What is Peer Tube?

I was curious about this video host so I found a video that explains it. Folks might need an alternative to other hosting platforms.

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 30

The image is from a Tex Avery cartoon called Swing Shift Cinderella. Woofie and Grannie are dancing up a storm. Well, Grannie is having a good time. Woofie is doing the best he can under the circumstances.

For AudioMo 2024, I'm thinking about doing some stuff on censored or banned cartoons. Censorship isn't always bad. It can inspire an artist or creator to find away around the block and make a better work of art.

Or, in the case of racial insensitive cartoons, there are a lot of them, they should be posted with historical context and the problem with them. 

That does not happen on YouTube. The people uploading them are more interested in clicks for cash.

Few more things;

AI has certainly improved the captioning process.  The apps that I tried this year:

Blink app on iOS and Android

New mobile app that allows you to record yourself and then it transcribes and place captions on the video. 

Works really well but you have to have a video ready for it to work. I couldn't figure out how to upload a picture, record audio and then have it caption. It is good and I need to play with it. I used the Android version.

Microsoft Clipchamp

Made it easier to add captions. Not perfect because I had to fiddle with where the sentence began or ended. Very good for under two minute videos.

Headliner

Frustrating. I could not adjust the container box location. I had to make more corrections than I would have liked. 

Do not get me wrong, this is a good program for the intended purpose. Making audiogram videos for podcasters. Locking down features is not a bad thing if the user isn't experienced. I just have problems with it. Other people love it and I know why but nope, not for me.

FlexClip

I bought this years ago and didn't like it. It has changed and evolved and boy, this is now my go to when it come to short video captioning. Accuracy is very good. Easy to use overall and being able to move the caption box location is important to me.

For quick videos under three minutes I would go with Clipchamp or FlexClip.

Clipchamp is free with a Microsoft account or if you sign in with a service like Google or Facebook.

There is a free version of FlexClip that caps at standard definition 480p, If you have to do a lot of short form videos test it out to see if it meets your needs.

As a reminder, you can create videos via PowerPoint, export the video and then use an app to place your captions.

Probably should have put this on the other blog. Oh well.

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 28

Pride 2023 also happened in June and one of the most contentious ones in recent memory.

There have been gay characters and in June, DC comic put out a compilations of some of the prior stories that they have published.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. It happens in the month of June. 

Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag.

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 27

 In 2021 There was a joint project between Allegany Health Network and Marvel. 

A special issue was created to celebrate and point attention to the Emergency Medical Service workers who dis some impossible things during the pandemic. You can read it for free at the Marvel website.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. 

It happens in the month of June. Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag. 

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 26

June 2023 was also Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month. In case you did not know, there are a number of superheroes that have a mental health condition or disorder.

It is not a new question when people pipe up about The Batman's mental health status.

In a way, I think the question is directed to the wrong entity. Folks need to be looking at Bruce Wayne.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. It happens in the month of June.

Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag.

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 25

This is a memory of the body builder ads/cartoon where our non-hero who is slim of form, makes a life changing decision.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. 

It happens in the month of June. Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag. 

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 24

Pep Comics was still having stories about The Shield and The Hangman. But Archie is on the cover and will stay on the cover for the remainder of Pep Comics. 

You will notice that The Shield now has panties on and a deeper shade of blue in his costume. 

Archie was so popular that the owners of the magazine started thinking about a radical change in direction.

In the meantime, Archie has a real life radio show on the NBC Blue network. That is what the second image in the graphic is demonstrating. 

And also on the second cover who is holding the curtains in the shadows.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. 

It happens in the month of June. Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag. 

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AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 23

Madam Satan could not seal any deal and was vaporized and probably demoted. Her replacement? 

Well, he is a young man from Riverdale whose life orbits around his friends, family and his town.

Still a filler in a book of action superheroes but something happened. Well, a lot of things happened.

The audience was tired of superheroes. 

There were a lot of them. Many created for propaganda purposes. The publishers couldn't transition them into "normal" life. 

Some tried to depower their heroes so that they would fight gangs and random crooks.

Other transitioned into westerns, romance comics or went the kiddie funny book route.

Pep Comics had The Shield, Dusty the Boy Detective and Hangman. Plus assorted adventurers as back up features. 

There were funny stories in Pep but in no way the major focus of the book.

Until that redhead showed up. Who was a major hit with the audience.

This is the last cover with the three primary heroes.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. 

It happens in the month of June. Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag. 

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 22

Ah yes, this character had a very limited run. But her replacement was highly influential. But before we get to him you gotta talk about Madam Satan. 

Madam Satan was a filler story inside of a comic book called Pep Comics. The first story has her meeting her in-laws who ask her what does she want with their son?

Being honest, she wants his money.

And that led to a series of actions that led her way down south.

She meets up with the devil who commissions her to send more souls down his way.

Madam does try and she does some awful things but there seems to be some kind of power or intervention that stops her from sealing the deal. 

Honestly after three additional stories, there wasn't any place for the story to go.

A new filler would have to take the spot.

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 21

Brenda Starr was one of the first comic strips created by a woman for a national newspaper. Dalia Messick, professionally known as Dale Messick. 

 

Brenda Star, Reporter was a hit in comic books, movies and help to open the door to other women writers, artists and creators.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. It happens in the month of June.

Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag.

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 20

Steve Ditko was the co-creator of Spiderman and the creator of Doctor Strange. 

 

After Ditko left Marvel, he did some time at DC Comics and at Charlton comics with creating or co-creating The Question and The Creeper. 

This is a short bit about an independent but no less influential book called Mr. A. 

 

 A binary hero of sorts. Not by gender but by how he views the world.  Good or Bad. No space for nuance. No excuses. No mitigating circumstances. The scales of justice must balance no matter what or who it harms.

This is Objectivism at it was expressed by Ditko in this work.  What amazes me is what he does with line art in black and white. So different than the early days with Spidey and Dr. Strange which were explosions of color.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. It happens in the month of June.

Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag.

 

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 19

For this episode it is a look at two parody books that made fun of Marvel's and DC Comics intellectual property and sometimes a jab at their competitors. 

The books are Not Brand Echh! and The Inferior Five.

 

 

If I was hunger for something to read, I would have gone for Marvel's  Not Brand Echh!

But I really was into superheroes as a kid and wanted keep up with the doings of Thor and Namor.

For me, this would have been a fourth shelf selection.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty.  

It happens in the month of June. Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag. 

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 18

For a romance comic book publishers in the 1960s you have to adapt and make it work for you. The Women's liberation movement and civil rights required changes to the business. 

In this captioned audio recording, this is my theory of how this publisher made the decision.

 

 

When you think about it, a decision was made to re-work the previous artwork to make every one in the book appear African American. 

I don't know. This is something a roomful of people agreed on. One of the earlies form of a DEI recycling effort?

History is not easy or gentle to the brain.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. It happens in the month of June.

Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag.

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day17

This time is a look at a hero that does not have a six-pack of abs. In the comic book he was an intelligent supportive character. in the DCAU he was rendered as comic relief. 

Bouncing Boy hooked up with one of the Dual Damsels and I have questions that probably should not be answered.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. It happens in the month of June.

Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag.

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 16

Lois Lane has come a long way. From a reporter to a woman determined to get Superman to marry her.

Then there was a period where it did not have to be Superman, just a person with super powers. 

 

Once her dress length moved above her knee, she started to become her own person. It took a couple of years but she got there.

And once she did, Supes came around and they were finally married, no imaginary story stuff.

The real deal. 

This is a brief verbiage about Lois.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. 

It happens in the month of June. Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag. 

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 15

There was somebody that was having a bad day.

A bad thing happened. Sometimes the only thing you can do is to find time to gather some peace.

As to the change in animating letters, I was trying out highlighting the active word. In hindsight, I should not have chosen red. Red and green color blindness is very common. 

Learning as I go.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. 

It happens in the month of June. Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag. 

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 14

Another thing about comic books is the huge one page ad where you could spend time learning about things you did not know existed.

 

You could get a BB gun and all the BBs needed to do some damage to something. You also could get shoe lifts to make you taller than you actually are and all kinds of goodies that would be shipped COD.

COD meant Cash on Delivery. You paid the mail carrier who would turn over the money to the vendor.

In theory.

This ad was in a western romance comic book. Where the rich girl fell in love with the farmer or rancher. I forgot which one.

There were so many of them that had the city girl or rich girl fall in love with the salt of the earth.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. 

It happens in the month of June. Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag. 

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 13

It was a bad day. Things were going wrong. I was looking for something and discovered a box of disks.

I really didn't want to lose a day so I made a recording of just how tired and angry that software ate my podcast episode. And that I have a box of 50 high density non-floppy but called floppy disks.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. 

It happens in the month of June. Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag. 

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 12

It was worth my 10 cents for any issue with Captain America and the Red Skull.

He was so bad. So evil. Why he wanted to take over the world is so baffling because he truly does not like human beings. Skull boy does like to have power and control.

This guy has no problem killing millions of people to get it down to a manageable size.

His identity has been re-conned a couple of times. Last I heard he was a trauma victim who grew up and really liked what was going on in 1930s Germany. Which is how he was constantly coming in contact with Cap.

The ultimate goal was to get rid of Adolf and set up a world wide totalitarian government.

Bad, bad man.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. 

It happens in the month of June. Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag. 

AudioMo Captioned Audio - Day 11

In any form of literature, always consider who is doing the writing and drawing. Bias and cultural will be a part of the work. Not a good or bad thing but it can impact how culture is transmitted.

The majority of the romance writers and artists of romance comics were middle aged men. Men who were married and or had children. 

Don't get me wrong, a married guy can write about romance. They have for centuries.

But if the dominant culture tells those men that even after the reality of women working full blast during war time, the culture and advertisers said the only thing that she is truly capable of is to be in the home birthing babes and cooking dinner.

That left a lot of women who wanted something different out of the picture. They never saw her.

And the message in this particular comic from the daddy is "your are going to get married but do not marry a poor man."

So you have class stratification as well. 

There is an excellent website/blog called Sequential Crush. Lots of good stuff about romance comics and the people that created them.

This just my two cents about it.

AudioMo is an international celebration of personal audio however you define it. You can do one day or thirty. 

It happens in the month of June. Folks are participating via Mastodon, Twitter and perhaps even BlueSky. If your portal has a means of searching, you can find it via the #AudioMo tag.