Welcome Page

Welcome to A. J.'s website. Father, Author, Nerd, DJ (retired), Game Developer.

Hello friends! I'm glad you took the time to visit this website. There are two brand names featured here: A. J. Bruner, (writing, game development, voicework, social media, website design) and #ColoringTherapy, all the physical and digital crafting stuff. Some of the various #ColoringTherapy projects featured on this website also include input from my son, and we have incorporated his artistic path as an educational process with each project. This provides the option for him to learn how to make various crafts, and decide if he wants to sell his own creations later in his life. However, none of his pieces are for sale through this domain or subdomains or online storefronts, and are not affiliated with A. J. Bruner.

All of the projects I am involved in will be accessible through here though. While I do have many pots on my stove, I like to try to take the time to stop and smell the roses, which includes interacting with the public. That said, I no longer use the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, or known as X, due to the lack of: support, vision, and accountability. I did migrate to Threads app and BlueSky when those launched, but have since set all my accounts to Private on META products, due to similar reasons that I left X/Twitter. Feel free to support me and/or my projects on the other online platforms shown on this website, and look to BlueSky for a lot more "live" activity, at the moment.

Lots of creators are utilizing AI in their creations, as is their choice. However, none of the projects created by #ColoringTherapy, or myself as A. J. Bruner, utilize AI software or prompts. I feel that AI detracts from the experience of creation every artist must go through with every project. What is learned by "pushing a button" and having the work completed automatically? Nothing. Using a prompt does not generate a process of creation to learn how to render the final product without using the AI at all, which means that anyone can have AI spit out the exact same thing.

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