You may not realise this but we are living in a science fiction age where anyone can transform their thoughts into a beautiful image in a matter of seconds. You can do something that no human could do for millennia, and all it takes is the desire to do so. This year, we can take those still images to create short videos that would amaze any advertising client.
This week, I’m sharing some of the videos I generated with Midjourney‘s new engine. Google Veo 3 is amazing, but Midjourney’s aesthetics are in a class of their own. I encourage you to spend US$10 to subscribe to MJ for a month and bring forth the weird stuff in your head to share with the world.
I’m also thinking if I should design a workshop to teach people how to craft still images and videos using today’s Gen AI tools. I would impart design fundamentals, videography fundamentals, and then prompting techniques for creative visuals. Would you be interested?
But first, let me roll out the first “The Agency of You” workshop on 9th of July! Last call for registrations!
Midjourney videos from my mind
I created the newsletter’s still image in ChatGPT, then animated it with Midjourney.
This is a collage of 6 videos with music generated by Suno.PlayA colorful sunrise in a painterly style.
This is my standard test prompt of a white horse running through sea water during a purple dusk.
Here’s a PowerPoint slide I created for a recent Gen AI workshop.
My favorite: I’ve always loved simple rough sketches. Now I can animate them!
What I wrote this week
Gen Z wants to buy BlackBerries now. Please don’t. (NYT gift article within).
Reuters Institute’s latest data shows how SG print newspapers have steadily declined in readership. The print journo in me has mixed feelings.
The job market for grads is really tough this year.
Quiet thoughts while listening to bossa nova from 1999.