Roy Price, founder of N1BW, says TV got stuck in a groupthink “blandwagon” where everything started to look like the same show.
Check out https://t.co/VIz2F83LmB to see his solution to this problem in action and listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.
Well, that was fast! The @Number1bw app is now available in the App Store!
Bold new series from independent creators, made outside the studio system, free to start watching. It turns out we can have nice things!
https://t.co/aWxP17YCre
Powered by Android XR, XREAL AURA combines millions of your favorite apps from Google Play, over 100 experiences made for XR, and real-time help from Gemini in one portable experience.
New op-ed in @fastcompany from @rabovitz ✍️🤓 Rony writes about “Computational Democracy” and how we can (and should) build systems that reflect our humanist ideals.
Read the full article and hear the guys talk about these theories on a brand new episode out now!
”an artist with zero skills” aka @antrofrog_ emerged in the last 40 days across socials, this video alone has now done somewhere around 200M views in 36h across platforms.
created by Antrogfrog using @midjourney and @krea_ai it is an absolute masterpiece in storytelling for short form.
Each clip has a hook, and build suspense and release, stacking on each other while all of them stay true to the premise.
a british gentleman in New York. each clip is perfect in length, music most likely drove the story, and the entire short ends with a morale. No need for gentlemen to stand in lines. You don’t need to be an asshole to skip lines, just do good. be good.
This is also not a one hit wonder on a specific platform, this video goes viral anywhere it’s posted, by antrofrog or people just downloading and re-uploading.
Within 5 hours he posted 2 separate videos on Instagram using this character and the second video sits at 62M views and counting.
this shows that while barrier to entry is lower than ever, true skills in storytelling and delivery still is the biggest moat. we might call it taste, because it sure ain’t luck.
A secondary outcome is that on Instagram Antrofrog now has 325k followers and the basics to continue to do what ever art they fancy doing.
what are you waiting for? in Antros own words:
— Just use AI
Beam. Me. Up. This is the aethetic of my generation, except it is far too hi res. People don't understand how much tv we watched, and how bad the quality was. BUT BUT BUT the primitive cinematic story telling techniques still being pioneered at this time (modern cinema was ~60) was bonkers. Now, look at this. Sixty minutes of meaning in 3:30. Only the best parts without pause for the modern mind.
Stories bring viewers in, characters keep them. @StoReelApp CEO Angela Yu speaks on how her app stands out from her vertical streaming competitors.
Hear more from Angela and learn about the rise of vertical shorts on this week’s episode of the AIXR Podcast.