what a beautiful journey these last few years have been! Being far from home challenged me in ways I couldโve never imagined but the gratitude and lessons Iโm coming back with have been the biggest blessings of my life so far. I love you LA & all the
a dump of recent activities ๐โโฌ
winning vbli at our 11 year anniversary ๐ณ
a denim campaign with 7 other Maggieโs
ugly duckling popup with @lisbonatanyc
and some strolls around the city with @drinkchaqi
Spent actual engineering hours building a machine whose entire purpose is a meme that will be forgotten.
Servo motor, two paper hands, one LCD screen that never changes from "6 7." It just sits there, tilting its hands, completely convinced it's doing something important.
This is what happens when Arduino skills meet zero impulse control.
T-REX FOUGHT A MEGALODON IN SURF
16,000 likes. 177 comments
Two animals that never met, on a coastline that never existed, in a fight nobody can fact-check
and that last part is the whole reason this genre suits local models so well:
โ no ground truth. nobody knows how a tyrannosaur actually moved, so there is no reference anyone can hold the render against
โ no faces. skin, scale and muscle are forgiving, and the uncanny valley has no entrance here
โ no text, no hands, no lip sync. the three classic failure modes are simply absent from the brief
โ water hides the joins. spray, foam and turbulence cover exactly the transitions that would otherwise look glued
โ and the audience arrives pre-sold. every person watching already ran this matchup in their head as a child
put those together and you get the cheapest possible showcase for a model running on your own hardware. no identity to keep consistent, no physics anyone can check, no dialogue to sync
which is worth stating plainly, because the open-versus-closed argument usually gets fought on the hardest shots. it should be fought on the ordinary ones. a clip like this has nothing in it that a local 5B checkpoint cannot do, and the gap that justifies a per-second meter simply does not appear in frame
the honest limit is that 16,000 likes is a modest number for a monster fight, and that tells you the other half of the story. the technique is free now, so the scarce thing is a reason for the matchup to matter
if you want to see the floor for yourself before installing anything, image-to-video off one still is the fastest route in. @Picsart does it from a phone
nobody can prove it wrong, which is exactly why it was cheap to make