william-writing What Those AI Videos on Your Feed Actually Cost Curious Refuge published the bill for one 30-second Seedance 2.5 shot: $31.62. For scale, my whole image pipeline spent $15.26 making 997 images last month. The distance between generating pictures in ChatGPT and generating the video you're scrolling past is enormous, and almost nobody talks about
artist profile Tropland Universe Runs a Circus Where No Animal Is Real Tropland Universe is a digital animal kingdom — photoreal lions and tigers doing impossible things, every caption disclosing the AI and promising no animal was caged, trained, or harmed. It started as a children's book about a juice bar in 2013.
veo PJ Ace Made an NBA Finals Ad for $2,000 and Published the Prompts PJ Ace made the AI ad that ran during the NBA Finals for about $2,000 in three days — then published the entire workflow. Fifteen years of directing, 300-400 Veo generations, and a rule about never asking Gemini for more than 5 prompts at a time.
artist profile daejin.creates Makes AI Art That Goes Inward Korean AI artist daejin.creates works at the meeting point of design, psychology, and AI — making quiet, inward images and short motion pieces in a feed built for speed.
ai-video Neural Viz Makes an Alien TV Network, Tool by Tool Neural Viz makes coherent, episodic AI television — a whole alien TV network — as one person. Here's the actual workflow, tool by tool, and why a decade of craft is the part that still matters.
