Louis Ponce

Official Music Video from a single in my latest album. ____________________________________________________ Have you ever heard of a Freudian slip? It's when you unintentionally say something that supposedly reveals what you're really thinking. Free writing kind of does something similar. The free association of ideas and words that eventually bubble up to the surface, where all sorts of imagery and emotions just - surprise you. That's what happened to me while writing the lyrics of this song. It was originally a free verse poem where I just let it lead me to wherever it wanted to go. Billy Collins, in one of his Masterclass lectures said - the goal of writing is to surprise oneself, arguing that if the poet is not surprised, the reader will not be either. He advises against trying to fully understand your theme before you start writing, as this kills the magic and prevents the "sudden slip down the rabbit hole" that makes poetry exciting. In my case, just for the heck and the challenge of it, I decided to make a poem out of the very first thing that I saw - a simmering pot of water. And boy, I was surprised where that led me. I don't know if my visuals could match what Billy advises here, but during the process of making music videos, I don't come in with a structured plan. I just let the music and the emotions lead me down rabbit holes. Anyway, ramble over. Full album out on all streaming platforms on May 18, 2026. Hope you enjoy!

@mxvdxn Good acting too!

I really love this scene 😭💕😂😂🤣🤣 Damn, I’m not kidding when I say I want to make high school drama love stories. Seedance 2.0 has been such a blessing for me 😂😂 I mean, Veo 4 isn’t even here yet. 2026 is definitely the year of storytelling.

@GendoWasRight @REALJackTheBus I don't know if you were trying to comfort me, but that sounds depressing. Sounds nihilistic, like why even bother.

@LouisPonce87 @REALJackTheBus Don't worry. Even the greatest humans to ever live are only a tiny, microscopic bit less insignificant than you. Doesn't even move the needle in the greater scheme of things.

I finished ‘Orb: On the Movements of the Earth’ last night That is a once in a lifetime anime Watch it as soon as humanly possible

That's a good way to think about it. But, I think I was comparing myself more against the protagonists of this anime. They were willing to die in pursuit of the truth. They refused to believe that there is no order in the movement and trajectory of the planets - because how can a creator make something so unorderly, imprecise, and ugly? In contrast, nowadays, we self-censor and walk on eggshells, afraid of offending for the risk of losing our livelihood - even for pointing out things that are obviously true

@LouisPonce87 @REALJackTheBus remember that the people we know about from the past are outliers. there were plenty of people like us whom we know nothing about.

@mxvdxn I like the mindset. Funny how creativity comes from a place of non-neediness. When you create for fun and not for clicks or trends. Not from the need to be seen.

@_OAK200 Makes me wanna go back to Midjourney. All these AI tools gonna make me broke lol

@LouisPonce87 I have a moodboard I curated for this style, and some trigger words like "50mm compression" and "film stock grain" help get the aesthetic right!

feels like summer.

@miku_diffract What a tease haha

@LouisPonce87 It’s a brand new model that came out a few days ago! Only available on 1 platform

Guess the model

@_OAK200 Beautiful! Midjourney?

@thefinnmckenty Majoring in the minors, as they say. Procrastination disguised as productivity. I got so caught up in this way of thinking too. Overplanning and "researching" but never getting anything done.

The people who nerd out on elaborate “productivity” setups are almost never the people who actually get the most shit done. A bunch of AI automations chained together isn’t going to make a disorganized, scatterbrained person into an organized person. They spend all their time nerding out and fiddling with their “second brain” and never change the underlying problems that made them disorganized and unproductive in the first place.

Part 4 and the last of my video series on my new single: Cooking Dinner Turned Me Into a Sinner Ran into creative blocks yesterday. Finally got through my perfectionism and finished this video today. Gotta remind myself that consistency, that showing up everyday matters more than perfection. Perfection is the enemy of progress, as they say. Anyway, tune in tomorrow for the full, official music video. Also, my full album will be released on all music streaming platforms on May 18, 2026. Cheers.

@mxvdxn @Hailuo_AI Oof, now wonder. love that guy

@LouisPonce87 @Hailuo_AI Haha thanks man. I took a lot of inspiration from the late David Lynch 😃

SEKOLAH MALAM // GPT Image 2.0 + Seedance 2.0 via @Hailuo_AI

@DanjiTosaka Love how this looks and how it feels

Cigarettes aesthetic (part 2)✨ Prompt 👇

@mxvdxn Bro, I thought I was the only one stuck in primitive prompting mode lol. Everyone here using JSONs and agents and workflows, and I'm just here describing camera angles... Need to try talking to grok like a bro to better visualize my scenes and prompts. Thanks for sharing!

