The AI Creative Director Challenge starts Wednesday. Your job Monday and Tuesday is to prep so you can build live instead of scrambling. Three things to do before Wednesday: 1. Pick your reference photo. The one that looks like you right now, good light, clear face. Grab two backups. 2. Photograph your wardrobe, jewelry and footwear. The pieces you'd actually wear in a brand image. One photo each. 3. Draft your workbook. Rough is fine. Wednesday we make it specific together, but you need something on the page to work from. The full pre-work brief and the workbook are linked below. Read the brief first, it tells you exactly what to shoot and how to name it. One thing that matters. Day 1 is an audit, not a lecture. You show up with drafts and we tighten them live. Come with nothing and you'll be building while everyone else is refining. Do the pre-work. To build live with us, be set up by Tuesday night. Questions? Drop them here. See you Wednesday. Pre-Work Brief attached Participant Workbook attached

How do I make this look less AI, the background feels fake though nice! I feel like I look superimposed on the front of the image, should I try with nano?

This is how I made it: I used a prompt by Morris Mayer. I asked CAS GPT by Gord Isman to help me fill in the empty fields, and then I used Grok in OpenArt to create the five-second video with a Dutch voice-over. It worked on the first try. She says, “This really is my voice.”

I wanted to do something special to say thank you for all the lovely birthday wishes I received. So I decided to continue the story of Molleke, my black cat and very unofficial AI student. Last week, he made his singing debut in my first-ever music video, where he joined the online AI lessons I follow - and turned his habit of sitting on my keyboard and sending mysterious chat messages into something unexpectedly positive. For this short reel, I made two 8-second videos. The first was AI B-roll of Molleke on my laptop, and the second was a quick talking-head video of me, recorded on my iPhone. Magica created the music for me. Then I cut everything into small, logical pieces, placed the music underneath, and refined it into a 15-second reel, and I used Captions to add the captions. A tiny birthday thank-you, with a little AI, a lot of love, and of course… my brand, Molleke. 🐈‍⬛

Another week is done and we are entering Q3. We are officially half way through 2026!! This FRIDAY is special since it is the first FRIDAY WIN post and the first Friday of Q3. 1. SHARE you win from this week. (big or small) How did you show up for yourself and your business? Did you make money? Did you start a collaboration? Share it. 2. Our Q3 planning session is coming in July. (watch the calendar) Get ready to plan the rest of your year.