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This is my entry for Arca Giden 2026. The base is Photography from roughly 15 years of my life brought to life with LTX 2 and ComfyUI with a bit of flux 2 for some of the elements and Foundation 1 for the audio stems.

We just raised $30M at a $500M valuation, bringing our total funding to $47M. Led by @craft_ventures , with @PaceCap , @chemistry , TruArrow, and others. But before anything else: this belongs to the community. ComfyUI started as one developer and one open-source repo. No roadmap. No company. Just creators who wanted real control over how they built with AI. That community is now: → 4 million users → 60,000+ community-built nodes → 150,000+ daily downloads Every number traces back to people who built in the open, for anyone to use. Here's where the funding goes: → Comfy Cloud: for teams and studios that need security and scale → Collaborative workflows: versioning and iteration built for how studios actually work → A better local experience: more seamless, more stable → Ecosystem reliability: making 60,000+ community nodes more dependable → Day-one model support: every major release, compatible at launch We are not building a walled garden. We are building open infrastructure, built to last. Thank you genuinely, The ComfyUI Team

@rlux @CitizenPlain @ltx_model Thank you!

@CitizenPlain @Cyncratic @ltx_model can you see if this will fix it for you? github.com/Lightricks/Com…

Creating highlight detail in overexposed footage with the HDR IC-LoRA from @ltx_model in #ComfyUI

@huwhitememes Noice!

Self doubt arc exited 🚘

@LVJulieKL @BasedMikeLee Thank you for the citation. It means a lot. I am still in awe that this thing is still making the rounds after a year. I may reboot it with a much better version. My skills have improved a lot since then.

@BasedMikeLee With proper credit:

Time for this classic to make a comeback

@huwhitememes Jesus is king. Glad you got through it. Sometimes we are tested, there is always something to learn from it, something to note is that demons feed off of negativity. The more you cuss and scream at them the stronger they get. I will be praying for you brother.

Last night around 3:30 AM, I had one of the most intense spiritual encounters I've ever experienced. It began in a nightmare: I was looking up at a swirling tunnel of dark grey shadowy beings coming through an open portal of clouds. They reached down toward me, sneering and laughing. I started cussing them out and flipping them off while they reached for me. Then I woke up staring at the ceiling light above my bed. But it looked wrong, again. But stronger this time. More exposed and visible. It was dark, distorted, twisting and morphing with an evil blackness, like it was pretending to be a normal light fixture while invading my dreams at the same time. I've had many experiences with demonic sleep paralysis over the years, and this light fixture is exactly where they come in and go out. They always try to conceal it, but I always see it when I wake. With my soul I could see it was the exact same portal from the dream, right there over me. I was partially paralyzed in bed for several minutes. The darkness lingered as I struggled to speak. I called out for Jesus' help over and over and started Praying. Slowly the paralysis eased, the shadowy morphing faded, and my words became clearer. Finally I broke free and thanked Jesus out loud, and recited the Lord's Prayer. I stayed wide awake, too shaken to close my eyes again. Even my cat Bella, who was sleeping partially on my chest and body pillow was completely freaked out. It felt like some kind of demonic grey entities were trying to drag me back into something I had escaped or was breaking free from. This was real, not just a dream. I would never lie about such an experience. And I feel like this is a sign for me somehow. I have a long history of shadowy, demonic sleep paralysis in this apartment.

@ostrisai You are the man Ostris. We all know it.

It has now been 1 year since I switched to working on open source full time! My family and I sacrificed a lot to make this happen, and finances got really tight, but we made it through thanks to everyone who sponsors my work! Here is to many more years to come! Cheers! 🍻

If you want to make videos like that you should get into comfyui. Alternatively you could use something like seedream and some 3d skills to match the dance moves. The videos I make actually take quite a bit more than just prompting to get solid output. There is compositing and traditional visual effects in the mix in there as well.

@Cyncratic @grok can you do this so that it's Epstein and Trump dancing?

Seemed to me this is appropriate. Trump x Musk - Stayin Alive. Original dancers are Aubrey Fisher and Vik.

@CitizenPlain @banodoco @ComfyUI @Lightricks @NVIDIAAI You sir are a G.

Just made a Chattable LTX-2 Knowledge Base Made by scraping @banodoco Discord and includes high quality sources from @ComfyUI @Lightricks and @NVIDIAAI 🎞️

@SmilemoreFL @MaverickDarby That is 100 percent AI. Watch the lips.

@MaverickDarby That’s AI, right?

Did Trump really just say he wants to "bag and tag" people? Unreal.

@huwhitememes Merry christmas guys. I am glad I know you both. You guys are dope. Stay solid.

Crazy in love with this Amazing woman. The last two years have been the best of my life. Blessed 🤍💯🔥

What a short-sighted take. We're entering an era of unprecedented creative empowerment where it's no longer about getting "picked".

@Diesol This is fire Dave!

Encouraging all my fellow creators to engage with other artists' work on this platform. Too much spite and hate on my timeline. Let's support. I will be doubling down on my efforts.

MetaPuppet’s new short film, Kyra, is a vibrant tribute to the New York artists who shaped his early creative journey. From the graffiti writers who turned 5 Pointz into a living canvas to the subway drummers who transformed the city’s underground into a stage, Kyra celebrates the rhythm, color, and spirit that define artistic expression in its rawest form. @MetaPuppet's short was created with @AdobeFirefly and debuted at @Adobe MAX. 🎥 Watch Kyra below.

One of the most beautiful shorts I've seen. Love this

Sharing my latest short, My Friend, Zeph, which premiered this week at #AdobeMAX. I wanted to create a personal story about growing up — and what it means to hold onto wonder as we move between childhood and adulthood. As a dad to a young daughter, that theme really resonated with me. To bring it to life, I used a hybrid approach that blended traditional filmmaking with generative tools within @AdobeFirefly. We shot with actors on location and against blue screen, then used AI to expand the world, enhance emotion, and visualize memory in a way that feels both real and dreamlike. It’s been incredible seeing how these new tools can help tell stories that feel deeply human. #AdobeMAX2025 #CreateWithFirefly

Still buzzing from our @Techweek_ by @a16z event! ⚡️ Big thanks to everyone who came out, and to Albert Cheng from Amazon MGM for an incredible conversation with @gstrompolos about how AI is shaping the future of creativity. The ideas, the energy, the people...what a night!

@peterom Asking your Claude Code instance to keep everything pep 8 compliant and modular to keep files from getting monolithic and make use of inheritance will keep your code clean and much easier to manage. It works wonders for debugging also.

I just did a bunch of ugly hacks trusting that LLMs will get good enough that I can fix them easily before they become a problem

@ingi_erlingsson This is dope Ingi.

I spent some time this weekend working on new approach to slow motion, with near pixel-perfect interpolation without the usual artifacts you see with most tools, even with complex and high speed footage Still more work to do to make it perfect, but not bad so far