CTP (S3EAprSpecial9) What Does It Mean To Leave A Legacy Online?

CTP (S3EAprSpecial9) What Does It Mean To Leave A Legacy Online?
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We talk through a practical way to preserve family memories so they don’t get lost in cloud accounts, hacked profiles, or forgotten hard drives. We share how myArtKit can hold photos, video, audio, and written stories in one place so your loved ones can revisit them for decades. 
• a real memorial account example and why it matters 
• why typical cloud storage and social media are fragile 
• saving photos video audio and text together 
• lifetime accounts memorial accounts and family pages 
• event collections where everyone can contribute 
• assigning editors to add names context and history 
• using good prompts to capture better stories 
• AI tools as enhancements not replacements for real voices 
• QR codes for sharing a legacy at funerals and beyond 
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A Short Story: A Lasting Legacy? book Trailer

Transcript

Welcome And MyArtKit Return

SPEAKER_01 0:08

Hello, welcome to another episode of Pristitutionalist Podcast. I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard. That's L-E-N-A-R-D at Local French. It's not without an O. Thank you for tuning in. As Bram Norton used to say on his show. Let's get on with the show. A guest is joining again to talk about my art kit. M-Y-A-R-K-I-T.com. Yes, it's dot com. Yeah, that's correct.

SPEAKER_00 0:51

You got it perfect.

A Memorial Account Walkthrough

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Yeah. Okay, so full disclosure, and in fact, I'm going to go ahead and share my screen. First thing here. There is myArtKit.my portal.myartKit.com for my dad, Thaddeus M. Leonard Jr. You will see there it says a memorial account for him. I put one up, so yes, full disclosure. I am a myart kit client. All right. Now how do I stop the oh before I stop to share? Let me go over to the other tab. Here is the myartkit.com main page. As you would expect, you'll see about contact, login, help, all that stuff, the future of your memories. Indeed, uh, you know, what is my art kick? Which we'll get into, of course. Why do I need one? Why is my art kick different? So I'm gonna stop sharing. And indeed, why would someone want what is a myart kit beyond what I just showed? In my case, a memorial for my dad.

Why Cloud Storage Disappears

SPEAKER_00 2:15

Well, you kind of you're on the same lines as why I started my art kit was I sat my dad down and did a video of him about his life and asked him questions, you know, and and what what you really end up with is is digital memories. Yeah. And the the problem I found as time went past was what do you do with them? You know, where do you find them? Where where are they at? Are they in this computer, that computer? Did I dirt burn a DVD? Do my kids have the DVDs or grandkids are gonna get bigger now? So over time, if you have one spot, it's gonna get lost. It'll be lost again. And when it gets lost this time, it's really lost because you can't go back and find it. And if you just throw it up into the if you throw it up into a normal cloud or some of the other uh um that's like it says on the website.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

Indeed, if you a normal cloud storage, well, that's normally that person's or your when something happens to the person who owns the cloud account and the cloud account stops getting paid for, the cloud account goes poof. No more cloud.

SPEAKER_00 3:27

Yeah, their business model is if you're using it, they're gonna throw you advertising. And that happens with even social media. If you're using it, if you put on content good enough to where they can, you know, you get a lot of likes or something like that, they might leave it up there for a while. But most all social media content will sit there and go, uh, they won't they most you know they won't even leave keep it for a couple days, you know. And some of them will keep it, but I don't trust them. Because yeah, there's been many times where I've had a uh, oh gosh, I think it was just last year. I had a cousin that put a posting up there where he said, Yeah, I couldn't get into my account, somebody hacked it, and just one push of a button, everything was gone. Yeah, and we you can't do that with my archive because you upload one memory at a time and you can download or dis or delete one memory at a time. And it would take you forever to delete thousands of memories I got in mind.

