
Recently, Iāve REALLY got into colorizing black-and-white vintage photos. Itās both an art and a craft. One that Iām still learning.
Thankfully, with the help of a handy-dandy app called PhotosRevive, the process is relatively fast, easy, and customizable. The results? Judge for yourself.




Donāt get me wrong: I LOVE black and white photography. I subscribe to the philosophy that any image that doesnāt work without color doesnāt really work. For me, color is seasoning and spiceā¦but the lights and darks are where the real meal truly is.
Since itās officially āPride Monthā I decided to put my new interest in colorization to good use on some classic images from LGBTQ History. One of the videos is above. More are below.
While making these videos, a few things kept popping in my head that Iād like to share.
Pride isnāt about making anyone else happy. Itās about finding your own definition of happiness.
Pride isnāt about doing things because theyāre popular or trendy. It isnāt about getting more clicks, likes, and/or money. Itās about following your heart and doing whatās right for you and your life.
Pride isnāt about artificial intelligence, bits, bytes, and/or computers. Itās about irl emotions and expressions. Itās about blood, sweat, and tears. Itās about history and humanity.
All of that may be self-evident to many. But many of us, myself include, can get swept up in trying to figure out how to please external things like the āalgorithmā instead of connecting with internal things like hearts and mind. Starting with our own.
Whatās my point? Well, since starting on YouTube, Iāve been trying to figure out how to grow the channel, how to āoptimizeā it, and how to make my āgardenā grow. Iāve also been learning a lot about what I do like and what I donāt like about being a YouTuber.
While the Analytics are interesting, they arenāt why I create these photomontages.
I make these because I love making and sharing LGBTQ history and stories. All of LGBTQ+ history and stories. And not just the videos of affectionate guys Al/Algorithm seems to prefer promoting. Maybe our current audience prefers them.
But itās not all Iām interested in making. And as lovely as the audience we have now is, they will like what we doā¦or they wonāt. Oh. Well.
So going forward, Iām express my creativity and Pride how I want, when I want. Al/Algorithm be damned.
This may end up āhurtingā the channel in the short run. But it may also help broaden the audience by connecting to the other branches in the Family LGBTQ+.




To that end, Iām currently working on three colorization videos. These are the working titlesā¦and hopefully will be premiering in the next day or two:
Affectionate Women Colorized
Affectionate Men Colorized
Gender Splendor Colorized
Based on experience, only one of these will do āwellā for the channel. At least for now. Who knows what might happen later.
Also based on experience, Pride can have a Butterfly Effect. Its initial impact may be felt in the moment. Or not. But its ultimate impact can only be measured much later, through a lens of time and space.
Pride is a part of human history. And weāre all part of itā¦weāre all Making History!
Thanks for reading!
Clint
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