Friday, December 13, 2024

Happy Holidays from Shhhh! Digital Media


Still a few more days to go before I have the parts to put my regular AMD/NVidia workstation back together in working order. For the time being I am working with an Intel based laptop from 2015, and its doing the job nicely despite the fact that's very underpowered compared to my regular workstation. But, its certainly better than none.

Because its a laptop, there are no extra SATA ports so I can't simply just plugin the data drive from my workstation and use that to retrieve my content. I have access to all of it, just no technological means to connect to it, and the technology that I do have is very, very underpowered for the task.

See you next week with more updates and hopefully something much more substantial. 

Happy Holidays! 🎅🎅🎅

Brian Joseph Johns 


And, as I've stated before, I am not a member of any ideology that switches identities between people. 

I have never worked for a roofing company in my life, though I've heard that its hard work, and I've done more than my fair share of hard work in my life. 

Sorry, statements like this are what's necessary when you have a cult attempting to replace your identity with that of someone else, or making you compete with others to earn your own identity back.

Finally, my name isn't Chuck or Terence or Ron and yes, there's nobody I'd rather be than myself. As a matter of fact, that's one of my expressions.

Credits and attribution:

Artwork: Amy Wong, Wendy Pusey, Ghastly, Birdman, Brian Joseph Johns, Daz3D, Unreal Engine...

Tools: Daz3D, Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, Lightwave 3D, Blender, Stable Diffusion (Easy Diffusion distribution), InstantID, Sadtalker, Google Colaboratory, Microsoft Copilot (Windows 11), Hitfilm, Clipchamp (for this particular clip), Borderline Obsession...

InstantID by: Wang, Qixun and Bai, Xu and Wang, Haofan and Qin, Zekui and Chen, Anthony. Research Paper Title: InstantID - Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds.

Sadtalker by: Zhang, Wenxuan and Cun, Xiaodong and Wang, Xuan and Zhang, Yong and Shen, Xi and Guo, Yu and Shan, Ying and Wang, Fei.
Research Paper Title: SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation.

Hailuo Video Creator, an awesome tool for creating short videos from text prompt or source images.

Bolt.new for the html/javascript code to have this video at the top of this post.

Gratitude: Our Mentors, Senseis, Sifus, Sebomnims, lifetime inspirations, family, friends, the Nomads (ask Stanton about that one), the Music, the Movies, the Theatre, the Arts, ASMR, (both YouTube and Bilibili and the many other creators on those platforms), the Gaming and Developer communities and of course, the audience.

Martial Arts (in the words of real experts and at least one comedian): https://brucelee.com (home of the real Dragon and an entire family of inspirations), http://iwco.online International Wing Chun Organization (International presence of a very scalable intensity martial art, protected and developed by Shaolin Nun Ng Mui) and the alma mater of Jinn Hua's own specialized variation thereof, https://iogkf.com International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karatedo Federation (even Hanshi had his teachers), https://itftkd.sport International Taekwondo Federation (Here there be Taegers), https://tangsoodoworld.com Tang Soo Do World (the path of Grandmaster Chuck Norris), https://www.aikido-international.org International Aikido Federation (how else would Navy Chef Steven Seagal liberate a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier from a team of hijackers?), https://www.stqitoronto.com Shaolin Temple Quanfa Institute (The City Of Toronto's own Shaolin Temple), https://www.enterthedojoshow.com Master Ken's Ameri-Te-Do presence (If we can't laugh at ourselves, then we can at least laugh the loudest at others, and other Zen)

Special thanks to Aitrepreneur, Mickmumpitz, Hugging Face and the YouTube educational content producers, including those catering to the AI content production pipeline and of course AlphaSignal.

Something to give you perspective: The very first teacher had no formal education, didn't graduate and was self taught, but only because they had no other choice. We do.

This content is entirely produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701 under the Shhhh! Digital Media banner. Both photos depicted here are of me and were taken in the last two months.

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