Ian Tan

Ian Tan

Midjourney video – Tutu Wolves

A new challenger has entered the AI Video ring! Midjourney finally launched its video engine to fight Google Veo and OpenAI Sora. I find that MJ’s videos are in a class of their own because their still images have a…

Newsletter 32 – Leapfrog Yourself

I use the official Singapore weather website regularly but one thing has always annoyed me. When you land on the home page, you see a rain map, but you can’t see the current temperature and humidity. You have to search…

Google Veo 3 – Rabbits

You have now discovered my secret to writing daily posts on LinkedIn: I have an endless supply of rabbits coming out of my magic hat. More seriously, I’m back to sharing my surrealistic AI videos because Google now lets AI…

Google Whisk – Colouring Book

Here’s another fun thing you can do with Gen AI: Create your own coloring book! I used Google Whisk (with the Imagen 4 engine) to generate this. In your prompt, include “complex line art”, “for coloring book”, “bold outlines”, and…

Newsletter 31 – Solve, not seethe

I often think of what Dale Carnegie wrote: “Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain.” How can we not, given that there are so many things wrong with the world? And we are bombarded by negativity every day, especially on social media…

Students, steal my prompts

HI STUDENTS, PLEASE STEAL MY PROMPTS (as published in Nanyang Technological University Singapore’s HEY! magazine) I dislike the term “prompt engineering”. As a true-blue arts guy, I find the term too elitist and not inclusive. Anyone can come up with a…

Gemini makes webpages

Gemini Makes Webpages: I’ve been creating webpages since it became possible in the late 1990s with Geocities. However, I’ve never liked HTML coding and always relied on drag-and-drop tools. Even then, you still had to figure out the intricacies of…

Aging and Jogging

Despite what people tell you about keeping fit, exercising regularly is hard, especially with aging and climate change. I have been jogging three times a week for many years, and while my mind always feels like I’m 21, the 48-year-old…