A cat walked out on stage at a ballet performance in Turkey. Turkey is very interesting because it is extremely cat friendly. They have a lot of resources for cats on their streets, so cats roam freely and the locals feed and pet them.
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E. Writer I should add. The software will only process 10 seconds of footage at a time and a limited number of videos a day, or every few hours...around three to four. So to get a 2 minute video, you have to create 20 videos with separate instructions. Sometimes more if it's glitching and you have to do it over. Then separate cutting and editing in video editing software to fix mistakes.
Alex Morton We have not run into that restriction at all. I'm not sure which software Fotis is using ... I'll check with him tomorrow. One of the really neat things we're using is 3D software that Fotis created. We run it over the file in post-production. Fotis 3D App does not require special glasses. It's pretty cool. When I get back to Lions Bay, I'll be making a few phone calls to see if a major company wants to license it.
E. Writer I'm still using all of my ancient software for other things. The old stuff is good amd doesn't violate privacy or force subscriptions.
M. C. Ryder Wow, intense. I don't know how you have the patience for it.
E. Writer Right, especially all of the post production editing. I don't mind the process. Mostly because I become very fixated on projects and completing them when I am curious and feeling creative.
It is truly fall now. I am going to miss gardening.
Alex Morton I have put away two very large jars of olives in brine and will repeat the process tomorrow, which will give me more than enough for the year. I won't be here for the big harvest, but my pal, Socrates, will harvest them for me, and bring them to the mill to be made into oil. It will be waiting for me in huge cans when I return here in the spring. Then I'll ship three seventeen kilo cans to Lions bay ... one for each of my kids. I still have a lot of last year's oil in my house, there. I'll also be leaving a lot here to use. And, I'll give some to friends.
E. Writer That is very cool. I bet everyone there is making their own olive oil. This is me with tomatoes, which is my biggest output. Sometimes I would have so many I would give them away in bags via facebook marketplace because they would otherwise go bad. My family couldn't eat them all. Well, we have two people in the house who hate tomatoes.
M. C. Ryder Well, gives you a break to go back to writing...
E. Writer Hopefully I'm inspired. Lately my heart hasn't been in to writing lately.
Amber Diva Iām going to miss walking around the lake Good exercise and stress reliever.
I don't speak about or discuss politics. However... today, I have something philosophical to say that may sound political, depending on the reader/observer... this post is about big tech. I just felt like writing it. Correct me if it feels political. I will delete it.
I am an ordinary person of no extraordinary talent. I understand my complete and total insignificance. A hundred years from now, no one in the world (if it still exists) will remember me...or know the warmth of my smile, or the comfort of my embrace. I understand that my time is finite and that one day, I will simply disappear into nothingness. Yet... despite this inevitable outcome, I also understand my own power. I understand that in this finite window of existence, I may commit a single act (of kindness or otherwise) that will ripple across the timeline of many lives. We have the power to shape outcomes, thus, I compel us to utilize the POWER within us.
As the "$hadows" coalesce to consolidate their power and impose their will on humankind, transforming our world into one of darkness and perpetual suffering (after all, suffering is the measuring stick of power. The more a populace suffers, the greater the power of those who inflict suffering on others.)
Let us rise up, our voices a gutteral crescendoing chorus of NO! They may try to silence or imprison us behind a wall of algorithms that hide our words and declarations. But think of it as a blessing in disguise imbuing us with the forgotten knowledge, reminding us that we have the power to escape this digital dystopian hellscape for the real world. Let us meet again, whether by pigeon carrier or a lone voice singing into the void.
We have the power to stop "them." This is not just a local issue. It is global. It is a digital, artificial, and social issue. These acts have been a long time in the making, a conspiracy using these very tools to destabilize the world and your reality with it. It hides behind reels and tiktok videos that coerce you into collapsing into a gooey puddle of distractedness. On a scale of 1 to 10, your attention span is probably zero and it will take years to recover.
To win your freedom back, you must:
1. We must say no to the $hadows who want your jobs.
2. We must say no to the $hadows who want your future.
3. We must say no to the $hadows who want your eyes (they make billions from ads.)
4. We outnumber them. They need our money to enrich themselves. It does not arrive out of a vacuum, it comes from us. We must sacrifice temporary comfort for long term security and resolution. Turn them off when the time comes. Come together to exist beyond the walls of the digital prison that divided us. Welcome to the real world. To the revolution. The revolution, will truly, not be televised.
Alex Morton As you know, that's what my novel We Are Not Yours is about.
E. Writer Yes, the people. Revolution through music 🎶
Alex Morton Revolution through the spirit of the people, with music and art to bring it to the fore. I experienced it happening in Greece, when the people overthrew an authoritarian government in 1973. No battles. No bloodshed. Not political.
Power is a terrifying thing because the people who have it, will always want more of it and humanity is the thing that it wants and desires most. They want the world. "We" are the end game. Humanity has only one play left in its back pocket during these harrowing times. It requires us to sacrifice an inconsequential thing: technology. Not the kind that powers our homes, allows us our barest necessities, or fuels our day to day lives. It requires us to sacrifice something so inconsequential it won't take us long to realize we never needed it in the first place.
1. They need our eyes, so the most revolutionary thing we can do is stop looking. At everything.
2. Say No.
3. And turn it all off.
Amber Diva Very deep
I have too many hobbies. Raw gemstone collection (quartz, fire opals, rose quartz, amethyst, etc.) Gardening, tea set collection, art (painting, making jewelry), web designing, reading. Studying and researching the cosmos. Writing is a cross between career and hobby. Caring for feral kitties. I guess no matter what, I always have something to do.
E. Writer Yes, I am starting to feel like I have ADHD. I don't think I do but I dislike not being preoccupied.
Alex Morton Far better than spending your time in shopping malls. or watching TV. I can certainly relate, since I've decided that as soon as I get back to Canada I'm getting a 3d printer to create toys for my grandson. This on top of translating another of my children's books into Greek, writing a new novel, continuing to build a physical game to accompany my children's trilogy ( a surprise Christmas gift for my grandson) finishing a video for We Are Not Yours and kicking off a social media campaign as well as an advertising campaign. Also taking my 14 year old granddaughter to some live theater, and my nineteen year old granddaughter to a performance of a friend's next avantgarde jazz concert. Life is too short to not taste as much as possible.
E. Writer I have to get back to you on the email btw. Also, did ypu see Nuala ask about Zoetrope? Not sure about the membership to OG Zoetrope?
Alex Morton I sent a message to her. I asked if she was ever on Zoe because I never encountered her on Zoe.
E. Writer I vaguely remember seeing a Nuala before. But I don't recall the last name.
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