Woke up a little late for a blog post, and yesterday… Well, hopefully you’ll hear all about yesterday at some point. If you don’t hear it’s because it has like so many things piffled away to nothing. But we’ll see.
Also woke up to an invite to a convention to a country I’ve been to before, and I am absolutely going to go. So everything is turning up PJ (at least for today)
AI and I
Ai has rather swept across the arts like a plague of locusts, swallowing up everything useful and leaving nothing in its wake. So in a recent pitch I added in the first few pararaphs of the pitch “for the avoidance of doubt, there’s no ai used in any stage of the creation of this comic, not script, art, nor any other area“
I think that’s a useful and practical thing to throw in to a pitch document.
It can be hard to avoid though, I mean wordpress has added ai features (this website is wordpress, though I don’t think it’s using any ai nonsense) and the apple mac I’m running has “Apple Intelligence” (AI with a slightly appley flavoured name) and will sometimes try and suggest stuff (though I’ve turned it off).
It’s everywhere, like microplastics.
So many of the comics I see on reddit now are Ai generated slop, and sure from a distance, if you squint they look impressive (I mean the impressiveness soon vanishes when you’ve seen a few and you start thinking “wait, why do these all look the same?”). And it only gets worse when you begin to read one and the art – in isolation looks terrible – but combined into a comic, somehow strives to be worse than the sum of its parts.
I look forward to this phase of the IT cycle ending and we can go back to ignoring AI.
Yesterday on Bluesky
Can I just say, as someone born in 1969 that the astronaut space suits are really rubbish looking now.
I mean, come on. Yes, for practical reasons they’re useful and less bulky and just generally not the full life support system of a proper apollo style space suit, but lordy lordy, so dull looking.
Look at them. They look like two chefs about to open slightly too hot oven.
Give me this, or give me death!
I mean you can’t beat a classic.
Well broke my chocolate blockage by eating two squares of dark chocolate. Though more out of hunger than dire need for chocolate. But since it’s milk chocolate I’m trying to avoid, that’s not terrible.
Nobody in my house eats a lot of chocolate except me and my youngest son. And even he doesn’t eat much of it. I’ve always had a real bad chocolate habit, which probably explains why ultimately it’ll be my teeth that bankrupt me.
But I can sometimes feel chocolate not sit right in my stomach and I’ve been suspicious of it as an IBS trigger for me for a while. So that’s it. I’m done. Except maybe the odd bit of dark chocolate.
Cheese is a real weakness for me too. Man, I love cheese. I don’t think it’s a tummy troubler, but I do think come 9-10 o’clock at night I feel a bit peckish and I go and eat a big chunk of cheese on its own with a glass of orange (cheese+orange juice is as wonderful as chocolate+milk – two combinations that I am now trying to avoid)
As it happens this is having a slow impact on my weight, this morning I was the lightest I’ve been for years – 14st 4.2lbs – yes, at my height my BMI puts me at obese, but it’s only been a few days, so hoping I can stick with it.
Anyway, that’s for today. See you on the flipside
