphones on. Had the current Mango Frappuccino and stretched out drinking it to almost an hour. A new record for me. Next time would try another place. I am not a STARBUCKS fan at all.
Last weeks MY WAY - SEEKERS OF KNOWLEDGE was on 18th generation Taiko drum maker, Yasuo Asano.
How he has updated the product line with traditional, quality improved and new products was fascinating. A Taiko Troupe is an awesome sound.
Which is now the next musical thing I will try. A Taiko Troupe Loop and Metal guitar and Synths, like this:
And the track TAIKO METAL is on our Bandcamp page here.
And the short version, that will probably get more views
First use of Gemini AI asking for a similar image to the GROK rubbish above, and it did a much better job. I did add the logo to the big back drum in photoshop though.
Have a small family trip in a couple of weeks to Nagoya, my wife and her sister are going for a small trip to Nagano where they lived for a few years growing up, and I am now looking more intensely at the options to get a Win11 PC before October. My existing PC is perfectly fine, it just doesn't support Win11 and Win10 support finishes in October.
I bought DELL PCs online at one time, then later used a, local at the time, PC store to build them, but now it may be easiest to get a locally assembled machine, such as MOUSE or store APPLIED NET.
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