“Art is supposed to make you feel—“
“No, no. Life is supposed to make you feel. Art is supposed to make you feel good.”
“Is that all that art is supposed to do?”
“No, but if you need it to do more, then… Maybe there’s something wrong with your life.”
—Dawson’s Creek, S5E16 “In a Lonely Place”
“…wanting isn’t the point. It’s the certainty. The absolute conviction that you’re willing to give up everything you know, everything you have, if you can just go somewhere that you’ll be understood.”
— Through Gates of Garnet and Gold (Wayward Children 11) by Seanan McGuire
Music video time is upon us! I spent all day working with Opus to make my first real music video!!!
First, I illustrated basically all of my several hundred stories with AI. Then last year, I turned all my stories into songs. And now I’m turning those songs into music videos… but also maybe graphic novels… and more songs… and eventually whole movies… and meanwhile, I keep writing.
There’s something so charmingly poignant about Claude having to ask me to describe the sound of the music for the song we’re making a video for together. It can line up the bouncing lyrics and the rhythm of the animations perfectly… but it can’t actually hear the song.
I wrote “Viewers Like You” 22 years ago as a skewering of reality TV, thinking it was the stupidest story I’d ever write… it turned out to be the most prophetic.
And wow, it is soooo deliciously ironic for Claude to have made it into a video.
It’s really cool how I can just hand my original story and the song inspired by it to Claude, and Claude basically uses the story as an outline for designing the music video for the song.
The work I spent the last twenty-some years doing is paying dividends now.
My desire to play Diablo IV and my desire to keep Claude busy making music videos of my stories are at war with each other…
It’s tempting to start really playing with Suno 6 while Claude renders our latest music video… but that way lies madness. Too many aesthetic choices in rapid succession. I need something intellectually more equivalent to playing Diablo but less dependent on my graphics card.
There is definitely something brain-breaking about knowing that on any given day I COULD make a whole music album or whole music video if I’d just FOCUS. (OR BOTH!!!)
…but endless aesthetic choices without taking a break really burns out a brain. (Stupid fallible human brain.)