Tuesdays feel like the day between, the day of the two-for, maybe we can call today the Two for Twitter day; Substack released the first version of Substack Notes with a familiar flow; Substack Notes has the potential of looking like what a micro-text platform focused on creators and subscribers without ads could look like.  We look forward to playing with it going on.  More AI, but the AI in today's newsletter is all about creatives, first a story about using AI to create design mockups for industrial use and a final report about using AI to mockup album covers for bands.  In between AI, we meet the music producer for Pokemon and remember some of our favorite recipes from Grandma's (Nonnas) house.

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In another example of great uses for AI, designboom brings us another story about a design team using midjourney to develop ideas ranging from public infrastructure to inflatable libraries.  Artists developing new projects will use clay or cardboard to create the base idea and build from there.  With digital tools AutoCAD and others, you can now create digital replicas based on ideas.  What about the ability to upload concept images or add text prompts into your digital tools and have them spit out several ideas.

The concepts come from a digital design firm, Ulises; the goal is to create easy-to-build, easy-to-transport urban structures that can double as public libraries.  A great visual concept of what could be on a corner near your next bus stop.  One question, paper books?

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A professional highlight piece on excellent jobs by Morning Brew brings us a story about a music producer named Ed Goldfarb.  In this piece, Goldfarb talks about his tens of thousands of hours playing, creating, and producing music in plays and now on TV Shows.  It surprised us how many things go into writing the music for a TV show and how many places it comes in. Goldfarb has been the composer and producer for Pokemon since 2013, and he states that when you start a project like this, the canvas is blank.  No theme music or character signaling sounds; you build everything from nothing, from studs to a full house.

As a person blessed to have a Nonna, an Italian Grandmother, this virtual book full of family recipes from around the world resonated with me.  My father was one of seven brothers and sisters who grew up in Concetto and Delores's small house in Omaha, NE.  Over the years, that same small house hosted every holiday and celebration throughout my childhood.  At one of those events, it was not unusual for more than 50+ family members to be at the little house on Grover Street.

No matter the holiday or reason for a visit, there was always a pot of spaghetti in the kitchen.  On the kitchen table or in the fridge was my grandmother's Italian salad, iceberg lettuce, onions, cucumbers, and tomatoes, all tossed in unmeasured amounts of lemon juice, red wine vinegar, oil, sugar, and salt.  Top all that off with mountains of freshly grated parmesan cheese, and you have the most delicious salad that tastes like love.  Thank you, Grandma; I miss you; xo.

In another story about a use case for AI generation, a music distributor named Too Lost is taking advantage of DALL-E 2 and helping artists create album art and other creatives as part of a suite of tools it offers its artists.  As we have reported daily, there are concerns about using tools that generate art, but there are many cases where using AI can help.  Any time an artist works with a human graphic artist, they start with ideas and questions; if an artist can use AI to help them communicate to the artist what they think, the result might be better for both.  None of these tools that we have seen or used is ready for prime time; if you are an artist or creative of any kind and you are getting ready to release an album, book, or any other art, you spent heart and soul, blood, sweat and tears on, would you then rely on a clip art to package it up?

Here is what AI did with my tattoo; Art will survive.

All of This [A.I.].

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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With A Shout newsletter is written by Johnny Christian with the support of a thousand idea bits and the help of many people.

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