January 2021 – The Spoken Word

Analysing Biden’s speech through AI

President Biden’s Inauguration speech analysed through IBM Watson.

President Biden’s Inauguration speech analysed through IBM Watson Personality Insights.Put speeches or tweets through this tool and see the results is pretty fascinating. Even more interesting to compare and contrast with demagogues.

I used this once a few years ago as part of a workshop with a GM of Wealth divisions direct reports – the results weren’t too flattering of the GM 🙂

You can try out the tool from IBM for free:
https://lnkd.in/gwNV2eU

BIDEN – Summary
You are heartfelt, analytical and strict.
You are philosophical: you are open to and intrigued by new ideas and love to explore them. You are assertive: you tend to speak up and take charge of situations, and you are comfortable leading groups. And you are mild-tempered: it takes a lot to get you angry.
You are motivated to seek out experiences that provide a strong feeling of organization.
You are relatively unconcerned with both achieving success and taking pleasure in life. You make decisions with little regard for how they show off your talents. And you prefer activities with a purpose greater than just personal enjoyment.
Of course, speechs are filtered and polished and so are not true reflections of an individual.

TRUMP

And here’s Trump’s speech put through the analyser with results you cannot believe.

TRUMP = Summary

You are analytical and heartfelt.

You are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them. You are altruistic: you feel fulfilled when helping others, and will go out of your way to do so. And you are self-controlled: you have control over your desires, which are not particularly intense.

Your choices are driven by a desire for organization.

You are relatively unconcerned with both achieving success and taking pleasure in life. You make decisions with little regard for how they show off your talents. And you prefer activities with a purpose greater than just personal enjoyment.

#watson #bidenharris

Fascism in the Breeze (#2)

Fascism has take a grip on America which will take years to tackle but we can also see its rise in Australia.

Fascism in the Breeze

Fascism has take a grip on America which will take years to tackle but we can also see its rise in Australia.

Dehumanisation of immigrants and the working class, attacking the university system, political corruption without accountability, increasing militarisation, increasing racism, media complicity and the spread big lies are some of the signs.

These are some of the things that we need to be vigilant against to maintain a vibrant and healthy democracy.

What are other things do we need to consider?

It began with a whisper
An almost imperceptible murmur
An uncomfortableness stirred
That could be heard faintly
In the breeze.

At first we ignored it
That annoying irritant
We rose above it
Reassured by our moral superiority.

But the noise became louder
Impossible to ignore
Drowning out all rational thought
As it inflamed all in its anger.

Nothing now left but cinders
Yet I hear more whispers
In the breeze.

Fascism in the breeze (#1)

It began with a whisper
An almost imperceptible murmur
An uncomfortableness stirred
That could be heard faintly
In the breeze.

At first we ignored it
That annoying irritant
We rose above it
Reassured by our moral superiority.

But the noise became louder
Impossible to ignore
Drowning out all rational thought
As it inflamed all in its anger.

Nothing now left but cinders
Yet I hear more whispers
In the breeze.

The New Climate War trailer

Audiovisual animation for Michael Mann’s upcoming book – The New Climate War.

The style of the video was a bit of a homage to The Expanse which has some great scenes of planets in their trailer.

Spent a lot of time picking a great track from Storyblocks and then aligning the animations to the beat. This one is Arabic Cinematic Middle Eastern Music from Artist, Volodymyr Piddubnyk.

Here I used maps and cloud textures from NASA and created globes using Adobe After Effects for the realistic Earth scenes. For the single colour Earth’s I used Adobe Illustrator to colour and simplify them. I also used effects from Mister Horse Animation Composer, to speed up the animation process.

Finally, I added some sound effects to animations which rounded out the animations.