Mid-year thoughts on AI-Powered Creations!

 Mid-year thoughts on AI-Powered Creations! 

Amalgam Creative Arts is about creating without restrictions. 
A fusion of Arts & Crafts, Lotions, Potions, and more! 
#BeCreative #BeInspired


We created the Amalgam Creative Arts channel and Facebook, Instagram, etc. to share what we create and to inspire you and ourselves to be creative. A space where with even a small amount of imagination anyone can make something. We also share what some of those around us create. 

Our approach to creating arts and crafts is using anything you have access to, because we believe that having the privilege of obtaining the necessary art supplies shouldn't hinder anyone from producing what is in your mind. This is why we point out on our channel intro that Amalgam Creative Arts is about creating without restrictions. Our preference has always been to use anything that we may have at our disposal to make something out of it. You could say we are a mixed-media type of outlet. 

We encourage you, and in turn ourselves, to be inspired and create using any medium. This is why we believe that AI tools can be a catalyst for creativity, specially for those with limited access, disabilities, etc. Also why we've generally used the ones that offer low or no cost options and why we opt to include the generator and other details on any AI-powered creations. However, because of the implications of using AI, we have decided to limit/eliminate our use of AI for the foreseeable future. Now, you'll still see some of our AI-Powered Creations because we still have plenty that we haven't shared. 

May we continue to create and inspire.

Playlist of our AI-Powered Creations → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1nEnDyBtwiY3WYb5AEsYAWu7m_wnkxho

Stargate Special Edition | DVD Start Menu

Stargate Special Edition | DVD Start Menu

This is the start Menu of the Stargate Special Edition DVD. If you don't make a selection the audio repeats itself.

I used PowerDVD 24 PC Mode to play this on my computer which, as you can see, gave me a slightly fuzzy and flickering menu. The actual movie, as well as the teaser and trailer, played ok.  

Audio: Exactly as presented on the DVD itself. 

#NoTanDiarioChronicles #BonusFeatures #DVDExtras #DeletedScenes #BehindTheScenes #MenuLoop #Stargate  

No Tan Diario Chronicles Notebook of Ideas! ~ 12 May 2026

 
No Tan Diario Chronicles Notebook of Ideas! ~ 12 May 2026
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From May 12, 2026
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This is a collage of photos & videos that I took of my notebook of ideas and the old school binder I'm transferring it to because it has reached its capacity.     

It's been almost 18 years, this coming August 2026, of my first video upload back in August of 2008 and deciding that I would upload every video I had from any moment, event, and festival, in my life, and being an extension of my blog at the time. At that time I decided to use the notebook you see here to list, categorize, and organize them.

The amount of videos and categories increased in 2017 when I decided to also make videos from the photos taken of moments, events, and festivals, in my life. This evolved the channel to a sort of visual diary. In addition to these, I occasionally uploaded videos from other places like game extracts and auto-created videos from other socials. Around this time I also started to make videos for my creative channel, Amalgam Creative Arts, with a dedicated page in this notebook and later moving those to a different one. 

The amount of videos and categories once again increased in 2025 when I solidified my channel name and slogan, that I'd previously renamed multiple times, and began to also create videos from mixtapes, DVDs, VHS, CDs, and others.   

With my newest idea to document eliminated items, which I sometimes refer to as #FotosDeCosasEliminadasParaRecordarlas, and others I have in mind, the amount of videos and categories are increasing again. Moving my notebook of ideas to the binder shown will allow me to add pages as needed.

========== Links to videos and blogs of moments previously mentioned. ========== 

=== My first ever video upload:
Billy Bob playing with a local band in Memphis, TN, USA ~ August 3, 2008 → https://youtu.be/Eo-bxR0gSPM

=== The original blog:
No Tan Diario Chronicles ~ Pre-2025 Blog Update → https://elkirbster.blogspot.com/

=== April 16, 2017 was when I uploaded the first three videos made from photos:
How to do the YMCA by the Village People at Phoenix Pride 2012! → https://youtu.be/3aFTJclUqGA
Target Volunteers at 2013 Phoenix Pride Parade! → https://youtu.be/IeoOmGIHJgs
Target Volunteers at 2014 Phoenix Pride Parade! → https://youtu.be/tEBBqm9op7E

=== September 20, 2017 was the first upload of an extract from somewhere else:
Facebook 2 Billion People Auto Video! → https://youtu.be/Dw-d22L8keA

=== My first upload on my Amalgam Creative Arts → https://www.youtube.com/@AmalgamCreativeArts was on October 5, 2017:
Dryer Sheet Ghosts! → https://youtu.be/nygHrVTunsg

=== The notebook of ideas for Amalgam Creative Arts:
Getting Organized: The Creative Process → https://youtu.be/2MpIwrrEjyQ

=== See all the videos from Amalgam Creative Arts:
Playlist | Amalgam Creative Arts → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16w-SVd2cc3GX0S0M78kPojnxUeqtg1L

=== Solidification of channel name and slogan. Also updated the blog to:
No Tan Diario Chronicles → https://notandiariochronicles.blogspot.com/

=== Blog Post about the update:
Welcome to No Tan Diario Chronicles! → https://notandiariochronicles.blogspot.com/2025/01/welcome-to-no-tan-diario-chronicles.html

