I’ve failed to look after my health in some ways and succeeded in others. Right now my concern is exercise because while I physically walked everywhere as a kid, adult circumstances and other excuses have made me quite sedentary. I still survived the 90 miles I walked in Japan earlier this year but to say I was comfortable while doing so is the farthest thing from the truth. I’m hoping I can budget getting a walking pad this upcoming month so I don’t have any more excuses about trying to survive the miserable summer heat here or dealing with people being people. I already have this video/channel queued up so I can re-experience Shinjuku from my living room while getting my steps in. I also want to weight train but one step at a time (heh).
I love these videos, where someone just walks in a for me foreign place and I can watch and listen and just be in the moment. Helps me when my thoughts go in circles and I need a distraction, but do not have energy for much else. If it rains I love it even more.
Of course it is special if you were at that place and can remember it, but I hope you had better weather.
There was some rain the first day and crazy wind the last day but otherwise the weather was pleasant the rest of the time. We got really lucky.
I really like these types of videos. They were especially nice during the pandemic when it wasn’t safe to leave home. There are channels that are similar but for riding trains! They’re really fun too.
Not sure if this video would be considered “good,” but it’s certainly interesting.
I’m also not sure how much of it is AI - the video visuals certainly are - but if it is all AI, it poses the question of why even bother with art anymore.
Firstly, art very much can be a job. What do you think illustrators, animators, designers, cartoonists, concept artists, fine artists, sculptors, print makers, and so on do?
The implied question, though, is does art still have any meaning/ merit/ purpose if AI just just do stuff like the above?
As an artist myself, it really makes me feel like there is not point even bothering anymore.
I think part of it, at least for me, is that art is a way to convey humanity, human experience, and comes from a personal place. I don’t think AI generated content can convey that same humanity. It can’t feel things like pain, love, fear, etc. so it can’t really ever create something meaningful.
