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two weeks late again... but there is a reason

I've been trying to keep a reasonably regular posting schedule - weekly but yet again, I missed a week. I guess there's been a bit going on. I returned this morning to the work on my novel. Its a 5am regime I began that actually has served me very well.  I have a number of creative endeavours and interests and sometimes deciding which one gets the most direct attention is tricky. I'm a musician who began as a cartoonist who also did watercolors and with the birth of computers saw the potential for art utilising digital devices.  I've since then expanded to do 3D modelling and animation, digital photography and compositing as well as now somebody, who realises musical ideas through Digital Audio Workstations and looping gear. I'm 51 now and its been an interesting journey keeping pace with all the evolving rendering and animation technologies and 3D software since I was in my early 20's. The fact of the matter is art takes time, and sometimes the tools to realise...
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Aaaand I just missed... again

 Being in the throngs of making a short film, and having to follow certain processes has this week, distracted me sufficiently from doing a regular Monday blog update this week. I'm not too upset with myself however because since last week I've registered for film funding opportunities, with a government organisation and made good progress on my short film.  I started my usual planning process with a mind map in Freeplane, then a sequence plot in Twine, and then the actual script I've written with Trelby. Now I'm in storyboard phase which I find a bit painful, since I dont really do analog art and haven't for many years. But the forced return to drawing has been good.  So that's whats happened since last post...
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Another week later and the dates confuse but I got it pegged now

Its because its February, and I guess I got thrown by the short days of the month. I should have posted on the 24 but alas, I had issues. Well, I'm glad to say I have some renewed focus as I came across a competition for a short film that need to be submitted by March 27th. Given the story I want to tell, I feel now, more than previously, I am able to visually get the feel I want.  Amazingly this is all with free software too, but first I have to transform my mindmap into a sequence and script then shot breakdown. There is much to do.
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Surprise , Surprise... you can actually do this

I have indeed been surprised. I've been actively working on a novel for 24 days more or less, by getting up every morning at 5 am and going through to my computer cave to write. I am the kind of person who in storytelling, whether it be a movie script or a novel, needs to work with a plan. So I plan, and in quite a lot of detail. When it comes to storytelling I am most definitely not a "seat of the pants" type writer. Like many things I do, I need a clear mental path first, I may jump into the doing part fairly speedily but first I need a planned story route, with proper structure. Then I find it so much easier to infuse the flavour and intrigue into the story. I guess it could me my penchant for precision and accuracy. So here we are about four weeks in and I'm enjoying the process... and that's all I have to say right now.... I guess....I can actually do this.  I feels weird saying that but, I never considered being a novelist before. But now, I like the idea.
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shiny new things in the sunlight

 Recently David Lynch passed away. In several of his videos and masterclasses he mentions the value of getting ideas or catching ideas.  In my workings on my first novel I've noticed how querying certain scientific or tech things through ChatGPT has not only provided or confirmed ideas, or things I wanted to know, but it, ChatGPT, has also provided me new avenues of thought and spawned extra story ideas.  Its an interesting time to be a creative...
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Another day another dollar....

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 Finally, I get an email letting me know that there is no longer any waiting list for ComfyUI, specifically the desktop version. I'd been wanting to get into ComfyUI more extensively but specifically with the new desktop app because I find the web app refreshes way too slowly and in learning comfyUI, I want to iterate on my ideas faster.  Then of course there is the issue of my desire for a much improved GPU. Part of me says this is connected to my portfolio and I think this is very much true, but, I have decided to agonise less about HOW the end result is achieved and just get to the end result.  Currently I have had a much increased focus on writing, and I am glad for this, as this will graduate from my novel to a graphic novel too, (the reason for wanting to use ComfyUI more). The same content I may yet condense it to a screenplay, but my primary focus for the output of my content to potential paying mediums first.....
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The schedule is a thorn

 Creativity and good ideas don't keep office hours and that being said our supposed circadian rhythms do, and brutally so.   I often think that the life of a true creative is torturous just on a sleep level, because you may be inspired at times when its socially unacceptable, like be a metal sculptor and feeling the need to grind and weld but living in a space with noise regulations. Myself, being a digital creative, it comes down to screen time, domestic and family interactions, and limits of computer and camera hardware. I have a canon EOS M10 mirror-less camera that I was using with a 3D printed tilt-shift camera adapter and unfortunately the adaptor cracked and died.  I'm hoping to revisit the tilt shift idea with an old EF mount I have, and a tougher 3D printed cylinder to accommodate the 50mm F1.4 Canon FD lens I have butchered for this project.  And that's just for some of my photographic and video aspirations.  My morning creativity starts as soon a...
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