One Place For Photos And Audio

SPEAKER_01 4:24

Yeah, we may get older, and and that's part of it as we get older. Uh dementia aside, which my mother had that, but uh just normal part of aging as we get older, our memories start to falter. So my arc uh uh as you see it it allows sound, it allows video, it allows stills. So you have a place for all those together, whereas some sites like YouTube, it only allows video. If I want an audio only thing, like my show is part of YouTube Podcast, which is formerly Google Podcasts, you know, there's a solid still image there. Normally you can't upload just an audio there, so you would need an audio-only site. You'd and like a oh Google Photos for just the photos, then you're talking multiple sites where my RKIT, M-Y-A-R-K-IT-.com again for the benefit of audio only or transcript, of course. Video viewers, I'll put that as a scroll and post, uh, so it'll be on the screen. But yours allows all those things as well as I'm gonna show again. Let me share. As you can see, they're uh a background image, uh, an old Olin Mills, if people remember those from the 1980s.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

Oh my gosh, Olin Mills that name for Ayler, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

It's an old Olin Mills. Uh my dad, Thaddeus, Ted Lenner Jr., mom, Donna Jean Keeler, me, Joseph Emler, my sister Michelle Collette, our Beagle at the time, Lonesome. And so, yeah, pictures, video, text, uh, a text layout to denote about the person living or dead, uh, or a family site. You can have something dedicated to the whole family: mom, dad, brother, sister, the cats, the dogs, the ferrets.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

Oh, yeah, we do it like I did, like on my site, on my lifetime. Uh, you can get a memorial site or the ones I like people to start with because it takes a lifetime to get lifetime worth of memories. It's a lifetime account. And I you can just create a folder. So I created a folder for uh cars, I created a folder for pets on my mom's website. Uh my my brother didn't really have a lot of stuff when he passed away, so I just created a folder for him. I didn't even do a memorial site for him because I probably only had a hundred things or so of memories of him that he actually had pictures. And uh he was terrible to take pictures of. I'm gonna yell at him someday. But you know, yeah, so and then at another one we have events.myarch.com to where people participate in an event like a wedding, a college yearbook, my high school yearbook type thing, where everybody can sit there and grab some memories and put it into that event. And I have one of those to where it's great for the family photo album. Yeah, all of a sudden, your family, after my god, I'm getting old, 50 years, is all over the place, all over the world, really. My one daughter's over in Germany right now with her husband, um, Air Force Base. How do you share them? Basically, they can put memories in there. Everybody can look back at you know, from 100, 150 years ago on old pictures, and people can put um stories and stuff with them. If you have your uh your editor, you can assign an editor, more than one. So I have people back in Iowa can assign editors and kind of know what all these old pictures are, and you start making all those memories to it. And hopefully this year, keep my fingers crossed, we're gonna start a genealogy site with our uh with our family tree. People can incorporate that into it and kind of see what it's there.

SPEAKER_01 8:53

Now, before I forget, I did make a note. I said you're back, you were here season two, November Special Three, which aired Wednesday, November 20th, 2024. If people want to go back and to the constitutionalist archives and and dig that up. So the biggest bottom line here is flexibility. My memorial count is a very basic thing. Uh, I even as a former IT guy, I didn't want to dig into it and get a lot of stuff. Like somewhere there is old 35 millimeter of dad and his band playing an event, and I could have that digitized and put on, but I didn't want to go through all that. I wanted at least something basic as a memorial remembrance. But as you've laid out, there are all these other layers. You can do them, but you don't have to do them. It's uh it's dynamic, I guess, is the word I'm looking for.

Events And Editors For Families

SPEAKER_00 10:11

Try to, like you said, make it uh your choice. You can do if you put a picture in there, you also can put a story along with it, but you can also click a button and put an audio story along with that picture. Instead of just trying to guess or just read a picture, you just have the words from the person who actually made it, or you know, is it's it become a cool story.

SPEAKER_01 10:33

Or the person who took the photo can explain from their perspective. Yeah, I was there, and this is why I took the photo, and boy, we're glad we did. And uh, so there's a lot of different things. You can get a lot of different people involved, you're not limiting the audio or the video to the subject of the page necessarily.

SPEAKER_00 11:00

There was such a big increase this year coming up into Christmas on online where people doing the uh AI books, you know, where it's like, you know, get your get your grandparents and your parents to ask answer some of these questions and we'll make a book. You know, that's interesting. That's that's you know, it's it's I I can I want to say cute, but it is kind of you know, it is kind of cute and it's kind of interesting. But you get a book. Who gets to see the book?

SPEAKER_01 11:27

Kind of like my how to write a book and get it published. Yeah, they took that to a new level and said exactly. Okay, we'll we'll ask you the questions you answer in a few paragraphs, we then formulate it into a memoir or a biography for you.

