Under 60 second MUSIC + COMIC on our first single panel car comics. I did around 47 single panel car joke comics as a webcomic before I decided it wasn’t getting any increase of readership and I should move on to something else instead. This all in my spare time in 2014, as I made a living doing electronics and software engineering. They are mostly based on the format used in the Non Sequitur comic strip. A single illustration with text in 2 parts, where many are jokes. I tried a few art styles with them. Very rough sketchy pen photoshop colored. Clean black marker photoshop colored, and black marker with watercolor.
You need to spend far more time promoting and networking anything you make than you do making stuff, and that just doesn’t interest me. Never has.
"An artists job, he said, was maybe 30% making art, and 70% selling your self to those rich enough to buy art."
The music in this is 8 and 7 string guitars, drums and synths. Using the same instruments and track arrangement as the recent others. I just haven’t tired of this setup yet. I don’t spend much time worrying about the mixing and mastering either anymore. If it sounds alright to me at the moment, and looks reasonable on the SPAN spectrum analyzer in mastering mode it is good to go. I expect the few people that watch the MUSIC + COMICs are doing so on their phone over the phone’s speaker. Maybe they are using earbuds is the best I could expect, and I do make sure nothing is panned 100% left or right. “No highs, no lows, it must be B0SE”, is all completely fine for the majority, and BOSE have done so well not comparing themselves to others.
YouTube shorts get far more views than just music tracks on Bandcamp ever do. But the YouTube algorithm keeps on changing. Three years ago, that was in the 1,000s, but now some 300 is all we can expect maximum. More often just single digit views. It seems I get the most views at the moment, I need to post so that they hit America/Europe Saturday/ Sunday night. If post at other times, it just doesn’t get seen.
My YouTube channel's MUSIC VIDEO playlist has 165 of my videos in it, but has only had 108 views.
YouTube changes to AI driven algorithm, programming and content creation seems to be pushing out human involvement completely.
A few YouTubers have gone into that, such as EEVBlog . Feel lucky I don’t need to make a living from it and lost interest trying to comply with their ever changing requirements on creators 10 years ago. Have an old blog post on that downward trending views and website hits of Googles constant algorithm changes, and their constantly falling shared their profits & “bait and switch”.
Not all my MUSIC + COMICs get put on YouTube though. The ones that have a cover song type track are only for X, as that seems the only place along with my own blog, where that is still okay to do. Not being someone that chases followers, most don’t get noticed. But I make them because I need too.
Predator Badlands
Saw Predator Badlands opening session Friday here and loved it. The runt of the litter (the Predator actor is only 7' 4" tall) succeeds through friendship. The connection with the ALIEN universe via WEYLAND-YUTANI corporation all makes sense. The music is also awesome.
The subtitles were especially great. There are a lot of subtitles. A line of Japanese over a line of English for Predator spoken language, and just the Japanese for the spoken English. All in the same font and color. Many subtitled foreign films in Japan, only ever have the Japanese.
I never went to see any Predator movie at the cinema before, but did this time because it isn't like the others. Those old Predator movie die-hards seem to hate this one for doing it wrong, but from my POV, it has been done very right.
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