Mastodawn

Randulo.com (Randy)4h ago

Hot enough for ye ?

Randulo.com (Randy)8h ago

Small format #cyanotype experiments.

Randulo.com (Randy)1d ago

https://musiccloud.io/lAcqT

Does it render?

Valtz in a Draft - Randy Resnick

Listen on Apple Music, Deezer, NetEase Cloud Music, Qobuz, Spo...

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Randulo.com (Randy)2d ago

I have a son who writes and records his songs with acoustic guitar and a microphone. He uses Studio Pro. He doesn't do a lot of reconstruction using the DAW. I'm the opposite. I have ideas in my head, I'll usually use a drum track, play bass on it, maybe keys. Then record the guitars and saxes and mix. I might build the drums with purchased soulful loops from name players. The melodies are all mine as are the arrangements. Yet, I did use DAW tools to change bars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_5j4sDJppg

It's High Time

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Randulo.com (Randy)2d ago

In The Prophet, Khalil Gibran wrote,
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"

I gave that book to at lease three woman in my youth.

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2938937-the-prophet

The Prophet Quotes by Kahlil Gibran

956 quotes from The Prophet: ‘You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.’

Randulo.com (Randy)2d ago

So Nice (to have AC when it's coming up to days at 40°C/ 96°F)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maUy0m0nZDs

#Music #brazil

So Nice

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Randulo.com (Randy)2d ago

Bees Deluxe 2d ago

Bees Deluxe live at Black Eyed Sally's Hartford, CT on Saturday June 20th

#blues #acidblues #beesdeluxe #blackeyedsallys #CTBS #hartfordCT

Randulo.com (Randy)2d ago

#AI Question:
If you could train a local LLM with your own creations, animation frames, for example, would it be wrong to then get an app to develop a few frames into a full sequence of your own work? I would think software already exists for this and doesn't need an LLM? But I'm thinking of graphics for a video game, for example. The graphic designer could sell their work to the game people with CCC (consent, compensation, credit). Same iteration for album covers.

Randulo.com (Randy)2d ago

Greg Egan 2d ago

All the eBooks of my work that I self-publish are DRM-free, including the ones from Amazon, but Amazon have only recently added an option to allow their customers to download these books as ePubs or PDFs, as well as the special format used by Klndle readers.

It’s up to the individual publisher of any eBook on Amazon to decide:

(a) if they want the book sold with or without DRM
(b) if DRM-free, whether or not to allow downloads as ePubs / PDFs, which can be more easily read on non-Kindle devices.

I’ve opted for DRM-free, any format.

Amazon don’t make these choices easy for their customers to discover. DRM-free books for the Kindle used to have the description “Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited”, which was already rather cryptic, but now even that seems to have vanished.

Links to all my self-published eBooks. [If you don’t like Amazon, regardless of DRM status and file format, these are all available from many other vendors.]

https://www.gregegan.net/BIBLIOGRAPHY/Ebooks.html

eBooks — Greg Egan

Greg Egan eBooks

Randulo.com (Randy)2d ago

RE: https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/116774807654177922

I tell friends who are parents to encourage their kids to experiment with any aspect of creativity, be it writing, music, drawing, painting, anything the have the time and energy to try.
Self-expression ("I made this") offers a positive channel, often for life. Those who don't have it are less happy in general.

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