What follows is a story about writing a song. A song about living life as a dog, which you know (at least in this part of the world) isn’t terribly difficult or taxing. 🙂 You know what is hard? Writing music, especially when you don’t know anything about writing music. Or playing it. Oh, I’m a slightly better than mediocre guitar player, but that won’t get you far if you’re trying to make a hit song. Then, when you’ve written your hit song, and played it, you need to record it, mix it, and a bunch of other things I know nothing about.
That didn’t stop me from doing it.
A few notes. There’s a good chance, especially if you follow the sorts of things that I talk about and write about, that you’ve heard me talk about AI, or artificial intelligence. Well, there’s this tool called Then I used PowerDirector’s hook into Getty Images to find myself some videos of dogs doing what dogs do, particularly in time with the music and the lyrics which I had created. I then did a whole pile of editing back and forth, trimming, adding, removing, back and forth, rinse, repeat, and four hours later (give or take), I had the music video that you now see. The point, I guess, is this… The idea that you just say or type something into a box and something miraculously pops out on the other end isn’t quite 100% the whole story—at least not yet. I’m not saying that at some point in the near future we won’t have something like that, And, for all I know, that future may be nearer than I think—but right now, even doing something like this requires a lot of hands-on work. Even when it’s relatively quick, it’s not instantaneous. I know all of this is scary, but the more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that what these tools are doing is providing us with new ways to create things. To express ourselves. The power is grants us is putting the ability to create art in the hands of people who may not have been able to do so in the past. For instance, I am a good writer, and I’m also very good at using computers and technology in general, but I’m not so good at writing music. Okay, I can’t write music at all. However, today, with a little AI help and some amount of work, I managed to put together a music video that is, if not great, good. And that feels pretty awesome. Let me know your thoughts; please leave comments here and start a conversation if you so desire. I would also really appreciate it if you would share this post with others so that they can discover this blog of mine. Until next time.