IN THE NEXT DIMENSION: First 4 pages as Music+Comic

 

First 4 pages of my 2022 comic as a music + comic. The whole 18 pages as a .CBR file downloadable from our free comics page.

Had started an extended version of the Hail Mary music a week or so ago, but with not feeling great, didn't come back to it till yesterday.

And this morning thought to do this first 4 pages with 2 minutes of music to see what it looks like. Of course realizing that doing that Monday morning is when no one will see it.

I then added that DUAL progress bar. RED for MUSIC duration and GREEN for when pages change. Seemed like a good idea. 

This and my other comics are being constantly accessed by AI scrapers in Singapore and China, so it would be nice if a human, or even an alien, took a look too.  

I'm not blocking the scrapers though. Think that is a pointless struggle now and I just give these away anyway as something I wanted to do.

Makes me realize I haven't done a multipage comic since 2022 too.  Found them really interesting to do, but isn't something anyone else bothers to look at as far as I can tell.  

And most people only look at the first 2 seconds of the MUSIC+COMICS on YouTube I have made. 2 seconds. That is immediately determining they don't want to see it.  YouTube is broken in so many ways now.  In the time this got 8 views on YouTube, it got 80 on Facebook REELs. 

Other Things

I see they are announcing Dune PART3. I have no interest in seeing that at all. Still think the REDUX fan edit of David Lynch's DUNE is a better movie.  

Friends are not posting like they did on Social Media, a few have stated they are trying to get away, and stay from it.  Even those that are actually good people can post far too much. A few others are using it to promote interesting things.  Recently I mostly post a music+comic, and maybe something else on my mind once a week, but that isn't what the algorithm wants and my time line is filled with orange garbage.

Like watching the end of Sumo Haru Basho in Osaka yesterday afternoon:

Since I started the medical procedures end of January, our cat hasn't wanted to sit on my lap like he always does. I assume the medicine/ointment and his empathy just makes that not something he wants to do at the moment. Instead if I am lying on the bed, he will lie next to, or across my ankles. The physical connection.   

Kirishima had already won outright the day before. Onosato had pulled out at day 3 of the 14. Aonishiki, who had been unbeatable the last 2 bashos, wasn't this time, and even Hoshoryu beat him for the first time, after loosing the previous 4 attempts. Not much for watching sports, other than some motorsport, but I find Sumo really interesting, even if I can only remember the names of about 8 wrestlers at any given time.  Favorite is Ura, just as he often does the most entertaining moves, even if he only wins about 50% of the time.. 

Seen a few advertisements for EL CLAPO, a hand clap and foot stomping vst.   On special at the moment. Seems to work pretty well, but I don't need to do a version of QUEENS - WE WILL ROCK YOU, and that makes it kind of limited to me. Cool, but kind of a one trick pony... 

To come up with the next thing I want to do, I need to be offline and just think about stuff without distractions.  That is actually the same for anybody...

Of the things I have done recently, I feel STORY SHAPED BEATS means the most to me, despite getting few views:

I was visiting a medical clinic regularly for a couple of months, listening to old and new John Foxx and spending even more time with our cat. Or rather he was spending even more time with me as I didn't go out much during recovery from each small procedure. 

It is 3/4s synthesizers and sequences with a spoken lyric and a late section with heavy guitar. I spent 25years of my tech career developing systems to make music with synthesizers, so it doesn't have to be all guitars. 

It is a complete, non traditionally formatted song that tells a story to me of the time I made it.  Most of what I do, with the MUSIC+COMICS is about some kind of "story", or says something. To me at least.

Most people I follow on social media aren't about songs. They shred a solo or something. Very skilled, but it doesn't "say anything".     

 

But I think about that kind of thing a lot, and reposted this old comic I did this on the subject CREATIVITY V SKILL.

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