About My GenAI Workflow and How People Tend to Overthink It I get asked this a lot. Bro, what's your workflow? What tools are you using? What agents? Any special prompt engineering techniques? Some specific ComfyUI node setup? And every time, I kind of feel like whatever they're imagining is this super complex, elaborate system. The reality is my workflow is dead simple. Basic. Almost embarrassingly primitive. So if you ask me what essential tools I use, my answer is just two things: 1⃣ Google Spreadsheet. Yes, literally a f**cking Google Spreadsheet. Not Notion. Not Obsidian. A freaking spreadsheet. 2⃣An LLM. In my case, Claude and Grok. That's it. That's the whole toolkit. No agents. No complicated ComfyUI nodes. No style transfer setups or whatever. Just pure prompting. And about the prompting thing, this is where I need to give some context. My prompts are 100% built with LLM. I'm no prompt wizard writing a complex prompt as if I'm a native English speaker LMAO 😂😂😂 I have a basic writing ability, but that's in my native language. Even though I understand English, it's not the language I use day to day, which means my English vocabulary is pretty limited. People who actually grew up in English speaking countries have a real advantage because they just get the nuance naturally. But me????? I don't have that. So how do I pull this off? Simple. I just use LLM. I think a lot of people still underestimate how much you can actually do a lot of things with LLM. And another thiiiing. I use zero thing of whatsoever people called it prompt engineering techniques 😆😆 What the hell is that? I see some big accounts out there sharing these super detailed instruction prompts, all structured and formatted for this specific use case or that. Well... I don't really do that 😆 The way I talk to my LLM is the same way I talk to my neighbor. "Bro, you got any ideas about this?" Or the same way I brainstorm with my creative friends. Totally conversational. I don't even set my LLM to respond in proper English. We go full rojaxxxx, mixed Bahasa Indonesia, Sunda, Jawa, Malay, Singlish, Tinglish, absolute chaos. I genuinely treat it like a friend. 😆😆 + + + Let me give you a concrete example. Here's how I approached my project Sisa Malam. I just told the LLM: "Bro, I have this idea. I want to make a story, super simple, set in a modest flat somewhere in Southeast Asia. I'm imagining the vibe being this mix of Jakarta, Bangkok, Manila..." The ideas I had were rough, coming from personal experience, things I've lived through, and my love for Southeast Asia as a region. I shared all of that, and then I asked: "What do you think?" Yes. I literally asked the LLM for its opinion. 😁 Sometimes the response was kind of lame, but occasionally interesting. The lame stuff I'd push back on immediately, same as I would with a friend "Come on bro, that's weird, why would it go like that, blabla..." And when an idea worked, I'd go" Okay yeah, that one we can use." We kept going back and forth until we hit a point where I felt: okay, this is something we can actually develop. Then we'd lock in the rules. Cinematography direction, visual approach, all of that. And again, I'd ask: "What do you think?" Because I actually want to hear what the LLM thinks. And sometimes, genuinely, the answer was brilliant. From there, I'd have a working prompt framework built in that same conversation. One where I could just describe a scene casually, like "okay in this scene this happens," and the LLM would execute it. And then comes the most important part: testing, testing, testing, and more testing. You have to test the prompt. If the result isn't working, I ask why. "Why does it look like this? Maybe we need to try it this way?" Yoooo where's the CLEAVAGE!!!! I said show the godamnn cleavage! Dude make it sexier, crash zoom-in!! LMAO!! And meanwhile!! There's this dude who's been chasing me to my email, and even to my Linkedin account asking heeey how do you bypass moderation broo??? LMAO 😂😂😂 Well i just told you how, hahahha 😆 Some even wanna pay me for consultation fee. I told them, nooooo you don't need that dude 😂😂😂 Especially with Grok, damn my conversations are pure chaos. Until eventually we hit that moment: "Okay YES. This is it. That's the one." And whatever results work well, I document everything in Google Spreadsheet. That's the process. Scene by scene. Not automated through some agent that spits out a full script. I look at each prompt one by one, we analyze together, we test together. That's the whole workflow. 100% prompting. The ideas come from me, which is what makes it feel personal. There are so many stories I was never able to express before, and now I finally can. The LLM handles the technical side of language, translating my raw ideas into something that actually works as a prompt. For the video side, I edit in CapCut. All the visual aesthetics are handled there. But how I build what goes into those visuals? That's all prompt. I do admire people who go deep into ComfyUI. The setups and workflows look genuinely impressive. But I don't go there. My approach was 100% prompt, built together with an LLM. If I want my character to do a dangdut dance, I ask the LLM how to describe dangdut movement in a prompt. No motion control. No motion reference. Just prompting. These days I'm also using Omni-Reference a lot, so most of the time I'm just building character sheets now. + + + After reading all of this, I think you can see how simple and primitive my actual process is. No complex workflows. No complex setups. 😆😆😆 And honestly, I think people overcomplicate this too much. Though I get it, it really does depend on the project. But for me, it's always this simple. And anyone can do it. The only thing you actually need is the willingness to explore. Because right now, the tendency in the AI space is that if someone sees something they like, and immediately the first question is "what's the prompt, what's the prompt?" If you take the time to actually analyze what you're seeing, you'll figure out exactly how it's done. We're all using the same tools. The difference is just how you choose to approach them. And there's no right or wrong, because what matters in the end is whether it works for you.

Part 3 of my video series on my new single. GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana Pro 2 are both good at maintaining character consistency, but I find the latter less restrictive in censorship. I don't thank there's anything worth censoring in this video. You be the judge. Also, Kling 3.0 is still underrated, especially for how cheap it is compared to Seedance 2.0 Had a blast creating another video and trying different angles and effects, although admittedly, was having mental/creative blocks throughout. When you can create anything, you tend to be overwhelmed and be tempted to not do anything. Does that make sense? Anyway, full album releasing on all music streaming platforms on May 18, 2026.

@Uncanny_Harry Kling is underrated. Nice shots! So nice to hear we can finally bring our ideas to life, even 15 years later.

I had to abandon this short due to a lack of time, but will hopefully return to it in the future. Though it worth sharing as it shows where we are in terms of making a conventional film with with AI. It's from a script I wrote over 15 years ago but never made. This was put together with @Kling_ai @dreamina_ai @Magnific_AI and @topazlabs

@GrimfelOfficial Checking this out! I was waiting for someone to finally do this.

If Spotify don't like us we'll build our own. So I did Introducing hybraudio.com A place where you can download and listen to all your music. AI/Hybrid/Human you control the label. Where you'll never be taken by policy changes and eventually monetization options and a place to show your merch. Advertising your new music and promoting your content to the main page. Charts and playlisting. Right now it's very early. It'll be small at first. I'm doing this on a shoestring rn. But it's something for now. Only just released. Comment if there's any issues/bugs