Can you tell that I am back in the swing of things now that I have a regular schedule. Summers are not good for a creature of habit such as myself, as I get off track and then rarely want to accomplish something. I spent the summer trying to figure out what to do from a creative perspective and came up with absolutely nothing. But now that I’m back in a groove, it’s a little bit easier to get things done and figure out the patterns for how to be a creative human being.
This week, both of my daughters had birthdays. It’s a weird feeling when your kids are out of the nest and earning their own way in the world. We talk to both of them almost every day and I thank the technology gods that enable us to have conversations, face to face, when we are literally on three different sides of the planet. This morning, we chatted with one of us in Florida, one of us in China, and two of us in Abu Dhabi. To be able to see their faces, even if only for a little bit, makes my life so much happier, and both of our daughters should realize that they mean the world to us. I’m sure they do.
So, last week I left off with the notion of what else I was doing with AI. I created a lot of videos with AI as of late. Here’s some previews of what the students at my school are going to be seeing soon when we talk about our Four Pillars as part of the orientation process.
Video is fun, but feels a bit hollow in the end. I’m going to have to have a good use case for it in the future in order to use it regularly. Bottom line is that there is no way in the world that I would be able to do such a thing before this moment in history. There are levels of special effects in here that it would take teams of hundreds to make and millions of dollars. I made this all by myself over the span of a couple of hours this week. It’s pretty amazing stuff.
I’m not sure what other people’s opinions are on the whole thing, but as a lifelong early-adopter (I’m running the iOS 27 beta on my phone even as we speak), it is part of my brand to try new things. I like experimenting on my computer and attempting to do things that other people wouldn’t necessarily do. Computers are a tool that enable people to do activities that they wouldn’t normally be able to do.
HOW TO FIX THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE BY RANDALL P. GIRDNER
#1 - It’s Saturday morning and I am jet-lagged. My sleep schedule is entirely off, which means that I get extraordinarily tired at random times of the day and barely know which end is up. Yesterday, we were walking around a mall and out of nowhere, I could barely utter a sentence I was so tired. I came home, managed to stay awake until 9:30 PM and then gave in and went to bed. I woke up, fully-rested and ready to go…
Yes, it was that wonderful time of year when that rare event happens and I end up heading to the theaters for a special screening of a Christopher Nolan film. The last time I did this was for the IMAX re-release of Interstellar (which is a perfect film for IMAX) and yesterday it was for a 70mm showing of The Odyssey, a film that film bros and internet-wannabes have been going into convulsions over for the last year.
Here is us now. Read to the end to find out your instructions.
I have the world’s worst sinuses.
Oh, hello! I’m currently in Florida, visiting Abbey and listening to the thunderstorms. But I’ve been housebound this week because I’m sick.
For years, I’ve gotten sinus infections because I believe the openings of my sinuses are so incredibly small that any little illness will simply shut them off and trap everything inside, which causes things to “fester” in my sinuses and makes me deathly ill. Of course, that may not actually be how sinuses work, but it is, in fact, how I think sinuses work, so that’s what I’m sticking with, because I have fifty-three years of experience with my own sinuses, so I think I have a pretty good idea for what’s going on with these glands or whatever they are on my face.
