Brandon's Content Journal

Movies, tv shows, anime, manga, yt videos, short films, etc. The list goes on consumed media is consumed media, and consumption be it food or art leaves a lingering taste on your pallet that can have a lasting change you may never expect.

start with the cowboybebop intro and cut to talking about seeing clips on ig

late night early morning toonami episodes

The philosophical way of life, morals, ideas, etc carried after watching, reading, or playing something beautiful

The reflection before and after consuming media worth calling art

The domino effect of life that echoes throught

ex. Steven Universe, Adventure Time, Regular Show, cowboybebop, The Last of Us, Beyond two souls, Cyberpunk2077, Bridge to Terabithia

I hope I did well discribing these shows, movies and games as I was trying not to give too much detail but also keep them interesting. This was deffinitly a different video and a much longer one but idealy it gives more thought into the media you consume and what you take away from it.

With the cost of subscriptions, restrictions on ownership, and reliable access during AWS outages, the media you pay for should be more accessible than it is. After seeing the growing number of people choosing to collect physical media again and ditch subscription prices I wanted to share a more convent way to collect and enjoy a media library.

Jelly Fin is an open source streaming service you can add to your home server that lets you stream your media as if it were netflix, spotify, or any other application just with a lower price tag. This project has little to no technological intricacies but fun overall.

To install Jelly Fin all you need is a running home server (I found it easier when also using my cloud server to transfer files) and media to stream to your devices (how that media is obtained is up to you).

Installation commands : https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/

The time to increase privacy standards for you and others is needed now more than ever. With the growing situations in the world information is key, and reliable information is gold with the growing concern of AI messages and constant scammers, knowing who your communicating with is vital and difficult now of days Privacy has become a tool for those who can pay the most for it But this issue has been solved long before it was monetized and exploited for a demand of service By using Pretty Good Privacy standards you can communicate securely and with ease knowing who is behind the messages PGP or Pretty Good Privacy is an open standard used to encrypt and decrypt files an messages using asymmetric encryption Asymmetric encryption works with two separate keys a public key to encrypt and sign a message or file, and a private key to decrypt or check a file. This amazing use of technology is thanks to one Philip Zimmerman one of the inventors of the PGP program and a Internet hall of fame 2012 Inductee after the senate Bill 266 of 1991. Senate Bill 266 from my understanding as a non legal advisor or interpreter states In Title II Subtitle B "Electronic Communications - Expresses the sense of the Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment should ensure that communications systems permit the Government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately authorized by law." This sounds like a pretty good reason to build a privacy tool meant for communication While this technology was originally meant for BBS's and CBBS's the technology is still used today in many forms

The way to use and implement is easier thanks to three possible tools

Proton VPN - https://proton.me/mail

GnuPG - https://gnupg.org/

Kleopatra - https://apps.kde.org/kleopatra/

thunderbird - https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

Open PGP - https://www.openpgp.org/ about open PGP - https://www.openpgp.org/about/ Philip Zimmerman - https://philzimmermann.com/EN/background/index.html Hall of Fame Inductee - https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/philip-zimmermann/ BBS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system Senate Bill 266 of 1991 - https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/266 key-gen guide - https://sick.codes/how-to-make-a-pgp-keypair-using-gpg-and-communicate-in-absolute-privacy-linux-mac-public-private-keys-encrypt-decrypt-messages/

How PGP works 2 keys public key

versify the sender and encrypts the message private key

Daily vloging wasn't really my thing, not at first but over time I saw the appeal mostly because I saw how I could do the same. It was always something small that added to something bigger than one task.

With the presumed expectation that one video had to be slightly better than the last, things became difficult and easily overwhelming. But doping all expectations and trying to have fun with another project not only made things easier but also made things I wanted to experiment with more approachable.

The main issue with this project was timing things throughout the holidays. If anyone were to ever try this I do suggest to have great eff ency when it comes to editing or have better time management

Multi tools are something that will always stand the test of time, but never changing from its original form a knife. A knife is nothing more than a simple cutting tool now meant for letters, packages, and the occasional apple. Multi tools however are more complex, they give more range to the task given. Coming in many styles and signatures like the leather-man pliers, but every Macgyver fan still thinks of the swiss-army-knife.

Some years ago 2-3 I tried to take some photos, trying out a new style. I watched some videos and gathered some ideas and found something I liked. Long exposures.

Long exposure photography was something new and different mostly because It's always something shown in street or car photography, from what I've seen. Along with long exposures I also wanted to do a Gothic style.

