Now you can listen to KIP's Emerging Narrative...thanks to AI voice generator

Consider this audio a companion to the Bigger Picture video of various quotes I’ve collected rather than a mirror image…there’s more to this multifaceted story.

“A unique curation of emergent voices describing this moment we find ourselves in.”

— KIP

This is my first experiment with AI voice generation using a script made from individual quotes from civic participators I’ve been tracking for last past 7 years, describing this moment we find ourselves in. Quote credits in the images below and a full list to come.

KIP DECK

AMUSE BOUCHE. Other slides on request.

Being early on things, from my Twitter archive

The bigger picture, in your words

With my KIP project to make sense in the social age and surface the best civic participators - or members of “the Fifth Estate”, - I’ve been collecting the contributions on Twitter.

For a couple years I made graphic images of quotes I spied. I put some of them together into a larger narrative of our time, and this moment. Take a look!

Below is a short version of the narrative in the video. See the video for quote credits or read the transcript with credits here.

“The Bigger Picture” In Snippets From Emergent News Contributors Curated By KIP

Good news from The Presidio Trust Board of Directors

Which national park had 9.6M visitors this past year - Yosemite? Zion? Grand Canyon? Nope, they had about half that. Answer is: The Presidio.

What a pleasure it is to see the accomplishments of the Presidio Trust - and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy - at last night’s public board meeting.

We also heard about a collaborative plan to extend The Presidio’s nature corridor throughout San Francisco, to green this city and pioneer a model for the nation, starting with local low income poor health areas.

Thanks to Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and the Inflation Reduction Act, The Presidio will be able to update the WW2 infrastructure of the park.

Did you know I write poetry? I do!

This is from 2021.

i’m walking up the sidewalk

a steep hill

steep

slowly

looking at my screen

this is my day.

i look up.

a car is about to drive in my path

20 feet up the hill

into a driveway.

30 feet.

far.

he sees me

driver stops

beckons me to go.

i nod

don’t break my stride.

i see them.

on the far side of the driveway

a woman and a construction guy.

they beckon to me

vigorously

“come on”.

the car is stopped

the driver knows

they beckon bigger.

are you kidding me

i yell to these fools

i’m not going

to run

up the hill

you’re

gonna

have to

wait.