=== Playlists | 📟 Analog to Digital: A Time Warp Journey
📼 Analog Musings → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16w-SVd2cc1WifhoRpSJGz9juBqh5-1t
📀 Bonus Features → https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16w-SVd2cc1QpaBpDBatReWeUUwWAhyU&si=zJLEQxtuTbUO50-u
💿 Data Disc Dreams → https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16w-SVd2cc2MsNULOJH_17G87L51lAS3&si=h0pvbJBFVaqXx8BD
💾 Dial-Up Dumpster Dive → https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16w-SVd2cc3hA3Z20WnZG9FTDnlp8ya6&si=QTNDTw1HzRMm8Dzx
🎞️ Rewind & Replay → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16w-SVd2cc0DS5SjFHXr3oFDM-3Iwbub

=== About my newest idea for upcoming videos & playlists:
Playlists | Future playlists! → https://notandiariochronicles.blogspot.com/2026/03/playlists-future-playlists.html

=== To watch my evolution of uploading videos:
Playlist | An Evolving Upload Journey → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16w-SVd2cc1VHRyCBm3xaA6cLR575ek0

Audio: Narration by myself. Ambient sounds from the video recordings themselves. Background music is "A Tale of Fantasy" by Amalgam Creative Arts → https://www.youtube.com/@AmalgamCreativeArts

Watch/listen to the whole "A Tale of Fantasy" track. → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6JP5k6uctU

#NoTanDiarioChronicles 

Happy Pride Month!

 

Happy Pride Month!

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#PrideMonth is celebrated every June. The catalyst of the modern day movement towards LGBTQ+ rights was the Stonewall Riots in 1969. The month of June was chosen to commemorate this.

Playlists | Future playlists!

My second post after creating No Tan Diario Chronicles blogspot in January 2025, was about the labels and playlists that I would use and the hope to streamline them a bit so that they correlate better with the YouTube channel because my blog is now more of a video blog. At the time, I included my then playlists in alphabetical order and linked to them. 

The two posts prior to this one have some of the recent updates on some of those playlists. Scroll back if you want to read about and/or watch those. You could also just head on over to the No Tan Diario Chronicles YouTube Channel to watch. 

Now for the purpose of this post, Future Playlists.

I've shared in the past that I struggle with Eliminating Clutter, and one of the things that has helped is taking a photo or video that I would then post on Instagram with the #FotosDeCosasEliminadasParaRecordarlas,with the actual physical item donated and sometimes discarded. These are a couple of videos on my YouTube channel related to this: 

What I Wore. ~ 07 June 2010

Was wearing my Batman t-shirt. ~ 12 June 2010

After my beautiful mother passed at the end of 2019, I found myself with quite a bit more stuff to eliminate. Here a video of  one such item.

Michael Jordan - McDonald's Souvenir Cup

Reducing the amount of items like those wasn't too much of a struggle as are the more personal items. Admittedly, it's been more difficult than I wish it was. I've also acquired items from other relatives that have passed.

Why do I share this and what does it have to do with future playlists?

Because my preferred method of sharing is with YouTube videos/shorts/posts, I've decided that I'll be creating new/additional playlists with the hope that they help with this. I've got the gist of what those will entail and will update as they come to fruition.

It may take me just as long if not longer than the playlist section 📟 Analog to Digital: A Time Warp Journey  did. 

May we accomplish what we can on this journey. NoTanDiarioChronicles

Playlists | 📟 Analog to Digital: A Time Warp Journey

Although it took me almost a year, I finally have at least one video for each of the playlists that are part of my 📟 Analog to Digital: A Time Warp Journey. They are also much more clearly defined in terms of what each entails. 

📼 Analog Musings 

A personal archive of digitized cassette tapes and vinyl records from my own collection—each track preserved with all its authentic imperfections, warm hiss, and nostalgic crackle. These are raw, unfiltered sounds from another era, carefully transferred with minimal clean up.

#AnalogMusings #CassetteCulture #VinylVibes #TapeHiss #AnalogNostalgia #AnalogArchive #AudioTimeCapsule

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📀 Bonus Features

The hidden gems of my DVD collection include deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes clips, my favorite scenes, forgotten extras, and occasionally videos about the packaging, inserts, booklets, or unboxing. In many cases, the best moments weren't in the main feature.

#BonusFeatures #DVDExtras #DeletedScenes #BehindTheScenes #MenuLoop

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💿 Data Disc Dreams

A digital mixtape of CD-era treasures—mostly music, occasional software extracts, and other rips from the laser burn era.

#DataDiscDreams #CDNostalgia #CompactMemories #LaserBurn #Y2KAudio

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💾 Dial-Up Dumpster Dive

A chaotic collection of forgotten MP3s, mislabeled tracks, and questionable rips from the wild west of P2P sharing—BearShare, Kazaa, LimeWire, and beyond. Relive the thrill of downloading a 'song' and getting something... unexpected.

 #DialUpDumpsterDive #P2PNostalgia #Y2KMP3Chaos #VirusCore #MislabeledMixtape

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🎞️ Rewind & Replay

A time capsule of VHS memories that may include retro commercials, vintage TV clips, and movies, all with that warm, warbly charm. Press play and relive the analog era.

#RewindAndReplay #VHSVibes #AnalogMemories #RetroRewind #StaticNostalgia

Playlists | Complete & Unique Journeys

Decided to include this onetime post of the playlists that encompass my Complete & Unique Journeys section of my YouTube channel so you may either link to them. You can also watch some of them here.

A Chronological Journey


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Amalgam Creative Arts


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An Evolving Upload Journey


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Memories of Yore: Photos from my Mother's Camera