Other than now knowing the proper settings and conditions to do these things better I have a few notes for the next time I do this. The Gothic style in photography is something I've wanted to do a lot more since this shoot but mostly just something I've admired for its vast array of styles.

The Gothic look is always equivalent to elegance so I always want to see it with a candle or dining set in mind. Dark but elegant is a general starting point that I've gone to when it came to taking these photos adding more complexity for depth, or taking out items for its simplistic beauty.

Something could always be improved upon. With my more in-depth understanding of colors and lighting I can already see myself doing a re-shoot of something similar if not the same just to try it again.

So I was up all night again, but this time was different. Almost every winter things get clearer for me and I just get hit with the urge to pick up my old gear and make something interesting.

Each time I do this I always realize something interesting, usually that I upgraded my camera for a good reason. I've also realized that I have kinda done everything I wanted to do with photography in the "alone" aspect or as much as I can without traveling or crazy props and stuff.

Overall I can genuinely see my improvement over time, mostly in terms of how I can see depth and color. sometimes I feel like I have to use the old stuff to realize the new things that were much more difficult before.

THX for reading

Almost nothing today (4-22-2025) compares to watching old YouTube videos and wanting to make videos again. Ignoring some you-tubers falling from fame for one reason or another, watching some of them bring both a since of nostalgia and inspiration. Most people say "you don't miss old YouTube, you just miss the childhood you had when you were watching YouTube". For me that's a 50/50 split, some channels I still watch; Casey Neistat, Elle of the mills, Shubble, Strawburry17, etc. Others I don't; Skydoesminecraft, smosh, OMGitsfirefoxx, MDE, Pewdiepie, etc.

Most of them is nostalgia, others wonder, joy and inspiration. I go back and watch those videos and feel both nostalgia and inspiration. Overall most people are right, we miss how we felt, partially because WE FELT HOPEFUL. Some of them I watch and want to make my own version of these videos; inspiration. Others I watch and miss watching them for the first time; nostalgia.

When it comes to the internet and social media overall, my review is overwhelmingly positive for the majority. But looking towards the future of it... my reviews turn mostly negative. The culprit (to no surprise) Artificial Intelligence, or the lack of intelligence.

To elaborate, both are great alone as tools, social media is great for learning and growing small communities due to difficulty in popularity in region. AI is great for research and automation of repetitive task and to assist with learning and comprehension, but in no way what so ever should they ever have co-existed.

Now how does this tie into the dead internet theory, from my understanding of it the dead internet theory is the point of true brain rot content being churned out mindlessly for profit. The new name of the game isn't what kind of content can we make, but now how much money can we make from said content. The dead internet theory is true, people have made accounts and companies either for science or profit, Corridor Crew for example made a video proving how this is possible for scientific purposes, and it worked tremendously. I don’t know communities have also done this but the companies that have were doing it for one thing, profit.

Within the realm of trends and hashtags, we have become complacent to the algorithm and zombies to the wheel of profit. Words and phrases like “zoomer”, “booktok”, and “gooner” have given us a category easily identifiable to advertisements with our thumbs and wallets doing all the work. As consumers we tell the algorithm who we are and what we like with two taps of a screen. We live to work and work to live with the data we gave it being more useful even after death to train on leaving a vicious cycle of likes and dislikes, comments and suggestions, opinions and ratings, all for profit.

AI is the next evolution in this thing we call a tool or platform. Automating out minds to needlessly say more with no possible end. Social media is a perpetual motion machine that works perfectly with only modifications. AI can be good, depending on what field it’s implemented in; medical, agricultural, or lawfully. Change is inevitable and it can be good when its for the right reasons, profit and greed isn’t even a good reason for this kind of change. These platforms that we choose have more power over us than we are willing to admit; tiktok, instagram, youtube, are all just tools originally meant to share and teach twisted to take and sell.

We have tried time and time again to break the cycle we know as vicious and harmful to our future, from dumb phones to no phones. As a consumer I do want to do better but I also want change in the way I consume. Drastic measures like getting rid of or buying something different isn’t an option for some or any, but slowly and surely we will reach a plateau and experience and imminent halt.

The only thing that matters is how the machine stops, will it run out of the fuel we feed it or will we stop feeding it all together.

I understand the way things are and how the world "works" but anytime someone wants to do something, people always try to make a business opportunity out of it. Now their is nothing wrong with trying to make a business or earn a living but the way things are now it just feels intrusive and exploitative that hobbies are seen as startups.