Tuesday 05/20/2025
Early on in The Rundown (AI newsletter) I saw a link to a new company that makes videos based on a photo and a script. You upload a head shot, you paste in a short script (longer scripts require the paid tier) and choose a voice, and shortly, you have a video of that face saying your words. I found a picture of Lord Byron and supplied the first stanza of “She Walks in Beauty” as the script. Voila, Lord Byron reciting his best-known poem. Can’t include it here but just go this link.
Before the writers meeting I practiced my set for the performance that is coming up on Wednesday which is, erk, tomorrow. Writers meeting, not much to say about it.
After lunch I grabbed a short nap and then met with Joanne for a short walk and chat. There were a couple of things I wanted to share with her, then we just walked and chatted. We went by the Episcopal Church where the Palo Alto photography society is showing a bunch of prize photos, including several by CH residents. And we got iced teas at Peet’s and sat in the park to enjoy the absolutely perfect weather, my gosh it was lovely.
At 3:30 I met with Kass to show her how to connect her laptop to the big rolling TV. The Fifth Floor is having a party and the theme is “somewhere over the rainbow” and they want to show the Judy Garland clip. This turned out to be complicated by the TV’s interface and the MacOS interface but we finally figured out how to do it. Then she played the clip off YouTube and it starts with an ad and ends with a bunch of extraneous stuff. So I went to my room and using the foxy little web app I found, I downloaded the clip as a .mp4 file and sent it to her. Fuck Youtube, just run the video.
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