FINALLY! My first original project is officially done...
I spent the last week putting this together, usually a couple hours every night.
The ending might be my favorite scene I've ever created.
I’ve always wanted to get better with AI, so I finally decided to take a shot at making something from start to finish with Grok Imagine.
My process was probably a lot longer than most people would go through, but it gave me a chance to really learn the tools:
1) Brainstormed and created stills for all the characters
2) Mapped out the timeline scene by scene
3) Created stills for every scene
4) Animated each still until I was happy with it
5) Stitched everything together
And here's what I got.
I ran out of credits a couple times, but thankfully they reset in time for me to make the deadline😂
Really curious to hear what you guys think. And if you have ideas for what I should make next, send them my way.
Next, I'm trying out Grok Bot and Grok Voice.
For now, enjoy:
The Return of Odysseus.
I have no doubt this screed released by Laura Loomer is retaliation for my lawsuit against the DHS for its illegal seizure of my phones following my return from a reporting trip to Iran. Our lawsuit succinctly details Loomer’s role in lobbying for the unconstitutional seizure, and her claims of credit for it. Now she’s seeking cover in the Zeppelin-sized shadow of Randy Fine.
A federal judge has clearly stated that my Fourth Amendment rights were violated through the seizure of my phones. She framed the DHS action as an attack on my First Amendment rights as well, situating it within the Trump administration’s wider assault on press freedom.
Loomer and a trio of Israel First backbenchers have responded by escalating their attack on my First Amendment rights. It’s a desperate bid to silence me and The Grayzone - not for breaking any laws, but for journalism which exposes wanton corruption and war crimes.
They are particularly incensed by my reporting on the crimes of a certain foreign apartheid state whose lobbying proxies guide their careers. Indeed, their letter is packed with hysterical complaints about my journalism, demanding that I be “investigated” for producing a documentary on Iran’s Jewish community and for clinically exposing official Israeli deceptions about October 7 designed to generate public support for genocide in Gaza.
The letter also contains blatantly false, libelous statements. For instance, its authors claim I was “cultivated by an agent of influence by an FTO and current military adversary.” This is textbook defamation, and I don’t think it’s protected by congressional immunity.
Finally, it’s impossible to ignore the irony of Randy Fine falsely accusing an American journalist of unspecified crimes just days after Fine was filmed rummaging through a private citizen’s mailbox while he was campaigning for reelection.
Breaking into a mailbox is a federal crime. Journalism is not.
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“Antisemitism is a canary in the coal mine of fascism. It is one of the oldest bigotries that has caused those of the Jewish faith a tremendous amount of pain. From pogroms to the Holocaust, Jews have always been singled out by those in power as a scapegoat for instability and economic volatility people in power cause. A resilient, nascent antisemitism is a constant threat, especially as economic instability makes those in power seek out old targets. They’re not very creative, usually. They just always rehash the same propaganda over and over again.”
-Hasan Piker
As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack. https://t.co/BHsuxDhOZj
you have to be fucking kidding me with this racist garbage, at the height of the pandemic we were losing a 9/11 a day worth of people to the virus, that’s not trivializing 9/11, it was taking a pandemic that killed more than 1 million Americans deadly seriously!