š Oi, mga repapips, Brian Dys here! I love music, photography, and creative stuff like UX design and art. This is a place where I collect my thoughts and works. Apart all these, I’m Jaycelle’s better half and Bryce’s dad. š„°
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There were many nights when Bryce was younger, about a couple of years ago, that our imaginations ran wild through bedtime stories. We took turns in continuing episodes of adventures of multitude of characters, starting from X-Fighter-X — which was Bryce’s brainchild. It starred him and his classmates in Cascades, where they battle otherworldly creatures in a cave, sky, space, and even in a transdimensional wormholes.
After one of our Chinese New Year celebrations, Cucu-Toofoo & Juju-Loo — the catfish and little girl whose bodies and heads were swapped with one another — were birthed along with an ensemble of fabled characters. Those were priceless moments that I believe shaped and expanded Bryce’s imagination, not to mention our father-son bonding moments — made stronger by gestures in the air and a shared vision of what transpired in our very own tales.
Depending on our life events, stories presented themselves to us while already lying in bed trying to capture nightly yawns. Just like each turn of a page of a newfound book, stories unfold like apparitions — only that they linger longer until ho-hum storylines cue us to end it right then and there and say the mandatory, “to be continued…”.
Taking the next step
Jaycelle herself have countless stories in her mind, in her dreams, that she wanted ultimately inscribed on paper as books. She invited me to join the How to Write A Book & Self-Publish It Workshop by PaperKat Books. We attended and were introduced to self-publishing. There were several authors that we’ve met who have realized their own dreams in writing and publishing. They were such inspirations that with effort and hard work, every day, it can be done.
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Playing with AI-generated music is like going to a restaurant, looking at the menu and instead of meals, you find ingredients. You point to the waiter which ones you want mixed-and-matched. It gets cooked and prepared in the kitchen while you wait. Et voila, the dish is served and all you have to do is to thumbs up or down.
The human touch happens during the arrangement of musical criteria; even my vocals, no matter how dehydrated, was turned (optionally) into a cacophony of instrument-like sounds. In the end, I liked the result of it. I feel like it’s my creation but not in a way I do compared to when I had more control in the output.
Here’s one song I made using Boomy, under the pseudonym, Ryda Kite. š² šŖ
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I’ve got some old recordings of Luna and I’m trying out new ways to enhance the audio quality of the recordings. First I feed the songs to Audacity for some noise reduction and normalization then I use BandLab’s Mastering feature, using Clarity preset. This is the result, enjoy!
Comfort Room Sessions (Remastered)
An EP by Luna
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I donāt believe I have the ability to say what is going to work. Rather, I try to eliminate whatās not going to work. I think being successful is just about not making mistakes. Itās not about having correct judgment. Itās about avoiding incorrect judgments.
A year is what it takes for Earth to complete a trip around the sun. We can say that we’re back to the point where we started — predictable seasons and collective celebrations of recurring events. We are passengers of this giant spaceship hurtling through space and time — we’re going ’round and ’round and only the journey can be described and the destination, unknown. The measurement of a year is in our minds. Is there really a point in space and time wherein nature will tell that “this is the the last second of the year, the next is a new one”? There are many meaningful implications of knowing a year that will end and a year that brings inspirations anew. But if we are waiting to change something within our selves, for the better, why wait for a new year, or a new month, or a new day — why not now? The disintegration of the concept of prepacked time — as in, how time are neatly wrapped into seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years — also breaks down the structure of what enables us to be in sync with the rest of the world. I remember a time in college when I lost track of time (or rather didn’t care about it) and found out that I was about to join an accounting class with only a minute left. I opened the door and the professor wasn’t surprised because that was the nth time a did it. In a business law class, I wasn’t so lucky as I joined it two-thirds along the way. As I sat down, the professor booted me out, deservingly. It was an embarrassing moment. Why did I do it? It may be established that a session wouldn’t be complete, or better yet, worthwhile, when you’ve missed some thoughts from the teacher and the students. But as they say, better late than never. I was still able to squeeze what ever meager drop that I could in those instances, however that would mean to me and my own goals. Admittedly, that was my younger self who didn’t know any better. To those of us who will be syncing with the rest of the world, and especially with someone we care about, it’s better to be at the right space and the right time with them. For ourselves, in getting better in any aspect, the time to start is now.What is a new year?
In this new work world, it is more important than ever for leaders to build an environment where individuals feel safe, supported and respected.
Carmen Whitney Orr in Why 2023 should be the year of the empathetic leader
The truth, though, is that everyone is muddling through life, doing their best to keep the wolf from the door, and to have a few laughs along the way.
Jonny Thomson in Canāt move on? Hereās what the Buddhist idea of anattÄ teaches about letting go
The company continues to produce value incidentally through inertia, but it’s now much harder to steer, and there is a lot of inefficiency and waste. If the world changes significantly it’ll have a harder time pivoting.
Raemon in Recursive Middle Manager Hell
Rather than thinking that our failures make us weak, unworthy or isolate us from others, this pillar of self-compassion encourages us to foster a sense of universal belonging.
Dr. Hannah Rose in The Abilene paradox: When not rocking the boat may sink the boat
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A year is what it takes for Earth to complete a trip around the sun. We can say that we’re back to the point where we started — predictable seasons and collective celebrations of recurring events. We are passengers of this giant spaceship hurtling through space and time — we’re going ’round and ’round and only the journey can be described and the destination, unknown.
The measurement of a year is in our minds. Is there really a point in space and time wherein nature will tell that “this is the the last second of the year, the next is a new one”? There are many meaningful implications of knowing a year that will end and a year that brings inspirations anew. But if we are waiting to change something within our selves, for the better, why wait for a new year, or a new month, or a new day — why not now?
The disintegration of the concept of prepacked time — as in, how time are neatly wrapped into seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years — also breaks down the structure of what enables us to be in sync with the rest of the world. I remember a time in college when I lost track of time (or rather didn’t care about it) and found out that I was about to join an accounting class with only a minute left. I opened the door and the professor wasn’t surprised because that was the nth time a did it. In a business law class, I wasn’t so lucky as I joined it two-thirds along the way. As I sat down, the professor booted me out, deservingly. It was an embarrassing moment.
Why did I do it? It may be established that a session wouldn’t be complete, or better yet, worthwhile, when you’ve missed some thoughts from the teacher and the students. But as they say, better late than never. I was still able to squeeze what ever meager drop that I could in those instances, however that would mean to me and my own goals. Admittedly, that was my younger self who didn’t know any better.
To those of us who will be syncing with the rest of the world, and especially with someone we care about, it’s better to be at the right space and the right time with them. For ourselves, in getting better in any aspect, the time to start is now.