I have always been totally blind, but Visuals, have always interested me. I signed up for a class at work a month ago to better understand visual graphs and charts from an annalyst prospective, as I work in telephone Systems by day.

Over the past 6 months, I have really been interested in writing to an AI bot, and having my words, turned into images. Doing this with cartoon style images fassinates me. I use an app called, Chat Box AI, create the picture, save it to my photo role, and then use Seing AI to see what the AI created, a very interesting use case for AI in, and out. Most times the images are what I think, but, with more detail. Others, they are different, but, still fit the mold.

A couple months ago, I started putting cartoon images out on FB, as a kind of experiment, how, would they be reacted to? Would I receive more likes because it is visual, primarily, I have more sighted folks as friends? They have gotten a lot of clicks. That is awesome. I think, if I were sighted, I would like to draw, as a passtime.

About a month ago now, I posted Eddies Funeral on Drew Sound. A track I wrote as a kid. I wanted to post it on FB, but, thought, it may be better received, if it had a slideshow of Cartoon images along with the audio, to help sighted folks connect. I don’t normally feel like that about a song I’ve written.

I was able to use Chat Box Ai, and Apples IMovie, to acomplish the task. IMovie is interesting to work with. It is accessible, but, their are parts that are not, such as transition times. The standard transition is, 4 seconds. You can’t adjust it, it seems. The song is just under 3 minutes, so, I had to have about 45 images, to fill the time. It took a lot of brain power to think of that much visual content. At the same time though, hopefully, it keeps sighted viewers engaged, instead of the same images rotating. From what I’ve heard from Facebook viewers the images got the audios point across!

It’s not something that I will do every day, but, thinking visually, does bring another demention to what I do, as a totally blind artist.