Dreamlike Pictures

06/07/2026

04/20/2026

AI built parts of this. It did so quickly and competently. What it couldn’t do was tell a great story. It’s made me faster but not a better storyteller.
This distinction is the point. Do you want go fast - or make a difference.

I used Claude to test my copy. SeeDance and Nano Banana for the generative AI parts Eleven Labs for the AI voice and Resolve AI Color for the look.

To me AI is an accelerator, it’s not ‘intelligent’ it just keeps spewing out more and more.
It’s also a great ‘back and forth partner’. Bounce ideas and ‘talk’ through complicated issues.

A decade of this work has taught us one thing: the story does the work.

04/16/2026

AI is not the issues NOT I. Is our problem.

04/15/2026

It ain’t summer yet but at least we don’t have to swim through a hole in the lake any more. Happy Spring!

04/15/2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/us/virginia-tax-breaks-confederate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bFA.g_Lr.oohRy5SO5GHw&smid=url-share

The new law signed by Gov. Abigail Spanberger is the culmination of a long, Democrat-led push to distance Virginia from its Confederate past.

04/09/2026

‘Why do you exist’?

Last week I gave a talk to some UNE Media & Business students. I wanted to talk about the value of a story.
I made this to open the conversation. I used AI to make it faster, not necessarily better.

The process itself became part of the message: script got better with Claude, Generative AI visuals from SeeDance and Nano Banana, Humanistic AI voice from ElevenLabs, sound and grade polished with AI inside Premiere and DaVinci.

To tomorrow’s creators — the tools have never been more powerful. But the story still has to come from you.

That’s the job. For all of us.

04/06/2026

04/02/2026

Is it just my feed or did Facebook turn into the Dollar Store this week?