I resurrected my old sideshowfreak™ stories I started creating about 1989, and before really. I tried turning this into some sort of comic book with a vinyl record back in the 90s once I got my music career sorted out. I had to do music, so I did, but I never wanted to live the nightmare of touring. Over my life I did tour regionally many times. And the ridiculous falsity of ROCK STARDOM? I had studied that along with music all my life. I love the CIRCUS stories of rock stardom. But it is SO FALSE, and SO FAKE.
Besides your art and music, nobody want to hear what a creative person believes. STARS are just fake. There is a real danger of believing your own HUBRIS. Even greater if you you surround yourself with others who buy this idea as well. So WHO WANTS TO BE A ROCK STAR? Hell, even KURT didn’t want to be.
So I wanted to pack all my creative work into some concept blend of medias. I spent years working, saving, building a recording studio, building a record label. It took DECADES. I did put that experiment out in the 90s. I marketed it to College Radio. It got great rotation in pockets all over America. It was very fulfilling. I continued over the years to develop storylines, maps to my comic book world.
Comic Book is a great format. I loved the old horror comics, the vignette approach. Stories were connected by Horror. You could have diverse stories, all in one, but also have a serial format for longer stories. Modern mixed media allows blending other media. Music, sound. etc. ANIMATION!
The short of all this – It is a great time to be creative. The people with the most missing skills will benefit the most from AI. It is like having 70 people working for you. It is here. And right now, anyone outputting using it will make a wave! So I am all in on learning new things, especially that help me output more and better creative stuff. AI also helps automate boring and repetitive tasks. So I am all in now! Adding it to my tool box.
There is a whole other side thing, Intellectual Rights! I want to OWN what I make, like a good American. I have to EAT. So what is copyrightable? What is NOT? WORK NOT produced by a human is NOT copyright protected. A lot of it is actually in PUBLIC DOMAIN where anyone can use it. And questions of whether AI might be STEALING, PLAGERIZING copyrighted work loom over all of the creative work output BEFORE this thing was unleahed on us.
Stay tune for more news.
j. Christian Miller
chris@doubleplanet.com
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