I don't know who I'm writing this for. The original intent was to just try to have a regular memory boosting account of things as they happen since my memory is going bad.
I went back to Japan.. TWO YEARS AGO now. And I filmed some videos that were basically just photo books, and those have helped me remember that trip. I watch them often. So I should keep doing that.
I'm gonna try to spend 10 minutes a day writing down something. For a little bit. Til I get distracted or forget.
Just gonna try making it a habit. No real goal of writing anything in particular.
For today, I just don't want to be on social media anymore. I'm people'd out. I get along with people just enough, but I just never "fit" anywhere. I'm gonna try to take a week off, and avoid facebook (which I only reactivated for marketplace, but now I have no real desire to buy anything, so I wasted time arguing about Star Trek) X or Twitter, I don't really interact on much anyway. I just go for new and dumb takes on it. Everyone is so political.
Reddit is a time sink and everyone is angry and political there too.
Instagram is just doomscrolling dumb videos, which I'm sad to say I really enjoy. But's rotting my brain and I have no drive or desire for much of anything.
I experimented with Animation last weeked. Had some impressive results inserting my Adobe Illustrator Character into Imagine.art. Wasted a month worth of credits super fast, but I found it's easier to create a still of the character, and it will animate it properly rather than spending any more time trying to get Duik Angela to fucking rig the character so it will walk correctly. It had my legs spinning around wildly. So dissapointing and demoralizing to spend what little time I can claw away from the constant disaster around here, only to have it wasted on a software not doing what I wanted it to. Imagine.art a.i., now that I know how to tell it prompts to get the animation I want, is definitely a time saver. But expensive. I am considering trying a credit license for a month at $100. Make as many animations as I can, and then have a library to use for my show idea.
Ten minutes. Good enough start.