I’ve been using Seedance 2.0 the wrong way this... whole time. Yesterday, while editing an animation short, I realised I wasn’t doing enough staging in my 15-second videos. I was describing what happened in the scene, but I wasn’t really directing how it happened. So today, I tried a new prompting approach to make those 15 seconds more interesting and tell a story people would actually want to watch. Here’s the result and the prompt I used.show more

I didn’t expect Grok’s video model to improve this... much. Today, when I was generating a video with Seedance 2.0, I found the results weren’t very good. So I tried using the exact same source material and prompt in Grok instead. To my surprise, Grok actually produced better results than Seedance 2.0. I’ve put the prompt and source material in the comments, so if you’re interested, you can give it a try too. The left side shows the video generated by Grok, and the right side shows the video generated by Seedance 2.0.show more

DeMarcus Lawrence on if a return to the #Cowboys... was ever in play: “…I mean everything really happened so fast. The offers came across the table and Dallas offer wasn’t there. I had a decision to make and that’s what happened.” (🎥: Brian Nemhauser on YT)show more

15 year anniversary of the Paparazzi video, what a... wild number. I was only twelve when everything happened, so that means I’ve been in music for more than half of my life. Thank you for holding my head up through it all. I used to shy away from the video but lately I feel the opposite — I feel very proudshow more

I didn’t have enough time to fully test Seedance... 2.0 with cartoon styles, but I made an attempt here using an image generated in Midjourney, and the result is promising, though somewhat incomplete. I need to explore it more deeply, but I’m sure it’s possible to achieve some great animations with it.show more

I decided to tune into The Faithful Sheriff's stream... while I was working today to see what he was about and tried to have an open mind but literally within the first minute of me tuning in this happenedshow more

FSD just gained a new lifetime user. I saw... this posted on reddit and thought I would share it here. ---- I am not a regular subscriber, but I was getting over COVID. With the foggy brain I subscribed to FSD just for the month to help me get around while recovering. I am fully recovered but get to enjoy the rest of the month of FSD. Car updated from 13.2.9 yesterday to 14.2. Today on my way home this happened! I couldn't figure out why it was slamming on the brakes until a mere second before the deer jumped out. I am so thankful. It doesn't replace human intervention but all the extra 'eyes' help. I'm still in shock and so happy I didn't destroy the deer and the car. source:show more

While building SEV0, I ran into moments where natural... language prompting just wasn't enough - too vague, too indirect. So I started using a method that bridges that gap. I call it Bridged Prompting - a technique where you temporarily step out of the prompt-response loop to manipulate something directly using an AI-generated UI, then step back in. Think of it like GenUI, but more user-driven and transient. AI generates a UI on-the-fly, tailored to your prompt, and lets you manipulate the artifact directly before resuming the conversation. Sure, you could build a full tool, switch tabs, wire it up and round-trip your data. But with Bridged Prompting, the AI just spins up a temporary interface right in the flow. In the video below, I used it to construct the hallway system to closely match the layout of the severed floor. This is something I needed to do for this one project, this one time - I didn't need to make a whole separate app. Bridged Prompting lets you: - Make precise edits visually or structurally - "Hit save" to persist changes to local storage or a backend - Return to your natural language promptshow more

I interviewed Miriam again on Friday. Hammersmith Apollo this... time. I wasn’t meant to be doing it, but somebody fell ill at the last minute and couldn’t make it, so I went from sat at home in my pants to this xxshow more

I didn’t realize how much my job was affecting... me. I made good money but it wasn’t in alignment with what I wanted for my life. So I was stressed, tired and “always on”. 4 week ago I quit to put all my energy into consulting and creating. Today we got caught in a typical Miami afternoon monsoon. Two months ago I would have been racing to the car to be on slack or zoom. Today we stopped and danced. And enjoyed life a bit more.show more

I told my roommate that I don’t celebrate my... birthday cause I felt like it wasn’t a big deal and she dead ass surprised me with cake and played those sound bits of people in the background to make it “full” I was surround with love today and I haven’t felt that in a bit Cheers!show more

Yo! That new animation looks promising, I really hope... you will like it. I learned a lot of new animation tools for this teaser, and it was a lot of fun to make. Also tried using Koikatsu to create the hair, and I'm really happy with how it looks now.show more

#JANHAE #JANIVERSE 🦊: the thing i regret the most... in life would probably be i chose to believe my friends more than myself, because i wasn’t confident in my own thoughts. but if you ask, the path my friends chose for me was a good path and the one i should take, but the outcome of that decision wasn’t what i wanted. if i was going to do something, it’d be better that i made the decision myself. at least if i ended up regretting it, it would still have come from the fact that i trusted myselfshow more

ELLA’S VOICE Getting in line this morning with my... family, I never imagined where the day would lead. Now I’m sitting in the front row at President Donald J. Trump President Trump’s event in Chippewa Falls, and honestly, it’s hard to put into words what this moment feels like. As I waited in line, I kept thinking about how much has changed over the past year. I was just a girl in New Richmond who believed girls deserved privacy in their bathrooms, fairness in their sports, and the protections Title IX was meant to guarantee. When I spoke up, I wasn’t trying to become an activist. I wasn’t looking for attention. I simply knew that what was happening wasn’t right, and I couldn’t stay silent. There were difficult moments along the way, but I never stopped believing that girls deserve a voice.show more

Lala baptiste reflects on the way she was raised... and how BAD it was because she was raised by a single mum and her daddy wasn’t active in her life, she says she doesn’t want that for her kids with jay cinco👀 “The way that i was raised, i was raised by a single mother, a single teen mum, my dad wasn’t really active in my life, i didn’t see that for myself, so i would not start now at the age of 26”show more

“i wish i got more laps just to try... things and test the setup in different ways. a lot of what i’ve been doing is just hoping it works. but we’ve done a good job as a team, so i have to be satisfied in the end that i at least got on the track today” 🙃show more

Interesting development - I was told numerous stories about... what happened yesterday at Crosby. One being it was a group of Asian men attacking teenage girls. Some as young as 14. I dismissed it as rumours and told people to watch out for racism. People unfairly targeting Asians and making lies up about them. But I’ve just been sent this. Now unless there is a conspiracy to frame them. It’s now looking like this is the case. The only other possibility is that this was 2 separate incidents. But either way we can’t live in peace with savages who do this on a public beach in front of families. I don’t want to speculate. So I’m going to bite my tongue on this for the time being in case I’m wrong. It has since been confirmed that teenage girls have been attacked with a bladed item. But the attacker has not been confirmed. I’m currently speaking to the Echo to work out what’s going on.show more