SPEAKER_00 11:49

My biggest thing there was uh you can't add to it. Once it's printed, you can't add to it. It's not very easy to share that over time, it's gonna it's gonna end up on somebody's shelf and eventually it's gonna end up in somebody's garbage can. You know, just like a lot of other stuff, people move, people move, people move, and things get thrown away. I don't even know where my earbook is when I graduated.

AI Memoirs Versus Real Voices

SPEAKER_01 12:13

I I purposely taught landed up tossing mine after so so many years. I joke and I'll lift my green screen here to show when I joke the ugly couch why I use the green screen to project an image there. It's like I'm not a hoarder, but you could see all kinds of garbage. I I am a slob, absolutely. Stuff all over, and indeed we tend to just keep collecting eventually, some of it's got to go. And that's the key here is you can offload some of that stuff, and you don't have to worry about if something happens to the original or you lose it, or something that doesn't need to take up space anymore. Indeed, you could discard it because it's preserved.

SPEAKER_00 14:17

Well, yeah, I think take your special memories, and you can go right into uh the My Arc and go to the help button that goes over to the website called Life Saver You, which is like a big website for help and how to do videos and things like that. And it'll it has questions in there that you can ask. And it's it's really kind of nice to not give a generic question. It's really nice to be able to sit down with somebody, and you might ask a question like I did with my dad, uh, when did you learn how to ride a bike? And then you're getting a little bit of information, but then you get that conversation moving. So, you know, he wrote it before his sister wrote it. And when was that? Oh my, she got mad at me because I wrote it before she did, and blah, blah, blah, all that kind of stuff. So it's just not a basic question. I've seen people retirement home. I was stepped in there one time and I was watching this lady. She was fantastic, where she had a group of people that retired at the retirement home, and all she has to do is just mention a memory like a piano or some place, and they all of a sudden all these memories flood back. Oh, yeah, we had a piano, we were always sitting around at Christmas time. Oh, what songs did you play? And all of a sudden, it's it's not set in a specific guide of this is what you're gonna put in there. You got to make it more human. That's why you never want to do AI, you know, take a picture and make somebody come to life type of thing. It's not they're not coming to life, it's it's all AI, you know. But you want to be able to get that the feeling of you know, like a voice or some video of somebody before they pass away, is my big thing. Before somebody passes away, get some feelings, get some memories from them.

SPEAKER_01 15:49

Which is not to say the AI stuff isn't kind of cool for oh, I've used I've seen some of it. Great great grandpa uh long gone, you know, gone before video. So indeed, that's all you've got are these few stills, maybe in black and white, and the AI can colorize them and 3D them and kind of give them motion. It's like a silent film and still, but a step up from what you had, and then after you've done that, you could put that video on your My Arc kit.

SPEAKER_00 16:27

We what they call Arcit. You push the button, you're ready that you're ready to upload it, we just arc it.

SPEAKER_01 16:32

And I like that play, cross between archive, A-R-C-H-I-V, and ARC, as in from the biblical Noah and the ARC, indeed, uh loading them up and ensuring they survive the the cataclysm, uh, you know, for lack of any other better way to put it.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

But zombi zombie apocalypse. That's what we're working on. We're gonna we're gonna survive the zombie apocalypse.

SPEAKER_01 17:03

Okay. Well, I was gonna go ahead and start to wrap things up because I don't know where else to go. So let me just open it to a broad question. What haven't we covered yet? What do you want to add before we go?

Capture Stories Before They’re Gone

SPEAKER_00 17:21

Oh, the biggest thing I always tell people is go to the site and look it over. You know, we got we got my arcate, we got lifesaver you. Uh we're looking at uh it costs nothing to go check it out. No, no, we got a 30-day free 30-day free trial. You can always just sign up for it. Boom. We don't take any bank information. They can try to throw some things in there, and if you don't want it, it converts over to a view-only account that you can view other people's accounts because you got to be signed up to get into it because that's another layer of security. Like I said, biggest thing is sit somebody, sit the loved ones you have, sit them down, get some of those memories, and then we're gonna work on what you're gonna do with them. And people have to understand that. Oh, I'm gonna put them up into this spot. Could they go bye-bye? Yes, I'm gonna put them over here. Do you trust them? Not really. So we're trying to get this totally anchored down to where I'm not gonna have to touch it for generations and it's gonna feed itself. And people will see in 50 years, they'll come right back to it. Hey, what do you know? It's still there. That's what we want. Yeah, but get those memories now. People, I just had a friend pass away the other day, more of an acquaintance, but it was like the only when he passed away, um, you see, you get the little, you know, uh eulogy, but you don't really know the person. When we when we get our lifetime accounts or even our memorial accounts, I'm pretty I'm pretty sure I have to check on that again. It's it generates a QR code.

