Artificial Intelligence
I had fun putting this together with Galaxy.AI. It is amazing to me how easy it was to get a result that I’m very satisfied with.
Galaxy.AI
One of the reasons I went into so much detail about Galaxy.AI in my linked-in post about this is that they were offering a months worth of credits for writing a review. I didn’t have to pull any punches, so I was happy to share how’s it been working for me.
They also responded to my support ticket for the free credits really quickly. This encourages me to try to engage with them about some of the rough spots I’ve encountered. Of course I’m figuring that most of my problems are still user error, but tech support may be able to show me the way.
The video on youtube
Spreadsheets
I wanted to emphasize the spreadsheet angle from the beginning, but then the generated videos weren’t really that emphatically about spreadsheets. So I mulled whether to give up on the spreadsheet angle or rework the video, but I ultimately settled on adding some educational links and mentioning it in the description.
Linked-in post
I’ve used AI to put together my first music video. I’ve been thinking about doing something like this for years, but it is amazing how good it ends up being without the toil of learning new tools or other common hurdles. It only took a few iterations to go from idea to good result.
This was all done with Galaxy.AI, ffmpeg, yt-dlp and iMovie.
I’ve really enjoyed working with Galaxy.AI for various creative tasks. It has helped me write lyrics for a screenwriting project. I’ve also had great fun with their AI headshot tool. I was able to take 7 random selfies and churned out 130 interesting headshots in a huge variety of settings.
For this video project the biggest limitation with Galaxy.AI that I ran into was only being able to process 90 seconds of audio into a music video at once. One version ended up with realistic men in front of LEGO backgrounds, but I was able to fix that with the part of the prompt that I have control over.
The whole project was great fun and I’m looking forward to working more with these tools soon.
Rebrickable Workbench
I also shared this on my Rebrickable Workbench.
This is my latest LEGO-related creation. I didn’t post it on my as-yet-to-launch LEGO channel since I’m really considering this more of experimental art than definitely something i’d like to be part of my LEGO channel. I had fun making it and maybe we’ll encourage a few people to learn about spreadsheets.
Facebook Post
I also posted on Facebook:
Some popcorn for the Facebook masses…