An artist's practice

I’ve had the enormous pleasure of creating videoclips for the music of Stewart Wauchop in the last few months.

Stewart is my brother-in-law. He’s pursued a creative career all his life and now at nearly 80 has produced several albums of his music, written and recorded over the last 50 years.

AI is supporting us both to realise some projects long left on the back burner.

For me, I get to create video again—a form I loved working with many years ago. Stewart’s music is meaningful for me so it’s a joyful process.

Some of the videos I’ve made have dance elements and I can see how I can wrangle the bot to create animations and dance videos in the future.

Click on the links below to hear Stewart’s music and to see more videos:

YouTube: / @stewartwauchop

YouTube: / @deidhrewauchop

More About Stewart Wauchop 🌐 Website: www.stewartwauchop.com

More About Deidhre Wauchop 🌐 Website: www.deidhrewauchop.com

The orange fart that is the White(?)house Administration intends to force Australians to disclose their social media histories, phone numbers, email addresses and personal family details (amongst other things) to gain entry into America.

That assumes that any sane Australian would consider visiting the US at this moment.

Analysts consider that this action is the latest attempt by the Trump Administration to clamp down on critical online speech.

In other news this week the crazed excuse for a POTUS seized an oil tanker off Venezuela, threatened several world leaders and likely slept and farted through high-stakes decisions.

Let’s compare our political system to America’s (ruefully sniggering).

Right now our media is reporting the “excessive” dollars spent by politicians under the family allowance scheme. We are outraged that one of our ministers, Anika Wells, spent several thousand dollars on flights for her family under the approved family reunion scheme.

While Trump graces the front cover of a [fictional] Times Scammer of the Year, Anika Wells refers herself to the Australian parliamentary expenses auditor.

While Trump clads what’s left of the American People’s house in try-hard glitz and faux, our Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese has a simple wedding at the Lodge, which he and Jodie Haydon pay for.

While Trump demolishes the Whitehouse and pardons drug traffickers and commends the alleged criminal decisions of his goons…yeah, I could go on and on. And I might.

America right now is the arsehole of the earth and a global pariah, thanks to Trump. The world is worse for the cowardice of people in not speaking out against FLATUS (Acronym unnecessary).

Lucky I’m not intending a trip to America any time soon.