SPEAKER_01 18:55

I have a QR code, and I will put dad's QR code up here in post for people to be able to see. But you're right, right. My a short story, a lasting legacy book. It's called a short story, even though it's a novelette size-wise. But we don't know how much time were promised, short or long. So you've got to indeed archive my architect these memories while people are still here, and you can enjoy it altogether. And indeed, I don't want to be morbid here, but come funeral time, what usually happens, people are scrambling for pictures to then tack up. But a lot of funeral homes now have video boards. So indeed, you could I don't know if you have a function for this in autoplay.

SPEAKER_00 19:59

Oh boy, that's that's on the that's on horizon. We we call it video on demand or somebody eulogy off of somebody's site.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

Yeah, exactly. That way a the My Architect page could be literally projected and automatically filtered through there up on the screen. That that would be something wonderful. So yeah, I we're thinking alike, and of course, not everything can happen on day one.

SPEAKER_00 20:31

Or if they they come they they come to the funeral and they have the picture of the eulogy of the of the of the of the person who passed away, and there's a little QR code. All you gotta do is go click and you can enjoy his memories in your own leisure. And you know, you can find out who that person was and what they liked and what their life was like, instead of just you know, you kind of you gotta say, you gotta have that time to say goodbye. I understand that. But there's also a time you can actually enjoy their life and what they actually created or did and um achieved, and that's what a short story, a lasting legacy, is about.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

Indeed, what is your legacy? We may not think our lives amount to a whole lot to leave an actual lasting legacy, but it does, and no one is really truly completely gone unless we allow them to be forgotten. We need to keep their memories alive in ourselves, and their legacy then lives on as part of ours. We keep them alive in a way, yes?

QR Codes And Funeral Displays

SPEAKER_00 21:45

Yeah, we can uh I believe in if you remember, you remember people, but at this at the same time, it's great to actually learn from the past, learn from your parents, great great-great-grandparents, things like that, to where you might all of a sudden you have a gem of wisdom come from your great-great-great-great-grandfathers. It's like, we did what? Oh my god, and then you feel proud, you know, somebody within your family did it. And it's just you can learn so much from the past and learn so much. You know, honor thy mother and thy father is also a big one.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

Yes, exactly. Okay, well, we're gonna wrap it up. The site is M-Y-A-R-K-I-T.com. We've already covered that. Indeed, I encourage it's one thing to hear us talking about it, but it's a whole other thing to really go and see what's there and what can be. Uh, it it's it's almost hard to describe, it's way beyond Facebook walling and things of that nature. Uh, this is not a social media site.

SPEAKER_00 23:01

No, nobody nobody can put, you know, oh, I don't like that, you know, your hair looks funny, that type of thing. It's your

SPEAKER_01 24:03

I really appreciate it. Take care, God bless you.

SPEAKER_00 24:07

Take care. Have a good have a good year.

A Legacy Poem For New Life

SPEAKER_02 24:14

As a family friend, I cannot wait to meet you. I feel already know you. They waited and prayed. Watched the calendar turn. Now a brand new heartbeat has made their whole world turn. Little hands and tiny feet, a gift straight from above. God already knew you, formed you in his love. We anxiously await thee, little one so dear. A blessing in the making, your arrival drawing nearfully home. Legacy lives on a new page in the story. The journey's just begun. Respectfully, family tradition. Your gracious mom and dad tried their best in life. So nothing good be missed. Salutations for Leo. Congratulations to mom and dad. No doubt you'll be still a future college grad. Legacy continues, shining bright and strong. With God's hand upon you, you can never go wrong. How to love and how to give, how to stand up tall, even when life makes you bend, Rooted deep in faith, in the values they hold true. Every hug, every lesson, point your heart toward what is good, so good. Proper life to live From the ones who came before you to the ones still yet to be. So in this life, your own is nothing good, my little man. Congratulations, Mom and Dad. Here's to you on the name. A future full of promise. Never gonna be the same. Legacy continues. In this boy's own, we thank the Lord above for bringing him into view. Welcome to the world sweetly. God bless you, little one.

SPEAKER_01 28:27

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