Tom Laroc / Hi-Fi-Ai

Gnarls Barkley "Pictures" 1st single from the new LP entitled Atlanta Produced by- Danger Mouse Video Directed, Produced & Edited by- Tom Laroc Art Direction inspired by - Butcher Billy Animations by- Brett Cooper Storyboard & Illustrations by- Tom Laroc "The story of CeeLo Green, being banished from school by the principal on Fridays, only to ride the local train system for hours and seeing "lifes' just pictures staring out the window of the MARTA Train", struck a chord with me." - Tom Laroc @CeeLoGreen #Dangermouse #Gnarlsbarkley @10kProjects @AtlanticRecords @big_business_ knows

@JeremiahDJohns @Roryfelton

I've written about this before, but it's remarkable how much older music is strangling new music. And the same is true in books, movies, video games. Older media is taking up a bigger and bigger share of the market every year.

@Turbinetraveler x.com/LensScientific…

Boeing 787-9 takeoff, doesn't retract landing gear. The landing gear door automatically opened 1 second after liftoff, but pilots didn't retract the gear, so after 30 seconds, it closed.

@getnexar is this training the model in the process?

We all have that friend who slams the imaginary brakes while in the passenger seat. Send them the BADAS game to see if they beat Nexar's real-world data in incident prediction.

@TrishaCode @Kling_ai awesome

Pinkington Shuffle Dance @Kling_ai

@MarioBnyc Thank you @MarioBnyc ! The @CeeLoGreen lyrics drove the creative vision and inspiration to create the piece. The illustrative motif was inspired by the original Atlanta LP artwork. #GnarlsBarkley #Atlant

Beautiful! This got me 💙💙💙

@heydin_ai @midjourney @dreamina_ai @topazlabs lol @ "getting"

AI is getting scary good! 🔥 I started with a base concept in @midjourney and used @dreamina_ai Seedance 2.0 to handle the physics and motion. Seeing that massive sand monster break through the surface was a "wow" moment! After upscaling the quality in @topazlabs and adding some final color grading in @AdobeVideo Premiere, the level of detail is just next-level. The scene starts with a lonely wanderer in a vast desert, but things escalate quickly when a colossal creature emerges from the dunes, leading to an epic aerial escape. This kind of high-octane visual would be perfect as a sci-fi movie concept, a high-end social media ad, or even a cinematic backdrop for a synthwave music video. #DreaminaSeedance2 #DreaminaAI #DreaminaCPP #Seedance2 #seedream5

@bowengreenwood ditch all three. start over. who's the graphic designer sir?

Help me pick a cover! The Last Senator is coming by May. I'm not done on the cover, but I would love to have your help in picking a direction to go. You'll find a survey and the novel's blurb in the thread.

@alexutopia @Scobleizer @tbpn ... Let's hope true culture is represented, and the cultures of, are represented.. ... and this ain't a whitewashed affair. 👀

@Scobleizer @tbpn fully automated media is the inevitable next step. it can be done already, it's just a question of scale, speed, compute and money. but the foundation is here.

Media shifts big time today. Why is @tbpn getting bought by OpenAI important? (Technology Business Programming Network) Because media is about to shift HARD to being done by AI. Look at the news site I turned on yesterday. 100% built by AI. alignednews.com/ai It already wrote about the news and says "it's a big day." But there are bigger shifts coming. AI, like the site/system I built, will: 1. Watch the news on services like X, and elsewhere. 2. Write about it. 3. Come up with its own reporting (something like @boardyai will be built to call sources and do its own reporting, like calling the local fire chief after a big fire to get more details). 4. Build a new kind of 24-hour-a-day personalized news show. My site already gives the basics, the AI I used built an MCP server, an OpenClaw feed, a way to create a podcast on @NotebookLM, an email newsletter, and an RSS feed. All built by two people (me and @blevlabs) with about $10,000 investment. And it costs a few hundred dollars a day to run. Soon we'll have a show up on @HeyGen too. Grok can already simulate any conversation between me and anyone else. Here it has me interview @jordihays one of the cofounders of the network: grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5… about the future of media. Took two minutes to do. Now take that over to @NotebookLM and it'll create a video, a slide deck, a mind map, an audio podcast. Here I did it for you: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/d5051… It is creating a video as I talk. And the podcast is highly interesting on this topic. All built in minutes. The news isn't even an hour old yet. It created a slide deck, that I took the graphic for this post from. Now what does TBPN have? A great library of the biggest AI thinkers. It's been interviewing the top CEOs every day for more than a year. That dataset gives TBPN and OpenAI a huge dataset to train new models to do new kinds of journalism and create a 24-hour-a-day TV channel that's almost wholly AI generated. Or at very minimum AI produced. My AI already tells me everyday who I should interview. Theirs will too. And take care of all the grunge work to setup the show, call the guests, prepare them for being on air, and schedule everything out. Even there AI can help viewers who don't have time to watch all the interviews. It can automatically clip out pieces of the interview, and present them to people in a highly personalized way. Someone interested in medical companies would only see news for them and that would be different than news presented to someone who cares about automotive news, for instance. This slicing and dicing is huge. At GTC I talked to @furrier, founder of another news network. He has a similar dataset, since his company does interviews at many of the big technology shows. He told me it's his dataset that has value. He's built a similar AI system that can cover news in a much more intelligent way than if you don't have that kind of database of thousands of tech interviews. It also gives OpenAI a way to make sure its point of view is distributed to everyone. And that will get more important soon as Google, Meta, Apple and others bring "AI glasses" that let you see the news in a whole new way. Google's glasses arrive in October. I keep hearing OpenAI is working on some too, but even if it decides not to, it will be an important AI on the others and it will bring those users this personalized news system, and other kinds of content too. 18 months from now this whole system will be built. Every journalism firm will need to do the same to survive. Journalism outlets need AI partners. And fast. Or they will get completely locked out. That's why media just had a major shift today.

@arfansthename @luusssso Dark side of the Lunar Lander

@luusssso the raw scans of all the Hasselblad pictures (including Mercury and Gemini) are over at tothemoon.im-ldi.com offers them in small, medium, and full-size PNGs as well as the raw TIFF file however they're sorted by mission and magazine so it's not as simple as keywords

Just stumbled upon something absolutely incredible An extensive archive of hi-res photographs of NASA’s Apollo Space Missions from 1968-1972

"I don't come to bow, I come to conquer" - Bob Marley

Stephen & Damian Marley Ft. The Notorious B.I.G. "Jah Army" youtu.be/gMDWHJ7Dt94?si… via @tomlaroc @damianmarley

@rocknrollofall @MarkRonson @salaamremi

Amy Winehouse's raw and naked yet beautiful vocals for the song Back to Black in the studio is literally insane. This is one of the studio takes during the recordings of Back to Black, in 2006.

@BLVCKLIGHTai um, it's an April fools joke

@horacedodd I know 3 of us who are ready today. you ready too. Let's be the winners.

💭Fast, lean, 1 to 5 person(tops) setup that understands AI filmmaking tools, traditional filmmaking, social media, how to write/develop scripts, audio techniques, and editing...is going to win every time🎯

@deltatangomike Where's DTM?

Adobe Illustrator Turntable Test with Character Art by DTM V2 full experiment on youtube youtube.com/live/WfdC4RWD9… Learn Adobe Illustrator Beginner Bootcamps, Weekend Workshop and Pro Track! vectormaestros.com #ArtLife #VectorMaestros #DigitalArtist #DTM #DigitalArt

@maxescu Ya catching up!

The part of my brain responsible for creativity, the moment I lock in with the new Cinema Studio 3.0

@parisofprairie Woohoo, thank you! @parisofprairie Animations by Brett Cooper @hellonearthis

@TomLaroc Awesome 👏🏼

30 days + 1000 illustrations to a music video... - Early character concepts, Scene concepts, Atlanta/MARTA train history research, style & lighting adjustments, early storyboards.. - The animated music videos selected key frames..

3x4 aspect ratio Gnarls Barkley "Pictures" Music produced by Danger Mouse Vocals by @ceelogreen__ Music video directed by @TomLaroc Animations by Brett Cooper @hellonearthis #GnarlsBarkley #Atlanta #DangerMouse @10kProjects @AtlanticRecords